Nicotine by far. I quit doing most other drugs (except I still enjoy smoking weed), but I just cannot quit smoking. I’ve tried several times, and even if I go a month or two, I still can’t resist.

I think the reason for this is because I actually enjoy smoking quite a lot. All those other drugs eventually became more of a living hell than they were fun, so quitting them was easier.

That’s what happens when you commit tax fraud. Or, at least, it used to be.

Star Trek, the next generation and Star Trek deep space nine. Star Trek Voyager is pretty rewatchable too.

Police departments don’t hire “quality candidates“. They use IQ and personality tests to keep smart people excluded from the job, and for good reason: they want brutal authoritarians who will follow orders without question.

Police are not exploited workers. They’re armed agents of the state who have far more power than the average citizen. Most other developed nations have completely banned police unions to prevent them from amassing too much power. And that’s exactly what they do here.

The police certainly had this coming, although I now feel very bad for firefighters and teachers in Utah

You have confused the definition of “racism“ with “systemic racism“. A person, or a group, can be victims of racism without that racism having any realistic effect on them. Such is the case in South Africa. In cases, such as this, it is often a consequence of the actions of said group.

Which, of course, feeds into prejudice. And prejudice isn’t always unjustified. Again, as with the white people in South Africa, they certainly earned that prejudice through generations of colonization and apartheid.

It’s also the shortest and most easily recognizable, which is most likely why it caught on. The fact that it’s a Russian/Slavic derivative is probably just coincidence.

Pokémon is fiction, I hope you’re aware.

In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

“Magic” is just a term ignorant people use to describe something they don’t understand and are too lazy and to figure out. Sometimes, just because they refuse to accept the facts.

Example: man-made climate change causes record wildfires in LA, and some claim “God did it!”

Another: cancer patient goes into remission after successful medical treatments. Some believe “God did it!”

It’s a term that indicates a leader, and its origins are thousands of years before imperial Russia.

It’s a derivative of the Latin “Caesar”, and many cultures have used the term (or its derivatives) to indicate a leader. Pre-Weimar Germany was led by the Kaiser, a German adaptation of the title.

Was that ever in doubt?

Because they’re delusional and actually believe it. They’ve convinced themselves of this fantasy reality so they never have to admit that they’re wrong and can act like the biggest piece of shit in the world without deserving any consequences for it.

This guy is fourth in the line of succession for the presidency. Just something to keep in mind.

But he paints now!

/s

You just reminded me that I need to download that show, so some good came of it!

It’s called C-SPAN

In the US House of Representatives and in the United States Senate, a super majority constitutes 66% or 2/3 or more of the vote.

This term also applies to such a majority in state legislatures.

Constitutional amendment requires both a super majority in the Senate and 75% ratification by the states.

Not gonna happen

They expected to never face the consequences of their shitty shitty actions.