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- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 9 hours ago:
Everything that led up to the killings was fucking heinous, but in the end, a jury of his peers saw the video evidence and deemed it self defense. I’ve watched the videos and I agree.
“He shouldn’t have been there.”, isn’t a legal doctrine. Still, I’m surprised the prosecutor couldn’t have found some angle there. Isn’t there some, “looking for a fight” idea?
If I go down to my MAGA neighbor’s house, kick on his door, talk shit (non-physically threatening shit) and he attacks me, I wouldn’t feel too safe shooting him. IANAL, but I know the prosecutors were, so I have to bow to their professional judgement.
And whatever happened to his mom or uncle or whoever buying him a gun? I know it was across state lines, but still, the purchase in itself was legal, and you can certainly gift a gun. There was a law clearly broken there, I think Rittenhouse being underage in that state for that weapon? Why wasn’t the purchaser hung from the fucking rafters?!
What is perhaps more heinous is that the little fucker is able to milk his notoriety. He should be shunned by both the anti-gun and pro-gun crowd, no one should give two shits to hear him speak. (He is shunned among liberal gun nuts like me.)
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 9 hours ago:
I’d prefer we extend “middle age” out to 70. Signed, 54-yo dude.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 day ago:
I’d like to discuss the flashlight. ?
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 day ago:
My handwriting is awful. #2 for me.
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 2 days ago:
Adhesive tape to the buttocks is exactly what got the Jock in Saturday morning detention.
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 2 days ago:
The crack spider’s bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 2 days ago:
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which,”
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 2 days ago:
You should see the damage a single pig can do. I have. And I like pigs, have a pet pot belly.
They are the only animals I will shoot on sight, no questions asked. And I wouldn’t shoot a squirrel.
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- Comment on Anon starts talking to a girl 3 days ago:
So yeah, my experience with women basically is from age 17 to 24.
You don’t have much experience to be in this conversation. I’m legit happy you clicked with someone at that age, and seem well settled! But that’s unusual, and again, that’s not much of a resume.
Your hobby can be whatever. They want you, not your hobby, not your grooming. If you’re fit and you can make her laugh, that’s all you need.
Well… kinda. Not sure why you keep on about grooming not being important. Weird to me. But yes, be fit and make her laugh, good deal! But no, there’s a bit more to attraction in most cases. Something here seems a bit shallow.
But hell, look at me and my wife. We’re wildly physically attracted to each other. Her smell is like crack to me, and I’ve done my time with actual crack. We don’t have much in common intellectually but we’ve found some hobbies and interests alike and shared unfamiliar hobbies and interests. In short, we’ve learned from one another, and that’s important to me, and seems to be important to all the women I’ve been with. They always say I’m “interesting”, even if they have, uh, other things to say.
We could probably learn a thing or two talking this out.
- Comment on Anon starts talking to a girl 3 days ago:
I’ve had sex with 50+ women in life, many way above my “value”, and most from when I was broke as fuck. Anyone that thinks it takes money to get laid is making excuses for something. And BTW, I’m 5’8" and 140lbs., a “manlet” I think I’m called?
As it turns out, I’m horny and a genuine human being. Women respond to that. (I also give good head. Write that down.)
- Comment on >:( 3 days ago:
What was the joke?!
Customer and I were talking about my busted rib and how miserable it is to cough or laugh. He laid this one on me (the timing is crucial) and put me in pain:
Know what they call the white stuff in chicken shit?
Chicken shit.
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 4 days ago:
I wonder if you would like the Mars Trilogy books by Kim Stanley Robinson. Same deep details, but about geography (on Mars).
Like Melville, he takes you into another world, in depth.
OTOH, you may hate the dryness!
In any case, you got me thinking I’ll take another pass at Moby Dick. Had the little kid’s book as a child and loved it. Haven’t read the novel for 30 years!
- Comment on pain plant 4 days ago:
Tabasco sauce, and the peppers, are good for some foods, not so much for others. There is no ULTIMATE hot sauce, just what works.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 days ago:
According to my neighbors on neighborhood.com, it’s fake news. Seriously. They simply don’t believe Trump has anything to do with it.
- Comment on "Saw XI" has been canceled 1 week ago:
Pratchett’s Discworld deserves the Marvel treatment. If I had a few billion, I’d be all in.
Reading selected novels for the 3rd pass. I get that much wouldn’t translate to screen, but plenty enough would. We have an abundance of genius in Hollywood to pull this off. Take LOTR and Harry Potter for fantasy examples.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
That’s what people see and exactly why they think they got kicked up a whole tax bracket.
- Comment on danger noodles 1 week ago:
Stumbled into a little water moccasin hissing at me like this the other day.
“Bro. You’re twitching your tail and hissing. Not buying the upside-down head thing.”
- Comment on Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have 1 week ago:
Heinlein experimented with loads of governmental and social structures, Starship Troopers was one such experiment.
- Comment on Meaning of the phrase “Hang dead.”? 1 week ago:
A judicial sentence might read that one is to be hung until “dead, dead, dead”. That’s all I got.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
You’re touching on where “dad stength” and, uh, R-word strength comes from. Our brains limit us from tearing ourselves to pieces.
Our old guy brains still think we’re 25 and act accordingly, and we fuck ourselves up. People with Down’s don’t have the limiter, so they appear to be super strong.
- Comment on New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive) 1 week ago:
Nailed it. If Heinlein loved fascism because he wrote Starship Troopers, how the hell does one explain Stranger in a Strange Land?!
Maybe he was simply a fascist, tree-hugger, authoritarian, free love, socialist, commie, right-wing, left-wing nutcase? I grok a wrongness.
- Comment on The creator of upcoming life sim Inzoi says he was "recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale" 1 week ago:
Bravery is doing a thing that scares the hell out of you. The reckless part is being brave when it’s foolish. He’s saying he was foolhardy. Probably doesn’t know the word exists.
- Comment on The creator of upcoming life sim Inzoi says he was "recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale" 1 week ago:
LOL, forgot about that tacky bastard.
- Comment on Anon judges books by their covers 1 week ago:
We evolved to live and work in groups of 150, max. Past that our brains get overwhelmed and fall back to pattern matching, another evolutionary trait, and a powerful one in us humans.
We’re so good at judging people that when someone’s behavior throws us for a loop, it’s a memorable event.
The only trick is making a conscious decision to stay the hell away from “all $people act like $X”. Even if I think a customer walking up is likely to be a chud, I greet them openly and friendly. Works out great.
- Comment on Fuck animal breeders that keep breeding damaged animals into a life where they will only know pain and torment. 2 weeks ago:
And there are shitloads more super-hot peppers that never existed in nature. Evolution be weird sometimes.
- Comment on Fuck animal breeders that keep breeding damaged animals into a life where they will only know pain and torment. 2 weeks ago:
-$20 (they paid us not to bring him back)
Jesus, haven’t laughed that hard all day.
- Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union 2 weeks ago:
Ronald Reagan did exactly that with air traffic controllers. Fired the lot of them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
GenX here. That’s exactly how I saw it evolve. I’d say “normal” started around 2000 or so.
