State sanctioned dilution of what it means for things to be true. It’s not about the vaccines, it’s about getting people to accept falsehoods.

Yeah, when the school hoops they want you to jump through for whatever are too stupid, just … don’t. They will grouse at you about that. So what?

I am quite certain that “regular chicken” at the time had a specific meaning, because that phrase was used frequently for a time. Once, we guessed that it meant generic fronzen chicken nuggets. Nope. It might have been plain grilled chicken breast. As in “only chicken, cooked, nothing else. Regular.”

Ah the fond memories of one of my kids shouting “I WANT REGULAR CHICKEN” at the table most nights.

We had no idea what “regular chicken” was.

e: I just asked said kid, who is much older now. “I don’t know lmao. I have no recollection of actually saying it, just you recounting it.”

My favorite part is how he seems angrily defiant about it.

Grapefruit, I love them. I take so much medicine that I can’t really have them anymore.

Stop drinking grapefruit juice out of your dog. It can’t be good for either one of you.

No no and fucking no (pun intended).

When I was in the army, …

Consider, too, that the military needs every sack of meat to be able to shoot straight, load mags, clear malfunctions, clean and maintain. By extension, the light arms they use are designed to be as dead simple as possible.

I’m gonna go pick up an SR-15 rifle.

lol contract, what do you think this is, civilization?

Who knew they liked gyros so much?

… force a vote on a bill directing Bondi to release the Epstein files.

Bondi: “No.”

Author talks about someone putting a hand on their shoulder, which acts as a sort of grounding or balancer. Facilitated communication is when the assistant is literally moving the person’s hands.

There’s no way the author could be a PhD candidate with only a shoulder touch level of assistance.

Facilitated communication is definitely psuedoscience. Thankfully, that’s not what this article’s author was talking about.

Pretty sure that medal goes to the Soviets.

So do I.

Wouldn’t be hard to build a paper board and play on that.

I’d think that having an empty 2x2 right in front of any of your pieces would limit your options for moving pieces. So I would put it in front of White, not in the middle, but on one of the edges. Also, White would not be allowed to shift the tile on their first turn, since that would just put the disadvantage on Black, who would shift a tile, yada yada. Maybe … maybe you would only be allowed to shift a tile if you didn’t shift a tile on your previous turn.

Another thing - would Queens, Bishops, Rooks be able to “jump” the empty space to cross from one side of an empty 2x2? I’m thinking yes.

There would need to be two missing 2x2 board pieces for symmetry.