Drusas

It was Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Heavily blue areas closely surrounded by heavily right areas.

It was a lot less rapey in the show than in the book. Still rapey, though, yes

I really think a gun safety class should be required to own a firearm. However, I also see how that would violate the second amendment (by making it harder for those of lesser means to exercise their right to own a weapon because they do not have the same resources available to take a class).

I think that as long as we have the second amendment, we should be offering taxpayer-funded firearm safety courses in all states. And requiring them.

Gun storage requirements vary dramatically from one state to the next.

As an American gun owner, I would not give them the benefit of the doubt. There’s no reason they couldn’t have secured their weapon or–even better–not had one in the house where their mentally troubled son lived. There’s absolutely no excuse for him having had access to that firearm.

I agree that the company shares some blame, but ultimately it comes down to the fact that they gave this kid access to a gun, knowing full well that he had mental health issues.

This is a really sad story, but it’s also a story of parental neglect. Why did this kid with mental health issues have unrestricted internet access? Why did he have access to his stepfather’s gun?

Those aren’t the fault of some chatbot.

Something is really wrong if you need to lock up your kitchen knives.

Also, in the books, her first night with Khal Drogo is him raping her.

That person was reporting their experience. It’s not false that they have not seen it. I haven’t, either.

Yep. I first encountered it circa 2004 when I was in a Japanese language school in Japan, almost every single one of my fellow students was from China, and they got very antsy about anything critical being mentioned. One of them even took me aside once to explain that if she were to say something bad about the government, it could be dangerous. She did not elaborate and I never brought it up again.

Well yeah, they’ve been doing this for decades.

You sure can make things cheaply if you use slave labor.

I’m not willing to have to reduce my power usage so someone else can live in a desert. If it’s uninhabitable, people shouldn’t live there.

MTV Unplugged is something that really should have been saved.

I guess it’s all YouTube and TikTok videos these days, but I’d still like to watch a whole show like that all in one go, like we used to back when we had to watch these things on MTV or buy them on VHS.

It’s a different experience.

She also has a prior conviction for intentionally spreading COVID.

Shortly after I returned to the States from Fukushima (a little bit after the disaster), I was taking an emergency response course on radioactivity. Everybody there got to use a Geiger counter on themselves and their belongings and various things in the room. The only thing that set it off was the purse I had brought back with me.

Anecdotal, obviously, and it wasn’t highly radioactive, but I did get rid of the purse.

Orange baby crying because now everyone’s* seeing what a pathetic loser he is.

*Obviously not his dedicated deplorables.

There are lots of them. They just struggle to make it out of the local sphere and onto the national stage.

I taught a bunch of Gen Zers back when they were in high school. None of them knew how to type well, and it was a rarity that any of them knew how to type at all. I was supposed to teach them things like Microsoft Office, but we had to start with typing and basic PC usage before we could move on to something as complicated as MS Word.

This is what happens when people don’t use computers and instead just use cell phones.

Oh man, I would kill to see The Offspring, especially if they were playing some of their real classics.