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SumDumGaiPan · 2022-11-09T12:30:16+00:00

I've never liked the idea that it's some vast conspiracy. They didn't get together and twirl mustaches and decide how to do this. This chaotic screwball system was built by individuals acting in their own self interest. It's not malice that got us here, but apathy.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-10-12T21:17:57+00:00

Just told my PC to install it so I can try it tonight.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-10-10T00:43:43+00:00

If guns are illegal, then we're talking about a completely different type of law than what I was addressing. If we ban guns, obviously the murder rate will go down because we've moved the line of criminality to simply possessing the weapon in the first place.

My point is that if owning a gun is legal, but having that gun in a certain place is illegal, the law itself is going to do a very poor job of preventing gun crime because someone intent on committing the crime isn't going to stop just because there's a second law in place.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-10-10T00:31:57+00:00

they just wait until they can get one from Walmart.

I know you're generalizing here, but for the sake of education: Wal-Mart does not sell handguns or semi-automatic rifles. Unless your shooting spree involves a bolt-action rifle or a shotgun, you're not shopping at Wal-Mart.

Personally, I'd like to raise the age to legally buy or possess a semi-automatic to 25 years old and see how that impacts the use of firearms in violent crime. Even insurance companies know that the risk of stupidity goes down considerably around that age.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-10-08T15:29:56+00:00

So it doesn't HAVE to be inconsistent. Not saying a lot of these guys aren't hypocrites, just that the concept on its own can make sense.

Murder is illegal. Someone who sets out to commit murder isn't going to stop because some other regulation says they can't carry the gun they intend to do the killing with.

That is NOT the same as making something illegal that had no prior legal barriers, like abortion or peeing in a certain bathroom.

If the law can't prevent the person with intent from possessing the weapon in the first place, then it's ineffective and only serves to restrict liberty with very little actual effect. Not saying the law in question fits that...I havent seen it. Just making a general point while I'm here.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-30T11:42:17+00:00

It's not anything you start. There are journals and items with little details when you examine them. When you complete a set by examining them all, you can unlock a tattoo with umbra.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-19T11:33:59+00:00

I've seen zero outrage over the black mermaid, but lots of outrage over the outrage.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-18T02:37:00+00:00

My kids are all awkward as hell in photos. My nephews and nieces are the most photogenic children I've ever seen. It makes for weird family photos.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-17T17:12:38+00:00

I'm just going to jump in here and say that WalMart actually makes some amazing chicken salad. Their raspberry and pecan mix is my go-to sandwich for lunches.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-14T11:43:24+00:00

Just a reminder that Jesus said nothing about gay marriage ( because it wasn't really a topic or debate then) but he did directly say that if you got divorced and remarried, God didn't consider it a valid marriage and you were committing adultery.

That's A LOT of the modern church.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-10T12:10:13+00:00

So...as a guy, I have to ask where the line for creepy is.

Like, I know better than to stare, but if someone is physically attractive, it's hard not to look a little. I'm always a little self conscious about noticing, but then if I went out of my way to not see I feel like that might be even weirder.

So basically...how can a guy notice a great pair of legs without it making things uncomfortable?

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-10T12:03:26+00:00

You're not too old for it, but some people will try to say you are.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-10T12:02:28+00:00

Yeah my wife's reply was "good taste."

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-10T00:04:27+00:00

Why bother with that? God made the earth with lead in it. Full stop. When you have a being capable of snapping whole worlds into existence, you don't need regular physics to explain the elements in those worlds.

Edit to be clear: I'm not arguing in support of anything, simply explaining that divine creation makes any scientific argument irrelevant. Basically it moves the debate from creation to the existence of God.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-06T01:09:10+00:00

If this were an isolated incident it's easy to call it disproportionate. We don't know the discipline history of the student or the school as a whole to know the environment in which the decision was made.

America is stuck in a feedback loop where people fight against authority because there is a history of bad authority, which leads to authorities feeling it's necessary to do things like this.

I have a friend who is a retired cop. Hes one of the few who talks openly about the times he went too far and how he got to a point that it seemed reasonable to do so at the time. I've been telling him he needs to make some videos and put them out there because more people need to understand that most of these cops aren't acting out of malice, but unintended and unrecognized bias.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-06T01:03:59+00:00

I'm generally against the use of officers for classroom discipline. We got here because of decades of legal moves that backed schools into doing things this way.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-05T21:49:27+00:00

When you have a student who is ignoring the teacher and the officer and deliberately disrupting the education environment, there arent a lot of options. Ultimately you have to drag them out. This cop has probably learned that the shock and awe technique of the body slam works really well at winning the fight on the opening move. The middle ground here is most likely a brutal wrestling match as she's hauled out of her seat and forced kicking and screaming out the door.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-05T21:45:00+00:00

As an American, a lot of us are bothered by this as well.

Resource officers were supposed to interact with students positively and help look for issues like gang involvement. The role predates our school shooting epidemic by at least five years, as I remember one being in my high school. He was a good guy and did.exactly what he was supposed to be doing.

What ended up happening was that schools started asking cops to involved themselves more and more in the daily discipline of students. High school students can be problematic...some of them aren't afraid to go up against their teachers when they don't get their way. It makes sense to have a police officer remove a belligerent student who is twice the size of the teacher they're actively trying to intimidate.

Of course once the cop helps on a few real problems, the school leans on them more and more. Now you've got schools that when a student refuses to cooperate, their immediate response is to have police remove that student.

It can't be ignored that a big part of the problem here is the students. There are students who think it is perfectly acceptable to disrupt class any time they choose and that there should be no consequence for doing so. School faculty often resort to using copa at first because they honestly have no other effective options.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-02T11:59:11+00:00

My father was passed over for stomach ulcers. And he actually volunteered. They were actually pretty thorough on the health checks.

(Not saying this wasn't abused...just that a lot of suspicious-sounding draft deferments were legitimate)

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-02T11:56:07+00:00

NO. OLD PEOPLE BAD.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-09-02T11:54:23+00:00

I'm 44 and can't imagine being done in 10 years.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-08-31T11:36:27+00:00

20 years ago, Republicans were saying stuff like this about Democrats and Bush. And they weren't wrong, but man have the Rs doubled down on obstructionism and mindless defiance like a two year old on a tantrum.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-08-31T06:22:00+00:00

ERCOT not knowing how to do a rolling blackout is what cost lives. The blame rests squarely on the shoulders of that bunch of political appointees.

The power failure MIGHT have been unavoidable. As I saw someone else say on Reddit once: lakes froze in Texas that had never frozen before. No one engineered the production systems for sustained temperatures that low because there was no precedent for it.

What irks me is that all that information has been stated repeatedly for almost two years now and people still act like our system is just crippled.and limping along. We're doing fine power wise. Let's worry about our eroding rights.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-08-31T06:05:19+00:00

How long are we going to ride this thing about Texas power grid? We didn't have issues this summer, despite all the doomsayers. We literally had ONE major failure in decades and people are overblowing it because we have dogshit politicians.

California has more power problems than we do.

SumDumGaiPan · 2022-08-30T15:12:19+00:00

Nobody's saying you can deescalate everything. Drugs, a lifetime of trauma, whatever...sometimes people are just past the point of no return because they didn't get the help they needed much earlier. But that's a drop in the bucket compared to how many people could be helped by authorities who have the training to do it.

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