tbf I think cows, chickens, pigs, and fish are cute too

Ah, thanks. I had to look it up. I think my folks just call them hand towels

I still don’t get it…

What’s healthy and mature is learning to cope with the fact others are different and not judging others based on those arbitrary differences or forcing them to conform to your expectations of them.

Oh, absolutely that’s true, and I hope I didn’t imply otherwise. It goes both ways. What’s healthy and mature is learning how to meet people where they’re at and avoid conflict. Sometimes that means overlooking things that make you uncomfortable, and sometimes that means being mindful of how your own appearance and behavior can make others uncomfortable.

It’s not “inconsequential” if it causes friction with your client. You can say “this is fucking bullshit and fuck anyone who disagrees” as much as you want because you’re an uninvolved keyboard warrior, but the employer has to be pragmatic.

No task exists in a vacuum; optics are part of the job. Nobody can be forced to employ him in the position that he prefers. If he feels strongly about it, he can establish his own transportation company called Lolita’s Bus Line and attempt to win the school district’s contract on his own merit.

P.S. Moderating your own self-expression to accommodate the comfort level of a diverse audience is a healthy, mature part of human social interaction. You aren’t obligated to do so, but you must expect friction and obstacles when you don’t. There are times and places to let your true colors fly. It’s wise to recognize that and seek out those settings.

They’re the good guys in Fallout 3 in the sense that they’ve taken it upon themselves to provide clean water and protect people from super mutants. They’re also the bad guys in the sense that they make no attempt to discern sapient ghouls from feral ghouls; they shoot all mutants on sight. And of course their chapter had a civil war so there is a splinter faction present in Fallout 3 that clings to the old isolationist tech-hoarder ways.

Every individual on this planet has the right to express themselves independently of how others around them might perceive them.

Yes, absolutely. We have the right to express ourselves. But we aren’t entitled to employment in any position we want at any company we want regardless of how we express ourselves in public while representing that company. “Dressing in flashy attention-seeking outfits and displaying a sign that says Lolita” isn’t a category that’s protected from employment discrimination.

The dude isn’t facing criminal charges. Just normal workplace consequences that anyone should have expected regardless of whether you feel it’s right.

It’s a matter of professionalism and optics. I work for an impressively liberal financial institution, but I guarantee you I would be written up at best (probably fired) if I showed up to work in a pink schoolgirl dress and put a sign on my desk that said “Lolita’s Credit Union.”

The driver wasn’t arrested. His identity doesn’t appear to have been shared publicly. The wording in the article implies that he still works for the transportation company but was taken off of the school route. It’s not like it’s a witch hunt. He’s just facing the natural consequence of unprofessional behavior.

If you’re going to be the public face of a company, you shouldn’t comport yourself in a way that anyone with half a brain cell would know is uncomfortable and offensive to your client (in this case, a Catholic private elementary school).

An obviously photoshopped picture at that. The camera spacing is so weird and it doesn’t even have a flash.

The more you eat, the more you toot. 🎺

The UK can’t get hurricanes. Any storm that far away from the tropics, by definition, is not a hurricane (and is statistically likely to be far weaker and less destructive than a hurricane). So nobody would have had the opportunity to shoot at a hurricane in the UK in the first place.

You think most parents have gotten falling down drunk? Around their small children, no less? Is alcohol abuse really that rampant?

AGI?

We named her Chaplin 😸 Seemed nicer than calling her Kitler!

I’m glad that the fire damage was minor and fully contained to his own home, that he’s getting mental help, and above all that nobody was injured. The story could have turned out very differently.

How come you never fired your weapon in the office before? It’s called a desk pop. We’ve all done it.

Possession and dissemination.

Also, the definition of “POSSESSING A SEXUAL PERFORMANCE BY A CHILD” under New York Penal Law § 263.16 specifies “any performance which includes sexual conduct by a child less than sixteen years of age.”

Yes, he hasn’t been convicted of anything, but the accusation is that he shared sexually explicit images of a child who was 15 or younger.

What lies? What “dirty work?” They’re not giving the kids a script. The assignment is to either make an educational video about why young people shouldn’t use THC (do you not agree that minors shouldn’t use THC?), OR share a personal anecdote about how marijuana use has affected them or someone they know.

You say it sounds desperate, but to me it looks like a way to catch kids’ attention and get more young people thinking about this. Submit a skit, get a gift card, be engaged in the conversation. Maybe learn something new. What’s so exploitative about that?

Is it automatically “propaganda” to suggest that there’s anything unsafe about marijuana or that kids shouldn’t use it?

I’m pro-legalization (because criminalization does much more harm than good) but why are you all acting like this is a bad thing? Especially considering that the campaign is specifically advocating against YOUTH consumption of marijuana? We can all agree that children and adolescents shouldn’t consume marijuana, right? Just because it shouldn’t be criminalized doesn’t change the fact that weed is a habit-forming drug that impairs memory, concentration, and reflexes. It absolutely CAN be dangerous.