That’s gotta be depressing for sure sometimes. Hope we’ll get a clue and start acting on what people like you recommend.

38 is still really a decent spot for that. Men and women both have unrealistic expectations set when it comes to body image thanks to fashion and entertainment industries. Get yourself a good routine and you can still look great. None of us are going to have a Chris Evans’ Captain America body without steroids and personal training.

I didn’t mean to imply financial success was the only success.

Biggest one of mine:

Mandatory, standardized securing of the guns. Basic gun safe strength, ability to mount to studs in walls. Mode of entry doesn’t matter…mechanical cypher, biometric, whatever, so long as the lock isn’t easily defeated.

Same with carrying in a vehicle. Bolt it down.

If people can afford thousands of dollars worth of guns they can certainly afford a decent safe.

Edit:

Unsecured handguns account for the majority of firearm suicide deaths in the United States, study finds

Overall, firearms used in unintentional injury deaths were often stored loaded (74%) and unlocked (76%) and were most commonly accessed from nightstands and other sleeping areas (30%).

It is difficult to ascertain the exact number of guns that are stolen from individuals in the United States because many of these thefts are not reported to law enforcement. However, estimates from a number of survey studies indicate that roughly 200,000 to 400,000 guns are stolen from individuals each year…Whether taken from gun stores or from individual gun owners, a firearm is stolen every 2 minutes. These stolen guns are often diverted directly into illegal trafficking networks and end up being used in the commission of violent crimes.

The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars.

All stolen guns are available to criminals by definition. Recent studies of adult and juvenile offenders show that many have either stolen a firearm or kept, sold, or traded a stolen firearm: According to the 1991 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those inmates who possessed a handgun, 9% had acquired it through theft, and 28% had acquired it through an illegal market such as a drug dealer or fence. Of all inmates, 10% had stolen at least one gun, and 11% had sold or traded stolen guns.

The Southern [of the USA] region has the highest percentage of house-holds with firearms and the least safe storage practices (Okoro et al. 2005). Not surprisingly, most Southern states are “exporters” of guns traced in crime (Mayors Against Illegal Guns 2010).

All good points. Thank you.

One that tells me if I’m working with something using AI so I can avoid it if needed.

Because Reddit is run by morons.

Conservative? Last concert I saw with him he was liberal AF. On what do you base his conservatism?

PF (Gilmour et al) is conservative enough…rich old white dudes.

Yep. And Tom, Bob, Rob, Bill, John and Steve.

The main reason is that it shifts payment of the wait staff to the customer, not the employer. That means the employer has less payroll, payroll tax, etc. and pockets the difference.

It’s a financial motive, not a classist one.

Same; except I’m to the side, like another person watching.

I miss when conspiracy theories were (mostly) harmless. Black helicopters. Secret UFOs at Groom Lake. Bigfoot. Chemtrails.

Now they’re out of hand and damaging, even deadly. Vaccines containing microchips. Ineffective medications are used because it’s a conspiracy to not use them. Deadly viruses are a leftist conspiracy. Q helping sabotage the democratic process. Etc.

They’re not fun anymore. They’re getting scary.

See, it’s still a conspiracy if he committed suicide. I don’t see why people are obsessed with him being murdered, or makes no difference in the end because the chain of events leading to either outcome is pretty much the same. IMO the suicide is more lurid because all the things had to happen to give him the time, tools, and someone basically telling him to do it or someone would indeed kill him. The man knew he was fucked, and there’s zero distance between him being told and others just setting it up knowing he was suicidal anyway.

Point being - there absolutely was a conspiracy to give him opportunity, tools, and lack of monitoring so he could kill himself. The pursuit of anything to do with his associations or activities was dropped so fast it approached relativistic speeds as it vanished into the distance.

Windows has always had awful error codes. A BSOD with some (made up) 0x00000231a would get “Kernel gobbledygook” as the search result. Completely useless. It was and still is awful. Only by digging in to logs, event manger, and anything else you can imagine you might be able to correct the issue. However, I will offer that Windows has been stable AF since 7, and I could count the number of times it’s crashed on me in the last decade or so on one hand, and the times it did crash or was because of either a change I made or a bad driver update.

I have a love/hate relationship with Apple. I despise how everything is locked down and they spare no effort to make sure you stay in their walled garden and play with their toys under their supervision. OTOH, shit almost never breaks. Regular PC? You’re free to wreck it, and I love that.

I like me some Tolkien. Not just the LOTR stuff, though that’s the bulk of it, but I’ve read some of his other books as well as the unfinished works as well. I really enjoy his worldbuilding and the old school storytelling where the hero doesn’t always do so well, mythical creatures aren’t so kind and cute, and dangerous thing lurk, waiting for you off the beaten path.

Did you italicize when you should have bolded? Hate when that happens.

Everything.

From the difference between WiFi, cellular data, and wired Ethernet to the ports on a computer.

People don’t know shit, and it’s getting worse thanks to the abundance of things like tablets and phones. Nobody knows anything about operating systems, file system structure or types, or even how to turn Bluetooth on.

And I am not what I consider highly tech literate. Plenty of stuff stumps me or I simply don’t know how to do. Yet I’m the family “IT guy” that has to troubleshoot and fix stuff.

Probably the worst part isn’t people not knowing. That’s fine. There’s tons of shit I don’t know. It’s the unwillingness to remember and learn about the system. That’s pretty maddening.

US is pretty much a cake walk by many western standards. Take some classes, get a “learners permit”, drive with an instructor for a while, drive with an adult for a while, take a written and easy practical driving test, and you’re done for life.

I’ve got to qualify that it varies a little by the state it’s done in, some states are easier than others.

I’ve driven in a couple other countries and, while everyone has their idiots, the US has an over abundance of them thanks to the ubiquity of cars and what amounts to pretty lax enforcement of any sort of rules or car safety requirements. IOW, pretty much every idiot drives, they often drive unsafe cars that are either maintained poorly or modified in unsafe ways.

Do you get to be offended in heaven? What is life in heaven?

By many accounts you just live in some god’s drugged out bliss or in the deity’s service. Unless it’s Valhalla, you get to have some fights and party a lot, then do it again tomorrow. Heaven? Don’t do anything, don’t advance, create, learn, eat, sleep, or exist in any form that touches on your earthly desires, wants, or needs. Heck, do you even have a body? If you are on some kind of other planet of existence, do you even recognize your former corporeal self and what you went through? Mind you this is for “eternity”, whatever that constitutes. Maybe you’re now an interdimensional alien! Oh, don’t bother quoting what anyone thinks or says about “heaven”, last I checked only one person allegedly has come back briefly and didn’t really fill in the blanks too well. It’s all made up BS.

So hypothetically? No, you don’t get to be offended. I don’t think you get to be human or retain your humanity. You’re stripped of self in heaven to be hooked up to god’s Matrix of Bliss™️ until the end of time.

Kinda sounds hellish by my standards.

Well this is like a slice of the Old Web.

This website probably has an owner who has a bunch of signs in the front yard and a car covered in stickers. (Looking up the address in the registration nets a normal house, so much for that stereotype)

Looking up “endangered noob productions LLC” from the bottom of the page gets you the registration info, a non-existent website, and the registration location.

Huge smattering of “services” by ENP depending on which site you view, from IT to motion pictures.

Funny enough, they even mention the fediverse.