I think it helped shape me into a an adventurous, curious person, because that was what motivated me as a kid. Other Free Range kids might have gone out to play sports, or to look for trouble, etc., but i was just exploring.

There was another direct influence on my life: Once, i headed to a nearby “woods,” to watch animals, and bumped into some friends. One jumped over a small creek to greet me, and stepped right onto an underground bee hive. They all poured out of that hive like water, and came directly for me. The first stung my lip, then neary eye. They got in my hair, up my t-shirt, stuck in my socks etc.

I jumped on my bike and started racing toward home, hoping to outrun them, but they were the kind of bees that don’t lose their stingers, so the ones stuck in my clothes kept stinging me. By the time i got home i had at least 30 stings.

I’m okay now, but i was really afraid of bees for many years. Gardening helped me learn to lose my fear.

Overall, i think it made me a person who isn’t afraid of the world, and i know i can navigate any situation that comes up.

Bullying a bully is not bullying.

Because the people who own the company are buttholes.

He’s a flightless bird. Of course panicked when he realized he was in the air!

Back in the 60s, i was a Free-Range kid. On on a nice non-school day, I would go out after breakfast on my bike, and be gone all day, without any money, a watch, ID, cell phone (didn’t exist back then), anything, and I’d be gone all day. The only rule was to be home by 5 pm.

Nobody knew where I was, who I was speaking to, or anything. If i bumped into friends, I’d hang out for a while, but if I needed to know the time, I’d ask some stranger. If I was thirsty, I’d knock on a random door and ask for a glass of water. Once, I stopped at the end of a driveway to watch some guy doing woodworking in his open garage. He saw me watching and this stranger invited me into garage, and showed me his tools, and what he was building. Turned out he was a decent guy, and I probably reminded him of his grandson, but what if he wasn’t? My primary fear was running into the Robolotto boys, but as long as I didn’t see one of them, I was happy.

This was routine for years, and it was the same for my friends. I started doing this when I was about 7 years old.

My worst case scenario is that HitlerPig keaves NATO, and joins an alliance with Russia, China, North Korea, etc.

As a show of good faith to his new “friends,” he will give Alaska back to Russia, and Taiwan back to China. He will claim it’s a good deal, because they gave him Canada and Geeenland, even though those countries aren’t theirs to give.

He’ll act like the lonely rich kid, bribing the cool kids to let him hang with them, but they’ll just use him for what they can get from him, and hate him all the same.

Of course it is. His two primary characteristics are that he is a Traitor, and breath-takingingly Corrupt.

Why are they rebooting “Minority Report?” The Tom Cruise version was excellent, we don’t need a new one.

Anyone who thinks gay is a choice is gay, because they felt gay, and made the choice to live straight, and they assume that all straight people made the same choice. They don’t understand that real straight people always felt straight, and never made a choice, it was just who they are.

“I’m not gay, I’m an Alpha Male.”

Only the good die young.

Record companies are just big corporate conflomerates, who dont want to make waves, and they control the artists’ output.

Any Resistance Music is going to come from truly independent artists, and we should do everything we can to promote them.

They were probably going to quit over personal morality anyway, so good for them for using their exit for positive. At least they can leave with their self-respect and dignity intact, and the respect of their co-workers and the world. Somewhere there is a moral employer who will appreciate them.

“You got any more of these tasty notes? I haven’t had all I can eat.”

The only reason we think its the other way around is because the POV is from The Brain’s twisted perspective.

The Brain is insane, Pinky is the true genius. We only think it’s the other way around because the POV is The Brain’s.

Yup, can’t call them that anymore. Now they are MAGA Nazis.

Call him a Pakled, that’s allowed.

18-34. They have a little money from their first jobs, and they tend to spend it.

Investors tend to be extemely risk averse, so the slightest little thing might scare them off. Even if they decide to take the chance anyway, they still want it to be as clean as possible, to minimizing the risk.

Even the slightest improvement may increase the investment by millions, or even billions, of dollars, so it’s worth the trouble.