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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, that was the perspective of the people I spoke to and read of, so it's how I interpret the stories I was told.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

If it's an actual superpower, it would pair well with the 'send folks minds back in time' chica. Perfect one-two combo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who is still using a 7+1 gun these days? Are we in the fucking pacific islands shooting colt .45s at the japanese? Get yourself an extended 300+1 drum mag that slots into your automatic glock you've taken from the secret service or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a good business plan, honestly. Sell the idea to people that they get their massage by doing the person in front of them. You sit back and rake in the money as your customers do all the work, and you only have to do the last person of the day.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The european death knot usually works pretty well. Or you could use a weaver's knot, but it's not as bulky. The 'overhand' family of knots is a pretty good bet for whenever you want a knot that absolutely will not come untied under tension.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't think you bastardized it. It's becoming standard 'english' to manipulate participles and verbs into nouns by adding the 'er,' which makes me exceptionally grumpy in some crosswords. I just couldn't find anything that said 'bike shedder' specifically so I wanted to make sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I agree with you. ACAB. In the future I want, I'm sure there will be a need for some form of law enforcement, but right now it's beyond fucked.

I just want to acknowledge that while the system needs to be torn down, I also don't think we can implement a 'nice face' traffic enforcement without consequences right now. I don't know. I'm just some idiot spitballing as well. Hopefully iron sharpens iron.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bike shedders? Bike shedding had an explanation wikipedia, if that's the phrase you meant to pull from. It's a new term for a concept I'm familiar with. I like it.

I've never been near VC companies, so I can only imagine how much of it happens there compared to elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Right pocket on the uniform, because I fear putting my shears and stethoscope in the same pocket, and the shears have a tip that doesn't facilitate the left pocket, and the stethoscope rubber is too grabby on the phone.

Left pocket in general, because my wallet is in the right and I hate them clanking together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, is there anywhere but america that you would get anyone having all of the various sugar flavors readily at hand? And that means sweetened peanut butter as the default.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Closest analogous conflicts I could imagine would be when the us bombed eastern europe. Urban areas would be bereft of food and incoming supplies, rural areas would be bereft of most foods and incoming supplies, and everyone devolves into roving gangs and desperate attempts to fortify an area of 'trusted' neighbors.

Reading the first hand accounts of what people went through is enough to make me horrified whenever anyone talks about the possibility of a civil war with glee. They don't have the imagination or the knowledge to comprehend what neighbor vs. neighbor really looks like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's a thought, but unfortunately any member of an 'authority' is going to be in harm's way with a real criminal. Remember that (as an example) the son of sam and the oklahoma city bomber were both caught because of ticketing, and that a great many felons (like, actual felons that we care about, not the 'felons' of trump gang (tm) that have the wrong skin color) are encountered on traffic stops. I wouldn't want kindly and vulnerable meter maids to be expected to interact with people who have everything to lose, or hostile sovereign citizen types.

If a traffic enforcement type were to work, they'd have to have the authority to detain, and that inevitably means conflict with someone. I'd rather it not be with meter maid sally, and rather with officer dickstain, where I'm happy if either or both party gets hurt.

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