If they put a large useless gear on the side of the craft then my steampunk dreams have been at last realized.

Water brings it's own oxidant!

Okay. Makes sense since he’s been giving the kids really crappy presents in my house.

Year, Where is the injection molding machine?

“Honey, Santa is now helping Amazon and he’s busting Elves attempts to unionize. Some haven’t peed in 200 years.”

It seems this post got banned as well.

Seems like a valid topic to discuss to me however.

It's amazing the dreck that typically passes for a "shower thought."

>or we need to ensure our education systems produce citizens with critical thinking skills.

Well yes, amen to that -- but Republicans have literally campaigned and fought against critical thinking in schools. It leads to sacrilegious people.

While that is sort of the intent. There is a lot of precedent for people suing for false advertising because a product was not as advertised. Companies have been successfully sued for making their burgers appear giant before.

I'm sure that if politicians weren't allowed to lie, they'd be delivering a defective product. The Smoke and Mirrors company would also appreciate a hall pass as well.

When it's a slow day at the fast food drive through, they always close the first window. Poor dog has to take the orders and the cash?

Does the dog make change and can you get out of paying by saying; "Whose a good boy! Whose a good boy!"?

I suppose if you can't function in a complex world, Prison might be your only hope. And that is super sad.

But it seems like he panicked -- or did he? Throws out the money and then tells sister to report van stolen. So they go after him or don't think he used her van. WHO uses their own van for a heist, anyway?

This poor guy just sounds like h's just not that bright. He could have found less risky and easier ways to get thrown in prison.

Look, the prison system was DESIGNED by you "tough on crime" people and it sucks. It mostly focuses on the crimes of the poor which have less impact than white collar crime on most people's way of life and it doesn't rehabilitate people more than it just chews them up and spits them out.

God forbid you are ever on the wrong end of the stick and depending on mercy from this "don't blame mommy and daddy" view of the world. Nurture is an impact, otherwise, why are we bothering with anything?

I'd put him in charge of management of any clusterfuck or dumpster fire.

Yeah, this guy needs a home and supervision. What's the point of punishment?

Damned sexy Flanders messed this up, right?

Jails are notorious for unflattering lights.

>which scared him into throwing the money out of the truck.

Okay.

> Loyd allegedly texted his roommate, telling her that her truck was stolen

Working on an alibi?

>He was also wearing an ankle monitor due to a previous robbery.

Next level. Ascends to patron saint of cluelessness. Have to ask where Harry was in all of this, grooming dogs?

-- China has entered the chat.

The same ploys seem to work in Russia and the USA to some extent.

Yes, but how LONG it's going to be depends on what speed he is traveling at.

It's probably easier to say 3 years. Or, we can just say 3 light years, because that's a distance and a time.

I really don't know how to convert 3 years into meters.

Planters makes chips? Out of peanut or potatoes? Silicon you say? Doesn't sound appetizing.

>but Belarus decided it wasn't worth changing the stationary and business cards and kept the KGB name.

LOL. I respect that sort of pragmatism. I still have 500 business cards from an old job.

Belarus KGB Leader: "Comrades, we have no independence from old rulers, same as new rulers, so, why should we go through any effort to put lipstick on pig."

Crowd: "Hooray!"

Belarus KGB Leader: "Simmer down now. I expected far less energy and applause. This is going to be a marathon, not a sprint -- save some of that for next year's company potato sack race."

I thought it was the FSB now?

Anyway. Yes. That's possible. A few months ago the complaint was we could invade Russia if NATO were in Ukraine.

There is always a rationale for war.

Did they stop to consider they could invade Poland from Belarus? I think we might consider being proactive here.

In my head it was people at a laundro-mat. They didn't look happy. Probably fold 10x faster if someone just put music on.