The difference is negligible. The widespread opiate crisis in the US isn’t because of street drugs and militant cartels and gangs. It’s because of over prescribing of opiates by doctors overworked in understaffed hospitals, or because it’s the only med insurance will cover. The end result is the same, both are corrupt private organizations that have taken power from their respective governments through flexing violence and money. And if you don’t think major corporations can’t be violent, just ask any number of whistleblowers who are 6 feet under.

and those numbers will skyrocket with Republicans in power as weapons flood into Israel.

Let’s not pretend Republicans aren’t going to actively make the situation 1000x worse compared to the dems.

In general it’s asking another person to change their appearance to suit your preferences rather than just respecting whatever mood they’re in or how their naturally resting face just looks, it’s a dick move. Forcing a smile also sucks. It takes some amount of conscious effort to maintain a forced smile and smiling does engage quite a few muscles in the face, about 43 different muscles to make a smile.

Combine all of that with the history of women very much not having any kind of power in our society, and it takes on a more sinister tone when directed at women, hinting at the idea of someone’s only valuable because they have a pretty face and it should be pretty all the time.

Boss make a grand, I make a buck, that’s why I’m stealing the catalytic converter off the company truck.

/j

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I shit on company time

Yup, you 100% need to work on reading comprehension. I never said nothing sketchy happened, actually I explicitly said other sketchy shit did and does happen, I’m saying the specific example you originally pulled did not support your argument.

The article you pulled, in the literal first sentences said that Hunter Biden was paid as a consultant by MBNA in 2005, 3 years prior to the article and that the consultancy, despite being legally above board, doesn’t look good and happened at the same time a bill favoring credit card companies was passed.

That’s not a direct bribe to Joe Biden in exchange for a favorable bill as you described it.

But instead I’m the shill for Biden because you have done a shit job defending your own point with an article that explicitly contradicts your point in the very first sentence. All I did was read the fucking article and point out it doesn’t say what you think it said.

Again be accurate in your criticism, back it up with anything that doesn’t immediately contradict your points because at this point, I highly doubt you even read a single article you posted in your last reply.

Good lord you need work on your reading comprehension, or did you just look at the headline and ignore the very first line of the article?

Hunter Biden was working and being paid as a consultant for MBNA and had no direct ties to any kind of lobbying. That’s just what consulting work is. How much was paid never gets disclosed, especially to the public.

Is there other shetchy shit? Sure, but direct bribery from MBNA isn’t one of them and now we’d have to veer off into a discussion of campaign finance and corporate contributions to politicians in a post-citizens United world.

Be accurate in your criticism or nobody will take you seriously.

MBNA didn’t even exist anymore in 2008. It was bought out and subsumed by Bank of America in 2006.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBNA#Mergers_and_acquisitions

If you have information on that bill/law post it. I’m curious what it actually said.

The 4th of July falls on July 4th. I can assure you as someone who has lived in the US for my entire life, we say it out loud, month, day, year and we write it to match that.

It’s american/Canadian English. We say December 11th, 2024, we write it like we say it.

It is and makes an ok, but reproducible cup of tea. As per the relevant Tom Scott video mentioned in the article.

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Glad to provide some honest perspective.

If you really need a specialized toolset to handle managing dates and times in a program beyond whats already there, then find a library that has the tools you’re looking for or make it yourself if it doesn’t exist. Extending the date class is always an option.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Date.html

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime?view=net-9.0

Looks like someone already did. Been around since at least JDK 1.1

I used to be a programmer myself (originally studied it for game design but now I’m a 3d animator) and it’s why there’s a specific default data structure built in to most programming languages to handle dates and internationalization of those dates.

It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”

The dates are written to match how it’s said. In the US we say our dates as month day year, and before you say “But the 4th of July” my counterpoint is that the 4th of July takes place on July 4th. And Cinco de Mayo takes place on May 5th. And May the Fourth Be With You takes place on May 4th.

That’s just how language works. It changes and morphs as time goes on and culture leaders change. And in my last, idk 20 or so years on the internet I’ve never really seen the word suspension used. It’s always been temp ban, ban or permaban.

And what’s to stop people from still saying “I got banned” even when it’s called a suspension?

This feels a lot like the “We have 15 different cable standards, let’s make a universal one!” creates new cable standard “We have 16 different cable standards now…” situation.

Even if the language we currently use is slightly ambiguous, one or two questions clears up the ambiguity and still gets across the idea of “I can’t post right now.” And comparatively asking an extra question sounds a lot easier than reworking something culturally ingrained in our lexicon.