HelixDab2 @ HelixDab2 @lemm.ee

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100%? No. When you put people in situations where they're entirely segregated by the sex they were assigned at birth, people tend to take same-sex partners even though they would not consider themselves to be gay or bisexual. On the other hand, my guess is that most people probably round up; e.g., if it's very, very rare for them to be interested in someone that's the same gender, they probably think of themselves as being straight.

Arkansas black is one of my favorites, because it dries/dehydrates so very, very well. It tastes like apple-flavored candy when you're done with it.

I haven't been able to find it aside from once, three years ago. :(

If this was in Idaho, odds are pretty good that most of the people at that meeting are Nazis.

Chili over rice---esp. something with more flavor, like Jasmine rice--is pretty good, TBH. I always put beans in my chili, because I know that every time I do it, a Texan dies.

And yeah, that's pretty much the way cats are now, so, no change.

I couldn't even make a semi-coherent claim as to how Alito, Thomas, Goresuch, Barret, and Kavanaugh (with Roberts tagging along) would toss that out, without also tossing out a ton of other stuff. Then again, Those six justices haven't always been making coherent arguments for their ideologically-aligned decisions, so...?

When looking at firearm homicides specifically, in terms of raw numbers (not rate), the low point was 2014, during Obama's second term. It started to move upwards in '15 and '16, prior to Trump taking office, and continued increasing at the same pace through '17. We see the first real sharp jump in '18, but then an equally sharp decline in '19, back to levels on par with Obama's last year in office, followed the next year by another sharp increase. Interestingly, Biden's 2nd year as president (2022) had the most number of firearm homicides in, I dunno, 30-odd years?

We'd been on a long, downward trend in homicides since '92. It's not clear to me what caused the rate to begin to head back up. I don't think that Obama, Trump, or Biden can realistically be directly blamed for the bulk of it, although a small number of homicides at the margins might be more directly related to them (e.g., Trump encourages racial violence, and so a small number of homicide might be due to his tacit support). I don't think that it's directly related to economics either, because the economy that Obama inherited when he took office in 2009 had been wrecked by the housing bubble crash; it it was directly related to economics, then I would have thought that gun violence would be peaking around '09 or '10. I guess it could be a lagging indicator though? (...But there is a sharp increase in '20, when the pandemic gets really bad and unemployment hits record highs.)

Again, keep in mind that these are homicides, and not suicides. firearm suicides still make up the majority of deaths caused by firearms in the US.

OTOH, I understand what you mean about feeling less safe under Trump, even if there wasn't an immediate spike in gun homicides. I know a lot of people--esp. LGBTQ+ people--are feeling very unsafe with Trump in the White House right now, and I believe that they're right to feel unsafe and at-risk.

2013-ish? My ex-spouse was really into that. They went on to get certified, I did my 3rd or 4th solo jump (still had main and reserve coaches, but not a tandem jump), and decided that it didn't mean enough to me to keep spending money on it. My ex-spouse ended up embezzling a lot of money from our joint account to pay for their jumping habit; they bought a container, main and reserve canopies, and a custom jumpsuit, and then tried to to stick me with the credit card debt for it in the divorce.

Banning interracial marriage

Banning? No, probably not; Thomas' wife is white. (As is Thomas, aside from his skin color.) OTOH, they'll probably say that it's up to the states to allow it or not, and whether or not they want to respect the interracial marriages performed by other states.

A CBS News poll last week found voters are giving Trump high marks for his first month in office.

Uh. Polling for the week of 16-22 February shows that he has a net disapproval rating a few points higher than his net approval rating. For a president barely out of the first month of their presidency, that's a historic low. This is likely to drop even more as inflation increases, and prices also increase; prices must increase to absorb the cost of tariffs, and that's been a cornerstone of his economic policy agenda.

I got to see them the last time I was at the Atlanta Aquarium. I highly recommend it.

It doesn't matter how many times people post stuff like this, Mint Press News is no more credible than One America News. The only real difference is that one is pushing propaganda from the left (-ish, since Russia ain't exactly left), and the other is pushing propaganda from the right.

I would suggest not charging her to live there, as you own the place; that might feel excessively transactional. Perhaps what would be most reasonable is to split bills proportionally after you've paid your mortgage. If, for example, your mortgage alone was 2000 Euro, you earned 6000 Euro a month, and she earned 4700 Euro a month, you would say that your income was 4000 Euro to her 4700 Euro, and that the split should be about 46% (your share) to 54% (her share).

It sounds like potential guards have to have combat experience or significant police experience. So it's probably not something the average person is going to be able to do.

OTOH, a single bodyguard mercing their protectee would nuke the whole company, which would be pretty funny.

...Or one of the guards has a family member kidnapped and held unless they oopsie, looked the wrong way.

There's no point in living, but make sure you take a couple of the bastards with you when you go down.

Um. I think it's pretty easy to understand, but it's all a meta-narrative with an unreliable narrator.

The narrative devices are quite ingenious.

Just FYI, it's compliment. Complement means that things go together well, like peanut butter and chocolate. E.g., "The cut of your suit complements your figure."

I don't think that's correct. Most raptors are, I believe, regulated due to their conservation status. E.g., AFAIK, the only people that can legally kill raptors are people that belong to certain Native American tribes; simple possession of things like hawk feathers that you picked up from roadkill can be a felony.

Pigeons in general aren't really at any kind of conservation risk

I tore the fuck out of my shoulder and had to have extensive repair surgery done. When I was talking to my physical therapist about a specific aspect of the repair, he said that they tended to do that with "older" people.

Ouch.

Also, I guess that my goal of looking like 2016 Rich Piana has now morphed to looking like 2018 Rich Piana. :(

It seems to depend. If I have my location set to within the US, I can usually access the top level post without a problem, but I can't see any comments. If I set location to Europe---usually Switzerland, since they have good privacy laws--then I can't access the site at all. If I set it to old.reddit.com with location set to the US, I can see comments, except for anything that's been labelled as NSFW; those require me to log in.