NaibofTabr

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Also, vertebrate eyes (left below) have a blind spot because the nerve wiring is routed in front of the retina and needs a path to get out of the eyeball, so there's a spot with no photoreceptor cells where all the fibers run out.

It doesn't have to be this way - cephalopod eyes (right) have the nerves running out the back of the retina so they don't need a pass-through hole.

Apparently there's some bullshit narrative being pushed by Fox that Tim Walz is somehow responsible.

You do realize that for those lucky enough to end their workday at 5pm, they will then be commuting home right? Neither of these sessions accommodates the west coast.

This time for realsies.

"The spear in the other's heart is the spear in your own. You are he."

jesus tapdancing christ.

I went to a private Christian high school.

Attached to a church.

In the Bible belt.

They still taught separation of church and state in history and social studies classes.

It's not that fucking difficult.

Get your shit together Arkansas.

Hey hey now, that was the limeys and the frogs:

Levant Crisis

Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

The yanks didn't get involved in all that until 1973:

Arab-Israeli conflict

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town.
I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family.
My family and I could have made an impact on our town.
Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

There are two lessons here:

1. Start local. This will have a greater impact on your life anyway. The desire to have a large, world-affecting impact is more likely motivated by a desire for attention and recognition than it is by a desire to help other people.
2. You cannot force other people to change, and in fact you have no moral ground on which to expect that other people will or should behave the way that you personally think they ought to.

So... while I agree with the general sentiment of not escalating violence, not attracting police attention, and basically not escalating shit... #1 and 2 lead to the bystander effect which leaves people getting hurt and not getting help.

There has to be some balancing aspect to this, and #3 is not strong enough to count.