Pro tip- you can get soda water with lime for the same price in most bars. Still looks like a g&t but with that vitamin C.

Historically, the words marse and massa were used in writing to represent spoken alterations of the word master that were associated especially with the speech of enslaved African Americans. In modern contexts, the word massa is considered offensive, especially when used by a person who is not Black to imitate stereotypes of African American English or to make reference to slavery. The use of marse is usually limited to historical contexts and may be considered offensive in modern ones.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/massa

SCOTUS has nearly unfettered authority as long as Congress remains dysfunctional in keeping them in check. They’re just passing the power along.

*Coups are only legal if initiated by the President.

Agreed. I always seem to leave a conversation with you having learned something. It’s always appreciated.

I wasn’t trying to win. I’m sorry for sucking the fun out of the joke getting hung up on details. I didn’t know Dirk Digler was based on John Holmes, so thanks for teaching me something new!

Billionaires aren’t the bourgeoisie. They are the aristocrats. The bourgeoisie is more like six-figure annual income in the US.

Except you didn’t write Mark Wahlberg’s fake penis, or Eddie Adams/Dirk Digler’s penis. You wrote Mark Wahlberg’s penis.

In contrast, John Holmes was a porn star who was famously well-endowed.

No problem. Thank you for citing sources in your comment. I always appreciate substantiation in this world of misinformation.

That’s true of the post-pandemic food industry prices for sure. That description was regarding the failure of Nixon’s attempt to price fix with an Executive Order.

Right. They’re adult enough to do it online. It’s arguably better for an 18 or 19 year old to dance in a club than have an OnlyFans. At least after working in a club they can choose to move on to other career options without complete documentation of their previous line of work.

They will unless those 2-year-olds pay up. Justices need cruises to clear their heads before making important decisions.

That’s exactly how most Chinese counterfeits are made. By patent definition, a counterfeit is an illegal copy of an original. Any similar or identical items produced outside of contract are infringements, and considered counterfeits.

Also, not all grey market counterfeits are exactly the same as originals. The manufacturers no longer care about brand representation, so they tend to have far lower quality control standards, and often use lower-quality materials to increase profits.

That was a prosthetic.

It gives them a new point of focus rather than the record-breaking severity of Beryl this early in the year.

Besides having countless unrecorded conversations with Putin while in office, Trump told Viktor Orbán, the authoritarian PM of Hungary, that he would not send another penny in support of Ukraine if he takes office.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68533351

He also is refusing to support NATO allies, and will let Russia do “whatever the hell they want,” if a nation doesn’t spend enough on defense.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-russia-nato-defense-funds/story?id=107136736

Money.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600

Oof. That acronym.

So are many Christians. Pagan practices were merged into Christianity around 300 AD. They celebrate Christmas near the winter solstice even though Jesus was reportedly born in late September. The Christmas tree was taken from the Pagan tradition of Yuletide. The three days between Good Friday and Easter Sunday were originally intended to correlate with the path of Venus during the spring equinox, mirroring the resurrection in the story of Ishtar.

Any. For example, my sister is locked in. She calls everything that doesn’t come from Fox, OAN, or Truth “corrupt liberal media.”