It predates aliens as little green men. And I’m sure the word is a legally recognized phrase. It’s quickly becoming, if not already a slur though. Here’s googles etymological breakdown.

The word “alien” originates from the Latin word “aliễnus,” meaning “belonging to another, foreign, strange”. It’s a derivative of “alius,” meaning “other,” ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root "h,élyos. This root also gives rise to the word “else”. The word “alien” entered Middle English from Old French, and its earliest usage as a noun and adjective in the 14th century referred to foreigners or strangers.

I might be dumb, but I know what love is!

If I ever start a nihilistic cult, I’m totally gonna name it this!

It’s asbestos siding, absolutely nothing to worry about!

Of course it was Indiana, the Florida of the north.

What about Ragnarok?

I always thought the British got a slightly worse rap than they deserved there. When the Ottoman empire collapsed, things were chaotic to say the least. Rising nationalism in an area where ethnicities are all over the place. A pocket here, a few villages there. Political systems that had been in place for a thousand years disintegrating. Large groups of nomads who are notoriously difficult to fit into ordered nation states.

Huge demographic shifts underway. People tend to overlook just how much more crowded the world is now than it was in 1920. What worked in 1890 was a nonstarter in 1990.

I don’t think any line on that map would have substantially changed things one way or another.

Do you care so little about your friends you need a picture to remind you of what they look like!?!?

/s

Ya. Nothing this guy said was shocking. People building mcmansions in beautiful disaster prone areas? Insurance companies have been trying to leave these markets for a while, because they can read the writing on the wall.

Disaster after disaster and we rebuild the same shit in the same place and then have the audacity to act shocked it all happened again. Not to mention building single family detached houses in endless suburbs is basically salting the earth.

We all need to have a good look inward and decide what we’re actually entitled to, or circumstance is gonna have a word with the fates. And we know what capricious callous bitches they are…

How big of a piece of shit do you have to be to fear your own people? The director of the FBI doesn’t have enough faith in the ability or willingness of his own agents?

Or is it he doesn’t want them knowing what he’s up to? Where he goes and who he talks to?

Fucking embarrassing…

No, much later. Transmissions in trucks work differently and have to withstand so much more stress. Wasn’t till the early 00’s that anyone got serious about them.

They’ve been around since the 50’s, but only became widespread in 2010ish. I think Volvo started offering the first production model auto trucks in 06.

I drove one of the first semi trucks with an automatic transmission, and that thing was dangerous. It would pop me out of gear going down hill, thank fuck the brakes held out. The reverse gear could either roll the rig back at 10 inches per hour, or 10mph, and not much in-between.

Was nice being able to sip a coffee through traffic tho

Getting classier by the day. Fucking embarrassing

That’s really fuckin disturbing…

I remember when he got everyone excited about them it was supposed to be this affordable thing. I think it was 25k for a base model? Now they’re how much? And how poorly designed?

Good thing he got a government job, I don’t think he was cut out for the private sector…

Lol. Marijuana and choices were made.

There will be whigs on the lawn I say!

Phone calls used to be better when they were analog land lines. The fidelity(idk if that’s the right word, but go ahead and catch my drift) was amazing.

You could hear every breath, every intonation in voice, every shift in body language. I think our subconscious works on stuff like that a lot more than anyone cares to admit. Every phone conversation you’ve had in the past 10 years has been digitally compressed.

The headsets themselves were ergonomic. Easy to use, fit the face and head alot better than the phones we use nowadays.

Like fine wine.