Damn making me feel old over here with you not knowing Christmas Vacation. Great holiday movie. Worth a watch, a lot of people watch it as a tradition around Xmas time.

I’m pretty sure most school shooters attend the school they’re shooting up. Kind of an apples to oranges thing here. Unless … Can we get disgruntled board members onboard?

Jk their lives are too posh for that.

Oh fuck right off with that bullshit. Abortions are a medical procedure. Women have died because they can’t get them. Or should we just let fetuses that die in utero rot inside the womb and kill the poor woman who lost her baby through no fault of her own?

That’s just one example off the top of my head.

Nobody wants to or is killing children. That’s some hyperbolic bullshit.

I also agree we must attack the root causes as well. No single solution will bring us the needed change.

I’m not suggesting going fascist just some things I think would help. The monopoly on permissible violence already is the defining factor of statehood.

Anyways yeah shits fucked, the wealth gap needs narrowed and we need some real fixes. All crap aside, hope you have some nice holidays and a good day.

I wish we still lived in those times. It’s really unfortunate the reality we find ourselves in vis a vis school shootings and other gun violence.

That’s kind of what I figured it would be, I did something similar in college except it wasn’t skeet shooting just targets with a .22

It’s crazy to me how we’ve seen this proliferation of shootings and access to very dangerous weapons finding their way into kids hands. As a gun owner I think we should have required classes on gun safety and handling and some basic training before you could purchase a firearm.

We have drivers licenses and gate driving behind tests because you’re operating a potentially lethal weapon. It’s dumb easy to kill someone with a car. Why the hell is it easier to get an actual tool designed only for killing vs a vehicle for getting around. We have to do something to help drive down firearm deaths and a lot of those are accidental and easily preventable with minimum due diligence.

Idk I know there isn’t a “silver bullet” but there must be more than just shrugs.

Anyways hope you enjoyed your time reminiscing and you have some fond memories of those times.

Can you expand on the ammo vending machine installed at your high school in 1999? That’s wild to me.

Well, you’re either actively trolling me or yourself at this point because obviously the absence of that word - while describing one - isn’t some gotcha.

Ok, sure it doesn’t have that specific word but it sure does have a description of one. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I understand being wrapped up in biblical text and trying to defend it. Having faith and it being “attacked” can be hard and feels bad. I’m not trying to beat you up but take a step back and look at the whole picture.

Ok well you’re just being purposely obtuse if you think being made to drink a prepared water after committing adultery and then proceeding to miscarry doesn’t mean you were pregnant.

They’re not exactly using contraception.

Regardless of the translation, it’s pretty clear these are instructions on how to treat an adulterous woman and cause a miscarriage.

Dude what, no, it’s saying hey if you’re not preggers you can still make a baby. If you’ve “defiled [your]self” then you’re gonna have an abortion when you drink that water. Very explicitly that’s what is being communicated through the text.

Dancing around translations is just some hand waving bullshit, also maybe we should consider the text isn’t some infallible word of God when you’re saying a different translation changes the meaning of passages. Just as an aside.

I just picked the first translation the Google search gave. Feel free to read your same thing phrased some other way in another translation.

Besides that is the only thing the Bible actually says about abortion. The anti abortion stuff is a very modern thing.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+5%3A11-31&version=NIV

Spoiler alert: they’re probably not buying mass produced China sets even if they are nice.

Source: me exhausting all avenues of trying to part with vintage China set(s) and replacements.com telling me to politely fuck off.

Woke isn’t being progressive. It’s being progressive to an extent beyond any sort of logic, virtue signaling constantly, and then calling anyone who disagrees with you morally or intellectually inferior

I fucking hate that the idea of being woke was poisoned and turned into this when it very much is not and never was.

Woke is acknowledging the systemic racism playing out daily in the United States of America.

I think most of what you wrote isn’t even true to be honest, it’s a well strung together list of annoying tropes which doesn’t even happen nearly as much or widely as some would suggest. It’s a neat little “here’s a bad way of caring” package but it ain’t the truth.

I appreciate the effort you went through to write the post and I understand your viewpoint. At the same time, this is a great example of how the term “woke” has been co-opted into meaning something it never really did. Being awake to the injustices present in our lives isn’t a bad thing. Turning woke into a slur to wrongly characterize and misdirect away from its true original intent has been an effective, and gross, way to get people to automatically reject real critique.

Lol I know I just was trying for a bit of a joke.

Why is that bed not on fire?

Im being a huge guy - can go to the women bathroom if I say I believe I’m a woman

I have news for you, you can just walk into a women’s bathroom now if you feel like it.

You never accidentally went into a women’s restroom while you were drunk or just had to pee so bad you were worried you’d piss your pants? I have, nobody was in there so I didn’t notice until afterwards when I saw no urinals.

This is such a non issue. Also let’s take your example and flip it - say you’re a trans dude, now you’re a man going into the women’s restroom because of this bullshit. Like a fully bearded jacked guy being forced to use the women’s restroom, that’s what this is doing.

That’s total bullshit and you know it.

Jesus Christ what is wrong with people… Microsoft giving in to a clear troll, surprised they didn’t just lock and ignore that shit and move on.

I think when you’re probably shooting (as in filming) stuff you can’t just shave your head in the middle of an ongoing project.

Otherwise I’d agree with the sentiment he should actually shave his hair but in this specific circumstance it doesn’t feel disingenuous.

Reminds me of something a criminal would pull.

Seconding chopsticks, they’re a little tricky to use but you get used to them with practice. It’s nice to not have gross hands after snacking.

Or you can also go the whole I’m a gross monster route and just shake the bag into your mouth, I’m certainly guilty of that.