American, white, liberal, redneck gun nut here. If you’re talking about “defund the police”, that’s yet another idiot liberal slogan that misses the mark. The idea is to take police funds and pay for workers who can handle situations police should never have been sent to. Want to kill yourself? Call the cops!

The far right loves cops because cops are on their side, or are perceived to be. To put it bluntly, guns are for shooting marauding black people, not white people. See all the stories about white people being shocked when law enforcement doesn’t go their way? Yeah.

Also, I suspect people who are anti-gun have never had violence inflicted upon them, or cops who are far away, or haven’t had a bear wander in the dog door, or haven’t had an enraged redneck struggling to be polite because they’re visibly armed. In related news, my MAGA neighbor came stomping down here to kick my ass, turned right the fuck around when I went inside for my .45.

I could write all night on the subject, but let me leave it at this: Now is not the fucking time for Americans to disarm themselves. The only reason fascists haven’t run us completely over is that they know there will be a real chance we’ll fucking kill them. Look where the ICE raids are happening, in the places where guns are the most suppressed.

Yes, this all sucks, but it’s where we’re at in America.

American here. My nearest grocery store is 68x that far.

Talking to a good friend 20 years ago, very smart guy, and he was thinking we already artificial gravity.

Every one I’ve seen or replaced was just that. No idea what the wax thing is about so I looked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_thermostatic_element

OP’s right!

Fax is too simple to completely die.

OP in the Precambrian

Sometimes it’s a good sign, at least in politics. The 99-1 Senate vote to kill the anti-AI-law ban of the latest bill was telling. Same goes for unanimous SCOTUS decisions. If both liberals and conservatives overwhelmingly agree on a thing, it’s almost certainly a good call.

Then donate time and money to Habitat for Humanity. They’re the only reason I own a home.

in minecraft that is

https://www.unicornsrule.com/wp-content/uploads/unicorn-deer.jpg

Alabama is 70% forest, beautiful to travel the back highways. Judging by the forestry activity I see, they must supply a huge chunk of lumber for the region.

Many, if not most, of the small towns are surprisingly nice, but the wealth gap is on full display. Not a fan of the big cities. Mobile and Birmingham are gross all around.

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Showed a coworker that while he was training me.

“OK, right-click on that and…”

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Why have I not been doing this?! Just removed the “2 years old” .world banner.

This one has always struck me as spot on for IT. I’m between neutral and chaotic good.

Any Molly Ringwald character, but Pretty in Pink was the GOAT role.

Even in Florida, even in tiny lakes and swamps, the water is plenty cool under the top 2’.

Hah! Terry Pratchett could have run with that.

Granny Weatherwax: “What’s wrong with your ball thingie? Looks leaky.”

Magrat: “Oh! I got it from Boffo Novelty and Joke Shop (No. 4, Tenth Egg Street, Ankh-Morpork). It’s supposed to be a top-of-the-line scrying ball!”

Weatherwax: “You got swindled you wet hen. That’s a crying ball if I ever sees one.”

Nanny Oog: “Now Granny, give young Magrat a break. Here honey, have a shot of this. Always puts me right on top of the world! And sometimes on the bottom, which is just as well.”

Weatherwax: “I can’t be havin’ with you two. Goats need fed.” (jump starts her crappy broom)

“The enemy’s gate is down.”

The side with the seam is down.

That’s what I was thinking. My wife would be benevolent but politically clueless, making me the real dictator.