dogslayeggs

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dogslayeggs,

17 is not a child. 17 year olds can get legally married and have kids. 17 year olds can hold full time jobs. 17 year olds can be tried as adults for crimes.

And yeah, I’m sure as fuck going to blame him here. He’s not a victim! His loved ones are the victims. I’ve been 17 before. I remember my level of stupidity and the level of those around me. We were dumb as fuck. You know what we didn’t do? Point guns at our heads. I didn’t grow up with guns and had only shot a gun one time by the time I was 17, and I knew to never point a gun at my head.

The only time I’ve seen someone point a gun at their head in person was a 19 year old dude in college who was looking down the barrel of his friend’s gun checking to see if it was loaded. We immediately yelled at him to stop and then lectured him about how dumb it was. He refused to believe he was in any danger even after multiple people lectured him. We tried to give him gun training after the fact, but he didn’t believe us.

It’s not his age. It’s not that he didn’t get safe gun training. He’s just a dumbass.

dogslayeggs,

Flying half-way around the world to attempt a coup with your son and his two buddies? Sounds like an awesome Tuesday activity.

dogslayeggs,

Empathy is the exact reason. Until they have first-hand experience with something, they will consistently stand firm on their own beliefs. Until it’s someone they know, it only affects “the wrong people.”

US airlines are suing the Biden administration over a new rule to make certain fees easier to spot (apnews.com)

U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process....

dogslayeggs,

I’m ignorant on how sales taxes work in other countries, but do they have variable rates based on not just what state but also what city you are in? The sales tax in Santa Monica (10.25%) is different from the sales tax in Beverly Hills (9.50%), and they are both within the city of Los Angeles.

dogslayeggs,

Remember when the slashdot effect was a thing that mattered?

dogslayeggs, (edited )

Jesus fucking christ, how the fuck does he not go to jail for that? Civil lawsuit isn’t nearly enough for that. Hell, aside from the clear assault that’s getting close to illegal confinement when he dragged her back to his hotel room.

EDIT: I just read the back-story to this. A) The crime is now past the statute of limitations, so the state can’t prosecute for it. B) The reason why the tape didn’t coming out before now is Sean Combs bought the tape from the hotel to prevent it from getting out. That just feels like obstruction of justice or something. It probably isn’t, though.

Jan. 6 Situation Room Officer Reveals Trump Fans ‘Came That Close’ To Murdering VP In Stunning New Interview (www.mediaite.com)

Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....

dogslayeggs,

I don’t really put much weight on Trump not calling down to Pence to check in on him. Trump only cares about himself and wouldn’t have called down regardless of what was happening. I do put a lot of weight in the unannounced change in security detail for Pence on the day of the insurrection. Pence was smart enough to turn down getting into a black car with a secret service person he didn’t know.

newsweek.com/pence-refusing-get-secret-service-ca…

dogslayeggs,

to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,” Siskel wrote.

Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” (www.theverge.com)

Arizona’s Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona’s...

dogslayeggs,

Ah, so dark as in evil, not dark as in low light. I hadn’t heard of that, but going through the darkpatterns.org website is basically a laundry list of shit I hate.

dogslayeggs,

I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 1999, so no I haven’t been paying attention.

dogslayeggs, (edited )

I hate Amazon probably more than most people in the world and have been boycotting them since roughly 1999, but… “dark patterns???”

EDIT: TIL a new term, and it refers to something I have hated for years.

California university president put on leave for ‘insubordination’ after meeting Gaza protesters’ demands (www.politico.com)

California State University placed Sonoma State campus President Mike Lee on leave Wednesday after he agreed to protesters’ demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel.

dogslayeggs,

I think it depends on whether investment choices is something the board normally weighs in on, but your point is good: if this were the other way around, I would probably feel the action was justified.

dogslayeggs,

OK, so you don’t agree with the anti-genocide people and decide not to divest from Israel, fine… but putting someone on leave for insubordination because they listened to reasonable requests to divert investments? That’s bullshit.

dogslayeggs,

NFL kicker has to be a really weirdly rough job. You don’t really do much work during the game and have far less risk of violent physical contact, but you have to practice your ass off outside the game because the kicking game has little margin for error. Your role is absolutely critical and can easily decide the outcome of almost every game, but nobody respects you and almost nobody knows your name unless you fuck up real bad. I used to be a huge NFL nerd but can only name three kickers: Pat McAfee because he’s a TV personality now, Sebastion Janikowski because of his name and how rotund he was, and Ray Finkle who isn’t even a real person just a movie kicker. I can’t even remember the name of the Hall of Fame kicker for the Pats and Colts who won many Super Bowls.

And yeah, nobody will give a shit if this shitstain goes away. Will the NFL, well-known for their respect for human rights and progressive views, actually do anything about it, though?

dogslayeggs,

Thank you, that was bugging me… just not enough to actually search it myself.

dogslayeggs,

I wonder if it 1L of pure venom worth $10M or 1L of medicine made from the pure venom. The processing might add to the cost per liter.

dogslayeggs,

I’m picturing in my head a farmer sitting on a wooden stool putting a little scorpion up on a platform to milk it and calling it Betsie.

dogslayeggs,

Reading up on the DREAM act is one of the most frustrating things you can do. It has been tried and failed a ridiculous number of times over the past few decades.

dogslayeggs,

Seems to work decently in most other leagues and tournaments. Maybe not perfectly, but better than before and WAY better than in the PL.

dogslayeggs,

This was a problem created by the refs in the PL, not by VAR. When La Liga is able to have a mostly non-controversial VAR with the likes of Hernandez Hernandez (who’s so bad you have to say his name twice), then it isn’t due to the quality of the refs. Even games in CONCACAF, which has to deal with CONCACAF refs AND players, is able to handle VAR fine. It’s weird how the biggest issues are from one league.

dogslayeggs,

Exactly this. The 2008 bubble bursting helped investors buy cheap. I was trying to buy in 2012 and kept getting under-bid and losing to cash offers from people who just let the house sit empty for a year or two before selling at a profit. The only way I was able to buy back then was finding a house owned by Fannie, which legally could only be sold to someone who lived in it as their primary residence.

The amount of money being stockpiled in the US (and around the world) is insane, so any major drop in housing prices means more investors will just buy it all up. And related: that’s also why I don’t see the bubble bursting. There are still people buying at insane prices with relatively high interest rates right now. There might be a slow down or a slight drop when those people finally get homes, but the bubble in 2008 was from subprime mortgages (not nearly as much of a thing now) and banks not lending (not a thing now). Even if banks got scared and stopped lending, the cash offers are still coming.

dogslayeggs,

While whale watching in Sea of Cortez, they were saying one small pod of juvenile orcas are straight up dicks. They will attack anything and everything, including taking down blue whales.

I can absolutely see this as hooliganism.

dogslayeggs,

Fingers crossed for ya, buddy.

dogslayeggs,

Spurs had some decent chances but just couldn’t get in. Great keeping on both sides.

dogslayeggs,

I read that this is being called the “Russia Law” or something like that. It’s a way for Russia to reduce western influence on Georgia by paying off politicians to silence orgs that aren’t Russia-friendly.

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