Acab but they don’t HAVE to be, it’s not an actual job requirement, just how it plays out in practice. Besides, we’re only asking them to be bastards to the ICE bastards instead of to their neighbors, it’s not THAT difficult.

I don’t know, but there’s a lot of Scandinavian and other Nordic heritage families in Minnesota

Then they’re failing because ICE and Trump and MAGA are destroying the NATION. They should be out there defending due process, the Bill of Rights and the rule of law, all of which ICE tramples in the mud.

“bat an eye” ( blinking rapidly in confusion and stress, flinching)

The Internationale (written in French, so we leave the e on even though we translate the rest)

Perhaps you were using voice-to-type?

I agree with both your points

I suppose you could become Big Tony by turning fat to lean muscle but that would only increase the mobster stereotype despite all the hard work. If there’s a skill or love you have, you could lean into getting noticeably good at it. Then at least you’d be Fat Tony the Mobster Who’s Surprisingly Good At Textile Art.

“Don’t care for” means “don’t like”

I don’t care for rutabagas

It’s been more about getting in the face of each roaming ICE gang and getting them to leave without rounding up as many victims as they wanted to. If the Police and National Guard would protect the populace it would help but so far it’s just common individuals

Rich Ruohonen lives in Minnesota, and it’s also where the ICE goons are most concentrated right now, probably because Walz ran against Trump. So it’s fair for him to be speaking about what he’s been seeing in his hometown.

Hey yeah, I should put in a claim for my sowthistle crop!

If so, it should work both ways for when it’s your keys that are lost

Think for a second about mint. Farming mint? In my experience it’s more like “how do you stop the mint?” Except for cutting some off and selling it there’s nothing needs done.

And he’s the 3rd generation of those people.

True, they should be introduced very carefully, preferably keeping the kitten separated in one room and starting by letting them sniff under the door, using the same brush on both to exchange hairs/scent, and eventually letting them meet under careful adult human supervision.

Clearly this was a very successful adoption. They’re a Family now.

This reminds me, is there a Lemmy version of TreesEatingThings?

I can’t speak for the veracity of the image but it didn’t take me more than 30 seconds to find the sign. Of course “Slow Children” has been the butt of Internet jokes so it was the first thing I thought of.

https://www.smartsign.com/child-safety-signs/slow-children-sign/sku-k-2002?srsltid=AfmBOootT0wa_aeUbH6NwxIbRs62lShzm-tjqv7ecGWMCblYnrYbciUG

If you would rather invest in a quality whistle for the one that goes in your own mouth, I recommend an ACME Thunderer.

As used by gym teachers and drum majors, (not Wile E. Coyote) they have a satisfying roll of authority.

In my childhood I learned having the driver sit on the left was so that the person riding “shotgun” would be better able to fend off attacks without elbowing the driver. (Probably starting before shotguns, because it would be even more important with a sword.) Although they could use the whole road/trail back then, it would make sense to pass an oncoming wagon on the side where the drivers could see how much room they had between them.

Too expensive, I think I’ll go with a Waymo Autonombulance. The Dasher can do self-CPR

Butt wiggle of DOOM!!!

Always. Always.

As for the kid, maybe their parents will look around at the house full of cat toys and head off to the shelter, and some deserving kitty will find a forever home. Maybe even a bonded pair of kitties.

Somewhere there’s a kid crying because the sweet orange cat who walked into their life 5 months ago has disappeared.