I have to assume that any witch selling curses on Etsy doesn’t believe in the Rule of Three.

I wonder how many really identify as witches and actually cast the spells people pay them for.

You’ll have to add a couple of instances of “dang ol’” on your own to make that work.

How is a city spending $200k per homeless resident and still not providing them with housing?

That’s more than 8 years’ worth of rent/mortgage at $2k per month. And even longer in a more reasonably-priced home.

I understand there are more expenses than just rent, but I also understand that it’s nearly impossible to get a job if you don’t have a permanent residence. If we’ve got a homelessness crisis that includes working families, why wouldn’t the states want to help those families?

A rent/mortgage assistance program seems like it would do a lot more long-term good than simply “cleaning up” encampments.

The right to roam was something I found really charming and fascinating when I visited Scotland. We took a tour to see some standing stones and other ancient monuments, and I was shocked to find out that several of our destinations were in people’s sheep pastures.

Our guide was really strict about our not littering (duh) or feeding the sheep (which I never would have dreamed of doing). He said that in some of the more popular places, the farmers have lost livestock to idiot tourists feeding them whatever junk food they have on hand.

But some people apparently really want fudge, pancakes, and old-time photographs!

I always lived in states where deer hunting was a pretty common pastime. The first time I went to a zoo in South America, I cracked up when we got to the display of white-tailed deer.

When I lived in the US, I lived in cities on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. People who weren’t used to river traffic would get excited about riverboats and barges.

And people from other climates always got excited about snow. Even the slightest flurries were cause for celebration.

Now I live in the Andes, and the exciting things here that the locals take for granted (or even count as nuisances) are the volcanoes. I can see one from my apartment. Four years in, and I still admire it every day.

In the UK, the thing I thought was fascinating was just the sheer amount of history literally everywhere. Like, 2000-year-old stone monuments in people’s sheep pastures. It made me understand how extraordinarily young my native country and my current home country both are.

Breonna Taylor’s ghost would like a word.

Seriously, her boyfriend was arrested (but acquitted) for returning fire in their home when police had no lights, no sirens, and no bullhorn.

This officer’s advice does not apply anywhere that no-knock warrants can still be obtained.

The neighbors heard 22 shots. Most of that could have been a pray-and-spray tactic by the homeowner.

Teacher here. I have had exactly one coworker whom I would trust to carry a gun at school, and he would refuse to do it. Not to mention the possibility that a student (or group of students) could overpower a teacher and take their gun.

“More guns in schools” is not the answer.

Once you learn how to live on very little money out of necessity, living comfortably within your means as your wages increase doesn’t feel like such a bad thing.

And anyone who has been without a safety net understands that keeping a buffer in their bank account feels way better than splurging on impulsive luxuries.

This is the correct answer. Notice that they have no compunction about punishing parents who secure gender-affirming care for their trans kids, but there has been zero discussion of holding parents responsible for their kids’ internet usage.

Far-right groups in the US have been crying “Big Brother” about everything for years because their whole plan has been to create a surveillance state where to gather information about dissenters. Every accusation is a confession with these people.

• Lord of the Rings trilogy
• The Matrix
• Dodgeball
• South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
• Best in Show
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Jennifer’s Body
• Die Hard
• The Cabin in the Woods

That was my first thought as well.

Same here. Lemmy at this stage feels a lot like Reddit did when I joined back in the early 2000s.

I’m glad I made the switch, because things are just generally nicer in a smaller community.

They already have 6 kids, so their genes are highly likely to carry on.

Seconded. Really, I thought all of the casting was really well done.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first season. Part of the fun was the mystery, which is why I don’t think the second season was as good. The show tried too hard to explain and it got a little bit too mired down in its own metaphysics for my taste.

I’m not sure I’ll watch any more of it.

Never forget.

Seriously, that might have been the best guerilla marketing campaign ever. So many people were utterly clueless (and needlessly terrified), but fans of the show knew immediately what they were.

So … wait for the EU to outlaw this practice as price gouging, then use a VPN to appear to be buying from the EU?