Most of the current immigration laws are due to racist intent. In the 80s they didn’t like how many Mexicans were coming across the border each year to do farm work. The workers would come, stay while there was work to be had, and then return home. When new laws were enacted making it harder for workers to get across the border, there came a class of people that would sneak the workers across. And this came with a fee from the workers. Now it costs them more to get here, so they need to stay longer to make up the money. It became easier to just find a place to live in the US all year round.

The US needs the Mexican workers. To simultaneously demand help, and punish them for showing up to help is dumb, and I suspect fueled by racist thoughts. The immigrants boost our economy, help feed our population, and are less likely to break laws that citizens. There’s a whole (probably many) book about it, and it’s even in comic form. https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960

While we need to know who is coming across our border to prevent spys and terrorists, the current laws make those entrants easier to hide, as there is now a whole industry to sneak people across.

Friendly censorship of an inoffensive word. With the threat of being banned for flavor. SO friendly.

guarantees a regression to centrist parties

The US’s whole political system has been drifting rightward. Our center is more to the right than 20 years ago. So it does not matter if regression to center is happening as the center drifts into the fascist event horizon. Every possible “this is why it could never happen here” is possibly a single event away from being breached, then discarded. The US has had so many of our safety checks blown through, and the only people who can now prevent it have no desire to do so, because they’re on the same team.

I’m sure you will be vigilant, but it takes the whole country. And a person may be smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals.

Yoink!

This is neither a Russian or Soviet prosecutor. He didn’t ask about US prosecutors (which has a lot of terrible ones I’m sure).

https://www.amazon.com/Spartan-Mosquito-Pro-Tech-Acre/dp/B09B1BP1JH

Not sure how well it works, buy my sister in law has them around her house.

I saw you hadn’t been asked in a while, had to give you the opportunity.

What’s updog?

The last season of GoT invalidated all of the growth that was witnessed in all the previous seasons, ruining the story.

How I Met Your Mother’s last season broke a spell that was over me, thinking that any of the characters were decent people. And allowed me to look at the whole thing without any of the nostalgia that carried me throughout the show. Was a young adult with questionable opinions that got better as I got older. The show seems to have never done so. And so I can say that the bad season did ruin the rest of the show, as I may have never given it a critcal eye if they had written it better.

I heard it was an osterich. Allegedly.

When a daddy pencil and a mommy cassette love each other very much…

Used to belong to a Homebrewing forum (beer, not computer servers), and they had monthly post about someone wanting to infuse their beer with tobacco. Which is where I learned that it will kill ya dead. Tobacco can be used externally to reduce swelling, chew on a wasp sting will prevent a lot of it. Or if you’re looking for trouble late in life I guess you could smoke it also, though that one seems a great deal less compelling to me.

Re-iterate - Don’t eat any food made with tobacco, it will harm you at the very least.

That might be one of the most adorable cats I’ve ever seen, and I like cats.

Don’t they know the females are the ones raised for meat?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M4JE3SA Got that for my daughter. Can be put in the microwave for a warm experience, and I seem to remember it smelling of lavender when heated.

It is the sky. The sky is raining. Or the clouds, the clouds are raining. Either of those two would be a great answer to what “it” is.

I should note, they said plasma donation, which in the US are usually places that will pay you for the “donation”. The blood banks also take plasma donations, but I don’t think they will pay. Plasma donation is something that seems to be marketed to people that are just barely getting by. And so people lying about their conditions tend to make more sense, as they are just trying to find ways to make ends meet, or have just a little bit of money to spend after expenses.

Who is your “they” in this scenario? Because R’s sure don’t fit into that “they”.

Where do you live? Can’t imagine all the effort it would take to catch all the brown anoles in Orlando.

Was this in St. Augustine? That coquina stone is everywhere there.

And it’s so rare to see a green anole anymore, I see maybe 1/10,000 living here. Last I knew, Hawaii still has the green ones though.