You are just saying what I said, that OP should’ve expected a flame war based on what they said. I never said that they shouldn’t have made the post. It feels like you’re ignoring what happened over the last 40 years in order to keep looking at the halcyon days of the Internet with nostalgia goggles.

I think people forget that the United States has no official demonym, and that America, like Great Britain, is a place not a country.

Personally, I’m a fan of adopting Station, since we all seem to have decided that the United States is a nation and not a federal system.

As an aside and fun fact: my favorite demonym is Solarian, which encompasses all people from the Solar System. The Solar System, sometimes confusingly, is named like the Moon where all moons are moons, but ours is the Moon. (Solarian is sometimes confused with Terran, but that is specific to the Earth-Moon system. All Terrans are Solarian, but not all Solarians are Terran.)

The worst is that lately it keeps turning notifications back on. So I’ll go a year without hearing anything from Nextdoor, an account I haven’t logged-in to since before the pandemic, and then all of a sudden out of fucking nowhere I’m getting a dozen emails about gunshots and all this other stuff miles away on like the 3rd of July or December 30th… when it’s definitely not gunshots.

I grew up with lesbian parents in the south in the 90s. Checking the political climate is all I have ever done my entire life, internet or not. I don’t agree that there has ever been a time when that wasn’t a requirement online or offline.

Like for real? Obama’s tan suit happened 12 years ago and you think the Internet has only been politicized for 8? You must have managed to avoid pretty much all social media before Facebook, which is weird because Eternal September happened in the 90s and came from Usenet which has been political since the 80s.

You asked if people should be forced to live a certain way and were surprised that you got a vitriolic response??? In this political climate??? Maybe know your audience a little better.

Most people seem to have decided that one is on Biden for some reason, including Biden.

You are required to sign up for the selective service as a penis haver at 18 so I genuinely have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

As a Native American I often feel that it’s just not possible to hate the US government enough.

The draft wasn’t ditched. The selective service has been active for decades, it isn’t supposed to be left active unless somebody is going to use the draft.

This mission has clothed and fed 1000s of people already. NASA is one of the USA’s largest jobs programs and most of us are completely okay with our tax dollars being used in that manner.

I thought you could see an ear if you zoomed in but now I am questioning that and also want to know what the story is.

Thank you, I was annoyed when the source link just went to a blue sky post from some rando who themselves didn’t post their source.

Unless you are being oddly specific with your definition of passenger rail, there absolutely is.
Brightline for instance.

Last time i checked they still sell a RPi with less than 4GB of ram.

A church providing transportation to a polling place, which were I live are often churches themselves, is very different than a pastor endorsing a candidate during a service.

It’s what’s leftover after you make a boneless chicken breast.

SpaceX’s only current launch capability is to LEO and it took them 20 years to make it ‘sustainable’. This rocket is going to the moon today.

Misleading headline… the new regulation has to do with how many days can be used for non-lesson material, not banning clowns.

Not all cultures do white for weddings and black for funerals. Or maybe Sarah is goth?

When did the back of a van stop counting as a trunk or covered boot? This sounds like typical insurance company bullshit. They are basically saying that they won’t cover it if you can see it though the window.