AmidFuror

I’m glad this back and forth could end with such an enlightening declaration.

Speak for yourself. I used satellite imagery to uncover the final resting place of Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat, and the global atheist cabal is suppressing it.

Sure, it’s a form of government run by the people through various means which could include electing representatives to govern them. They could also directly vote for every law or policy. The people could include all people of the land or only citizens, only adults, only men, non-slaves, non-felons, etc. There have been many forms of democratic governments in our history.

I think the downvotes came from people who find me naive and think this woman actually had her daughter at a younger age and is lying about it.

Actually, in some of these cases it turns out to be the child claiming to be the parent. So my statement was naive.

I’m sure you’re ready to contort it. Was ancient Greece a democracy?

No, that can’t be right, because half the comments here say it’s due to racism. So if a Puerto Rican moves to a US state, they still can’t vote, right?

This fact alone has no significant bearing on it.

That’s a good point. My wife has an extensive audio CD collection. There’s something to be said for “owning” that music. But if she does, I will be keeping that collection on some other long-lived media instead that consumes less physical space.

The /s was delivered by the preference for newspapers. That was the giveaway in case you weren’t catching on earlier.

I’m skeptical any time one of these “oldest person” claims comes up. But in this case they would have had to have had her daughter’s birth wrong too, since Elizabeth was unlikely to have had her at much younger than 19.

I don’t know if you realize it, but each “generation” is actually a group of diverse individuals with their own character traits and behaviors. Demographers strain to lump them together with some attributes that are more common for them than for other groups. That certainly doesn’t make them a monolith.

Tarring all members of a group as the same, especially when their membership in that group is due to an accident of birth, would be considered bigotry in enlightened circles. Wishing them dead is much worse.

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My parents went through this when their parents died in the early 2000s. This is an old people vs young people thing. Let’s see what millennials accumulate as they go senile.

If I have a personal item only, then I will board last or last of my group. I’ll have plenty of time in that airplane seat during the flight.

The cause of line-cutting is limited overhead space and charges for checked bags. No one wants to cram into economy class seats early. They want to beat out the other cattle for overhead space. They need the space because they have a giant carry-on with their clothes for a week to avoid checked bag fees.

The airlines used to load the back of the plane first, but now they sell the rights to get on the plane early to frequent flyers and business class.

Peanuts are produced by plants. Give credit where it is due. So much animal-centered thought in these parts!

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They’re also primarily targeting non-military vessels.

Yes, his name is Trump.

Also in the show.