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I mean, I am stretching definitions, and you could argue that the most effective gun is one you never have to fire, but on the other hand, if the entire purpose of a gun is to shoot people, and a majority of lethal gunshots are self-inflicted, then yes, if you own a gun and ever fire it outside of a range, the odds are it will be to blow your own brains out, not in self defense. I'm also conveniently igoring that self-inflicted gunshots are probably more lethal as you're not firing at a moving target, but still.

Because it has become a chore. Groceries isn't just something you spend 10 minutes on buying a six pack of beer and some bread, it has become an entire task with shopping lists and logistics. It might be TWO WEEKS before you see a grocery store again, better get everything you might need! And probably end up throwing a significant portion out because you never actually use it. Or you buy food loaded with preservatives to make sure that doesn't happen. That kind of behaviour is a direct result of car dependent infrastructure.

OR, and this is key.. allow mixed use development so that you can have a grocery store within walking distance so that you don't need to buy so many groceries every time you go to the store that you need a car to haul them home. When I lived in NW Portland, there were like 5 full grocery stores within a 10 minute walk of my house. With that kind of accessibility, you just get in a habit of buying what you need every day or every other day. Buying groceries isn't some major event, it's just something you do on the way home every day.

I mean, they still got paid. Still, having that on your resume may end up being either a blessing or a curse

But what is that in freedom units

In 2020, in the United States, there were 45,222 gun related deaths 54% of those deaths were suicides. So right off the bat, if you are in possession of a gun, you are more likely to use that gun on yourself than you are to ever use that gun in self defense. I'm sorry, not YOU. My bad, I shouldn't assume. You are clearly not one of THOSE people. You are the exception that would never kill yourself. So how many people WERE killed in what the CDC rules as "legal prevention?" Also known as "good guys with guns?" Surely that makes a dent... Ah, shit... Nope. 611. That includes cop killings, which we know is 100% justified 100% of the time. Okay, but SURELY that means at least 611 people were SAVED by guns. So that's something, I guess. ... Oh, shit... There were over 500 deaths by gun in 2020 that were rules "accidents." So all those people would probably still be alive if guns were never around in the first place... Numbers don't lie. I'm sick of people using "good guys with a gun" as an excuse. The police officers in Uvalde were allegedly good guys with guns. They didn't do shit. But hey, let's just arm all the teachers. Oh, that's right, elementary school teachers make less money than goddamn Starbucks Batista's, maybe putting them in charge of arsenals isn't ideal (how long before a teacher goes postal on their own students or kills themself with the classroom gun) ... But, but we'll TRAIN THEM! Putting aside the fact that at least 98% of gun related deaths in America are intentional, so training people to use them properly does nothing (they seem to figure it out in their own), none of us are goddamn Rambo. If you've never been in a firefight, I can almost 100% guarantee you will freeze like a deer in headlights when bullets start flying. And you're not wrong to do so. People in the military go through a SHITLOAD of training to not do that, and even then it doesn't work sometimes. Military combat training involves like actual torture to see if you'll break under stress. There are plenty of guys in the infantry who have gone through more training than any teacher will ever face who go to pieces in their first combat experience. And that's no shame on them. ... Sorry, just a rant. Don't fucking arm teachers. Life isn't an action movie.

If Disney still gets paid, they have no reason to care.

It honestly feels a bit scammy if you think about it. Like, if they know that if they just released it for home viewing the same day as it's released for theaters that most people will choose not to see it in theaters, isn't that just artificial inflation? Personally, I think Disney realized they hit gold when they found out people will gladly pay $20 to stream a new Marvel movie at home as soon as it's available. Disney gets to keep all the money that way. They still need to get through all of their pre-COVID contracts and shit to do it again (ScarJo lawsuit), but they will absolutely start doing same day streaming releases again. There's a reason they kept lying about how much money they made from the Black Widow release. They want to control who knows about that.

I just jerked off to a de-zoning proposal

I'm taking that as a vote of confidence.

Yes

Their latest music kind of sucks. HOWEVER I fucking hated Limp Bizkit when I was a kid. I was way too cool for them (I was groomed to be a punk/metal gatekeeper from practically before I could read). As I've gotten older and re-listened to some of their music, I have to admit that a lot of it was actually really fucking good. Not all of it, and they certainly had more than their fair share of cringy shit, but they made a lot of music that was objectively good. Ultimately Limp Bizkit just hit a late-90's bingo card for making it in the rock scene. I've seen a lot of people over the years say "Limp Bizkit would have been a lot better if they never had Fred Durst." I guarantee you that you never would have even heard of Limp Bizkit if they didn't have Fred Durst. Wes Borland, John Otto, and Sam Rivers are all fucking S-tier musicians. Pair them with basically the greatest hype man of the late 90's in Fred Durst, and you have a winning package.

I'll take naps on my days off sometimes. I can't take naps when I have shit to do that day.

I'm still cautiously optimistic. The new trailer was pretty good. Most of the people who trash talk the series online are closeted racists who are complaining that having people of color rUiNs thE LoRe. The set designs all look great, the music sounds great, the effects look great... there isn't really much else to go on right now. I do think there is some concern that they're just going to turn it into a generic milquetoast fantasy series. But I'm not going to assume that yet. The fact that they haven't even hinted at Celeborn even being in the show at all as of yet leaves me a little worried that they're going to have some pulpy romance subplot with Galadriel and Celeborn in a later season, which is dumb.

I finished it last night. Not the best thing I've ever seen, but it was fun.

Doesn't he have like 10 kids? I don't know if we're ready for that.

Yeah, I was worried that's where they were going. They still kiiiinda did it, but it felt genuine.

I love that they went with relative nobodys for the entire cast (obviously most of except them Iman Vellani had been in some things before, especially Kamala's dad who's been in a bunch of stuff in India, but the rest have only a small handful of acting credits). A+ casting and direction for the entire show.

I thought it was a delightful end to a delightful show. Sure, the villains sucked, but in this case, I don't think it really mattered much.

Is that so? That sucks.

Love this guy edit: Apparently the cop with the punisher phone's wife was murdered in the shooting and wanted to go in, so... yeaaah, not a great look.

Oh, I don't mind at all. People think steroids are a cheat code, they're not.

I think there's this misguided idea that capping wealth means no one will innovate. I don't think that's true at all. People will continue to develop things that give them an edge up. "This innovation will only net me $1 million instead of $10 million, so it's not worth it to do it" is not where peoples' minds will go.

The Guidestones were not a Confederate monument. If they were, blowing them up would not be something that the nutjob right would have latched onto. No one has threatened to blow up Stone Mountain, for example.

If you made $10k every single day for your entire life, you wouldn't even come close to sniffing $1 billion. In fact it would take you 3-4 lifetimes. The difference between a billion and a million is essentially a billion dollars. I'm not sure what the answer is, but a world where Elon Musk can just play around with billions because he has so many billions that a few billion here or there means nothing to him is not a world I want to live in. Bill Gates could almost single handedly end world hunger if he tried hard enough.