bricklove @ bricklove @midwest.social

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The George Floyd protests were outliers and the bigger picture shows that Tennessee is one of the most violent states in the country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate.

Even if you look at homicides per county, violence in TN is pretty widespread: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Granted, Washington state's homicides look fairly evenly distributed there but the worst areas are outside of Seattle. Also, based on your description of TN I'd expect it to look like Illinois where most homicides occurs in specific areas of Chicago

Where did you see that it was a bolt action rifle? I couldn't find any real details on the weapons used. I'm looking for sensible gun policies to advocate for in the US and a mass shooting with a bolt action refutes my "limit the rate of fire" idea.

Most of Battlefield Earth is shot diagonally and no one has complained about that fine film

I thought the F 35 was kind of a flop. Not doubting you. I don't keep up with modern military stuff (more of sword nerd) and I just remember hearing it was a money pit

It's weird that high rate of fire and large magazine capacities aren't mentioned because that is by far the deadliest aspect of modern firearms. Hand guns have both of those and are responsible for much more violent crime. Muzzle velocity, range, and accuracy describe most hunting rifles. I'd rather someone shoot 1 round of 50 cal per second from a 5 round magazine than 10 rounds of 9mm per second from a 30 round magazine.

Not German enough, needs more unnecessary capital letters

These restaurants keep my cousins' reclaimed wood furniture business alive.

The IDF must really love killing Palestinians. They can't even stop for a few days. They need an intervention

I can attest to this. I never actually read the A Song of Ice and Fire books but I know that world like it's my own.

Meanwhile I'm hauling big chunks of wood I found on the side of the road in the trunk of my Corolla

I was born in America and had to do absolutely nothing to be better off than at least 3 billion people. I'm very lucky and this system is completely unfair

It's from one of them Laconian magnetar-class battleships

I yeet. I yote. I have yeen.

It comes from Latin iactare meaning "to cast". Over time the c was dropped as French evolved and the i shifted to a y consonant and we get yeter. Once it was borrowed into English it further changed as the -er was dropped and short e became a long ee following the great vowel shift.

I am lying but most of those bits are facts and I'm actually describing the etymology of jet. Also the proto Indo European ye is hilariously uncanny.

I feel this whole case is everything wrong with the justice system (aside from him actually facing consequences). A corrupt cop with a history of violence gets attacked in an overpopulated and understaffed prison where folks are punished instead of rehabilitated.

According to this I use Debian but my lack of audio, menu bar, and file browser says otherwise

I've been away awhile but I haven't been using reddit either which is probably the best outcome tbh

It's weird how the babies are just scaled down adults and don't have baby features like big eyes

Is that a Flooko painting for the background?

If you want go old school, you can say wereman and woman. English used to do this but the were- prefix fell out of use aside from werewolves and their werecousins