This is going to get people killed.
If I've got my CCW on me and I see a bunch of dudes in masks and no description clothing trying to force someone, especially a woman, into a vehicle, then I'm drawing and not stopping to ask questions.
Honestly I wonder if they're just waiting for that to happen so they can use it as an excuse to be even more brazenly brutal and operate even more openly.
burn the system down
My takeaway at least.
I have been filling out applications recently and one place wanted me to download a mobile app that would record camera and microphone stuff while I filled out the application
Another company wanted me to record responses on a Webcam.
I still have my 2005-2008 era Sony Vaiao in the garage at my parents house. If it booted up, I'd probably still have limewire running.
I need to wear a knee brace or use a cane, and I'm not even exaggerating.
Living in an echo chamber can make one pretty deaf to life's real problems.
My favorite group I have ever DMd for was at a convention, it was 2am, and nobody had ever met before except the two couples in the mix of 9. I just ran part of a campaign I was working on for a different group.
I barely had to interact with them for RP stuff unless it was to drive the plot, or play a character they convinced to join them.
It was great seeing a large muscular guy dressed like a Dwarven blacksmith role play a halfling, and the smallest person there was playing as a half-orc barbarian from the plains of icewind dale.
And of course since it was a convention, and some of them had LARP gear with them, a friendly competitive sword fight broke out during a rest and instead of rolling, they just went ahead and used foam swords and stepped away from the tables. And borrowed dialogue from the princess bride.
Most groups definitely prefer combat, and to be honest so do I unless I'm running the game. Maybe I just haven't played with the right group or character, or more likely I just suck at it. Either way...
I think everyone has "that one group" they wish they could play with forever and never have scheduling conflicts...
Social commentary.
People of color get stopped and arrested all the time because the cop "smelled weed" despite no odor being present. They would absolutely not be allowed to leave if the cop actually smells weed. They'd just make something else up if it was a legal state.
It's been a few hours, and I gotta say... My comment made a lot more sense when I was a little baked.
I tried being a moderator on a forum once, and after alerting admins and the FBI about csam less than a week in, I decided I was done being a moderator.
It was a forum for RC stuff, mostly diy rc planes.
Unfortunately, therapy only helps you cope, it doesn't let you forget.
Cop: stop resisting! He's got a gun! bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang
Cop: I feared for my life, I smelled the crazy drug and everything went black, the sun was in my eyes, et cetera
Interviewer: did you just literally say "et cetera" like you're reading from a script?
Cop: I don't recall.
Wait no, driver's white. Carry on.
Even IF we are ALLOWED to vote next year and beyond, and IF we manage to pull our heads out of our asses, we will be fixing this mistake for decades.
And if we aren't allowed to vote.... Well, I hope we remember the cure for fascism soon. Actually strike that, it implies I'm willing to wait 1-3 years to find out, I want the people to remember the cure now.
I can only imagine what bullshit I'm going to hear over the next few years about why the US isn't doing well but the EU and Canada are.
I've had more conversations than I can count with people I would never be able to talk to in person, all using our own native languages.
The original posts are in English, people comment in their native language, and I use a translator, then respond in my own language. Is the translator perfect? No! Neither is theirs.
With the way most translators I've used work, it's easier for the non-native speaker to try translating, since the translator might try and use different words that entirely change the meaning, but likely list possible alternatives. A native e speaker will understand the alternatives while a non-native speaker probably won't.
That's my thought process anyway.
Never had anyone who wasn't pearl-clutching or virtue-signaling complain about it. And I've had tons of conversations with people I'd never have talked to otherwise.
Um..... "it doesn't matter that the very thing used to elect this person wewas rigged to specifically elect this person, you still elected this person"
Think about that for a second and get back to us on the logic behind it.