This was a 10-minute slideshow and Andrew made the cut. :)

We had those in elementary school, along with corpses and a decapitated rhino. Maybe that explains Gen X.

One note, and not one to say we don’t have a gun problem. But when you tear it down, half the gun deaths are suicides, much of the rest is gang related, remainder being family and friends killing each other. The notion that there’s random shootings all over the place is false.

Notice what we report on! Brown people killing each other barely rates a blurb in local media, if any. AR-15 involved? ALL the reporting. Guy went bugshit in Maine, killed a bunch of people, no reporting on the weapon. (It was an AR-10, basically an AR-15.) Random violence gets headlines.

Most gun violence sites rate any shooting on school grounds as a “school shooting”. I could pop one off at midnight at the local high school. School shooting! Cop shoots a kid. School shooting! While horryfying, it just doesn’t happen as much as it’s made out. We had plenty of guns when I was a kid, no school shootings until Columbine popularized the sport.

I feel this gets the point across. You might notice the MotherJones numbers, hardly a conservative site.

Maybe I’ll contradict my earlier statement; America doesn’t have a gun problem, America has a culture problem. I can illustrate using a local anecdote.

Local guy sees someone breaking into the empty trailer which is on his lot. Motherfucker thought it was A-OK to hide inside the treeline and shoot the guy the next night. He felt within his rights to hunt another human being. People on NextDoor.com were defending the shooter. Well, the cops disagreed, that’s murder one.

Forgot the pepper spray thing! LOL fuck me that causes no tissue damage!

Yes, the law sounds very specifically written to allow a Victorinox full size. Was thinking on that writing my post. “Guess I could carry my Swiss?”

UK weapon laws freak my American mind out. You can carry a folding, non-locking knife with a blade of less than 3 inches, without any justification or excuse?! Is violent knife crime a thing over there?

This stupid thing blows my mind. All I see are a bunch of harmless pocket knives.

I know, bag on the American who can carry a gun. LOL, I could carry a sword in public were I so inclined, and I often carry a machete in the woods. Believe it or not, straight to jail.

To practical matters, how do y’all transport kitchen knives, axes and other tools? Serious. And think on this, if you intend harm or self-defense, why not just carry a standard 2lb. hammer?

Also, two of my worst self-inflicted wounds were from non-locking knives, won’t touch them any longer.

I was on 8 and just dropped to 4 yesterday.

I’d go with a 3M product. Unless their quality has suddenly taken a shit, they’re best in class for that kind of thing. You want quality film because removal is an awful pain.

You got me curious!

This looks like a start:

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/films-sheeting/window/light-control/

But then why is this a separate thing?

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/films-sheeting/window/window-insulation/

Anyway, there may be better brands. Do some digging first!

Y’all drink Thames water? That’s frightening.

That is some serious linguistic contortion. You’re going to pull a muscle.

Let’s call it an even 200 employees. That amounts to, rounded up, .003% of Meta’s staff of 74,067. Do with that info what you will

Solid answer! Guess I’m a cow patty for even asking, but you came to the rescue.

Why was the US funding FOSS projects? That strikes me as weird, inappropriate and suspicious.

That’s why I keep screaming at people to quit their shit jobs. We can whine and cry about pay and hours and management forever; and it’s just that, whining.

FFS, unemployment (in America) is basically at rock bottom and these people acting like it’s 1932. Our labor is our power, make employers compete for it. “Quiet quitting” is for losers, we should be using our leverage.

News like this is a win-win. Employers get a larger labor pool to choose from and employees get better jobs. Rinse and repeat and the tide will lift all boats.

And don’t forget kids! You are interviewing them every bit as much as they are interviewing you. You’re not at an interview to kiss ass and be fake. You’re there to see if the job is a mutual fit.

I got a ticket, in my canoe, for not having my registration paper. The registration number and expiration tag are on the side of the fucking boat. I think the cop was annoyed that I had my license for having a trolling motor on hand, had to nail me somehow.

Think on that, we have to keep two pieces of paper available on a canoe. Had to print them on waterproof paper.

I would have known it was required if the water pig had asked for it when she pulled me over last year.

America’s uptight about “papers please, comrade”.

I don’t even need an ID at my credit union’s drive thru. They look at their camera, they look at their computer, it’s me, done.

I’ve never even heard of a fellow American getting a parasite from meat.

OP beat us both. :(

https://gemini.google.com/share/6d141b742a13

Note the URL. Straight from the source.

Can’t say for England, but in America there is such a thing as “fighting words”. So what was said here?

If I say, “I will kill your wife and child in front of your fucking face!”, you’ll probably get away with beating my ass, hands in pockets or no.

^ Exactly this. First thing I thought because it’s so obvious.