Mossy Feathers (They/Them)

I’ve also been to the US (west coast, Portland) and Jebus, that was terrible. First they don’t give you a pizza but a slice of pizza, then it’s reheated because they make a lot of it and can’t sell it fresh. The toppings is dry ham and tasteless cheese, a ton of cheese, but just flavorless cheese. I tried in a couple of places there with practically the same result. Thanks, but no thanks.

WTF, that doesn’t sound even remotely correct. How much did you pay, $0.50? You got scammed dude. I’m from Texas which, afaik, is probably at the bottom of the list of “places you think of when someone says, ‘pizza’” but I’ve had way better pizza than what you’re describing. Hell, Pizza Hut is probably better than what you’re describing lol. That sounds horrid.

I said that I’d be very concerned if I pissed and farts started coming out instead. Like, I went to pee but farts came out of my urethra.

Imagine if poop came out!

But farts aren’t supposed to come out of your pee hole.

…Right?

Personally, I’d find it very concerning if I went to piss and farts started coming out instead.

Hnnng… Blow your load in me daddy; give me that good-good healthcare batter. Nnnnnnhh~

I mean, my idea was that it would be effectively mothballed until we have the technology to restore it or something, so the shielding doesn’t really matter. But yeah, the delta-v would probably destroy it. I kinda doubt it could handle it.

Yeah. I’m not sure how well it’d survive reentry either, but personally, I kinda think broken but repairable is better that fully vaporized.

Another possibility I considered is welding some steel beams to the outside, vacating the internal atmosphere and then pushing it into a stable orbit; or even pushing it into the moon’s orbit (if it was in the moon’s orbit then you wouldn’t have to worry as much about debris generated by collisions). Then it could sit there until we have the technology to either repair and recommission it, tow it back to earth, or renovate it and turn it into a tourist attraction (yanno, hoping we survive long enough for space tourism to be an actual thing).

That said, I have no idea if it’d be able to survive deceleration if you tried to put it in the moon’s orbit though. While acceleration could probably be slow and gentle, the deceleration required to keep it in the moon’s orbit might be too much for it.

Man, I really hope someone rich steps up before the ISS gets deorbited and pays to have the modules separated and sent back one-by-one, instead of just tossing it into the atmosphere and letting it burn up. It feels like a crime against humanity to just abandon it like that. At the very least, surely we could come up with a strap-on heat shield and parachute system so the parts could splash-down and get recovered, repaired, and stored in a museum.

Edit: why is this being downvoted? Is it because I said “someone rich”? I said that because I think rich people are the only ones with the money and willpower to get it done. I don’t like relying on them, but I don’t think most of the US population cares enough to get the government or NASA to do it.

Add a bald head with a barcode on the back and you don’t even need charisma.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone explicitly state it, however I remember seeing a handful of people on Reddit who’s comments seemed to imply that view point several years ago when people first started talking about removing them. I could have been misinterpreting what they were saying, but that was the impression I got and it grossed me out.

Meh, I don’t agree with them, but I understand why they feel strongly about it. The statues were an attempt to whitewash the civil war; of course people, especially non-white Americans, are going to feel very strongly about it.

I guess the way I see it though, is that the statues are technically part of America’s civil war history. No, they weren’t put up during the Confederacy, but they were intentionally built to affect the way people saw the civil war. Afaik that kinda technically makes them a part of civil war history.

Does that mean they’re worth preserving?

Tbh, I don’t really know, I’m not a historian so I ultimately don’t know how useful they’d be for studying and teaching about the civil war and reconstruction era. I’m concerned about losing parts of human history, but if expert historians believe the statues wouldn’t have any use for research or education, then I guess there’s not really any reason to not crush or melt them down.

Another side of it is that it’s a lot harder to downplay their significance or claim them as hoaxes when the original article still exists. That doesn’t mean people won’t try to do it anyway (I mean, Holocaust denialism seems in vogue among the far right wing right now), but it makes it easier to rub their faces in their stupidity when you can point to a physical mass of statues as opposed to a photo gallery or a plaque (I can already imagine people trying to claim that the pictures were AI generated or that the media was making a bigger deal about it than it actually is).

I’ve also already seen some people who seem to think that if the statues are removed, then the problem magically disappears and America isn’t racist anymore. That’s gross and makes me uncomfortable. America has a very racist, bigoted history. Don’t try to whitewash American history like that.

I know they aren’t confederate-era. The thing that I think makes them historically significant is the fact they’ve caused so much outrage. As such, I think it’s important to showcase just how much of a problem they are. It’s not like a single statue here or there, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of them.

As I asked in another reply, which would be more impactful, seeing a statue or two with a plaque that says something about hundreds of them existing, or a balcony overlooking a warehouse full of them? Personally, I think the latter would have a much stronger impact on me because it would emphasize just how many of them there are/were.

I’m aware they aren’t Confederate era. I still believe them to be historically significant due to the outrage they’ve caused. I think it’d still be worth putting them all together in a single warehouse because, at the very least, people would be able to get a true sense of the scope of the problem.

Which would have more impact, a statue or two with a description saying that hundreds of such statues existed, or a balcony overlooking said hundreds of statues?

Personally, I’d find the latter way more impactful. It’s hard to imagine just how many statues are in “hundreds of statues” (heck, some people literally can’t visualize things in their heads); seeing them altogether would probably be mind boggling.

I hope they’re putting the statues they’ve been removing in storage or something. Imo it’s kinda important history (partially due to age,¹ partially because their removal is kinda big from a historical perspective) and just destroying them kinda sucks. Put them in a huge warehouse for academics to study or something.

¹ (yes Europeans, I know 100yrs isn’t much and that your apartment building is probably that old. However, in the US, it’s rare for something to last more than 100yrs)

Edit: for clarification, the “historically significant” part is the fight to takedown the statues and the realization of just how many and how common they are. I’m aware they were erected after the civil war.

Maybe don’t eat that strawberry. If it’s collecting a nice coat of chest hair then it might be time to throw it out.

Edit: I can’t get over how smug that man looks about his chest hair. He expects for you to be impressed, and ngl, I kinda am.

The awkward kiss almost convinced me it was real. Almost. The kneeling photo is a bit jank and hard to believe, but the kiss being so awkward is so believable that it almost convinced me lol.

You don’t understand. They have total power but chose not to use it. They just sit there in their little crowns and tiaras and do opossum things.

Imagine a world in which our monarchs are opossums.

I wonder how he’d look bald. I’ve always believed that a well-done Hitman series would give James Bond a run for their money. The catch is that it’d have to be self-parodying but presented without a hint of irony or humor.

A good hitman movie/TV show would swing from serious to absurd and back so hard you’d get whiplash