Son?!

That’s different! And awesome. Slow cooking over hours is dif from sear that bad boy at the table…

But shit they are both tasty…

Let’s bring it!

I also like to think the downvotes mean I have awakened some sort of Calgary dragon… don’t get me started on how Edmonton Oilers are supreme.

“Calgary”

Don’t be taking trash…

You will not find good bbq. Take the L and move on…

You will find the greatest cuisine ever witnessed on this planet depending on your taste.

A clay pot in Morocco, a grandma’s house in Toledo, a random eel cooked up in Tunisia…

Just as good as byob bbq in Austin TX.

Good lord yes. It was glorious.

Straight up

Point being… the phd is wrong!

You should start “smoking”. Protected breaks every set timeframe. Your work doesn’t matter, you need to “chase the dragon” as it’s culturally protected. Why take a few months all at once for a kid when you can take 15 min over a longer time and rack up much more time overall?

Combine that with taking a dump at work and suddenly hours are devoted away from the task… maternity leave is just their version of work / life balance.

Are atomic bombs being dropped now too?

You mean like genocide, slavery, and being the only country in history to use atomic bombs against another country?

That’s referring to current events?

Point is you were writing off a lot of people with a flimsy blanket statement that would only Hold water if it was current and unique. It’s neither hence LOW hanging fruit and not worth it

I am talking about a single country, yet you can’t seem to focus on a single timeframe.

You mention centuries old generalized stuff such that it could be applied to most any nation. Do you not remember this?

You mean like genocide, slavery…

Then you said…

Other countries don’t count. We’re taking about this country…

We’re taking about now. Not the 1800s. So one more time for the backseats…

Saying the US had slavery to make a point is lazy and doesn’t help the here and now. Yea those things happened, they fucking sucked, and they should be condemned on their own merit alone. Using them to end a conversation on current issues is poor form and low hanging fruit. Especially when you generalize such that most every industrialized nation is just as guilty. The fact is that guilt isn’t the end of the story. Ask Germany

Simple if you choose to cite rando shit from centuries ago you’re not actually engaging.

It’s called low hanging fruit and apparently it’s the best you got. Take it up with the Dutch? I mean they raped the Congo… are you okay with rape? You never mentioned them in your recount of history.

Fact is the US fucking sucks because of current shit aka republicans. Blanket statements and blandly waving hands towards the past few centuries doesn’t help at all.

Nothing makes the past okay. Citing the past nihilistically only makes the future worse.

Your opinion of why the US did something only serves to discredit why they should ever do anything or the net benefit of those actions regardless of intent.

The US could help eradicate AIDS, is that evidence of compassion, soft power, or imperialism?

Point is… why argue against eradicating a plague?

Aside from nuclear weapons you are describing practically every nation state since ever, especially post Industrial Revolution. To the point that the argument is useless. The US is just as bad as Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch, the history of the Russian empire, Japan, china, the current state of many African counties etc etc!

It’s also worth mentioning how the US is such strong allies with the very country they dropped a bomb on and helped with reconstruction through and beyond the Meiji era and continued to be an ally to Japan…

No one anywhere near this thread is advocating for those thing so what are you getting at other than saying boo! ghosts!? Sooo…

No I just apply for jobs there and move on. If you’re reading posts on LinkedIn you’re internetting wrong.

Meh, the country dropped a trillion on fucking around with Iraq and voters kept reelecting republicans.

Trump won an election, think about that. After his shit show of a first term… no one in the US gives a fuck

Real talk: “mission”? Or joyride…

It was a bit role in one season of a show. No different than her turning True Detective though this time she didn’t take off her clothes. If that’s her big role then my point still stands.

“…I’m not a bad actress,” she told Elle during their drinking game ‘Thirst Trap’. “I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased. Okay?

Uhhh okay… I’ll write off the rando part / nude scene in True Detective… or the riveting performance in San Andreas…

…or how she played “pretty girl” in the Squid and the Whale… or how she knocked it out of the park as “girlfriend” in the Jonas Brothers 3d concert experience… or that riveting turn in Percy Jackson or in “chainsaw 3d” or “baywatch” or that award winning adaptation of the “rampage” arcade game… or her turn in “all my children”?

I have friends that starred in law and order and went on to make more of a difference on this planet. Of course they did more than act after that turn. She is rich and well kept, what did the world miss?

I had no idea “thirst trap” meant “actor’s studio”… fucking tell it to James Lipton

Nothing but laughs in and out.