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I heard the stat as "firearm discharges in a school," which struck me as being a bit contrived, but still not exactly a good thing. Regardless of what's being shot or why, there really shouldn't be any sort of shooting going on at a school (rifle clubs aside, which are a tightly controlled exception that can't in any way be compared to the statistic cited here).
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yutterh posted...

It's not really an eye for a eye approach in my opinion.

Any time you talk about "deserving" a consequence, that's a matter of vengeance. If you want to justify a consequence, ground it in practicality, not vindictiveness.
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gravy posted...

Also, the recent Florida shooting specifically happened because the FBI weren't doing their jobs to stop this event from happening.

As damning as "FBI investigated Cruz saying he was going to shoot up a school" sounds, it's not actually realistic to have expected them to follow through on that. If the FBI conducted a full investigation every time some edgelord suggested they'd commit a school shooting online, nothing else would ever get done. They have finite resources, and that means they have to triage threats based on how credible they seem. As with any triage, some things that turn out to be serious are going to slip through the cracks. That's just inevitable.

Could the FBI have intervened? Maybe. But getting them to a point where they could do so reliably would require far more of a surveillance state than most would find acceptable, even in the name of preventing tragedies like this.
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Full Throttle posted...

The graffiti looked like someonw as interrupted while writing "ISIS is coming" as it only said "Comi"

Poor ISIS. Premature ejactulation's not fun.
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Mellifluous.
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Kimbos_Egg posted...

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Kimbos_Egg posted...

Breaks FASCISTS arm!

I see nothing about dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, or control of industry and commerce in this article.

wake up, sheeple.

Cowple*
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Blighboy posted...

I just looked that up, apparently it was an attack by 8 people? I think that kind of undermines it as a common deflection point after school shootings.

I remember there was one around the same time as Sandy Hook that everyone pointed to as being an indication that guns aren't the real problem, except for the part where the knife attack didn't actually kill anyone. 'Twas a mighty whoosh, that one.
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Ogurisama posted...

I thought Ziggi was saying there was a trans checking out his ass or something

This story disappointed me

thatsthejoke.jpg
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Full Throttle posted...

they draw similarities between banning guns because of shootings to banning cars because of road accidentss.

Which is actually a decent pro-gun control analogy. Cars don't get banned because of road accidents, but people who use cars irresponsibly (or are otherwise incapable of driving safely) do have the privilege of driving taken away from them. Nobody gets up in arms about that, why get so uppity about applying similar restrictions to guns?

LinkPizza posted...

But isn't it kinda true that those lunatics would still be able to get guns. I mean, if they try hard enough, they could probably still get one.

Yes and no. Most arguments along that line are very short-sighted, and look only at what would happen if guns were suddenly made illegal and every law-abiding citizen turned theirs in. In practice, every single illegally-obtained gun was obtained legally at some point. If you cut off the legal supply, the illegal supply will also be cut off, making it so prohibitively difficult to get one that the vast majority of criminals won't be able to (and those that can aren't people the average Joe would be able to defend themselves against anyway, because they're going to be the more serious criminals with some kind of organized backing).

Obviously, it's not that simple. That would be a long-term trickle-down effect, and there'd need to be a massive push of anti-gun enforcement to get the existing supply of illegal guns off the streets before disarming the people who need them for self-defense. But fundamentally, if there are no legal guns, there won't be any illegal guns either. That's just common sense.
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Solid Sonic posted...

I like how the farmer somehow feels insulted enough by the incident to want the cow shot dead, as if being turned into edible meat is too good for it now.

Yeah, I did have to laugh a bit at that. It'd be one thing if it were a danger to people, but it sounds like he's just butthurt.
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Zeus posted...

That's not going into the fact that this is a first-time depiction of race for one continuity whereas another continuity has 50+ years of depicting characters as being a different race

You heard it here, folks: Norse gods have been depicted for 50+ years as being exclusively white, while Egyptian gods have never been depicted as anything other than white prior to the 2016 film.
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PMarth2002 posted...

That question doesn't make any sense unless you see the world only in black/white.

Which really isn't surprising, given the TC's prior posts.
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DrPrimemaster posted...

I dont know why people hate the lootboxes so much. It funds free content

Nintendo seems to be doing an okay job of supplying free content for Splatoon 2 and ARMS without resorting to mobile game monetization schemes. Maybe Blizzard should ask Nintendo for advice on making online games?
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Scloud posted...

Thats my suggestion, force people to work would also work to even earn a single penny.

That tends to result in people resorting to crime whenever they can't find a job. It's not a good system.
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Remember when this guy would use alts to make his topics seem less deserted and sad? That was funny.
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Zeus posted...

tbh, I don't know what they *thought* was going to happen >_> Granted, the income might make up for it.

Probably does. I can't imagine they made a lot of money off of downloads, given that their audience is the least likely one to click on any ads they would have on their site.
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I miss Brawl in the Family. That was a fun webcomic.

I have nothing more to contribute to this topic.
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Muscles posted...

It's a slippery slope, you don't wanna set a precedent of taking away rights from the constitution,

Yeah, it's not like there's any precedent for making amendments to the constitution according to the needs of the present era or anything.
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The standard I've always heard is to dress one notch more formally for the interview than you expect to for the job. Defining that's pretty tricky, since formality isn't exactly clearly quantized like that, but I'd say that if you don't expect to wear a tie on the job, wear what you would on the job, with a tie added.
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It's less that you made a topic to ask an easily-answerable question and more than the topic's gone on for over 30 posts without anyone answering the easily-answerable question because they're too busy either being edgelords or making baseless guesses.
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https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-by-the-numbers

Man, if only this were a question for which there's extensive epidemiological data available with a simple google search. That'd be nice.
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You heard it here, folks: Thinking that obsessing about video game asses is weird means you're a brainless, politically correct sheep.
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Horungen posted...

MonsterZed posted...

God is this another account for the same guy that no one likes?

>caring what other people think about you
Weak

Pretty sure it's called "manners," actually. Deliberately acting in a manner that you know everyone around you dislikes is just being a dick. Nothing strong about it.
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The thickness of the pancake is a consequence of how much the batter's own weight is able to squish itself over the course of the cooking, which is going to be unchanging within any given batch. The only way to make a pancake thicker without changing the batter's consistency would be to pour it into some kind of mold that prevented it from expanding horizontally. The only way to make it thinner would be to spread it out (the extreme of this being crepe-making, though obviously that's starting with a much thinner batter than most pancakes).
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Jen0125 posted...

adjl posted...

Jen0125 posted...

i guess he was just freezing cold.

Jen0125 posted...

30 degree milk.

This confused me, but then I remembered Americans don't use real degrees.

we use freedom degrees

Freedom from science actually working.
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Jen0125 posted...

i guess he was just freezing cold.

Jen0125 posted...

30 degree milk.

This confused me, but then I remembered Americans don't use real degrees.
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slacker03150 posted...

I don't want to have toll roads all over town I need to keep coins for.

If there were that many toll roads, there'd be some kind of pass system that meant people didn't need to keep coins around or stop every five feet.
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I'm not getting roses, but I am going to be making homemade chocolate-dipped lavender marshmallows this weekend (they have to set overnight, and the weekend's far more conducive to that than last night would have been). I also stuck a bunch of little heart-shaped notes in her lunch tupperwares for her to be surprised by later. You should be more creative in your gifts.
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Troll_Police_ posted...

did you guess exclusively guys with mutilated genitals?

That does account for like 70% of American men, so...
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I'd guess it's probably a few specific configurations that have troubles, which isn't unheard of. If they're just porting a game, companies often don't do the in-depth compatibility testing they ought to.
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Zikten posted...

it would be possible to not even have waiters.

Eh, not really. It's important to have a barrier between kitchen staff and customers so that kitchen staff can do their jobs with minimal interruption (and anyone who's ever worked in customer service can tell you that they would be interrupted by the sort of person who doesn't understand that "the customer is always right" is actually insulting them). It's also significantly more efficient to only have a few people going up to the counter to place orders than to have every single person at every single table doing so, since that allows some degree of coordination that customers won't have.
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Zikten posted...

I don't get what shooting a gun has to do with winter.

People hunt in winter too.
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By some. Ironically, "hearing impaired" was intended as a more polite, inclusive term than "deaf."
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Go_Totodile posted...

Talk to your girlfriend like a fucking mature adult. Cheaters deserve zero fucking respect. Might as well break up with her if this is going to be your attitude.

That. If you've got a problem with a relationship (of any sort), talk about it with the other people in the relationship. If you can't find a compromise, move on.
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Yeah, they never actually explained the overkill bonus in-game, to my knowledge. Maybe something about getting more rewards, but I figured that was loot, not the exp reward.
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Izzythewinner posted...

pretty much half of every user here hates doing things with people

-The wording of the poll states that 54% of voters prefer to play games alone, not that they hate playing games with anyone else
-The poll is specifically about playing games, and says nothing about any other activities
-There isn't really a third point, but this post just looks better with three bullets
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It does make sense that they structure it that way, but I do wish they did a better job of introducing mechanics, in particular letting us see the tutorials again later. I had to google Fusion Combos because they were explained so briefly while I was also trying to learn about Blade Combos (which also weren't explained that well).
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Tezlok posted...

It wasn't until the past couple months that I noticed people calling them evil.

The incel subreddit was around for a few years, and it's always been a cesspool of insufferable douchemonkeys who are one bad date away from a murder spree.
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likehelly posted...

i said robins

not generic birb

likehelly posted...

birb is dumb

*Moonwalks away*
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1812 isn't an opera.

Conceptually, it's an alright idea, but the variety of instruments needed to simulate entire orchestras wouldn't really be viable. Even Rock Band had some resistance to the idea of having to own two guitars, a drum kit, and a microphone to get the full experience; much more than that would never be able to gain traction. Just focusing on vocals could work, though.
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The incel subreddit considered Eliot Todger to be be somewhat of a hero, which should tell you everything you need to know about them.
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Sahuagin posted...

seems to be a lot of overlap, many are just rephrasing the same things

That's the general impression I have. They're all minor variants on the same handful of core concepts, such that giving all of them specific labels is just unnecessary. Even more so where many of those labels aren't particularly self-evident, so you end up describing what you mean in terms of broader concepts anyway.
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likehelly posted...

can a Robin talk?

can it operate machinery, use tools, reason?

Crows can. And to a lesser extent, pigeons. Pigeons are actually better than humans at the Monty Hall problem.
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It'll hit a critical point where only a tiny handful of individual services are actually sustainable, causing the others to collapse and be bought out by more successful companies. I figure that cycle will continue pretty much endlessly until a new distribution paradigm emerges. Streaming won't die unless it's replaced.
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Welcome back. Glad you're doing better.
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Foppe posted...

Homosexuality is natures way to prevent overpopulation.

Evolution doesn't really care about overpopulation. The more plausible explanation I've heard for homosexuality is that, in a society (most of whom will be related to some extent or another, so kin selection will be at work), it's highly beneficial to have a small number of individuals without children to help raise other children. You see the same thing more broadly with other altruistic traits in other species: altruistic individuals are themselves less fit than selfish ones, evolutionary speaking, but overall populations tend to be fittest with somewhere in the range of 10-20% of their individuals being altruistic.

Basically, from an evolutionary standpoint, gay people exist so your gay uncle is free to babysit you because he doesn't have his own kids.
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Jen0125 posted...

if her first time doing anal only hurt "a little" it probably wasn't her first time

Depends what she's done to work up to it. First time having anal sex=/=first time having something up yer booty.
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Grendel posted...

Zeus posted...

Good luck finding a gypsy at a NY public school....

They'll pick a darker skinned (than the white girl) non-gypsy minority and the irony of that racism will be lost on them.

Pretty much. You're going to have a whole lot of difficulty getting appropriate demographic representation for tinier minorities in a high school, and just picking anyone else who isn't white is flagrantly racist in its own right. It's also worth noting that these it's not like they got any gypsies to voice Esmerelda in the movie.
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ExtremeM65 posted...

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Watching those rocket stages reenter and land synchronized was possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen.

This is what I was talking about, IDFK what you all are on about with cars and shit. Don't elaborate though because I really do and just don't care.

The payload was a Tesla car with a dummy in it. It doesn't really demonstrate all that much as far as payload size goes, given that the rocket's maximum capacity could probably have handled a couple dozen such cars without breaking a sweat, but it was pretty amusing.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Six people were arrested

You call that a riot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot

Here, learn how to lose at sportsball from a real country.
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