To be honest, I was just amused at the comment at the end, and the “Source: LITERALLY YOU!” part.

It made me smile.

Did you know that moose caused around 6000 car accidents in Sweden in 1980 alone? And between 1970 and 1985 they were the number one cause of motor vehicle accidents?

And cute moose.

The type of moose to make other moose go HWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

(smirk) I was resisting the urge to post “my sister once bit a moose, you know” because I didn’t think anyone would get it :)

Maybe a train is about to get him by him.

It is a multi-layered joke.

There is a film called “The Muppets Take Manhattan” that is apparently not that well known. It is one of the “original” Muppet films, and is quite good. It’s about Kermit moving to Manhattan to make it big on Broadway.

This then plays into the idea that they’ve “taken Manhattan” in a military sense, and using an image of someone from Game of Thrones (I’m not a fan and have never watched it but I get the idea) the question is can they hold it if they were challenged.

My title comes from the idea in roulette that you can bet on red, or black, or green. And since Kermit (the nominal leader of the Muppets) is green you should “always bet on green”. The suggestion being I would always bet on The Muppets over any forces that could be martialled against them.

Aren’t you glad you asked?

Kind of like Israel’s justification for committing genocide.

Okay – I think I figured it out.

Sorry about that. Turns out I am not that smart.

Yeah – I copied a gif and it pasted it as a PNG.

If you have any advice on copying gifs I would gladly accept it :)

So it turns out gifs don’t work all that well. Sorry.

Ditto.

I am also from Europe (the UK specifically) and whether someone is going to be the best person in the whole history of humanity or (for want of a better phrase) the most idle, useless wastrel known to humankind I still believe they deserve the basic support of the welfare system, and shouldn’t be left to starve to death on the streets. Because what does it say about a society that does that to someone?

You don’t help someone for a reward, or for what you will get out of them, you help them because they are a human being who needs help.

And if you need a better reason (because clearly some people do) you help them because if you were in that situation you hope someone would help you.

I was going to ask what countries the aid goes to, and what classes as aid.

I think the point being made is this :- teachers find a job. Then they teach. They produce the product (knowledge) which is given to kids and teenagers.

Kids and teenagers do not pay for this. They go to school (up to a given age) for free. And everyone seems happy with this point of view. Education is a right.

And sure – teachers don’t have a fundamental right to a teaching job, but that isn’t the point. The point is kids have a fundamental right to the product the teachers make – knowledge.

Let’s go another way with this.

I don’t know if you have any kids or not – this is entirely hypothetical. But I have discovered people think more about a topic the less abstract it is.

You have two kids, aged 4 and 5. Then you get hit by an asteroid that kills you. No one else can take them in.

Wouldn’t you like for the state to look after them? To at least give them food, water, shelter and care until they grow up until they are eighteen? To do all this whether they can earn their way or not? To do it just because it is the right thing to do?

Not because they believe the kids will pay them back or be worth something when they grow up, but because they believe the kids have worth now simply because they are living, sentient human beings?

Or would you rather that your kids are left out on the street to die? forced to make their own way in the world at the age of 4 and 5? that they will only be fed if they can show they have worth?

Just curious.

Reddit is France now?

“Can you believe this SoleInvictus guy? I just write a simple comment and now he’s got me talking directly to the internet in some sort of fourth wall break thing? I mean is that even a thing with the internet, given that it doesn’t even have a wall?” (Gabe shrugs) “Or is it an infinite wall break, what with all the monitors, phones, tablets, smart tvs and the like I must be staring out at this point?” (looks around with a paranoid expression) “Well, thanks for listening, but I’m going somewhere I can sit down and have a nice cup of Bovril” (slowly backs away into the shadows until nothing remains but the after image)

The OP checked. The OP knows it was from 2021.

The OP also likes talking about himself in the third person. Because The OP thinks its fun.

In most of The Twilight Zones I watch the puppet ends up killing the parents, taking over the kid and staring at the camera going “Who’s a good boy?”

Which, okay, does kind of sound like the relationship between Israel and the USA but that’s beside the point

(grin) It’s more of a generic thing.

The phrase “This is the future liberals want” is something you see a lot on tumblr, and sometimes other places :)

Which would be relevant if the athletes were trans.

But they aren’t. So it isn’t.

Which makes bringing it up pointless.