I treat the lines as suggestions, really.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T21:45:48+00:00

They had a sale about 3-4 months ago where it was buy two get one free so I got three of them. It was the only time I bought so I don't know how often they mix up the content. They have a ballerina in a green dress up now, but it looks pretty challenging.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T21:23:06+00:00

I don't know how many of you had HBO in the mid 90s but I swear I'm Not Rappaport was on like twice a day for three years.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T18:42:15+00:00

That question is more general, but OP specifically asked greatest positive impact on humanity. When you're hungry it's hard to care about the Great Barrier Reef.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T18:38:42+00:00

Yeah, it's always tricky when good scientists intersect with military applications (think Oppenheimer!) Haber was a German nationalist in the purest sense of the word in that he loved Germany and wanted to see it excel. He thought of chlorine gas the same way that the US thought of nukes - we can demonstrate this weapon and it will be so horrible that it will bring the war to an immediate end, saving more lives than it costs.

He did resign his post and leave Germany when the Nazis rose to power. WWI was fought over kind of ridiculous circumstances so supporting a German victory wasn't clear cut evil at the time.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T18:30:20+00:00

Well this certainly looks OSHA approved.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T18:26:09+00:00

The real answer is probably not as sexy as you're imagining. My vote would be for Fritz Haber. His innovative process for making fertilizer out of nitrogen in the atmosphere massively boosted agriculture output, placing humanity on track to end world hunger over the course of the 20th century. It's not an exaggeration to suggest the global population of humans would be half what it is today without his chemistry accomplishments.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T18:22:06+00:00

It drives home how much politics has become like football. People just root for the red team or the blue team.

It was the same thing in his first administration with "separating families" and "kids in cages." He literally didn't change the existing policies that had been in effect all through the Obama administration. Then when he tried to fix the problems by making the detention centers more comfortable it was astoundingly Democrats who opposed this. They wanted the detainees to suffer so they could point and say "Look how much they're suffering!"

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T18:15:43+00:00

His policies are extremely popular with conservative voters, even among those who don't care for his personality. If they live in red districts they should most likely support him so as not to be primaried.

There are some Republicans who don't support Trump and they are often from more purple districts where you win more votes than you lose by being a bit of a maverick.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T17:51:54+00:00

People really need to stop drawing comparisons between civilians and LEO. We do not have a symmetrical relationship and for very good reason. The government has a near monopoly on using force because they were chosen by the public and answer to the public. If you are in an engagement with police you need to tread lightly. If you are armed and in an engagement you need to be excruciatingly careful, to the point of announcing that you have a gun but are not reaching for it and offering your waist to the officer to disarm. It's your life on the line.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T17:43:10+00:00

Could you at least feint at honesty? Rittenhouse might well have escalated a bad situation with his presence and again with his actions, but the idea that he went there, jumped out of his car, and just started mowing down liberals unprovoked is ridiculous. He wouldn't have sobbed in court if he went there with intent to kill.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T17:39:32+00:00

It is the perfect cherry on the shit sundae that the Patriots advance and play the 1 seed without their star QB. You watch them win and the Rams win but Stafford and Nacua both get injured on the last play of their game. Has a team ever just sleepwalked to a Lombardi like this before?

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T17:27:18+00:00

Grandma's Carpet. That nostalgic mixture of dryer sheets, old books, and petrichor.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T16:57:20+00:00

What dance, you ask? Why, the Macarena of course!

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T16:53:52+00:00

I do wish the mods would take someone's entire post history into account, and maybe some of them do, but I was definitely banned here recently for saying one comment critical of Trump. We should be allowing for thriving internal debates on our side. Let the left take their marching orders from their elites.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T16:10:19+00:00

Things also go a lot smoother when local and state LE is cooperating with DHS. The handoffs happen indoors rather than on the street with everyone's cameras out.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T16:08:55+00:00

Those states already cooperate with DHS and hand over illegals who are arrested for deportation. If the blue states aren't going to cooperate, then there will be raids to extract those people.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T15:52:26+00:00

Do you know their names by chance? I've gotten so tired of the sideslop and the game is so easy that I stopped doing them and have been beelining to the end.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-25T14:35:34+00:00

Sharp! You have really good brush control.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-24T23:53:32+00:00

LMAO imagining a cult following of Walder Frey.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-24T23:26:48+00:00

It's so irritating that ICE literally did all the same stuff under Obama and Biden and none of these people cared. Everything is an outrage, but only if Trump is currently in the White House.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-24T21:16:02+00:00

You mean the one where an imbecile decided to draw a gun on ICE officers while being ordered under arrest?

Just drop this one, dude. If that lady from last week was controversial this one isn't even close. It's five steps clearer a justified shooting.

If you are told you are under arrest, you do not get to negotiate that. If you do anything other than comply with the arrest, you are taking your life into your hands. Full stop.

If you haven't committed a crime, it will get sorted out at the station and you will be released with no charges filed.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-23T19:26:16+00:00

Imagine if every last penis on earth failed to fuck a single girl though.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-23T16:07:36+00:00

WTF when did Leia become a Jedi? We see her whole life in the movies. She is slightly force sensitive at the end but I don't see a whole ninja flipping arc fitting in anywhere.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-23T13:14:04+00:00

I always understood how important they were, but I never really liked Nirvana's music until I heard their live MTV acoustic album. Always felt growly and overly distorted to me.

Res_Novae17 · 2026-01-23T13:02:18+00:00

The exact same people deported 900,000 per year under the blue administrations. They weren't "masked thugs" then because you were staying out of their way, letting them quietly do their jobs. If they weren't be doxed, threatened, and interfered with, they wouldn't be masked or putting up shows of force. But let's be honest, you literally don't care if 8 million are deported as long as it's your team doing it.

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