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These asshole can't stop fucking me over.

Middle School (Mississippi): Basically all lies: having sex with a condom will give you AIDS, abortions are evil and most women who get them die of cancer or suicide. Even 6th grade me knew that shit was fucking wrong, but I was already on thin ice in that school for fucking up the curve, thank Homosexual Jesus that I was only there half a year.

Junior High (New Jersey): Skip ahead to 9th grade. Sex-Ed was taught by a terrified gym teacher who was just adorable. This was pretty comprehensive, lots of biology and factual information. It was the early 90s so a big part of it was teaching how to avoid getting HIV, teaching both abstinence and condoms. Some mention of same-sex relationships, but when asked about the risk of HIV transmission from lesbian sex he blanched and said he didn't know. No real fault here given the time period. They also taught various forms of birth control and other STIs. There was an undercurrent of promoting abstinence but also some pragmatic realism. In retrospect it could have been better, but compared to most of the country it was very good.

Ultimately, the plant stumbled upon the most advantageous adaptation on the planet - being useful to humans.

Well now I want one.

Missouri really hates democracy, this isn't even the first time they've gone to great lengths to overturn the will of the people.

I stopped reading at Financial Tech startup. From that alone I know what kind of people we're dealing with here.

I ran a game where one of my PCs played a character with high Int and Cha and like 6 Wis. He played it very well as a character who was too clever by far but consistently made poor choices counting on his wits and charm to see him through.

Because all of Trump's relationships are transactional, he can't fathom a relationship between two people who actually love each other and work together as equal partners.

Exactly, it's like thinking he had a plan the whole time to bankrupt his casinos or any of his other many failed ventures. He is just bad at leadership because his narcissism constantly self-sabotages, like with his casinos he constantly made terrible and expensive changes and his ego wouldn't allow any one working for him to challenge him, so he'd blame everyone, stiff contractors, fire competent staff who could actually turn the situation around and the next thing you know the casino is failing despite it being basically a sure bet for profit in that time and place.

It's the same here, the country will collapse because he isn't just a bad leader, he is a collection of toxic qualities that almost guarantee bad organizational outcomes even given very positive starting conditions.

Would this be the first direct conflict between two nuclear powers? Plenty of proxy wars in the past, but I can't think of a time where two nuclear-capable nations went at it like this.

Come on, Wiz. You have Glitterdust and Stinking Cloud for crying out loud!

Sure, but if Iowa can just reject a Supreme Court ruling without consequence then so can any state for any reason on any subject. Then the court has no power anymore.