JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@social.cleverlibre.org

Old Louisville Coffee Co-op, if anyone is local. Great cake there too... I highly recommend the Hummingbird cake. No idea what's in it, but it's vegan or something and really good.

I just had enough caffeine to cause a panic attack.

But the local coffee co-op makes this incredibly good espresso milkshake...

I can't find who shared this to boost their post, but this should be read. I think it is light on the history of Japan suing for peace starting in April, trying to get the Soviets to mediate. Japan wasn't in lockstep on a path to suicide, like this article implies, and I feel the timing of the bombs was to allow Soviet observers to see the devastation themselves. But, here is the article:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-were-they-dropped

Checker at Kroger asked me about my "skirt". I informed her it is a kilt, and made by Damn Near Kilt 'em. then I offered to teach her the difference so she wouldn't offend anyone, which she accepted.

If you don't know, the difference is what is underneath, underwear or confidence. And to be polite, you NEVER ask, just check for yourself.

Last week (thursday) was the anniversary of the worst school killing in American history.

Why don't you know of this killing, and what happened?

In America, as in all places that humanity lives, we tend to play a national game of whack-a-mole. We label each of the holes as a national issue, and we split into groups to focus on our particular hole. The entirety of the game is to not have ANY moles up. And to accomplish this, we focus on our mole, and keeping it down. What we overlook is that when we knock ours down, it forces another up someplace else. And if we force ours to stay down, it can cause massive repercussions on other holes elsewhere in society. We need to judge if allowing a bit of release, allowing our mole to pop up, overall helps society. Or does forcing our mole down hurt society even more.

Maybe a big government spending program that feeds kids is a mole. Spending taxes taken by force from the people is generally a 'mole', a bad thing. But if this lowers starvation rates, and crime statistics... See how this works?

Don't think something you see as obvious is obvious to all, or even a few others.

IN America, we have a lot of people named Steve who commit major crimes. I'm talking theft, rape, murder, arson, child abuse, etc. Major crimes. In India, they have almost no crimes committed by Steves. Same with China and Japan.

What should our solution be to our Steve problem??

I am going to assume you do not understand what I am talking about. I am also further going to assume you CAN understand what I am talking about. And once you understand this, viscerally, you will know to change your argument. I will further assume that you won't, because you hear about the 'Steve' problem so often with such emotion that you don't care to be right, or logical, but being politically correct is the end goal.

Just in case it isn't obvious, this is a serious question. I really want to know who these laws are going to hurt, or help, and how. I am honestly not sure I am in favor of any elective surgery performed on babies, including circumcisions. Nor am I sure I am against it in all cases. I think the anti trans laws are going to have unexpected blowback on the non trans community that will reverberate far longer than the harm these lawmakers are intentionally inflicting on the trans community.