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Will happen. The same goes with self-abortions.

And the assholes are okay with that because they’re assholes.

FuglyDuck,
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Depressing.

Thanks for saving a click though

FuglyDuck,
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… he’s been doing it since he first had a secret service detail…

Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system?

I have been watching magnet fishing and people love to toss stuff over bridges without a second thought on the environmental impact. Hiding evidence I can almost understand but not lawnmowers, car batteries, etc....

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Just for the record, teenage hooligans-in my experience -are actually preferable to the adult hooligans.

Seriously. Teenagers might get drunk and do stupid shit but they’re scared of getting caught and run away. Many times they’ll even clean up after themselves if you’re not a total dick.

Adults tend to stand their ground and pick fights.

(Also, every demographic you care to name steal shit. Sobriety, income, race. None of it matters.)

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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Add some whonky Akkadian math. Pretty sure most people will just sort of not say anything and pretend they understand it.

(Just like I’m doing with the meme…)

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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So, Heisenberg, Schroedinger and Ohm were in a car driving down the highway. They get pulled over by a cop.

“Sir, do you know how fast you were going?”

“no. but I know perfectly well where I am,” Heisenberg says.

“your were going eighty in a seventy.” the cop explains

“Jerk. Now I’m lost.” Heisenberg replies.

The cop is rather confused and assumes they’re on something, so he starts looking around, and not seeing anything, asks “Can you open the trunk?”

“no. We’re doing an experiment back there.” Shroedinger says.

“I’m going to have to insist.” The cop says.

“Okay, but whatever you do, don’t look in the box.” shroedinger tells the cop.

after looking in the back, he looked in the box, “Sir!” the cop says, “did you know you have a dead cat back here?”

Shroedinger says, “Well now we do, Jackass.”

“That’s it!” the cop exclaims. “You’re all under arrest!”

Ohm resisted.

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I’ll lend them some thoughts and prayers.

Lemme know if they get fried by random bolts of lightning.

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I dunno, but if he ever tried to have an argument with me I’d probably just assume he was trying to provoke a fight and punch him in the face.

He has a very punchable face. Nice and soft but it still makes this hollow ringing sound, I’ve heard.

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As of the 2020 election, 29% of registered voters identified as Republican. (33% are democrats and 34% independent who predominantly vote one way or the other.)

Further, only 60% of eligible voters actually voted.

The average person is dumb. But not that dumb.

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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It’s actually kind of frightening how republicans have that much power with that little actual support.

The 40% that aren’t registered could practically create their own party and dominate. (Well, if they were a cohesive group.)

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Keep in mind the 60% is the number of people that voted. The party affiliation is from registration, some of whom may not vote. (Or abstained from voting for POTUS, but voted down ballot, Trump lost in 2020 largely because a lot of otherwise republican voters didn’t vote. Biden had solid but not spectacular numbers.)

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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My parents were life-long republicans. They’re now independents who’ll be voting for Biden this year. They might not vote for dems in the other races, but they certainly won’t be voting for republicans since they’re all fucking crazy here.

(Seriously. The republican governor candidate last election was recorded accusing elementary schools of putting out litter boxes in class rooms to “accommodate students who identify as furry”.) (Oh. And the others that primaried against him were even crazier.)

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Keep in mind many districts are gerrymandered to hell and back. Biden had 51% of the popular vote where Trump had 46%.

Which, for the record is nearly 17, 18, million people?

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this is dangerous for republicans. Next… these young republicans are going to wonder what the purpose of republicans in congress is…

(and I’m not really sure there’s an answer to that.)

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unlike the others… I’m glad you took the safe option and skipped the fires fries.

I know it would have been perfect with the fries, though. only thing that’s not :)

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I am convinced “best dog” generally comes down to proximity. Both figuratively and then literally.

Never met a dog who wasn’t the best., at least in that moment.

Including one that kept trying to set me up with her human. Betsy was an ancient basset and wouldn’t leave our office building without saying goodbye. If I wasn’t in the office, she’d literally hunt me down. And if her human tried to pull a fast one, the entire building would hear Betsy howling bloody murder.

Her human is lesbian, but she’s a good friend now. All because Betsy’s ears caused immediate and uncontrollable giggling when the dog walked by.

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That’s the figurative part!

FuglyDuck,
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Is it posting? There should be led indicators that flash, usually an array of them. (The pattern as it lights up means stuff.) and if connected to a monitor, it should also flash some kind of boot screen. If it completes posting, it’ll at least go to bios. If the LEDs aren’t flashing at all…

the first step is to pull everything out and re-seat it. (Ram, gpu, power, etc.)

Start with seating the power sockets (to mobo, the minimum needed RAM, cpu and cpu fan (connected to cpu_fam header; usually next to the cpu).

Side note on ram, if it’s dual-channel or more, it matters where the ram goes. Consult your manual.

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It’s not the burgers fault. That’s just a really small car.

FuglyDuck,
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Rule one of court- don’t piss off the judge.

Dumbass.

FuglyDuck,
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Not to well-actually you, but there’s no archeological evidence to suggest the entire flight-from-Egypt thing actually happened.

Israelites, as a whole, were never enslaved by Egypt and never wandering through the desert. There probably were refugees absorbed that came up from Egypt, which creates the stories that then became part of the collective psyche, but it was a relative handful.

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Gutierrez-Reed was likely specifically hired because she was inexperienced. Movie sets are chaotic, the work is fast paced and rushed, and safety protocols slow things down. As they say: Time is money. She may not have specifically been hired by Baldwin, but she wasn’t really in a position to push back against it. (she should have, and she’s every bit as negligent.)

However, Baldwin has had a long, long acting career, much of it handling firearms. He- as a professional actor- should have known what the protocols should have been, and should have said something like “hey, you’re not the armorer”, when Dave Halls handed him the pistol.

What a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding is that more than one person can be responsible. Gutierrez-Reed, Halls, Baldwin were all negligent in a variety of ways.

The simplest of ways to have prevented this was to not be using a functional fire arm. There are movie props that are near-perfect replicas (and, on film, would look perfect.) without being capable of firing. This is particularly true considering they weren’t doing live shoots. they were doing blocking, which is a process by where they set up the cameras and check for issues. One of the issues they should have been looking for is, “is this a safe direction to point the gun”.

if you need any more reason to realize you can’t ever assume a firearm, or any other weapon, is “100% safe”, I suggest you give Anna Hutchin’s family a call.

as for his “headspace” do you really think it’s normal for actors to be totally, completely and wholly unaware of what they’re doing? that in fight scenes they’re actually fighting, rather than following a script in perfect choreography? that they’re allowed to not pay attention to safety? No. Every one is always most concerned with safety. Or they should be. yes. that includes the actors.

FuglyDuck,
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Method acting has its draw backs and one of them is safety.

“That’s just how actors are” is a shitty, pathetic excuse for putting other people at risk.

Particularly when that risk is from a weapon fundamentally designed to kill people, and it certainly doesn’t absolve anyone of criminal liability.

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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A little curious as to how you make 2-3 pounds of sword-shaped steel “safe”.

It doesn’t matter if it’s not sharp. It’s still going to brain a person if they get hit the wrong way, and any one older than a 10 yo would recognize that the moment they picked it up.

So if your hypothetical weapons master were to say “no no really, it’s safe, just hit them upside the head,” as a rational adult you kinda have to stop and think about it.

And again? My suspicious nature says they hired her specifically because she was inexperienced, and wouldn’t know to push for those more strident safety protocols. Which cost time and energy and get in the way of “artistic” shit.

Knowing that, and knowing that there were prior incidents of accidental discharges… you’d have to be an idiot for taking these people’s word that it was safe.

(Wasn’t Hutchins organizing the Union to strike because of those safety problems? I also dont think it was an accident, but I don’t have more than my gut feeling on that.)

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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Lying about witnesses accusing you is bad enough. But they’re well known to blatantly lie about things like what the law actually is, or sentencing or how good a deal you can get for confessing.

The worst part is the final deal is up to the judge, usually following the recommendations of the prosecution- not cops.

Most of their games are curtailed significantly even having an incredibly shitty public defender. (Don’t mean to rag on them. They’re fighting the good fight. But they’re over worked and spread too thin. A public defender is never going to compare to a private attorney- never mind an entire legal team. Just saying even the absolute worst legal aid you can think of is going to stop most of it.)

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