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@GarrySMcDowell @nicksortor If by "arguably" you mean "argued by a few idiots who don't care to restrict themselves to anything resembling facts" ... then sure. 🤷‍♀️

@nicksortor Arguably the most popular person in the world and likely even the most loved! I don’t care what the American left has to say about him, he will go down as the greatest President of all time!

🚨 NOW: President Trump was escorted out of the U.S. Capitol by a man playing bagpipes Every time the President is here at the Capitol, he is the star of the show. The Republican Senators bucking him on the SAVE America Act should REALLY keep that in mind! 😉

@BrianWilder @AndrewD595345 @oldguy_steve You know that they could just enrich USA enemies, buy buying energy from them, if they wanted, right?

No we don’t. What we know is in World War II if Europe didn’t have us you’d all would be speaking German right now and we for whatever reason decided while you guys rebuilt, we would be your protector and make sure you weren’t speaking Russian right now. So you go handle Russia on your own. Irans not getting any nukes in our lifetime and you can figure out who to buy an oil from and how to get it because honestly, we don’t need Middle East oil either.

You know, World War 2 wasn't our war either. Had it not been for the USA, all of Europe would be speaking German.

@BrianWilder @oldguy_steve So you aren't eager to have military bases outside of the USA?

@oldguy_steve This entire generation of Europeans have grown up under the umbrella of the US military protection. They think security is free. As a tax paying American if we didn’t spend another dime there it wouldn’t hurt my feelings. We have ZERO need for Europe and their bullshit.

@AdPunchPuppet @tpardiUSA @oldguy_steve "Totally isolate ourselves while trying to control everyone else." (There ... fixed it ...)

@tpardiUSA @oldguy_steve That's one way of saying "we should totally isolate ourselves", I suppose.

@tpardiUSA @oldguy_steve Telling a crowded room they're all on their own and flouncing off to be not-alone all by themselves. Sounds like a capital plan, brain-swerver.

@oldguy_steve It was certainly the combined efforts. No (now) NATO country could have stood up to the Axis, alone. So, as long as you're willing to agree you didn't get in for anything but your own benefit, and WWII couldn't have been won without Britain ... then ... okay. Fine.

@dumbbitchcap @littleapostate No. You would want your mother there. This comment proves that some people have no idea how incredibly unhelpful /non-nurturing / unsupportive some mothers are. We didn't all grow up with nurturing. We know when our actual mothers (not a fantasy) are needed and when they're not.

@littleapostate You will want your mom there to help u

I am scared to ask twitter this but I am also very curious when you gave birth, did you allow family to come visit immediately? Or did you allow space for just you and your baby to bond? Or is it evil to want to space for you and baby to bond????

@HeartlandRaised @LuluAddict @littleapostate It's selfish if you put your need for reassurance ahead of the laboring mother's need. Concern? Sure. Deal with your concern however is appropriate. It's not appropriate to expect a laboring mother to deal with your concern. Get therapy if you can think of no better way to deal.

@LuluAddict @littleapostate Well, you are her baby. Her concern was for you.

@littleapostate Depends what you mean by 'immediately' and 'space'. Are you talking 24 hours? 48 hours? A week? A month?

@SoritesMinor @JamesAFurey Are you asking if it should be legal to publicize camera footage from classrooms? No. But not because people in classrooms have an expectation of privacy in a classroom. That doesn't mean the information belongs to the public.

@LSthirdact @JamesAFurey What level of information protection do you think *should* happen in a classroom? What do you think the laws around that should be?

This doesn’t take into consideration to why extreme an extent parents will go to avoid believing their child is culpable for any wrongdoing.

@SoritesMinor @JamesAFurey There are security cameras in schools already. I don't see footage flooding out. Do you?

@LSthirdact @JamesAFurey Governments suck at information security. Government schools somehow suck even worse at it. If you stick a school-run camera in every classroom in a public school, footage isn't going to leak out, it's going to flood out, like Niagara Falls.

@SoritesMinor @JamesAFurey I think that confidential information about individuals should be protected. I think entry to school buildings should be safe and we should always know who is in the building. Principal or other teacher should always be able to see what's going on in a classroom.

@ckwrightphd @ClimateWarrior7 Except it's exceptionally good at predicting all kinds of shit. 🤷‍♀️

IQ is only as good as the test that was used to test it. Masculine intelligence and feminine intelligence are manifestly different and are likely adapted to perform best in different contexts. Trying to encompass such complexity in a single statistic is hardly likely to be useful!

Psychologists say the average IQs of men and women are equal. But they also say that men on average have better spatial and mathematical reasoning, while women are better with verbal reasoning. My question is, how do you decide how much verbal reasoning counts vs how much mathematical and spatial reasoning counts? Let's be honest, male and female IQs aren't found to be equal. They are made equal, because men with their fragile egos would kick up an enormous fuss if psychologists didn't say that they are equal. In reality verbal reasoning is much more important and women are far more intelligent than men. My wife told me to say this.

@Mr_Husky1 If you don't understand children and how to manage them well enough to avoid getting violent you should never have taken them out without someone competent to actually care for them.

My sister asked if I could take her kids out for a little while so she could get a break. No big deal. Five minutes into the outing they start begging for food, so I grabbed them a pizza and told them we’d eat it when we got back to the house instead of making a mess outside. The second we stepped away from the counter my nephew started acting like the rule didn’t apply to him. Reaching for slices, whining about being hungry, dragging his feet like he was being starved. I told him to relax and wait until we got to the car. Instead of waiting two minutes like a normal person, he starts throwing a full meltdown in the middle of the walkway. Next thing I know the entire pizza ends up on the ground. Box flipped open, slices sliding everywhere, sauce all over the pavement like it was some kind of food explosion. And then he starts crying like he’s the one who got wronged… after he’s the one who just launched dinner onto the sidewalk. Yeah, I lost my patience and popped his butt for acting like that in public. Apparently that’s the real problem though because my sister calls me later furious saying I “crossed a line.” I’m sorry, but if I’m the one buying the food and dealing with the tantrum in front of everyone, I’m not going to pretend it’s adorable when a kid throws an entire meal on the ground because he couldn’t wait two minutes. Actions have consequences, and apparently that lesson upset more people than the meltdown did. By jnimzo

@MarcScottEmery @rdgrongoodnet1 They don't belong to Canadians once out of the ground. They belong to the corporations who pay to be allowed to take them. And we can't refine/transport.

@rdgrongoodnet1 Commodities that belong to all Canadians, yes. Timber, oil, natural gas, minerals. Should be sold to Canadians first at a domestic price.

I don’t understand why gasoline is priced at Strait of Hermoz blockade prices $1.90/liter when Canada produces enough oil to supply Canada. Why are we on World Prices? Why can’t oil/gasoline be priced at one fixed Canadian price? This is the most expensive gas has ever been in 🇨🇦

@deberelli @HannahWardEdu Libib

@HannahWardEdu Has anyone found a cataloging app that they really like? I prefer to find one where I could just scan ISBN’s

How does your home library stack up? In 2023 YouGov surveyed 29,000 Americans to see how many books they have in their homes. The results were disappointing to say the least. - 0 books: 9% (no books AT ALL) - 1–10 books: 20% - 11–25 books: 14% - 26–50 books: 13% - 51–100 books: 12% - 101–200 books: 10% - 201–500 books: 7% - 501–1,000 books: 4% - More than 1,000 books: 3%

@FranklinDeanJo1 @mrmikeMTL

@LSthirdact @mrmikeMTL Lol .. 🤣🤣🤣😎✌️ That's hilarious... Best album of all time .. and the movie is also intense.. 🤠✌️

If someone offered you $1,000,000 to listen to one album for 48 hours straight, which album are you choosing?

@Concern70732755 Definitely not.

Question of the day ?? Do you believe that you would have a better standard of living and quality of life if we would have elected a Conservative government instead of the existing Liberal one ? Thoughts.

@SoritesMinor @JamesAFurey There's a difference btwn what should/ shouldn't happen, & what should/ shouldn't be legal. Classroom shouldn't be considered private places. And classroom activities shouldn't be routinely publicized. Both things are true. Cameras in classrooms need not mean routine publication.

@LSthirdact @JamesAFurey OK, so that seems to indicate that (a) everything's either private or public, but also (b) even public spaces have (or should have) limits on how much you can publicize things that happen in them. (Are you a lawyer? No offense; some of them are good people.)

@SoritesMinor @JamesAFurey You're mistaking where its reasonable to have an expectation of privacy, with privacy. Two different concepts.

@LSthirdact @JamesAFurey Not fine-grained enough. Some legal hearings are "a bunch of unrelated people in a place," but still need privacy protection. A kid talking to his brother in their house is private—unless they're also holding a raging kegger. A classroom is neither a home nor a street corner.