I remember in middle school we had to take a wood shop class (which involved industrial cutting and sanding machines), an electronics class (where we could even shock ourselves with a mild current), a drafting class (where we drew designs with rulers and compasses), and home economics class (which included baking and sewing). They were all co-ed.

And in the distance, one can hear a harp being gently plucked. . .

"Parton was 80."

For some reason I thought she was older than that. No idea why.

People have known this about social media for years. It's not unique to X.

Unless you've been to a horse meat restaurant before with huge vat containing a pickled horse dong next to the entrance, you're not really qualified to have an opinion on this topic.

"horse meat as beef"

We could only be so lucky. Horse meat is generally leaner, healthier, and more delicious than beef. You'll never catch mad cow disease from it, either.

"Oh, and to be fair, the political pendulum always swings back and forth. It's just that right now, the pendulum's swing to the left is more pronounced because of the trauma the blatantly corrupt Trump has inflicted on a large sector of the electorate."

Spot on. Someone on here used to make fun of me whenever I pointed how these things go in cycles. More extremism is not the correct answer to extremism, but unfortunately that's how these things tend to go historically. Socialism was a reaction to the abuses of capitalism, but you only have to glance at all the "socialist republics" and "people's republics" to see how precarious it is for them to fall into same trap of becoming authoritarian, despotic regimes that don't serve the people any better than what they were overthrowing.

Anyone who supported Trump should have seen this as a very real and dangerous consequence, so they can't complain if it does happen.