From their reply, I am assuming white

SOP, got it

Did you kill the kid, beat them, or did you just throw them in jail?

You are talking about Henry Bennett. This is a myth though. While he did have stairs like that, he died in a care home after years of declining health. His actual cause of death wasn’t announced, but it was likely because he had been in rapid decline for years and just before going into the care home, had a stroke.

Concentrated solar plants that heat using a bunch of focused light

Wasn’t one of these built and ended up being a huge failure?

The mass school shootings didn’t really take off off until the mid 2000s. So we are really just seeing the generation of constant mass shootings come into adulthood.

When columbine happened it was rare for that type of shooting to happen at a school. The actual rate of school shootings was rapidly dropping by the late 90s too. It is still much lower than it was, only these mass shootings has increased. So, with it being, at the time, a rare event, and shootings in schools on a rapid decline, it just didn’t hit the way it seems to have affected gen z/alpha.

It isn’t that out of touch with contemporary prices. Maybe 10 years at most, as a lot of the cost increase has been the past 5 years. Doesn’t mean the image isn’t older, just commenting on the price here.

A current restaurant serving Lobster Thermidor costs about 55$. While any place serving this dish is likely a high quality restaurant, it’s not until one obtains a michelin star that it becomes a 3 digit affair.

Also Cathode Ray Dude

Also sponge bob skin theory. Dude had a little video putzing around, then a couple years later dropped a couple hour long video to convince people of some absolutely wild shit about sponge bob, then just disappeared.

It is because there is actually no documentation of biden being associated with Epstein, like with Trump and Clinton, that was a lie, and the stuff about touching ranges from photos that are not nearly as weird looking when seen in the context of video footage, to videos that are more like him putting his hands on kids’ shoulders, patting their heads, etc., nothing really that strange for an old man interacting with small kids, a stretch to call it something sinister at best, and a claim that, while may be true, has a number of issues in its story.

It is, as they say, a nothing burger, unless something with a lot more strength behind it, comes forth.

Back in the day I used to work at one of the largest hospitals in the US. In my last year there they had started having doctors record their notes, issues order, and prescriptions, on an audio file, using and issued microphone. Then that stuff was sent to a group of people transcribing everything in text. these scribes would also fill out forms for the orders and prescriptions. they did this in response to a series of lawsuits they lost badly.

yes, lengthy, nuanced, disputations, are just what the four panel comics, on the meme forum, needs.

You really think kids use consoles, to access social media, more than phones, and tablets?

He is banning his employees from using them at work.

Let’s just say I call them a lot of things.

yeah, when hillary called the trump cultists deplorable, and a bunch of people wigged out, crying about her saying mean things, all I could think about is how I have heard that, and much worse, from right wing media, for as long as I have memories. At the time people would say “but she did it as a candidate on an official forum”, or something similar, while her rival was just a sewer vomiting this type of sentiment, and worse, on a daily basis. And all the people who spent so much time calling everyone snowflakes, completely melted down over one insult.

No, China’s current economy is not communist. Nothing to do with Mao, or what I think about communism personally.

I mean, they already did that.

All billionaires come from privileged positions that afforded the needed social structures, and funding, to do it. Most people who become billionaires do so via inheritance. When you look into those who did not you see a pattern of born into a position with the resources to do so, and/or a string of random luck allowing for the needed connections.

Bill Gates’ parents had enough money to send him to one of the few high schools that had a computer to learn coding on, had an investment banker uncle that put millions into microsoft when it was still operating in a motel room, and his mother was on the board of a charity with one of the board members of IBM, and asked him to consider her son’s software.

Warren Buffett happened to meet a man who owned a large commercial property, that liked him, and ended up giving him the property, after mentoring him on how to invest, something he had developed an interest in after meeting someone in that industry while in the military. He sold the property for a lot of money and used it to apply what he had been mentored on.

Steve Jobs was adopted by well to do parents who raised him in silicon valley. This not only allowed him to be in silicon valley as it set off to be the most important place in the tech industry, he also had other benefits. His father had a full blown mechanic’s set up in their garage because it was his hobby. He taught Steve to use tools, and work on machines. Their neighbor was also an eccentric engineer in the very early silicon valley computer tech industry. This neighbor went out of his way to befriend the local kids and teach them about computers, software, electronics, and engineering. He also happened to become close friends with the brilliant Steve Wozniak.

I can go on. All billionaire’s lives are a string of exceptional fortunate events.