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  • So you need a strawman argument transitioning from loaning a weapon unsupervised to someone we know is depressed. Now it is just target shooting with them, so distancing the loan aspect and adding a presumption of using the item together.

    This is a side discussion. You are the one who decided to write strawman arguments relating guns to extension cords, so I thought it was reasonable to respond to that. It seems like you're upset that your argument doesn't make sense under closer inspection and you want to pull the ejection lever to escape. Okay, it's done.

    The article is about a civil lawsuit, nobody is going to jail. Nobody is going to be able to take a precedent and sue me, an individual, over sharing articles to friends and family, because the algorithm is a key part of the argument.

  • You're deliberately ignoring the point that the primary use of a semiautomatic pistol is killing people, whether self-defense or mass murder.

    Should you be culpable for giving your brother an extension cord if he lies that it is for the porch? Not really.

    Should you be culpable for giving your brother a gun if he lies that he needs it for self defense? IDK the answer, but it's absolutely not equivalent.

    It is a higher level of responsibility, you know lives are in danger if you give them a tool for killing. I don't think it's unreasonable if there is a higher standard for loaning it out or leaving it unsecured.

  • Someone else calculated that $1 million is about 30 years of the teaching salary. So you cannot retire on a career either.

    If I were forced to choose I'd take the $1 million up front over a low-paying career and let it grow in the market while I found other work to avoid using it. $1 million up front over $1.3 million across 40-some years is a very good investment. Consider the decreased value of future money.

  • It sure as hell wasn't strangers with evidence-based arguments that did it. I've seen plenty of cultists on reddit before I left. They are like brick walls and each fact is a rubber ball.

  • The problem is you have to give your SSN for legitimate employers as well. It is mind-bogglingly stupid that there's a magic number you have to keep secret and also have to give to everyone to participate in modern economy.

  • The missing link is to recognize that billionaires are citizens only technically. They have no interest in the well-being of their nation (or even their planet), nor are they subject to any of its laws.

  • America was basically the only industrialized country that hadn't been bombed to fuck. You had to be a clown to not succeed in that environment (or systemically oppressed, since opportunity in the US is always only for white people). Boomers took quality jobs making reliable products and moved those to low wage jobs making disposable products in China.

  • People sleepwalking through life is how we have a climate control subscription. A large enough boycott of all their cars would cure them of malfeasance for several years.

    This is why we have ads on all the streaming services now, and why we have a fuckload of streaming services instead of just one or two. This is why HP thinks they can do ink subscriptions.