We’ve never had a problem with our Xfinity service either. We use both their cable internet and mobile service.

To be fair, I work in IT, we use our own equipment and the service was already hooked up when we bought the house so they just activated it in our name.

We’re a low need customer as I take care of most things myself.

They also change the angle of impacts to be less severe since they should effectively eliminate a t-bone type impact.

In my experience, if they take your card away to run it at a restaurant than POS only has one meaning because it’s probably some old Aloha piece of shit system their using.

I think autocorrect got you, unless there was a secret bellybutton supply we don’t know about?

I’m curious where in the states you were? I live in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and it’s tap to pay all over. To the point where I’m surprised to find a place now where I can’t tap to pay.

Some exceptions exist, like restaurants that are using old POS systems but we see a lot more of the table side devices being used, some with tap to pay.

Sunny D is the juice of an orange

And a good amount of grapefruit juice too. That’s what makes it so bad for people who take immunosuppressants.

Really if they’re so dedicated to the death penalty, why not just use a firing squad?

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We are all controlled.

No, we’re not. I don’t know what kind of nonsense this is supposed to be.

Sometimes a child cannot survive, and must be killed lest they kill the mother. Things like that happen. That place wasn’t restraining themselves to those edge situations. Sometimes people were cutting up babies just for being inconvenient.

Yeah? Anything to support that? More importantly, if a woman gets pregnant and you are neither the woman in question, nor the doctor who is providing her care then what business is it of yours at all? Explain why you (or any other person outside of the woman and her care provider) should have any say in whether a woman decides to terminate a pregnancy or not. You can object to it, you can dislike it, but you absolutely do not have the right to remove her right to bodily autonomy and choice.

You need not worry. I don’t vote for Republicans. You don’t need to overcompensate to get extra points for your partisan games…

I don’t care about politics, you do. You brought it up. You can vote for whomever you like, I’m just sick of people like you who seem to believe you have some moral authority to control how a woman chooses to manage her own body because of how you feel about it.

Tl;dr

The president named Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, as the acting librarian. But staff members refused access to two department officials he chose for key roles at Congress’s main research arm.

I believe human life to be valuable

No, you don’t. You don’t value a woman’s life as much as a baby’s when she needs a late term abortion due to medical issues.

I know they think they are doing what is right.

Which means you think it’s wrong. The difference between you and them is you eliminate the choice a woman has.

Imagine watching people feed their babies into a grinder and not even being able to convince them that it isn’t a great thing to do.

People don’t feed their babies into grinders but you know that.

Whether you truly believe the things you say or are simply a troll is moot. Only one side of the abortion argument rests in removing bodily autonomy from women and controlling them.

The dad mom made me think of the Mother’s Day episode of Modern Family with Cam and Mitch where Cam was getting the celebration on Mother’s Day.

Doubtful that any lists they have are particularly accurate. There’s a lot of loopholes and decentralization/fragmentation on where that information is.

they don’t think of their gulag system

That’s all you needed. Empathy is sadly lacking in America.

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I am, thanks for acknowledging! I was going to focus on sitting at home with a couple cats and posting “edgy” comments online but then I realized you had the market cornered there.

I guess we all have to play to our strengths, eh?

No, idea. What group do you think you fall into?

Wait… oh, I get it. You meant my comment. Haha! Good one! You have such an original wit.

I had always heard that as a quote of Eleanor Roosevelt’s but there’s actually no record of her saying it if you look into it.

The history of the quote itself is interesting though. The earliest known version of this idea appears in a 1901 book by Charles Stewart, where he attributes it to historian Henry Thomas Buckle. The sentiment has since been echoed by various figures, including Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who used it in a 1959 article, prefacing it with “As the unknown sage puts it…”

The association with Eleanor Roosevelt seems to have emerged in the late 20th century, with no concrete evidence linking her to the quote. It appears that over time, the phrase became misattributed to her, possibly due to her reputation for insightful commentary. However, without a verifiable source, it’s best to consider the attribution to Roosevelt as unsubstantiated.

It sprung to mind as apropos due to the irony of criticizing “small talk” with talk about other people which the quote alludes to being a different kind of small talk.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

This isn’t unique to the US. It is called law enforcement so even if it wasn’t a completely broken and horseshit system crime prevention would not be part of their purview.

You prevent/reduce crime by addressing the underlying societal issues that are contributing to it.

“This decision will inflict serious harm on consumers and merchants, especially low-income consumers and small businesses,” wrote Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Maxine Waters.

Literally the quote at the top of the article. Way to fail at even opening it and glancing at it.