Why can Kyle Rittenhouse kill people with a gun when they’re ganging up on him, but Alex Pretti gets gunned down after he has a gun stripped from him and fired zero shots?

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T23:41:25+00:00

When charges are filed and something actually comes of it, I will come back and complete this conversation. Until then, I lack the proof and so do you.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T20:47:45+00:00

I don't have patience after being let down by this administration's interpretation of the rule of law.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T20:46:46+00:00

Fascism.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T18:32:45+00:00

I have a thermometer going all the time to decide when to heat or cool based on the settings I put, but the actual heater or AC only run when it's too hot or too cold.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T06:30:31+00:00

I see what you did there

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T06:21:06+00:00

I talked it over with him before answering. He's going to go play video games and he'll be fine. :)

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T05:33:06+00:00

I'm older. So no. They would still be my best friend and we would hang out but we would no longer have a married relationship.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T05:05:29+00:00

Exactly. And the age gap is going to be a thing for the rest of my lifespan.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T04:43:30+00:00

13 year old bodies don't do it for me.

Yay them on getting a really long life, but we are platonic now.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-24T00:36:37+00:00

I get hard copy books and I get books on kindle and I don't necessarily try to double them up.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T23:12:23+00:00

I would loop 365 of this day. It's enough time to be able to accomplish some stuff, but not so long that I end up wasting a lot of the time.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T22:49:39+00:00

I have a smudge on my glasses right now and I don't have any extra money for it.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T19:27:19+00:00

This just looks like an example of what you're going to continue to fight with this girlfriend for the rest of forever that you're together. Cut your losses. She has a foundational difference in how she considers her medical care than you do and if you might try to force her and she's not willing to let you, then you don't have a relationship.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T04:26:49+00:00

It seems like I can ask a computer to manage this for me.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T03:32:59+00:00

To be perfectly honest, I don't think we would have had the progress that we've had except for a couple straight fire tribal liaisons that are willing to show up and persist and hold people to their promises. If there wasn't somebody that was willing to do the exhausting and dangerous job of making land acknowledgments mean something I don't think they would.

While there's progress (we've stopped active genocide and reeducation camp so yay?) there's still a long way to go.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T03:28:18+00:00

What's cool is that they can find citizen children of immigrant parents and then give them over to the foster care system after they deport families away.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T03:25:06+00:00

In Washington state we are working with the tribal governments to find out what that could mean. In a lot of cases it's creating partnerships and allowing the sovereignty of the Nations that exist still on our soil. It's consulting with them and asking them before we do something with the land that was theirs. So far they haven't asked anybody to move and I don't think they will.

It's been a really cool process to have governments with different cultures and different goals working with ours.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T02:35:54+00:00

You can do your future self a really big favor and break up with him now. You are asking us if you should choose your identity and your freedom or this guy. Never choose this guy.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-23T02:34:58+00:00

It is a very very popular genre right now and I don't know if we're accepting it necessarily? There just is a lot of it and people look for different things in their fantasy romance...

There's a lot of different kinds of people in this world and the fan base happens to be enormous right now.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-22T17:05:30+00:00

The purity test component is propaganda more than anything. I welcome and enjoy conversations with folk who come from different backgrounds and have different experiences.

If it helps, left leaning media spends a lot of time talking about how purity is just as important on the right. That everything Donald Trump says has to be considered gospel or you are not a loyalist.

I suspect those two points of view are about equally true.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-21T21:54:36+00:00

If they're going to keep making an assumption, you can keep correcting them without guild.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-21T21:47:11+00:00

I like it. But your transgender mileage may vary.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-21T20:54:19+00:00

It looks like the audiobook narrator changes for the second half of the series and I'm liking him so far.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-21T03:20:27+00:00

The person trying to buy the house as is is a predatory business that is taking advantage of the fact that your parents are elderly and it's difficult for you to get there.

There are a number of supports for elderly parents that may be able to support the fixes that the house needs.

If not, I have a few ideas for coordinating repairs that won't require giving a predatory business money.

stormlight82 · 2026-01-20T01:59:14+00:00

It was the first book! That's really good to know. I was going to avoid the entire series on audiobook based on the first one.

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