So they leave two quarters and a nickel.

Source: was a waiter.

I also learned a ton about different instruments by playing that interactive game where you match them to their countries. Thanks to Encarta I was probably in the privileged minority of American 8 year olds that knew what the heck a digerido, pan flute, or sitar was! :D

You’re right, unwarranted doorkicking for unconstitutional search and seizure is very unlikely, thankfully.

I think dem-liberals have basically just used gun reform as a contrast to separate them from their opposition, but it’s had the side effect of giving many working class folks the false sense that the State is responsible for protecting them. The fringe-right neighbor-hating hyper-individualists have co-opted almost the entire narrative around the 2A conversation, and it sucks.

Years of history of armed labor unions and working class heroes unremembered, the fruit of their sacrifice handed over willingly by ignorant descendants. It’s tragic.

I used to be a lot more of a gun nut when I was younger. Now, I see them as an unfortunate necessity in an embattled, dark world, and nothing more.

I wish ammo hadn’t gotten so expensive though.

Yes! Every time I start to think “Hey maybe I should stock up a little…”

There go the friggin’ preppers using their midlife crisis money to clear out the shelves of anything but the most obscure cartridges.

Too right about the bed bugs. At the library they’ve had to start screening every returned book for them. Yeesh!!

We once took a gamble on a fancy tempurpedic mattress that was on local auction where my wife’s grandma worked. “Nah nothing seems wrong with it!” She said. Cool! Won it for cheap!

We muscle it into the house and only in the enclosed space did we realize it REEEEEKED of cigarettes. It was NAUSEATING. We eventually had to pay more to have it hauled away. Learned our lesson.

The plastic base for it was nice though, and was cleaned pretty well by applying elbow grease and strong cleaning chemicals and sunlight and fresh air.

Excellent list!

Man, how often needle nose pliers come in handy is INSANE.

Even quicker if you help!

Post-apocalyptic economics be like:

They were gonna but the corporate necromancer was out of network.

Just kidding that’d be way too much effort for how they see human lives. They were likely hitting up LinkdIn before the body was cold.

It’s like the mustache-twirling movie villains when an underling gets merc’d for a hairbrained strategy:

“Congratulations, number 3. You’ve been promoted! Go get 'em!”

That’s just it though, the “passing glance” types that don’t pay much attention to anything at all will just assume the truth is whatever headline runs across their “feed of choice” the most often. Usually from large corporate outlets.

Let’s watch how hard gun control gets pushed when the barrels are aimed at the puppet masters.

Fellow lefties: If it’s safe for you to do so, acquire, train, and responsibly store. That is all.

I agree with you somewhat and I don’t like how much downvote spam you’re getting. You bring up some good points we ought to be mindful of.

Right now it seems very clear who the oppressors are, but the scary thing about reactive movements is that even if they accomplish their goal, they tend to seek to justify themselves indefinitely before everyone gets bored and it dissolves.

Everybody wants a revolution on paper, but things get messy and blurry once the powder keg goes off, and people en masse would be looking for the next enemy, the next oppressor, that must be hunted down to finally secure Utopia.

While I’m an anarchist and want the “ownership class” to answer for their wicked ways, I also don’t think a bunch of independent actors picking targets and gunning them down based solely on their own justification is an ideal solution. Even if I understand why it happens and don’t defend the perpetrators that push people to such extremes in the first place.

I can hold two ideas at the same time here, where I understand why it happened as a consequence of rampant evil on behalf of the ownership class, and it’s a natural comeuppance after pushing the wrong person too far. (I think we’re all shocked it took this long to happen.)

But also, unfortunately as much as we love a good revenge story, planting 3 slugs into another human being, even a nasty one, in cold blood, is not self-defense. The goal of self defense is the reduction of an attacker’s ability to cause direct and imminent harm to the defender.

This was assault, and it was murder, and we can reason about the justification behind it, but I sadly don’t really know what it will change, besides the bourgeois getting allocated even more of our money to have protection detail and hold their board meetings in walled enclaves or yahts away from the populace.

Violence begets violence. Blood begets blood, and those who live by the sword will die by it also. I think any sane rational person can agree this guy reaped what he and his ilk sowed every day, but still be against slaying human beings on the streets to make a point.

Edit: Knew I was just asking to get ratio’d for not 100% full-throttle stanning the trending narrative, but the actual responses (that I saw) were thought-provoking and well reasoned, so I appreciate that.

Sometimes it seems people forget the value of discourse and only care about “how popular is my opinion right now.”

And the occasional lenses for my eyeballs.

I know I’m asking for a lot because adequate vision is positively absolutely a luxury, and not at all necessary for doing the vast majority of work or existing in society…but y’know.

Similar story! I teach Capoeira, am not Beasilian. Part of the tradition is coming up with students’ “apelido”, like an alias for them as a martial artist. We try to pick things that are cool, or ironically amusing (but kind).

Well there’s this bigger teenage boy in my class who’s getting REALLY strong. Great kid. Sings real strong too. Has been hitting the weights I think.

“Cannon”. I thought. “That’s badass and not too elaborate. He’s loud and he hits hard. Perfect!” So I look up the translation and submit my suggestions.

“That’s gonna need a change…” my Professor says with a chuckle.

“…Canhão means ‘lesbian’.”

Where does this slang come from?!? My research gave zero indication of this possibility lmao. SO glad he double checked me.

Similarly confusing, a lot of Capoeira songs feature the lyrics “vamo vadia” which I’m told is like, “Let’s go hang out / loiter / chill.” According to google translate…vadia directly means “bitch.”

This beautiful language intimidates me. 😂

I actually like helping people a lot, too.

I don’t think IT folks are naturally misanthropic or antisocial, but I personally got beat down so much by wanting to help and realizing they didn’t care to listen, or weren’t willing to learn anything. At all. Even though they came to me with the problem, it seemed they mostly just wanted me to fix it for them with zero understanding required, or to “be emotional at someone” or were lonely.

I also got so tired of being friendly and enthusiastically educational with advising my relatives or friends, only to then watch them completely disregard 100% of my advice they came to me for.

In the former job I’m still putting myself back together from, most of the public peoples who visited me would have been better served by visiting a psychologist / therapist first, but I was cheaper (free). :(

Often when it’s something I do specialize in and I get all excited, that’s when they choose to gloss over and I can tell they just want me to stop talking.

I hate having biases against people, but there very much are definitely “normies” who are threatened by the prospect of having to activate their neurons for the first time since they stumbled out of their highest level of education, and only learned to think when it was forced upon them.

Makes a guy feel pretty crappy. So I’m not as forthcoming with my skillset as I used to be in casual company. Lol

Monado is making impressive strides, but VR is a really tough nut to crack, given how ridiculously proprietary most units are. :(

The controllers especially seem to be giving them a lot of trouble.

I know M$ always extinguishes things it embraces, but they should really just release the WMR code if they’re done with ir. An open source WMR implementation would save SO MUCH headache of trying to engineer custom drivers and everything from scratch!

Upset about both of those too.

The WMR thing is bugging me so much. Like release whatever is needed to open the hardware if you’re done with it, jerks!

I have a Samsung Odyssey+ that’s a fantastic unit that of course I can’t run when I mainline Linux these days. Monado is making impressive gains but the fact that they basically need to hack and reverse engineer the thing out of being e-waste is just messed up.

I really like VR and want to make things for it. But I can’t swing a Steam set and there’s no way I’m giving a single rotten cent to Facebook if I can help it!

Like others said there’s still ways to keep it working but it feels iffy enough that it could just break at any moment =\

This is SO tragic. I remember being so fond of both those games, they were so great! All the ways different equipment actually affected gameplay, and the really unique sound effects and world building will always stick in my head.

The Flutter was like my dream fantasy vehicle as a kid, those dogs in the bad part of town freaked me out, the reaverbot designs were so cool, and I kicked cans around way more than I should’ve.

And the little Tron-bots taught us the folly of making judgements based on profiling. XD

Kid me didn’t understand the ultimate plots though, and the final bosses were punishing… Perhaps it’s time for a revisit.

I didn’t know Legends 3 was so close to actually being a thing!

Geeze while we’re at it, even though it was basically a typical cop procedural, I really enjoyed “Almost Human” for a while. It just disappeared.