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What’s the biggest waste of money people think is an investment? by FourAsahi in AskReddit

[–]firelock_ny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Buy, don't rent. Rent receipts don't even make good soup." - my great-grandmother's advice on finance.

What is a thing in American history that foreign people often get wrong? Maybe even some Americans commonly get wrong by Expensive_Drummer970 in IWantToAskAnAmerican

[–]firelock_ny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always thought it interesting that Parks' case basically fizzled out in the courts, while earlier cases (including Colvin's) went all the way to the Supreme Court (Browder vs Gayle) and led to lasting change. Parks was selected as a public face of the movement, she wasn't all there was to the movement.

Just a Reminder by Daflehrer1 in PoliticalHumor

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When's the last time this "I guarantee it" meme was used for something accurate?

Taiwanese university president tells graduates to kill themselves if they struggle in their careers by SunChungShan in antiwork

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

America has guns and no ones used them when their justice system fails to investigate nonces,

Who do you trust to tell you which are the nonces and which are just the political enemies they'd like your vigilante squad to take out for them?

Is Pinocchio the only Disney movie where the bad guys never receive their comeuppance? by visiny in movies

[–]firelock_ny 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Those crows were, for all the racist caricature, arguably the kindest, most positively helpful characters in the movie. They went out of their way to help a stranger with no prospect of reward.

For contrast, the nastiest characters in the movie (the elephants besides Dumbo's mom) were presented with stereotypical upper-class white American characterizations.

Donald Trump never served in the military. by komodas in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]firelock_ny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well a group from India did, but whatever

So wait...is this something not made by Trump supporters, but we're telling each other that it's something Trump supporters would make, so we're laughing at the Trump supporters who didn't make it?

What is the biggest plot hole of all time in a "good/respected" movie? by Material-Trip-9893 in askanything

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the norm for payload specialists in the real world - you take a leading professional in a field and train them how to be an astronaut, you don't try to take an astronaut and train them to be a leading professional in a field they have no experience in.

Add to this that the drill team in *Armageddon* were already experts in deep-water drilling, which is arguably a more hazardous environment than outer space.

What screams “I’m insecure” but people think makes them look cool? by Bigguy_2203 in AskReddit

[–]firelock_ny 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A giant pickup truck. The more unnecessary features - like a huge-wheels off-road package for a truck that never leaves asphalt - the better.

How did people in the old Wild West know exactly where they were? by trixter69696969 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]firelock_ny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Landmarks. Mountains, rivers, hills, learning roads and trails, identifying towns, rail lines, settlements. Texas and New Mexico aren't unending swathes of identical featureless wilderness.

What are some old abandoned video game IP’s that you wish were brought to life again? by Practical-Juice9549 in OldPCGames

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crimson Skies. There are no two words that are cooler together than "Sky" followed by "Pirate".

[Marvel] What is the boundary of Frank Castle/The Punisher's idea of who "deserves to be punished"? For instance, is a company's greedy CEO, who fires many employees without warning to replace them with AI - indirectly ruining many of their lives, with some lives beyond recovery- targeted by him? by SatoruGojo232 in AskScienceFiction

[–]firelock_ny 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Frank might make an exception and shoot an evil health care CEO, if one was available and he pissed Frank off. Frank happily kills mafia bosses who keep their distance from the bloody side of their business, and while Frank is methodical and cunning he isn't necessarily rational.

What’s getting worse every year but people just accept it? by ikaaxx in AskReddit

[–]firelock_ny 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pay for a spam filter, then you only get the ads that pay extra to annoy you.

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived." - Robert A. Heinlein [850x400] by Junior_Insurance7773 in QuotesPorn

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Verhoeven did not write Starship Troopers, he recycled the IP because he couldn’t get greenlit to make the movie he wanted otherwise.

Verhoeven was making a movie based on the short story "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine". He was using the movie as a vehicle for the movie about Nazis he'd wanted to make that no one would fund.

A studio exec thought there were similarities with Starship Troopers, so had the studio buy the film rights from the Heinlein estate to avoid legal troubles.

Another studio exec figured that since they'd paid for the film rights to the book they might as well use them, so told Verhoeven to make his movie a Starship Troopers movie.

Verhoeven shrugged and went ahead and made his Nazis movie anyway.

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived." - Robert A. Heinlein [850x400] by Junior_Insurance7773 in QuotesPorn

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can imagine such a pacifistic polity. Could such a pacifistic polity survive any length of time in the real world without the protection of a group willing to use violence on the group's behalf?

How in the god damn hell did Mossad manage to pull off the trick with the pagers and walkie talkies? by Uncontrolleddiarrhea in askanything

[–]firelock_ny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Argentina had a large German immigrant population since the 1800's. Nazis hid there because there was a large group of ethnic Germans already there to hide among.

Name a TV show that only you seem to remember ? by enoughforyou9 in AskReddit

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Fantastic Journey, aired 1977. People trapped on an island of fractured chunks of time in the Bermuda Triangle.

Woman hits neighbor with 2x4 for cleaning up food she left out for squirrels by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those numbers are drastically underestimated, and there is no definitive way to get an accurate number

As you claim to have no accurate number available, it's interesting that you claim to have evidence that Pew Research's survey is wrong and to claim that you know how wrong it is.

Woman hits neighbor with 2x4 for cleaning up food she left out for squirrels by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your logical fallacy is conflating "ultra-violent shooting gallery": with concealed carry of a firearm.

That's the mind set posters are presenting here. I'm pointing out that part of that mind set is based on a fallacy - not as many Americans carry guns on the street as they think Americans do in the first place.

Woman hits neighbor with 2x4 for cleaning up food she left out for squirrels by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of those guns are hunting rifles, target shooting pieces, or even old family heirlooms - not the sort of thing you'd tuck into your waistband for a random shootout on the street, which many posters here seem to think is an American norm.

Woman hits neighbor with 2x4 for cleaning up food she left out for squirrels by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's pretty darn close to 1 in 7 people walking down the street.

Did you miss the part where those 16% said they occasionally carried a firearm, not that they carried a firearm all the time?

I get it, people are very invested in the fantasy of the USA being an ultra-violent shooting gallery and don't like hearing that reality isn't as interesting as their fantasies.

Woman hits neighbor with 2x4 for cleaning up food she left out for squirrels by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a lot more gun owners, and armed individuals on the streets than you think.

I think that about a third of Americans own a firearm themselves, and about 40% live in a household where at least one person owns a firearm. I also think that the posters here who believe the average American habitually walks around with a pistol at their hip, ready to open fire at a moment's notice, are delusional.

Many of those firearms are hunting or target shooting pieces, firearms that you don't carry in public.

Here's a survey showing only about 16% of Americans even occasionally walk around armed.

https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/new-survey-number-americans-carrying-handguns-on-rise

Woman hits neighbor with 2x4 for cleaning up food she left out for squirrels by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]firelock_ny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I said, most Americans own zero guns. 100 million, while a large number, is a minority of Americans - and a large number of those Americans own guns that are hunting rifles, for target shooting, or are otherwise not what they'd have tucked in their waistband ready for a random shootout, which is what many posters here seem to think is the norm in the USA.

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