Oh, that’s time to party! You just start dancing and singing along. Join in the screaming and laughing.

You know, it’s so lovely that you shared whatever the worst thing they were loud about with us, it’s nice to know all those little details about a neighbor.

Said with a smile, as genuine as you can make it.

Nah, it’s like real southern hospitality. It ain’t about those assholes over there, it’s about how you choose to go through life.

Doesn’t mean you can’t be assertive. But you be assertive with manners.

Even the southern “bless your heart” isn’t what it gets made out to be. We all know damn good and well it’s a way of saying “oh wow, you’re fucked”, or “I’m better than you” some of the time, but it’s still calling a blessing on someone, and ain’t that better than just calling someone a bad name?

Minnesota nice is essentially the same. Finding a nice way to approach not nice circumstances. It’s why southerners and folks from that region get along, doncha know.

For real, try it for a while. Make a serious effort to be yourself, express your feelings and thoughts, but phrase them with manners and restraint. It works . I’m not saying there’s never a time to pull off your shirt and earrings and fuck someone up, but the less aggro you are on average, the more impact it has when you finally do pop that can of whupass.

Edit: a little of the bard to show that one can be assertive, even aggressive, without also losing one’s self.

SAMPSON

Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR

ABRAHAM

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON

I do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAHAM

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON

[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say ay?

GREGORY

No.

SAMPSON

No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.

GREGORY

Do you quarrel, sir?

ABRAHAM

Quarrel sir! no, sir.

SAMPSON

If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.

ABRAHAM

No better.

SAMPSON

Well, sir.

GREGORY

Say ‘better:’ here comes one of my master’s kinsmen.

SAMPSON

Yes, better, sir.

ABRAHAM

You lie.

SAMPSON

Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

They fight

Enter BENVOLIO

Nah, just pulled from power and shoved into a nice facility where nobody ever has to deal with them again

I mean, with all due respect to your undoubtedly wonderful son who will now be forever known as “dickfoot”, I’m not sure how justifies even mild annoyance, much less miniscule fury. Pareidolia is in the eye of the beholder, not that of the sight. It’s a pixelated heart with a streamer, not a penis. It’s only barely phallic if you stretch phallic as a term far longer than you should ever stretch an actual phallus.

Funny as fuck all! But not really something to be infuriated over.

Hope you and Dickfoot have a wonderful day!

I don’t think there’s been documented evidence of the exact same thing.

But I don’t think anyone that’s watched mma develop over the decades could doubt that there’s some degree or another of control of desired outcomes. It isn’t as blatant as giving orders on who wins and loses. But decks can be stacked, and often seem to be

A goodly number of times

Met two different Helen Hunt lookalikes.

Met a Pavarotti looking guy at a video rental place.

Met a guy a few weeks ago that looked like a human Barcus Wroot

Met a woman that looked enough like Michael Jordan I had to do a double take.

Dunno if you’d call her a celebrity, but a friend dated a woman that could have been Kobe Tai’s sister, damn near twin.

Robert Plant! There was a guy in a cover band that looked like him and sang close enough that it was surreal.

Ikr? Not even a hint of subtlety

Nah, decapitation can absolutely be done in a single strike. It just takes the right angle and swing. Like someone else said, there’s been footage of it made. It doesn’t even take anything fancy; I saw a video of a machete doing it back in the wilder days of the internet.

Up to the point of protected speech, yes.

Free speech doesn’t mean you can say anything, anywhere, anywhen. It means that you can expect to be free from persecution or prosecution based on expressing a range of beliefs via speech/press.

There should be a difference between a truly private property, as in one’s home, and a business property, but that’s a different issue. Even with businesses being “private” property, they still have to toe the line with protected speech, and most of the examples you gave would fall under that. The problem comes in litigating the violation

In a world where defense attorneys are a necessity, and they currently are (with no feasible change coming any time soon), then every attorney must provide the best defense they can do their client, period.

It doesn’t matter who it is, what they’re accused of, or if they’re guilty. Everyone is supposed to have access to an attorney that will serve their best interests. You can’t have a legal system that involves trials at all and not have all defendants given acces to a full and proper defense.

Any lawyer that can’t mount a defense for the most vile human ever to walk the earth would need to be disbarred because everyone has the right to representation, or nobody can trust that their rights matter. And yeah, the system fails a lot, but not because of defense attorneys doing their job.

Literally, if fucking Hitler was to go on trial, his attorneys should be expected to mount the best defense possible. Anything else is bullshit.

Lemming, lemmite, and lemmy user are the ones in heavy rotation.

LeChance, obviously

It depends on the implant.

Generally, they’ll be placed in a way that avoids interfering with nerves or blood supply. When it does happen, that’s a failure, not a normal part of the process.

Something like facial implants are usually solid (always, afaik, but I ain’t sith enough to deal in absolutes) rather than injected. You do have injections for cosmetics, but those tend to be into the lips almost exclusively.

The kind of injections that go into lips wouldn’t spill out after an injury. They use materials that aren’t liquid. Even the grotesque versions you see sometimes aren’t just bags of liquid under the skin.

Where you run into liquids, it’s going to be breasts and asses for the most part. The saline based ones will spill out if the “bag” they’re in ruptures. It’s just salty water, more or less, inside a sac.

Silicone implants are more of a gel, and thus wouldn’t “spill” in the same way, but if the container is ruptured can seep out into the body. It’s kinda like a thick jello in consistency, to use your own example.

But it is difficult to rupture the containers. They can be pierced, obviously, but enough force to just pop one is also enough force that you have other things to worry about.

Now, all of that assumes legal procedures. There are people out there that will essentially shoot caulk into their victims. And you’ll find some fucked up fakers that will do incorrect versions of otherwise safe-ish medical procedures, like transferring one’s fat from one place in the body to another.

And it’s important to note that there are procedures out there that do involve stuff that might match what you’re asking a bit closer, but they’re not exactly common

People seem to forget that death threats are serious shit. It’s illegal to make them, and “psych, joking!” Isn’t going to get you out of trouble.

And yes, a threat to a group of nazis is still communicating threats, and someone doing it could face consequences. It’s all about whether or not you get caught, and if whatever prosecutors have jurisdiction decide to follow up or not.

See, free speech doesn’t mean you can say anything you want without consequences. It’s about preserving a fundamental right to not be persecuted for your beliefs, political or otherwise. There’s history behind the way the U.S. First amendment is written. And it isn’t really about protecting all speech and expression, only wide swathes of them. People, however, persist in thinking otherwise.

Threats of violence and harm weren’t protected, ever. Not in the bill of rights, not in the Magna Carta, nor in any other body of laws I’ve ever heard of that are older.

In other words, it’s okay to say you hate someone and wish they would die, but not that you’re going to make it happen. Which is a gross oversimplification, but that’s the gist. One is an opinion, the other is a threat that has to be taken seriously.

Alas, people’s tongues don’t have the exact same spread of taste receptors, and our brains can interpret signals in different ways even when the origin simulation is identical. It’s part of what makes food recommendations so difficult. Even something as broadly enjoyable as chocolate still isn’t so universal that every single person likes it.

When it’s something as single note as umami can be, there’s going to be a lot of misses to go with the hits :(

Well, if you assume two things, yes.

First, that prison serves a purpose beyond punishment. Second, that there’s no better option to achieve that purpose.

Without those assumptions, then you get different answers because if punishment is the only purpose of it, there’s way less expensive and societally detrimental ways to punish someone. And, if there’s no better options to achieve other goals, then you have to wonder if the goals are worthwhile.

It’s not really ready for prime time tbh.

I technically do, but only because the communities rarely to never need moderation.

I’m just too damn old to moderate much of anything that’s active enough to need moderation lol. If any of move ever do get busy, I’ll be looking for someone to take over.

Part of that is lemmy moderation low key sucking. Cross instance moderation is broken as fuck, but even on your own instance, it’s a pain in the ass. As much as people hated automod on reddit, if you got used to the way it worked, you could trivialize things in terms of stress vs reward without just stomping on users.

Since I also tend to hate trying to mod on a personal account, that’s another layer of hassles I just don’t have the energy for at this point

Not sure what quitting pot has to do with not watching roots, but no, it isn’t that controversial a series/movie/book

It is, however, highly symbolic to go after it. It’s basically a declaration that things are changing, and this time they’re going after the black people openly.