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A part of the modern moral standard is a lot about pulling yourself by your bootstraps, being your own person, in control of yourself, and having the power to control your body and everything around it. It's an illusion that is very nice and romantic, partly stepped in the good ol' protestant/puritan work ethic and sexist notions of manhood but it has not a lot of basis in reality. For many people this belief is essential not only to their worldview but also to their sense of personal worth. Trigger warnings challenge that mindset and so are seen by many as a personal and societal attack.

I predict the Backer Beta will begin some time in January or February. I don't really know, though. "Upcoming" can be as vague as one wants.

Nah, we should look right in the eyes of the man behind the curtain until he mumbles uncomfortably and breaks into a cold sweat.

It would explain economic advancement if they would sell it, but from what was shown in MCU they don't. So how a resource that is not sold to anyone translate to economic advancement? I would posit that it is sold only under the most stringent of conditions. I would assume that all or most of the great technical breakthroughs in the MCU are enabled by Vibranium. I imagine some hefty government agreements were made between the US and Wakanda in order to get the materials required by stuff like the helicarriers and whatnot.

Well, the magical enlightened society is kind of pushing it, but there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for the economic and scientific advancement of Wakanda: Vibranium. It's an insanely valuable super hero metal that solves all sorts of technological problems, which exists exclusively in Wakanda. The existence of the metal is of course comic book silliness, but if that existence is taken at face value, then the economic and tech level of Wakanda is perfectly reasonable.

Dental care for everyone under 24 or 25, is completely free here in Sweden. My oldest has missing teeth and two teeth yet to come down that are currently horizontal, (her mouth X-ray looks like it was made by Dalí) and it's a gigantic boon that I won't have to pay anything for that.

Have to? Not really, no. In Portugal it's not very uncommon for employers to offer private insurance, but that's a voluntary perk, not an obligation. In Sweden, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's possible for a company to provide health insurance as part of the collective workers agreement. That doesn't happen with my employer, though.

Sometimes I feel people actually live by this... Sometimes? Everyone hates themselves, and one another. Hate makes the world go round. #Hallmarkmoment

That's just utterly insane.

Gumball and Dungeons is pretty good but very addictive. Puzzle & Dragons is also great.

Most economically productive state in the union, has some of the best public _and_ private higher education institutions, home to the busiest cargo ports in the states and the highest traffic airliner hub, hosts the principle naval base for USPACFLT, why on Earth shouldn't California matter a _whole_ lot? Equality Isn't a situation where a smaller number of people has more voting power than a larger number of people actually inequality?

Is it as bad as everyone says?

You can just feel the economic anxiety that led to Trump being elected oozing through their pores.

Right wing politics:

Trump, infantile? Why, I never! And that the point, I think. Who better to lead a country with nukes than a childish old man who thinks sounding like an 80s action B movie star is a good idea.

While I didn't appreciate BaW's main plotline all that much, I thought it was serviceable enough to keep me interested.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/895970429734711298 "Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" This is fine.

Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee

Volcano Choir - Comrade

Vircator - Tunguska

Yeah, I read that sentence as "hillbilly is a pejorative for a pejorative."

Once more unto the breach. Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener

Queens of the Stone Age - The Way You Used to Do Closed for length.

Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - 1959

Torres - Honey