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That would be a crime. I know, ® beats any consequences of doing illegal things.

My kids are very literate. :D Maybe because it’s such a drawn out word it stood out to him and he mimicked it. I don’t know.

It’s possible he’d rattle off not the names, but parts of lyric, if he’s been exposed to them. When he was very young my son would request “boulevard” when we got into the car for a trip, since we’d regularly listen to Green Day.

Wow, that must be a very secure password to be so long. :P

Weird. Just like passwords, all I saw for your ssn is asterisks. Must be a Fediverse security feature.

I normally suggest using the Calvin version of this meme to avoid promoting him in any way, but he is part of the discussion topic here.

And the sides. It’s typical.

Sure, but OP is talking about fingers as representation, not markings. Your point is exactly why they did it in writing.

I see what you’re saying, using one hand for the entire sequence. XI is still a pain. The real problem is that there is no mention of doing this in any Roman text. A bit of an omission, or was it a state secret?

IV and IX don’t make sense when it could be done more intuitively by IIII and VIIII.

Evil people feed off of more than food, water, and air.

The problem is that invoking the term “civil war” for the US calls on a historical image of two clear sides, or perhaps the very vague handwaving history of the recent movie of the same name. There might finally be some sort of civil unrest against the government in some ways, but it won’t be a Blue vs. Grey organized movement. More a fall into chaos where some places will go on as usual, while others might be a war zone type scenario caused by official lashing out at public actions. It’s unprecedented, like most of recent events, and unusual because of the size and makeup of the US itself. It won’t be like any other civil war.

That only old and/or rich people get to decide on.

I guess we’re going to get more denominational splits based on if Jesus’ teachings about loving others is Biblically accurate. Yet another reason why he isn’t coming back.

The real reason.

No one is surprised at this point. The only variation is the level of acceptance. There’s a large percentage that is totally okay with this, and another large percentage that is “what can be done?” apathetic. That’s why it continues and grows.

I think he saw the one possibility early on but because Tony sacrificed himself there, Strange was trying to find anything else. That he couldn’t after so many tries would certainly drive a person crazy, and it’s reasonable to consider that if you only found one and no others, the probability must be virtually zero.

To further the spirit of the topic:

picture: An individual painting, drawing, or other representation on a surface, of an object or objects; esp. such a representation as a work of art. (Now the prevailing sense.)

image: An optical appearance or counterpart of an object, such as is produced by rays of light either reflected as from a mirror, refracted as through a lens, or falling on a surface after passing through a small aperture. Such an appearance may also be a mere subjective impression on the sense of sight, as an after-image (q.v.), and the negative image or accidental image seen after looking intently at a bright-coloured object, and having a colour complementary to that of the object. An image produced by reflexion or refraction is called in Optics a real image when the rays from each point of the object actually meet at a point, a virtual image when they diverge as if from a point beyond the reflecting or refracting body.

Source: the interweb. Fight me.

We tried that in the US initially, but it grew out of favor. Cult of personality won.

Comedy is a good trainer for dealing with people of all types, and for thinking on your feet. Maybe it should be a requirement for leaders.

I’m partial to “meh.”