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gregorum ,

Just another thing I don’t use that takes up space and can go wrong. Same reason i don’t need it to have a cassette deck or 8-track player.

gregorum ,

Maybe 10 years ago

gregorum , (edited )

I never said anything about the headphones. I was referring to the port, which can get gunked up, damaged by water, or all sorts of other stuff. in my many many years of using Bluetooth headphones of all types, I’ve never had a single thing go wrong— and because I am a responsible adult, I’m capable of recharging my batteries.

The era of annoying snags painfully pulling out wired headphones from my ears is a headache I’m very glad to have left behind long ago.

gregorum ,

If he can’t run in a particular state, he is not eligible for that state’s electoral votes, yes. 

gregorum ,

In the last state that tried this, it failed. From my understanding, he must first be found guilty of having committed a crime which disqualifies him. No matter how obviously guilty he is, this seems like a necessary first step, although IANAL.

gregorum ,

This, however, is not a time of war. The legal standards, therefore, might be different. 

gregorum ,

My point is that a lot has changed since then regarding legal precedences and procedure.

gregorum ,

Even worse, the witness stand can’t accommodate 150 witnesses at the same time!

/s

My goodness, does the amount of dumb things you say have no limit? 

gregorum ,

Cheeky India

gregorum ,

There’s also just the social engineering side of it. I guessed my father’s door code just because I know his birthdate.

gregorum ,

If these allegations are true, this was some severe misconduct by the clerk of the court. In what would’ve been a slam dunk case, she really screwed up. 

gregorum ,

“Stop hurting yourself,” said the bully.

gregorum ,

More of an explanation than a reason, but an excellent one nonetheless

gregorum ,

If it came bundled with a container of a specific substance, it can measure both volume and mass

gregorum ,

A scale would be better to measure weight, but the scoop if it was included with say, protein powder, would be more convenient.

gregorum ,

At that point, it’s a distinction without a (meaningful) difference, although you are technically correct.

Senator Admits "Kids Online Safety Act" Will Target Trans Content Online. (www.erininthemorning.com)

Senator Admits “Kids Online Safety Act” Will Target Trans Content Online.::The lead sponsor of the “Kids Online Safety Act,” otherwise known as KOSA, has stated over the weekend that it will be used to “protect minor children from the transgender in our culture.”

gregorum ,

And/or the invention of the darkernet

gregorum ,

How does this not involve technology?

gregorum ,

Now you’re gettin’ it!

gregorum ,

Ever heard of boats or planes or ladders, or tunnels? Guess not…

DeSantis' Florida redistricting map is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says (www.nbcnews.com)

A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a representative of their choice, a state judge ruled Saturday....

gregorum ,

Every accusation is a confession

gregorum ,

Agatha Christie’s Poirot is pretty great

gregorum ,

And there’s no reason to think it will

gregorum ,

Do anyone who hasn’t read the article, I highly suggested. It is devastating.

gregorum ,

Now things are getting interesting

gregorum ,

That is not what this video shows. This video shows a police officer who ran in front of a car and shot a pregnant woman over some groceries.

gregorum ,

It’s still disgusting and in terrible taste

gregorum ,

Trees in forests breathe quantum sighs of relief

…or do they?

gregorum ,

It’s only stupid because an octopus is way too simple. In reality it was way more complicated and disgusting than that. It was some weird bonkers 24th century insanity that we can’t even imagine.

Shame on you and your provincial, limited earth imagination.

Boo!

gregorum ,

Ah, the Tucker Carlson defense 

Three found dead at remote Rocky Mountain campsite were trying to escape society, stepsister says (apnews.com)

The stepsister of a Colorado woman who was found dead along with her sister and teenage son at a remote Rocky Mountain campsite says the women fled into the wilderness after struggling to cope with societal changes in recent years, but they were unequipped to survive off the grid....

gregorum ,

Someone told them they were too stupid to live, and they said “hold my cheese whiz”

gregorum ,

Live long and prosper!

gregorum , 

<span style="color:#323232;">ifelse 
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gregorum ,

Delta, 1983, SLC to MPLS

gregorum ,

It depends on why they’re asking. If they’re asking because they’re irresponsible, that’s one thing. If they’re asking because they are legitimately struggling against systemic issues, then it’s another.

Life is a lot more complicated than you’re implying, and family should be there to support each other.

Then again, so should society in general. Life should be challenging, but it shouldn’t be so hard that it’s impossible for so many people just to get by.

gregorum ,

Keep in mind that I said “challenging” not “difficult”.

But a challenge gives a person something to strive for. Motivation to be something greater. But I also believe the people should have all the support and encouragement they need to meet that challenge as well as all of the support they need should they fail— even if they fail repeatedly.

gregorum ,

That’s right on all points.

And a society as rich and advanced as ours should be there to support people in all cases. In the highest of highs, to help them responsibly manage their money, and the lowest of lows to help put their lives back together when they fail.

gregorum , (edited )

THIS is why this shit needs to be talked about

gregorum ,

Patrick Stewart, and Rick Berman

More dog owners are questioning vaccines like rabies after COVID (www.pressherald.com)

More than half of U.S. dog owners expressed concerns about vaccinating their dogs, including against rabies, according to a new study published Saturday in the journal Vaccine. The study comes as anti-vaccine sentiments among humans have exploded in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic....

gregorum ,

More people are dumbshits

gregorum ,

“No shit!” Says University of Sherlock

gregorum ,

Insinuating gender issues into this when there no evidence of that as a motivation (no suicide note, no knowledge of the motivations) is simply you projecting an agenda.

As a matter of gun safety, it’s obvious: the best way to keep a home safe from gun violence is to not have a gun in the home.

gregorum , (edited )

You’ve made a sound argument against owning cars and table saws and boats, not one in favor of owning guns or that they’re safe to have in the home, especially in the face of overwhelming evidence.

And what you think is irrelevant; the facts speak for themselves. All you’re saying is that you’re choosing to ignore the facts, ignore reality, because you think you somehow know better. And regardless of your attempts at rationalization, it doesn’t take much to figure out that, without a gun in the home, this person would have found it far more difficult to so quickly and instantly murder his whole family and then himself, and family members would have had a much higher chance of survival and/or escape.

Even faced with the prospect of the much more difficult task of killing his whole family by other means would have greatly reduced the likelihood of him following through with his plan at all. With a gun, it’s all so easy. Using some other means makes it more difficult a task and is enough to give a person pause— often just enough to change a mind, to create an opportunity to seek help, etc.

But you’re not even willing to consider any of that. Because of boats and cars and table saws…

BTW, getting a license to drive a car/boat is much more difficult in most states than getting a gun license. And I don’t know of any stories of families being mass-murdered or schools or nightclubs having everyone inside them being slaughtered by table saws.

gregorum ,

Cherry-picking single, isolated incident does not change mountains upon mountains and decades, upon decades of statistical data that proves you wrong. This one man may have been capable of killing a person with his bare hands, but that doesn’t change the fact that literally anyone is capable of killing another person (and themselves) instantly with a gun. 

I always find it, particularly strange when someone claims to know the mind of someone who has “snapped to this extent“both claiming to know what they think, while simultaneously, claiming that you can’t know what they might do. 

The fact is, you can’t claim to know what another person thinks. But the statistical data shows that when taking a gun out of the situation, it’s far far far less likely that the murderous act would be carried through simply because it’s no longer as easy. 

gregorum ,

I will gladly acknowledge that there are outliers that don’t fit the pattern. That literally always happens with any form of data analysis. It does not, however, change the facts of the matter that having a gun in your home dramatically increases the likelihood that someone in the home will be injured by or killed by that gun. 

One common misunderstanding in the argument against guns in the home and other similar arguments as such is that the goal is to eliminate gun violence altogether. That’s not really possible in this context. The goal, of course, is to dramatically reduce the incidence of gun violence. Opponents to gun control like to treat the argument as though eliminating gun violence altogether is impossible, therefore, we shouldn’t even bother trying. Because of this false narrative, their arguments will always be empty. Not to mention that they always ignore the overwhelming evidence.

gregorum ,

If you bother to watch the video, it states several times that the father was the shooter. How else would he have shot everyone else than himself otherwise?

I’m operating based on the facts given, not some social agenda or implicit biases. Get your facts straight. 

gregorum ,

Methinks the “badass” doth protest too much

gregorum ,

It’s funny you mention suicides:

From Pew Research:

What share of U.S. gun deaths are murders and what share are suicides?

Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were accidental (549), involved law enforcement (537) or had undetermined circumstances (458).

So who is it who’s “manipulating statistics” by acting like preventing/massively reducing the 54% of gun deaths (26k+ and trending upward) is not something we should be trying to accomplish?

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