“There’s less death from warfare and economic production diverted to support said warfare when people aren’t fighting wars” is a helluva argument in favor of fighting wars to improve lives and benefit the economy.

It’s like a financial advisor telling you that you should blow all your money in the casino, then quit gambling and start saving.

I never know if I’m doing enough for trans people. I like to think of my stance towards trans folk as “benevolent indifference.” That is - I don’t care even the smallest bit if someone is trans. They’re a person, and that’s all that’s needed for my respect.

But I also recognize that that position isn’t always enough. It’s like when people said “All Lives Matter” in response to the BLM movement. Yes, all lives do matter, and my goal for society would be one where “All lives matter” is the only stance you need, but we don’t live in that world and sometimes we have to focus on protecting specific groups.

But, as a white, male, cisgenger christian I also don’t want to fall into a “white savior” leadership mentality, so I never know how loudly to speak out on behalf of groups I’m not a part of.

Rolls initiatve

The books and films meant a lot to a lot of people, and I can’t blame people for loving the world she created for them.

I don’t regret having read the books and seen the films. But I’m also done with her and will never give her money again.

Yeah. I used to work in a destination outdoors store that sold sometimes hundreds of guns in a day. Once every few years we would find an unattended firearm in the store - usually in the bathroom. People would have a gun in a holster, and when the belt came off and slid down they’d lose retention and slide behind the toilet.

Even though every employee from the janitor to the cashier to the finance people were required to be trained on how to safely handle a firearm, we had a small list of managers that were allowed to handle guns that had been left unattended.

Out of 200 employees there were 8 of us allowed to secure a weapon.

The worst case of abandoned guns we had was someone who bought a concealed-carry purse, decided they didn’t like it and returned it. 2 weeks later they came by to ask if they’d left their gun in it.

I found it in the purse on the sales floor. The customer service team got a very stern lecture on another reason why we always inspect returns.

Don’t forget the flag that was lowered into frame for the picture.

I effectively have one of these in the form.of a “flash can” for one of my AR pistols. It redirects the sound downrange, making it louder in that direction, while making it less-loud for me.

It’s a way to have the gun be slightly less-loud for me and people beside and behind me at the range without having to wait a year to get a tax stamp for a silencer.

That’s intentional. They need us to be wage slaves to keep us too busy to fight back.

I know the date on the infographic is older, but I thought Disney/OpenAI deal should be mentioned here, since it’s a big one.

It’s really frustrating that everyone is shitty.

Street Fighter 2 is an especially bad example.

In like 18nmonths you had:

Street Fighter II

Street Fighter II:Champion

Street Fighter II:Hyper Fighting

Super Street Fighter II

Super Street Fighter II: Turbo

Instead of microtranactions, you just bought the whole fucking game again to get Vega or M Bison as playable characters or to get a projectile for Chun-Li.

My favorite but of specific criticism was how they demonetized firearm-related channels because advertisers didn’t want to be associated with guns, but they didn’t stop running ads on those channels.

You gonna do a 10-mile commute on an airplane?

Because people don’t take an airplane when traveling 3 miles. It’s really not fair to compare a device designed to haul hundreds of people thousands of miles across oceans with something designed to carry a single person a few blocks. Airplanes and bikes aren’t substitutes for each other.

It’s like comparing my garden trowel with a commercial excavator. Yeah, thr excavator moves more dirt more quickly, but you don’t use one to weed a garden or use a trowel to grade a building site.

Ken Lay absolutely faked his death.

In Texas, I had employers that counted use of sick leave against your attendance metrics, and would fire you if you used it more than 3 times in a given year.

Explains the lack of gunshots compared to stabbings.

The Cameron Avatar films are great spectacles. They should be experienced in the theatre.

And they know what they are. They don’t have much cultural relevance, but they make stupid money because they’re event films.

Now I want to design motorized heelies to fit in platform shoes.

But first I should probably learn to design motorized shit that’s more sophcsticated than “turn on switch and go full-tilt with no fuses or battery protection circuits.”

Lemon juice. Tomato sauce. That one egg that for some reason decided to be a real motherfucker.

I love my cast iron cookware, but it can be a fickle bitch.