Maybe this in Julian calendar?!

That means we only have 247 years left!! REPENT!!

1. Trusting YouTube and TikTok over… Hmmm, I don’t know, the US census, US department of Labor, dozens of scholarly studies, hundreds of reputable modern American sociologists, anthropologists, and other educated people who’ve come to a general consensus, seems like a bad start to form an educated opinion.

2. The average human is sorrowfully terrible at understanding scale. “It’s not just a few people, it’s many” is a vague statement. What is many? Compared to what? “Almost 500 THOUSAND cases of cholera were reported last year!! Half a million people!! It’s going to kill us all!!” Yeah, but that’s 0.0000625% of humans. More than twice that many people die from accidents while playing sports for recreation. It doesn’t mean we don’t help people with cholera, and it doesn’t mean we ban sports globally; to use that as an example of a greater issue is just disingenuous or ignorant.

“Many” doesn’t mean most, it doesn’t even mean a considerable percentage. Many could just as easily be an insignificant percentage.

I like your question! To me it starts with a real apology without excuses. Real apologies are generally short and put one in a vulnerable situation, like

“I’m sorry for spreading these lies, they aren’t true and I did it from a place of ignorance”

No “I didn’t mean to,” no “I’m not racist, I’m mixed,” and so on.

She’s not expressing remorse, she’s selfishly scared for herself.

Remorse requires accountability, not excuses and projection.

She made a racist, hateful, hearsay statement and now that it might affect her she says she can’t be hateful because she’s “gay and biracial.” That’s the definition of dodging accountability.

Because they have Air Conditioning.

The thing they should have had for the last 40 years. With record breaking heat year after year it should be hazard pay without ac

I was talking with my girlfriend and Tar Shampoo came up, and I said “I don’t even know exactly what that is used for other than dramatically killing off a horse” and she hung up on me.

This is the saddest meme I’ve seen in recent memory, if only because of its accuracy

It’s a common thing in many countries. It’s, among other things, a liability issue.

If your “country #1” company does business in “country #2” then what laws apply to them?

In order to distinguish clear lines what “country #2” requires is a representative for the company to be in the country. If the company breaks “country #2”'s laws then the representative is liable for it.

Generally to be a representative you have to have a measurable stake in the transaction, you can’t just be a random Jimbo, so it usually falls to a law firm (or an entity that works with one), mainly because if you need people to help your company follow the law, then they should know the law.

If the company breaks the law, the firm has to deal with that, so it’s a risk for them.

In this case, X needed that representative, either they couldn’t or wouldn’t find one, therefore Brazil said “we can’t hold you accountable to our laws, so get out of our country.”

I’m super, MEGA, oversimplifying, and I’m no expert, but this is my best understanding.

They require a representative in order to establish a chain of responsibility that deals with crime, censorship, social health (lol), public relations, etc.

It does come down to a combination of size, influence, services rendered, and other factors.

He could put a random kid in charge but it would make it worse, like putting a busboy in a chef’s hat during Rush hour.

I mean, you’re being facetious, but no, the law being “your company must have a legal representative to be within our borders”

X was told about it, given a deadline, they missed the deadline, they can’t be in Brazil

Actions have consequences

The beauty of poetry is that it can be whatever it comes out as, because it’s you sharing your inner art, outward.

This is a poem, and it made me feel things. I think that’s just how art works.

This is some Paper Mario cursed chest vibes. I love it.

He’s attractive and sexy, but not hot or pretty.

If that even makes sense.

Because they broke the law.

No, I don’t believe the popular opinion is inherently the right one.

I’m not making appeals to popular opinion, my initial, and only, stance is that “free speech” is not the same as “consequence-free speech.”

I don’t know…

My list goes:

1. Their toilet paper

2. I might criticize Putin

3. I might criticize the government

Also known as “Boeing Normal Operation”

1 “Wife’s entree”

3 “Meatballs Order”

“how the hell do you know what I want?”

That’s an inherently aggressive statement.

It’s fine, but no reasonable person would think much differently.

Also, generalizing me with “you all” is a defensive catch-all to be dismissive of my point without actually making a stand for your own values.

It’s just a you-and-me conversation right now

Read: “contextually” and “sounds more like”

If you don’t like how you’re being called out then you should be introspective into why a generic statement made you so upset.

It’s not gaslighting when there’s a straight line of evidence.

To the wider world it looks like this: “Why do people think I don’t like dogs?! Just because I said I don’t like that you can’t kick dogs without getting a ticket nowadays! I didn’t kick any, I’m just saying!”