I have almost 1600 hours on Rocket League. I don’t play anymore (actually haven’t touched it in years) but it was the thrill of competition that kept me going, not the content.

There were never any witches, either.

The vast bulk of crops grown in Arkansas are comprised of the top three: rice, soybeans, and corn. The rice and soybeans are mostly grown for export. The corn is heavily subsidized and most of it is turned into food additives like HFCS, corn starch, ethanol, etc.

These people aren’t putting food on our tables, they’re lining their pockets at our expense.

I never thought anyone would read Clear and Present Danger and think “gee, that seems like a pretty good idea!”

Aw, who am I kidding. None of these chucklefucks read.

Only in the sense that they want to be in control of who gets to have guns.

I’m sorry this is happening. For whatever small comfort it may bring, please be assured that there are many people who don’t hate you for being who and what you are, and we are doing all we can to help.

What really pisses me off is that even if we accept that, due to a series of procedural and communications failures, the limited information they had justified their actions… there’s almost zero chance that they will make any changes to try and prevent something like this from happening again.

Sure. Someone spent time and resources to create an AI video of an unidentifiable person throwing unidentifiable objects out a window. For some reason. That seems like a perfectly logical conclusion.

Yes but very few people took them seriously (in recent history) until Andrew Wakefield published his (now widely discredited and retracted) paper on links between vaccines and autism.

Fuck that noise. WA has been 100% mail in ballots for over a decade. We aren’t about to bin our entire election system and build a completely new infrastructure because Trump is trying to overreach his authority. Will. Not. Happen.

Yeah, I generally take these kind of warnings with a grain of salt (which is yet another risk to manage). The studies are generally looking at usage levels far in excess of what I personally consume. It’s pretty safe to say that with significantly lower usage you’re also looking at significantly lower risk.

There are certainly drawbacks to weed, both short and long term. Depending on how frequently and to what extent you use they may be less severe than alcohol, but they still exist. Nothing that affects your brain chemistry that profoundly comes without downsides. Sorry.

“I know every inch of the city, and to have seen over the years the deterioration of public places, either with graffiti or with people who are homeless, I couldn’t be more encouraged by the fact that there are people now that really want to say, ‘Stop, let’s make this better,’” said Christopher Her, a Maryland resident who previously worked in D.C.

I find it hilarious that the only person they could find to speak in favor of this action doesn’t even live or work in DC.

Username checks out.

Carvalho noted the agents left behind bullets and ammunition at the scene, which school police later recovered.

First off: JFC. I keep thinking we’ve seen the lowest depths of incompetence possible, only to be proven wrong.

Secondly: What do they think the difference is between bullets and ammunition? I know the technical answer, but somehow I don’t think that’s what they mean here.

I can only imagine the bureaucratic nightmare of fixing this. When my wife and I got married, she took my last name, and when she went to SS to change it, somehow they managed to change her birth-date in the system, as well. I think the antiquated system they were using at the time required the operator to re-type all her information and submit the new record to a DB. Anyway, we didn’t find out until the following year when we tried to file our taxes and it was rejected because her birth-date didn’t match the file. It took 2 months to get it fixed, and that was just a date that someone had fat-fingered.

Too true. It’s emblematic of the fact that a shit ton of people don’t pick political affiliations based on any rational evaluation of what a group stands for.

I mean… I don’t generally consider my red hair to be the most important part of my personal identity. But if there were a political group who went out of their way to declare that red hair was a sign of demonic possession, I don’t think I would align myself with that particular group no matter how many of their platform points I agreed with.

a person with a concealed carry license is trusted, and routinely vetted, to carry a gun at the grocery store or bank or whatever.

I’m not sure where you live, but in my state the requirements for a CCW are ridiculously low. Literally anyone who can legally own a firearm can get one. You don’t need to have any training at all. You just have to pass a background check and pay a fee. There is no “routine vetting”.

Not only that, concealed carriers are less likely to commit a crime than cops.

I’d love a source for that. I know it’s true that, statistically CCW holders are less likely to commit a crime than the general population. However, it’s also true that there are thousands of documented cases of CCW holders using their weapon for murder or suicide (or both) rather than self defense over the last two decades: https://concealedcarrykillers.org/

There is no comprehensive list of instances where a CCW holder actually used their weapon in defense, so we really don’t know what the statistics say about likelihood.

Most teachers are amazing people that I trust completely. I still don’t want them to be carrying guns around my kids. For one, there’s always the remote possibility that the teacher flips out and uses it in anger on a student or another faculty. Secondly there’s the possibility that a student gets their hands on it. The bad things that might happen are far more likely than the slim chance of an active shooter showing up and a teacher actually being able to stop them.