Posts by darkfox14

What about the labor unions then, or maybe George Washington? Honestly, which district are you even voting in?

What a joke of a festival. You’ve got headliners who haven't dropped an album in seven years and some side project from Nick Cave. Honestly, reading all your posts just makes me feel even better about skipping this whole tragicomedy of an event.
My only real regret is missing Arcade Fire, but they're at their absolute peak right now and I'm sure they'll be touring through the States again soon. Better to just catch them at a solo show anyway.

So, I did a little digging, and apparently, fines for regular folks top out at around $7,000, while corporations can get hit with up to $200,000. It’s honestly kind of a joke when you consider that in a place like Washington, D.C., just dumping trash on a public park could cost an individual up to $500 and a company up to $3000.
The massive fine I actually managed to track down—we're talking half a million dollars—was paid by ExxonMobil for leaking gas oil along the 7.8 miles coastline (and get this, the whole legal mess dragged on for 14 years👍).

Are you guys actually playing dumb, or is this just pure stupidity?
It’s obviously a protected species if there are actual penalties for picking them. The real issue here is how ridiculous the fines are. ExxonMobil gets slapped with a fine $50000 just for tripling their air pollution limits, yet some lady gets hit with $200,000 because she was out grabbing some wild berries???!!!!😵😵 😵

So, I’m basically a total science rookie here. What do you guys think about me trying to snag a ticket using my grad school ID? It looks pretty much identical to the other one—it says graduate studies on the badge, just without the all-caps treatment.

Stumbled onto this bit of madness and this, honestly such a smooth take on 🙂

Honestly, I’d grab a beer with Legolas and Aragorn any day of the week.

I usually just head over to some guy's stall near a flea market in Canada to pick them up. He's selling them for a measly 3.1 miles and swears on his life they're legit.😁

Maria Anderson said:He’d probably just stick to his usual way of posting on the forum...🙂

I wonder if they'd offer him high-speed fiber internet or something like that for free...😁

I mean, Jesus definitely wouldn't be signing up for AT&T's high-speed service. He's all about fighting monopolies and those shady corporate scams.🙂

Maria Anderson said:I honestly feel like he’d have plenty of ground to cover over in the Politics section...

but isn't it just incredibly tragic🤔.....that someone like Jesus would actually find so much to say about modern American politics...🤷

Jesus stood against injustice, oppression, and crime... He'd definitely have some things to say regarding politics.
What I really want to know is what Jesus would tell those believers who try to justify killing Mexican civilians by bringing up "historical context," or the ones who ignore massive corporate looting during wartime transitions and act like it was just necessary—you know, that whole "it had to happen this way" excuse🤣.

If Jesus were hanging out on this forum, his political views would probably be the exact opposite of the people who constantly weaponize faith to push their agendas (looking at you, Republican Party and Libertarian Party)!

Check out this absolute gem from one of those old-school smut peddlers back in the day:

I don't think most Americans are actually against NATO. The folks who are pushing back probably just assume our troops are being forced into some endless cycle of foreign wars, but that’s not how it works. Our soldiers are volunteering for service in Afghanistan; hell, they’re practically begging for less downtime between deployments. 😂 😂 😂 😂

Susan Moore76 said:The Lakota Indians, part of the legendary Sioux nation, have officially declared their ancestral treaties with the USA null and void, launching an international campaign to reclaim their sovereignty.

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America," stated Russell Means, one of the most prominent Native American civil rights activists, during a press conference held in Washington, D.C. He went on to invite anyone living within the five states that encompass their traditional territory to join their cause, according to USA Today

Something to think about...

Look, we were never really Americans to begin with, at least not by choice. Those treaties? They were forced on them. It’s about time they reclaimed what’s rightfully theirs.👍

William Williams27 said:We usually group hope with the good stuff, unlike anger or sadness... but doesn't hope actually trigger those negative feelings in the first place?
Isn't hope just what keeps us constantly looking toward the future instead of staying put?
Sure, there are those rough patches where hope feels like your only lifeline, but maybe that's a trap. Shouldn't we be focusing on living in the moment?
I honestly think a single genuine smile right now is worth way more than any amount of hope. We tend to miss all the little blessings because we’re too busy chasing "what if."
So, where does hope even come from? Is it just pure desire?

If we look at those four fundamental truths about suffering, wouldn't it make more sense to just let go of hope entirely?

Look, hope basically stems from the same mental machinery as paranoia—it's just the brain running simulations of future scenarios. When you mix those simulations with actual emotion, you get this messy cocktail of stuff like hope, fear, or paranoia. Hope is really just the expectation that things are going to turn out okay. Because of that, you can't just ditch it; it's baked into our basic survival instinct. It's like a lion stalking an antelope; he's operating on the assumption that the hunt will actually work out. That's hope in its rawest form.

It’s honestly hilarious watching people trip over themselves to cite these total legends and fabrications cooked up right in the heart of the CIA.

Beyond all the pseudo-intellectual posturing and endless debating, there’s really just one plain truth left. Quote : Che Guevara stands as the ultimate symbol of resistance against the imperialist powers—those heavy hitters who, in a world that supposedly isn't colonial anymore, still pull the strings of governments across Latin America and hoard massive amounts of land and resources.
Honestly, guys like Joe Tortura just crack me up. They get all worked up because someone slapped a picture of Che Guevara on a t-shirt, yet they don't seem to give a damn about death sentences funded by the CIA, or the fact that massive American corporations own most of the farmland in Central America. 😵

Keith Phillips3 said:amberorca192, what does that have to do with me or the PŽK?
My sole responsibility here is to protect the users within the on the edge of science subforum from various forms of disrespect and belittlement, as well as maintaining the integrity of the subforum itself.
Anything beyond that is simply outside my jurisdiction. 😉

So basically, protecting Pilence and letting people harass him however they want.

ironmarlin1 said:I honestly don't see why they don't apply that exact same logic to clear out the people who are just dragging the reputation of the "natural science" subforum through the mud. Seriously, why not just turn every single subforum into some sort of exclusive little elite club or a gated society?

Spot on. If we're following the same logic they used to ban Endymion from the "on the edge of science" section over in natural science, then hundreds of other members should've been banned ages ago for the nonsense they post.
It's pure hypocrisy.

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So who actually got the red card here? Bertrand Russell?
I mean, I could never see him playing dirty. He’s too clean for that.😬

So, I was just crunching the numbers the other day, and I managed to sniff out about 300,000 bucks missing from some massive state-run corporation.