PrinceWith999Enemies @ PrinceWith999Enemies @lemmy.world

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And let me guess - they also declined the federal Medicaid expansion and probably don’t have great social services to start with, right?

Oh, I know. It’s not necessarily a crime, although I wouldn’t recommend it without reading what actions specifically would trigger those laws. It’s the wording of the laws that I’d want to be comfortable with.

But morally speaking it’s not even a grey area. It’s absolutely worse than just not tipping at all. If I were a restaurateur I’d ban this person on the first offense, no questions asked.

I’m not positive about that. Possessing obviously fake money is not a crime, but passing it off as if it were real money in a transaction itself may constitute a crime. Back before sensors became more sophisticated, I had a friend who used photocopied bills (which were obviously fake) in subway token machines, and he got into some trouble for it.

Many police departments in the US are explicitly trained to treat encounters with people as potential combat situations. They get taught lessons like “Your first job is to go home alive.” It’s continually drilled into them how dangerous their job is, even though that’s not statistically true. This obligates you to treat an encounter with an officer as a potentially life threatening situation.

If your window isn’t working, do not open your door. Police regularly approach a traffic stop prepared for a violent confrontation, sometimes going so far as resting their hand on their firearm.

I worked on a military base for a while, where each vehicle was stopped to show ID badges. The right approach is to say (and mime - eg point at the window, point down, and shake your head “no”) that your window isn’t working. They’ll probably take a step back and tell you to open the door.

It’s wrong, it needs to change, but until it does we need to adapt our behaviors to fit the situations we are put into.

… while flying confederate flags

You probably should have taken an English class, then.

It’s a dead man’s party

Who could ask for more?

I think it’s an interesting idea, and that it could lead you and your party to explore some points of view that you might not otherwise get to really think about.

Your idea is making me think of the Asperger's community, as that’s the one I have the most familiarity with. Some mage class maybe.

If you want to do it right - that is, really use it as a learning experience - I would say read the bios of people like John von Neumann, Murray Gell-Mann, John Nash, and most especially Paul Erdos. These were some of the most brilliant mathematicians of our time (Murray was the guy who discovered quarks). George Price, too, although that one is pretty sad.

I am going to say that it’s going to make it a burden on your party members, and you should do it with their buy in, not make it part of the plot line that they discover it. If they’re not aware of it as a character trait and if you play it to the extent exhibited by some of those I mentioned, you’re just going to come off as an asshole. It’s really going to make things harder on everyone if you do it right. It’s a spectrum, so some in. The community can end up building self-awareness and develop coming mechanisms, but that wouldn’t be the point of playing that role.

It’s a rainbow thing 🏳️‍🌈

The worst was the in-universe explanation for why all of the aliens are shaped like humans. That was just cartoonishly bad. I mean, I get it. There’s very few ways of casting actors that can play a sentient shade of blue.

But just leave it. You don’t have to explain it. We all know. You especially don’t have to explain it in a way that demonstrates no one involved had ever taken Bio 101.

This computer is illegal in Florida, Texas, and Russia.

Oh no, the last valuation I saw was one of the banks involved marked their investment down by about 80%, and that was before the X rebranding.

First off, I’m very sorry about your situation. It’s something no one should have to go through and I very much hope your situation improves. I hope you live in an area with social services that you can use, whether it’s job counseling, health care, or housing assistance.

However, I do want to point out is that veteran status is something companies cannot ask about. I’m a hiring manager for a large tech company, and as a California company we are explicitly forbidden to ask about vet status or health issues. I have to stick to questions about skill sets that are immediately applicable to the position I am trying to fill.

That said, there are a number of federal jobs that use a points based system for evaluating candidates, and being a vet can get you some additional points. Although your current situation might need to be addressed first, you’re also going to have an easier time getting a security clearance.

I’d also advise you to seek out resources for vets. The VA would be an obvious place to start for healthcare (physical and mental, and they do have counseling services with staff who will be familiar with your situation). I know they can be a pain in the ass to work with and they’re overburdened and underfunded, but it’s be a start. There’s also private groups, both online and real world, who might be able to help with finding opportunities, making recommendations, giving advice, and giving emotional support. Online communities will be easier to find, but local groups will be able to give you more specific advice.

Best of luck, man. I hope anything I said might help.

It just makes me happy that the ramp is compliant with regulations. I’ve seen some pretty shitty ramps.

I grew up with guns, I’ve owned a lot of them myself, and I have both shot and been shot at in a professional capacity when my government sent me to a place with some very angry people in it. I even owned a Glock and a Remington and a Mossberg and those black rifles with two letter names. I owned a Ruger and a 1911 style .45. If I did feel the need for a gun to defend my home, I’d jump through the hoops to get an HK MP5SD because it fires subsonic and is easier to control, as well as easier on the ears when you’re firing inside. My favorite handgun caliber is the .45 ACP, because it has less snap than the 9mm and I find I am more accurate with it. I also qualified as Marksman with rifle and Expert with pistol, and I was on my high school’s pistol team.

So, I also know a bit about guns. Thanks for asking!

I ended up a research scientist, and wound up working on modeling public health and healthcare systems, so I can also talk about guns from a social and a semiotic perspective. Both are actually quite fascinating. My first undergrad degree was in military history, so I can talk about the development of firearms over time and how the different innovations changed the nature of warfare. I can talk about why American people think they need guns, and why the rest of the developed world thinks those ideas are utterly deranged.

I could go on all night about it, but I doubt either of us would convince the other.

They’re the people who, when filling out a form asking for their ethnicity, cross out all the options and write in “American.” It’s been many years, but I did read several papers on this issue when I was working with semiotics. It’s a bigger phenomenon in the South (“American by birth, Southern by the grace of god”) and the Midwest.

And I didn’t mean to imply that they were all racists, just that there’s a known correlation that has been studied by sociologists. I also didn’t mean to imply that they’re the only racists. Hell, I’ve been to Boston…

At one point, lawmakers compared the tech companies to cigarette makers.

Ironically, the republicans did everything in their power to protect cigarette makers, alcohol companies, soda companies, and the gun industry, and want to bring back child labor.

Works for me in Voyager for iPhone.

Americans are prone to doing this because they see Irish/Polish/italian/Greek/whatever as an ethnicity and not just a nationality. It’s like a Jew is Jewish even if they’re atheists who have never gone to temple.

The reason is that “American” isn’t an ethnicity. It’s only a nationality. The US population simply has too much heterogeneity for most to consider themselves as belonging to an ethnic group called “American.” Leaving aside the native Americans, who obviously should have first claim to being called Americans but who also come from a diverse range of cultures, the closest thing to a purely American ethnicity would be the African American population, but that’s because of some very bad reasons.

And as far as there are people who do call themselves ethnic Americans, they’re often white nationalists who you probably wouldn’t want to see anyway.

This may be the most poorly written article I’ve ever read. It’s completely unintelligible.

It must have been written by a really poorly trained LLM and just posted without anyone having looked at it. Forget artificial intelligence - this is artificial stupidity.