Consider this: I pick up a tennis racket and a tennis ball, so does my wife, we go to a tennis court, I hit the ball to her gently, she hits it back: Are we playing tennis or not?

If we are not, what are we doing?

And yet it’s nowhere near the level of Serena Williams, or even the local semi Pro tournament, or probably even the local tennis club.

why does it have it be good, or more accurately for this conversation- why do you have to like it for it even to exist and have a name?

I dont particularly care for The Wiggles, or for Machine Gun Kelly, but both of them produce music. Just because I don’t like it, or think it’s not good doesn’t mean it’s not music. Even a child slowly, shakily playing a basic C major scale and getting it wrong is still “music.” Its not Mozart but it still exists.

There is no “point” or “value” you can attach to tennis, music or sculpture - or other forms and media of art, entertainment, sport, science etc that means it suddenly becomes that. Art you don’t like is still art.

Damn this guy was prolific in the DMs.

ah yes, being able to survive being hit with a hammer, what everyone is looking for from art.

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas

A gigantic nuclear furnace

Why hydrogen is built into helium

At a temperature of millions of degrees

Is it normal to know anything at all about your local Sheriff?

I had to do three google searches and then scroll down for a while to even find my local one, then their bio was so dull when I looked it up it was difficult to pay attention to it.

…distinguished career in law enforcement includes experience with various law enforcement agencies serving the metropolitan area. … going on to serve with both the City and the County Police Departments. In 2008, applied that experience to the creation of the public safety office for the rapidly expanding College …became the Assistant Chief of Police and…

Previously known as RAGE - Retire All Government Employees - this is funded by Peter Thiel who believes that the government should be run like a business and when the leader changes they fire everyone they can and replace them with their own staff.

These are people who believe that violence is justified by its efficacy and vice versa, barely held in place by the current rule of law.

Having lived in both - often having a half pint of 4%. lager is enough to prevent people from driving, in the US having two pints of 7.5% IPA and smoking weed wouldn’t been seen as unusual before a 30 min drive home.

Fiance visa took about 10-11 months for entry to the country, then converting it to a 2 year green card took roughly 7 months, then when I renewed it they changed it to a 10-year one.

I think it’s different with every type of visa though.

Blackheads, heartbreak and psorisis - Christ, you don’t know the meaning of heartbreak buddy come on come on

As a green card holder I do have the option of going “home” - except I own a house, have a wife, friends, a job, a car, a phone - all with payments still left on them (especially the wife waka waka waka) - obviously I’ll leave if I’m literally in danger, but if I’m not and it’s just that I don’t like the president and it negatively affects geopolitics somewhat, on a personal level, leaving the country would be disastrous for me.

that people with LiveJournals are insufferable twats

Jacob Collier has entered the chat.

MN and TX are incorrect, they both have one resident with two heads.

“hooray another dead abortionist, and the evil abortion doctors were prevented from killing another baby” is probably how they’d spin in

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not to diminish your point - but separately - also disproportionately innocent people

what about the unlabeled fly

your first sentence sounds like it’s saying the opposite btw

a year to work a full time job I meant.

edit: I looked it up, average - 50th percentile - is actually $79k per annum. Still not crazy money for a full time job.