Idle hands are the devil's plaything. It's an old phrase that means "get the fuck back to work."

It's never the wrong time to do the right thing. Fighting a "losing issue" is exactly how you persuade people you're right about the issue. That's called "leadership".

I mean, can you separate those things? Like I'm not saying all Christians are KKK or anything of the sort, but there seems to be a common thread among religious extremism, and that's faith in the divine authority to justify any act of violence or malice.

Are you in the United States or somewhere else in the world? It's the difference between chocolate and choc.

When in doubt, vote against the magats.

I don't feel bad for the guy, but I don't celebrate this sort of vigilante justice, either. Prisoners should be safe from other prisoners. Prison is not meant to be torture, and recidivism is a massive problem in the United States. Chauvin will have 20 years to contemplate his crimes, and treating him and every other prisoner will only reinforce their criminal proclivities.

Really, the disqualification is probably better publicity than winning the award itself. If someone told me some vegan cheese won a "Good Food" award, I would assume it was related to eco- and social-consciousness. Learning that it was so delicious that the dairy industry schemed to take away the award tells me they're afraid of the competition.

We've been over this.

The Ring of Power corrupts those around it by promising to fulfill their darkest desires. It channels their urges to get what it wants.

It wanted Gollum to hide away under a mountain until its master could return with his armies.

Hobbits and River Folk don't seek power. They want to be left along, smoke their pipes, and have lots of fat, happy children. As such, they have a natural defense to the ring's influence, but they are not immune to it. It makes them covetous and protective of the precious, even if they don't seek to use it for their own benefit.

We see the Ring of Power turns Gollum and Bilbo and Frodo invisible, but is that what it would have done for Boromir? For Gandalf? For Gimli or Galadriel? Almost certainly not. We saw in a flashback what it could do on Sauron's finger, and the only thing it did for Isildur is quicken his death. Gollum was seduced and wanted to hide away. Bilbo was a burglar wanting to sneak past a dragon. Frodo wanted to sneak into Mount Doom.

So what does Sam want? The only thing Sam wants more than to return to the Shire is to ensure his best friend makes it home with him. Sam cannot carry the Ring, not because he is weak to its influence, but because his best friend wants it. Frodo has been corrupted, and would fight Sam if he tried to take it. They tried taking turns, but Sam learned what it felt like to want the Ring, and knew he couldn't do it again.

But he could carry his friend, burdens and all. The ring could not drive a wedge between them, because Sam didn't seek to separate Frodo from the Ring. Sam's singular focus was getting to the end of their shared quest so that they could get home together.

If you put the Ring on a mouse, then whoever is carrying the mouse would be tempted to take it away, and the mouse would use the power of the Ring to keep it. Sam was resisting the temptation of the Ring, and the Ring was fighting back as hard as it could. It fully corrupted Frodo in the end, and it was only Gollum, who coveted the Ring more, who was able to take it away.

Fate, luck, the will of Eru, call it whatever you want, but Hobbits have the superpower of quiet contentment, and that's the only thing that can beat a lust for domination of the Valar, the Maiar, of Elves and Men and Dwarves. It's why Gollum hid away without conquering the goblins living above him. It's why Bilbo could roll with dwarves and give up the Arkenstone. It's why Frodo could walk into Mordor, right to the edge, knowing the journey was going to kill him. And it's why Sam could carry Frodo the rest of the way.

CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the "2 x" part.

C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.

Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.

As a man, I feel like my perspective hasn't been fully represented in this editorial. I'd like it to be noted for posterity that men don't want to marry Trump supporters, either.

This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don't support corrupt leaders. MTG does.

"They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.

Just a reminder that Elon Musk is an illegal immigrant and a fraud.

Killing libraries is not about saving money, it's about restricting knowledge. Beware the leader that doesn't want the people to read.

Step one, provide good service.

Netflix: Welp, I guess we should just pack it in.

That headline misses the big problem. It's not that Google was forced to give up search history data. If Google gets a warrant, they will comply. The real problem is that the justices acknowledged that the warrant was unconstitutional and permitted the evidence anyway. They claim the police "acted in good faith" while violating the constitution, which is a horrifying precedent.

If you're thinking "alls well that ends well," because they caught the arsonists who murdered a family of five, I can sympathize with that feeling, but consider that the murderer may have his conviction overturned on subsequent appeals.

The police obtained a warrant for everyone who searched for a thing from Google, and the search information was used against the accused in court. 14 states currently outlaw abortion, and there's some cousin-fucking conservative prosecutor in Dipshit, Alabama, just salivating over the prospect of obtaining the IP addresses of every person looking up directions to clinics.

ICE ILLEGALLY detains US citizen.

We need some precision in our language.

Maybe there's a video, maybe there's not.

But nobody is saying "No way! Trump would never do that!" or "This is a shocking scandal that nobody would have believed!"

What's it called when you fuck up and accidentally make millions of dollars? Oh, right, fraud.

Trump's campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung flatly denied the physical confrontation allegation, saying his team was prepared to release footage to refute the "defamatory claims,"

The claim is you were filming in Arlington, you dipshit. You're going to refute that by... releasing the footage?

BTW $30 isn't like a crazy high number for minimum wage. The current number is well below the poverty line for families everywhere in the United States, and New York has a very high cost of living. Minimum wage is explicitly intended to provide "the wages of decent living." $30 per hour might actually be too low for New York City. $61,500 a year is barely going to pay the rent in the shittiest neighborhoods. https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/new-york-ny/