Transporter Room 3

“is a lengthy time consuming process”

No, it REALLY isn’t, and any pig that tells you otherwise is trying to get you to drop the issue so they don’t have more paperwork.

They don’t give a shit about your stolen items, and 9/10 times it’s a complete waste to even contact them over “petty theft”, regardless of how valuable the item/s are to you.

Deep red Ohio here

Still voting.

Fite me, redcoats

People don’t grasp immortality and infinite time.

“High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.”

Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

But DO they really care about it? Or is this just to placate the plebs again?

I’ll know they care when they actually manage to do something about it.

Reminder that if they can forcibly delete the app from your phone, you don’t own your phone

It’s a generic term they can use to justify removal of any app they don’t like, which I’m sure is what this is really about

I guess the log of “apps we want to kill but can’t justify it in a way that courts would find more acceptable” got too large.

Ooh, I hadn’t thought of the possibility of Ai enhanced regular photo.

Of course, the Muskrat and Faceburg have both always given me “uncanny valley” vibes just because that’s how they look normally

Dude spent a shitload of money on a photographer so he could feel like a cowboy for a few minutes.

Edit: I’m still not sure it’s actually a real photo though, it doesn’t sit right with me.

I love seeing prison photos from other countries that show how well prisoners can be treated while still being in prison. Countries with extremely low recidivism.

And there are plenty of people I know who would see that and balk, because “that’s being too soft”

I’ve had people insist that stronger punishment over rehabilitation is what you need, and ignore my bringing up that there’s decades and decades of data that shows otherwise.

At best, the harsh punishments serve as a deterrent to other people doing similar things that might result in similar punishment, but that just creates new and sneaker crimes and criminals. It’s better to rehabilitate, help people turn their poor choices around, and eliminate the cause of the problems that led to the crime in the first place.

But that’s “too much work” so might as well not even try, right? As we all know, the light bulb famously was invented on the first couple tries.

I’d rather he rots in a state jail for the rest of his life, and give him the same standard of care as every other inmate. No special treatment. If he needs to be put in solitary “for his own protection” then so be it. It’s the system people like him loves to protect.

To be clear, I think the US treatment of prisoners is inhumane and bordering on criminal (and all too often crossing said border) and the whole penal system needs drastic change and made entirely nonprofit, and the constitution needs another Ammendment because the 13th was a mistake.

But that’s not the world we live in, and the people who crafted this world should be forced to live in it.

Anecdote time!

I was once semi-surrounded by coyotes while hiking in some back country with a friend.

I did not have anything except my camping knives and a very small axe for splitting kindling.

My buddy had a compact 9mm in his waistband.

Honestly, I can say an AR would not have made me feel safer. A larger capacity on my sidearm, on the other hand, would. The AR is just too bulky to move quickly in close quarters.

Luckily a single round to the trailside was enough to scare them off, since yelling and throwing things wasn’t. We then ran/sprinted a few miles down the trail toward the vehicle before we even considered slowing down.

Not many situations in which either one is something I’m desiring though, and while I’m not a fan of limiting people, I can’t say I’ve ever needed 30rds at once. Honestly, I buy 10rd mags just because they fit very nicely in some cases I already had, and the 30rds don’t.

Rambling anecdotes over, have a nice day!

Be honest… Have you recently taken psych-101.

Here’s my take:

the people profiting off shows and podcasts where they do this sort of thing are absolutely immoral, bordering on outright bad. Evil is a bit too intense, but you get the idea. Unless they’re donating any revenue to help children, then they’re shitty.

The people doing the baiting are only immoral IN MY OPINION if they are the ones to initiate things. If they sit back and passively respond while the guy starts sending dick pics and suggesting they meet to have sex, then it’s not immoral in my opinion. When they go into a conversation with “I’m a minor, let’s meet for [REDACTED]” then it’s still wrong.

Of course, on the other side of the screen, the guy either suggesting or agreeing with meeting up is clearly always in the wrong.

Both parties involved can be in the wrong.

Can they? Yes. Absolutely. 100%.

A local factory likes people with college degrees, any degree, no matter what college or course, but also offer tests twice a year in large groups for exactly the reason that plenty y of people are qualified, and can do everything they need, but never went to college.

Will they? Probably not unless it’s a niche employer. Why bother going through the extra effort when you can just say “degrees only” and turn your nose up at anyone without one?

I remember when I could post to the firefly sub and banter with the same 20 or so people every week, then one day something hit the front page and a flood of people came in.

Everything turned from thought provoking discussions about what little lore we did have and overanalysing every episode, to “this is what the actors do now” and “here’s an image with a quote from the show” maybe an art post of original content here and there.

14 and change, it definitely had multiple, noticeable shifts.

And if you didn’t notice, you probably only stuck to a handful of communities, because they changed how the front page works several times, and what communities are default. All of those changed the feel by a lot.

Each change may not have affected each sub equally hard, default subs turned to shit, subs that got turned off of default finally got the reality check they needed, and when they started banning entire subs, there were noticeably less shitty people from time to time as they pruned.

Again, if you stuck to smaller subs, or even mid sized ones but didn’t interact a ton, or just didn’t log on every day, I could see how you may not have noticed.

They definitely ramped up moderation, and the administration got a lot more heavy-handed over the last few years, clearly (in hindsight) in preparation for the big change last year.

It’s the same reason scam emails don’t spell check or make the grammar more believable.

The people dumb/ignorant enough to not get caught by all the giant waving red flags are people who probably wouldn’t notice an atomic bomb detonating against their eyeball.

I’ve been getting little bubbles for store/restaurant logos popping up on the map for about a month as I drive, and I assumed that’s what it was. So every time I see one, I make a point to not eat/go there for awhile just out of spite.

One head gets chopped off, two new ones spawn.

HAIL HYDRA

There is a red-tailed hawk that roams around my area, and every time we hear it, my wife rolls her eyes and goes “I KNOW it’s not an eagle” because of how many times I would mention it whenever the screech would play on TV or movies.