Sure, but that doesn't mean you should fight them for gun control instead of fighting them for the other things. You can instead advocate for those other things. Those other things are also easier tbh because they don't require an amendment to the constitution to happen.
Did your literacy study control for people who are ESL or resident non-english speakers (legal resident or illegal)? Most of those literacy studies are actually kinda racist, just fyi. In your fervor to call Americans stupid you may want to not be racist while you do it.
Btw, turns out around around 44% of Aus adults don't have the literacy skills required for every day life https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/4228.0main+features992011-2012
So they're stupider by your metric, I suppose, and idk what their immigrant population looks like so idk if they have a similar "problem" (really less of a "problem" than you'd think actually, they get by ok) with Spanish-only speaking people.
Btw firearms aren't the leading cause of death for children, that study included "children" who are full grown ass 18-19yo adults involved in gangs and took place in 5 cities known for their gang problems, iirc it was NYC, LA, Baltimore, Chicago, and Philly. It also took place during the pandemic when the real leading cause of death would have been deflated, because it's car crashes, and if they're mostly staying home for zoom classes it cuts down on car crashes. Gang activity waits for no pandemic, people need money and other people need to lose theirs to drug addiction, business was booming during the pandemic for dealers, not to mention we still have an opiate epidemic we're dealing with which also overlapped the pandemic (we've been in it for like 15yr now.)
It's done purposefully, mostly just because scaring you into clicking by making you think "this could have been me" gets them more clicks and therefore more ad revenue and perpetuates the idea that active shooter incidents as most people perceive them are way more common than they are, which ups the fear and the clicks and ends up being a really fucked up manipulative cycle, basically the news is abusing us. Harder to scare you if they tell it in a less sensationalist manner, because you won't connect to those people as deeply or in the same way unless you also happen to hang out in crack houses at 3am and most people do not do that.
There are some groups that perpetuate the same for political reasons as well, like Everytown, MDA, and the Brady campaign, but mostly it's just plain ol' "if it bleeds it leads give us attention/money."
Ah thanks! Like I said I always just give it the 60s (or +X), so I was less familiar with the now bit.
Bill Watterson never approved the Calvin peeing decal. Calvin was filling a water balloon in the OG strip, which was lifted and edited to the decal illegally and without Bill's permission.
Furthermore tell me you never had an imagination as a kid without telling me you never had an imagination as a kid, I guess.
The command shutdown defaults to 60s, but doesn't throw the popup. shutdown +60 will give you 60min instead (and +30 is 30min, etc), shutdown -c to cancel, and shutdown --show will show if one is scheduled shutdown -h I believe is the "do it now" option but I always just give it the minute.
Oohhh someone was born earlier and that makes them the coolest guy ever! "Please" lol.
Jerk-off motion/eye-roll combo.
Well you're supposed to eat it that's why, and you misspelled hole!
Lmao couldn't resist, ya set it up perfectly. I hear ya on the cilantro though, sucks for you it rules on tacos if you like it.
I was only foolin' lol, she does sound like a keeper though haha.
The "I'm 18/21" button on websites has been around since I was a kid in the 90s, used to have to input the "actual" date too so I was born 01/01/1970 according to a lot of now defunct porn sites lol. Also still in use on tobacco, vape, alcohol, and gun websites as well.
But yeah as I am am example of, lying is always possible lol. I guess this passport or the ID thing in some states is supposed to hinder that, but torrent sites throw a wrench into any censorship efforts and they're already illegal, they won't play ball with the ID bullshit, ever.
Kids can torrent my dude. Been doing it since I was like 13, and that's only because before that I was using limewire, then frostwire, then bearshare, then I found torrents because TPB took over. I've been pirating since I was like 9.
That is to say: This dumb ass bullshit isn't even going to work.
The "please" at the beginning of a statement (not a question) like that is typically used to patronize or condescend, usually only used when being hostile or dismissive. If English isn't your first language I can understand the misunderstanding.