I would call those normal footprints, not inverse footprints. We call both additive and subtractive marks left by feet “footprints.”

If you were to step in ink, and then step onto paper, that would create a footprint.

If you were to step in drying concrete, that would also create a footprint.

A concerned community member reported that Council President John T. Cannon was leading Wicomico County Council members and attendees in the Lord’s Prayer prior to the Pledge of Allegiance at every meeting. FFRF was informed that multiple citizens had asked the council to end the practice, to no avail.

This is a problem. The Council President should not be leading a Christian prayer. I’d say that they should also get rid of the Pledge of Allegiance. What’s the purpose of pledging allegiance to a flag or even to the republic itself? That’s just nationalism. Depending on interpretation, you might as well be pledging allegiance to the current administration.

If they wanted to pledge allegiance to the US Constitution, I might be more amenable. It would still be stupid and meaningless, though.

On one occasion last fall, Council Member James Winn even read from the bible during his comments, exhorting that “everything is right here, the answers, this is truth.” He then read multiple passages from the bible, giving his interpretations. He concluded by saying, “I know that not everyone here is a Christian and that’s OK, I’ll pray for you. There’s only one way, there’s only one way, and that’s through Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior.”

If it wasn’t a council member, but an outside preacher, and they let people pray before the meetings without favoring a specific faith, then it would be more legal. Still crazy bullshit, though. Of course, in this case, it was a council member, so it’s a complete no-go.

Since this has been cross-posted, I thought it would be good to summarize the other conversations:

In other news, Oxfam finds that water is wet, the sky is blue, the Pope is Catholic, and that bears shit in the woods.

The article says that his condition was stabilized, so he wasn’t murdered.

Also, according to this article, the retirement info you have can’t be right.

Meyer has been judge in Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 for 12 years. He’s in the final year of his second six-year term. Meyer, a Democrat, announced in December that he didn’t plan to run for a third term in 2026.

The election they’re talking about is in 2026, which makes sense, because if his term was up in January, it would be strange for an elected official to announce his retirement in December.

Also, I obviously don’t want to make any conclusions about motives, but I can’t help but see the word “Democrat” in that quote from above.

ICE is deporting her back to France.

It’s a fundamental flaw in first-come-first-served moderation that also gets to reserve a unique name.

Prosecute and imprison ICE for their crimes. When they get out of prison, take away their passports and turn them into refugees.

He seems like the sort whose pee and poo just goes straight into a collection bag of some sort.

I only got four hours of sleep last night, and it’s miserable after only one night.

Glancing over the rest of the comments, I don’t see somebody explicitly pointing out how we know Trump is full of shit and also dumb as shit in this letter.

First, he campaigned on “America First,” so he never felt an obligation to think “purely” of peace. It’s just a lie.

Second, he’s outright saying that he previously was giving the Nobel Prize committee an insane amount of control over American foreign policy because he wanted to be a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a dumb as shit thing to admit.

Third, is it Russia or China who we’re worried about taking over Greenland? Does Trump not understand that these are two different countries? Surely if he is working on some sort of intel, he’d specifically choose one of them to be worried about. I think this demonstrates that there’s no real intel about this, and he’s simply lying.

Fourth, why isn’t he waiting until Russia or China actually do something? If they actually did something militarily in Greenland, then America could swoop in and save the day. And then, he’d also have some actual reasoning behind statements that he could use to justify taking control of Greenland.

Also, NATO has done tons of stuff for the US. Why does America have the largest military budget in the world? It’s because America has chosen to maintain military presence all over the world. NATO has always supported American foreign policy.

Everything Trump is saying in this letter reeks of bullshit.

One reason that people are stupid is because rich people need slave labor, so they set up a system where people don’t learn to think for themselves.

Those are very similar to the percentage of voters in the last few elections who said they would vote for Trump no matter what. 20 to 30 percent of America is beyond salvation.

I don’t have a link, but I am sure I saw it on the news in the early or mid 90s. But one thing I have learned recently is that many of the “news” articles about cars are invented stories planted by other car companies.

Like one recent thing you’d have seen is stories about electric cars catching fire. It seemed that every time any electric car caught fire, it was national news, but non-electric cars catch fire frequently, as well.

So anyways, long story… less long, the story I’m remembering might have been fake, as well.

I remember when cruise control first became widespread for cars. Most people didn’t use it or barely used it. Some people, like me, did a lot of testing and figured out the best ways to use it, and ended up using it more than most. But then, there were people who just assumed it would work perfectly like they imagined, and used it as if it was a full-self-driving car, which immediately had bad results.

I think the worst thing about AI is that it lures people into fully trusting it, and they don’t even realize that their cruise control car is heading off-road towards a cliff. AI can be a useful tool if you know what you’re doing, but it is such a bad idea to have it on by default. Even a lot of fairly experienced users are tricked by AI. The average person doesn’t have a chance. It’s irresponsible to expose them to it.

This is perfect for my use case. I mostly think AI results are a waste of energy, but having them on demand can be useful.

I’m going to say something spicy here, but for me personally, I’ve found DuckDuckGo’s AI search summaries to be quite useful. Not for the actual AI summary text, but for the links they give, which are often better than the normal search results.

That being said, I could easily do without them.

If you watch to the end you’ll see a guy who learned to murder a POW in cold blood, though.

Musk was a minority in South Africa. Maybe that’s related to his ridiculous opinions, if it’s all about race in his head.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation young founders as "a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,”

There’s a much more famous example, which is actually in the gospels, that details how Christianity and government are related, and that’s when Jesus said “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”

Why wouldn’t she go for the most famous example, and the one that is actually in Jesus’s words? An example that has been examined and debated more closely than just about anything outside of the gospels. Why did she go for a book that is attributed to Paul, instead of going to Jesus’s words?

My first theory is that she just doesn’t know the Bible very well. She probably doesn’t understand the contextual meaning of Jesus’s words. My second theory is that it’s a slightly more subtle opinion than the black-and-white world which that sort of asshole thinks she lives in. Jesus is responding to a tricky challenge where the easy answers are either that he supports breaking the law, or he believes religious people should subjugate themselves before their governments.

And the simplest interpretation of his answer is that earthly authorities have authority over earthly matters. So, it means nearly the same thing as Romans 13.

Of course, there’s no evidence that Renee Good was breaking any law, either, so