Go back like 30 generations, and see how many times people had to have fucked just to make you. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16…

So are most people.

That might be the worst salute I’ve ever seen.

Some context might provide the distinction.

• Adam: “Jane told me that he licked her asshole.”

• • Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He never licked my asshole, and I never claimed that he did. Adam is lying about both parts.
• • Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He licked my asshole, but I never told anyone that he did. Adam learned about the asshole-licking from someone other than me.

Saluting in the US, your hand should be rotated so that the palm of your hand is toward your own face. The person in front of you should be able to see the back of your hand, not your palm. Also, the tips of your fingers should be touching the outside corner of your eyebrow, or the outside corner of your glasses, or the corner of the brim of your cap. The middle of the forehead is right out.

• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone else said it.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- I was accused of having said it; I’ve never said it.
• I never said he licked me asshole. <-- He licked my asshole, but I didn’t talk about it.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone licked my asshole, but it wasn’t him.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He did something with my asshole, but it wasn’t licking.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked an asshole, just not mine.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked some part of me, just not my asshole.

Reviews are one of the things that online storefront platforms consider in their algorithms. More reviews means their algorithm pushes my listings in front of a few more faces, and I get to make a little more money.

I don’t ask for reviews myself. The people who do are trying to game their platform’s algorithms.

A contradiction in terms.

Blocked.

I’m going to start putting those signs on public microwaves…

Communism/socialism requires some mechanism to compel cooperation with the collective’s objectives. The greater the degree of central planning, the greater the authoritarianism required to implement it. When you reach a level of centralization sufficient to justify the “communism” label, you’re well into the “authoritarian” quadrants.

Indeed.

Unfortunately, no matter how well you tune your carburetor, just a change in atmospheric temperature is enough to throw off your mixture.

The only feasible way to adjust it fast enough to keep up with atmospheric changes is with some kind of fuel injection, an ECM, and an O2 sensor to provide the feedback needed for closed-loop mixture control.

Fortunately: https://speeduino.com/

Lean burning increases mileage, but produces nitrous oxides.

Rich burning produces carbon monoxide, which eventually converts to CO2 in the atmosphere.

Unit for unit, NOx emissions are 265 times as damaging as CO/CO2.

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/some-greenhouse-gases-are-stronger-others

To successfully convert NOx, catalytic converters need a stoichiometric or slightly rich fuel/air mixture to the engine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter

Nor can communism.

Ahem…

Why don’t I ever get the fucking sniper rifle?

Broken Clock.

We “tend to turn a blind eye to it” because “cultural problem” is primarily used as a racist dog whistle.

If your intention was to point at the underlying cause, you need to be talking about systematic impoverization, lack of generational wealth, devaluation of labor, etc.

Waffle Stomp!

and part of that is that adults absolutely do buy stupid status symbols to flex on each other.

Exactly. And when they do, we don’t say “Well, that’s just what humanity does”.

We say “Despise these covetous pricks”.