You'd think he'd lose interest almost immediately once he found out how few opportunities the pope has for sexual assault.

Technically, it's only almost exclusively?--but the only way to get a tortie or calico that isn't genetically female is to get one that's genetically XXY, and those have loads of other health issues as well.

To say nothing of:
--the folks in red leaning areas that didn't vote because they *couldn't*, because it's super common for those areas to also have lots of voter suppression
--the areas that are rural and *not* red leaning, because those exist
--the folks that made bad choices but are still people

HARD agree.

And, like, not just the "here's what i need from you" stuff, though goodness knows that's important! You also need the "you did the thing, you're awesome" stuff that tells people they're doing well, and the "i think we are selling you short" growth opportunities, too.

Confirmed, that boy could have a deep, fascinating conversation with a rock and the rock would roll away smiling about its new friend

BY GOOD MY SHOES WILL BE SO SHINY THEY COUNT AS SECONDARY EXTERIOR ILLUMINATION

And was this meant as a compliment, like "wow, you're serious about taking care of your equipment"? Or was it a dig, like "you clearly aren't out in the soot enough if your boots are this shiny"?

I also often found that waiting until my girl was chilling and half asleep worked well.

"ZzzzzzWhaaa--No! I don't want--"
*swallows*
"...Goddamnit."

The only ones i dreaded were the appetite stims, which had to be broken into pieces and could easily return as white drool if you didn't aim well.

This is low key reminding me of a paper a classmate wrote about the history of barbecue. He remarked that there are many many different versions and flavors scattered across the region, and all of them will claim theirs is the original.

Admittedly some of this goes back to the politics of the 80's, when democrats decided that reagan's victories meant they needed to soft pedal their left-ness more to appeal to centrists, and republicans took that as license to swing even *more* rightward and oh my poor aching overton window.

I've seen that logic employed, yes. More specifically, i've heard liberal used to mean "i want more equity, but i'm not willing to dismantle any unjust systems (most especially capitalism) to do it, so i'll just advocate for tweaks and mild reforms and exceptions." Very labor party in britain.

See also:
--policies requiring traditional, gendered dress right down to skirts from their employees
--political screeds in their catalogs
--docking their workers' pay if they're so much as a minute late
--took federal money for PPE then ignored safety regulations for staff

Whew! I'm so glad you dodged that one.

They offered to put the chickens up in a nice hotel, but nooooo...