Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

It’s one of the reasons why I like edibles.

Do you drink coffee black?

What do you think of motorcycles?

What is the highest elevation you have hiked to?

We don’t fit in our house I don’t need all three to leave, but I need one of them to. I don’t have an office/personal space.

Once the guns get pointed their way there is open war and laws go out the window.

Yes, oligarchs would love if the working class were disarmed.

What solid women have we had as options? I have seen women on social media who were more electable than anyone who made it through either party’s gauntlet. At this point I expect our first woman president will be a Republican.

I don’t care about honking. I’ve seen two people on a bike near me in almost two decades and I’ve seen a dozen bikes staged on the roadside as memorials to people who have died. I’m not worried about honking, I’m worried about dying.

Haha have fun!

Yeah, I get paid 1/10th of that and I could do a lot better - and I used to - but I work for a nonprofit I care about. Greed is a hell of a drug.

I can’t imagine the railway network, I haven’t lived somewhere with trains in over 35 years.

First part, that’s how a lot of the public saw it, regardless of whether or not it was true. Which is why the second part.

Oh, I expect you’ll get the opportunity to fill out little bubbles on a piece of paper. The way they control people is through controlling information. The only way it usually fails is if people are starving or if some bad info leaks out. Keep em fat and happy and they keep voting. And pay attention to how the government treats whistleblowers.

In the rare case voters get mad about something and switch to vote for the other side, the elite still win. Oligarchs fund both parties.

In this thread, most of both the French and the vegans are insufferable. I like a nice strong black coffee and I don’t eat a lot of meat, but there’s a reason I don’t really want to go back to Paris or to half of the vegan restaurants I try.

The author should have quit long ago. Many employees are complicit.

I have lived in Europe and I know that can be a viable option for many people. But there are many places in the US where there are no real alternatives to a car. I have lived in my house for 18 years, bought at the beginning of 2007 before the market bubble popped and haven’t been able to afford to move since then. In 18 years I have seen exactly two people riding a bike near my home and I sometimes wonder if they’re still alive.

Yes - housing, food and transportation are beyond my means

Jesus did it after his resurrection too. Appeared in a locked room full of people. Appeared and disappeared more than once. I think there’s at least one additional instance that wasn’t mentioned in the other comment but I don’t keep this top of mind. It’s not like it’s common in the Bible, but apparently it is in the realm of possibility.

Personally - and this goes to crazy theory BS, I wonder if the tower of Babel wasn’t trying to reach the stars not by building tall enough to exit the atmosphere, but rather by teleporting there? There are some crazy theories about the age and purpose of the pyramids (it’s super unlikely they were tombs). Could that have been it? I also wonder if levitation was in the mix. What if ancient man was ridiculously smarter than we are? We dismiss people living to 900+ years old, but if you lived that long and also knew Adam who walked with God, who knows what the fuck you could do? I know it’s crazy as anything but I don’t mind letting my brain go to crazy "what if"s.

I mean it’s in the context. They’re shutting down rare mineral resources but given a few years other countries can replace those supplies. If China wants to cripple certain abilities, they probably want to act before we have found workarounds for their actions. Also, as crazy as Trump has seemed so far, the US is nowhere near uninfluential. Yet. He gained influence during his last term. I wouldn’t write him off as completely insane just yet.

This makes me think they’re going to move on Taiwan sooner rather than later.

There is teleportation in the Bible. Humanity just needs to up their game.