We’re actively eating our own face off, as a country, because we refuse to even taste progress.

I used to think along the lines of the Churchill quote of “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Turns out that was giving us way too much credit.

So, let’s just do nothing about guns? Just give up and let public shootings happen as an unavoidable fact of life, but only for the U.S?

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Orlando, Virginia Tech (handguns, but guns are guns), I could go on, all purchased their weapons specifically for the purposes of what they did with them. The people you are talking about tend to be the most responsible and respectable owners of guns, statistically. City folk with a history of mental instability and their freshly purchased assault weapons are overwhelmingly the problem, not people that were raised around guns used for hunting animals and taught to respect and safety use them from the time they could hold one.

Definitely Cave Johnson. The tone is disregarding and corporate, GLaDOS would have been insulting and condescending.

America is fucked, then.

People want fascists dead, we just despise conservatives. Are you implying that all conservatives are fascists, do you feel conservatism requires fascist values? Do you really think you’re a conservative and not a fascist?

If you do a holocaust then you’re not one of the good guys. It’s pretty simple.

Titan A.E. Is a masterpiece.

And people are allowed to think you’re stupid for directing your anger like a stupid person.

Came to say this same thing, Call of Cthulhu 1981 is a blast, the most fun I’ve had with a TTRPG.

Slow elevators make me want to murder.

We know.

It’s always the people you most expect.

Whatever helps you sleep.

Thank you!

Fiddlesticks…

Can I bother anyone in this thread to help with suggestions for a Linux distro that works for a gaming PC that won’t require me to have a computer science degree? I’m not afraid of some troubleshooting here and there, but I’m kind of dumb.

Edit: I should have known there’d be a shotgun load of different distros, good thing I’ve been gifted with e-“waste” for years, I’ve got some tinkering to do. Hyper-fixation, here I come.

I’ve worked apartment maintenance and the amount of people who were intimately watching the war room while I worked in their apartments proves this assertion woefully wrong. You’ve got neighbors and acquaintances that are balls deep into that shit.

The difference between a cult and a religion: In a cult everyone truly believes in what they are being told and the person at the top knows it’s all bullshit, when that person dies it’s a religion.