Nah, SCOTUS pushed back on Trump, first time around and this time as well. The administration had a solid run of Supreme Court wins for several months because they only brought cases they thought were slam dunks. Now that we’re getting into meaty subjects like birthright citizenship, the justices look to stand firm. Too little, too late, I know.

Among other reasons you’ve been given:

• The figured MN folks would be peaceable and lay down.
• No open carry of weapons.
• Didn’t think they’d show out in deep winter. (HAH!)

I have a few tiny guns like that. It would jam on the next shot from limp wristing it. She bought it because it was cute, has no idea how to use it.

For the life of me I cannot see why training requirements violate the 2A.

This murder was 1,300 miles away. Shall I go up there and hunt them. Please provide explicit instructions. I’ll wait right here smartass.

I bought one! Not that brand, forget what I have, but I can’t afford to replace the carpet so I need it.

Never will root out the bad. There was an old Dr. Who where the cops are hassling him, “Ah the local constabulary. I’d recognize them in any century.”

Best bet we got is “defund the police”, use that money for people trained for certain tasks and not just sending bully boys for every disturbance.

Or, and this ain’t happening, treat police as we should treat teachers. Make it a well-paid profession with strict hiring and training standards, continuing education and accountability. But as long as people are willing to do these stressful jobs for chicken change, 🤷🏻‍♂️.

There are LOADS of cops in my hood, and we’re lower-middle class at best, with plenty of upper-lower class represented.

MAGA is (mostly) neither hearing nor repeating this shit. Some have gone quiet in the face of the overwhelming bullshit, the rest post typical lib bashing memes on FB and X. The only people repeating Trump’s actual talking points are right-wing influencers and politicians. Notice how those posts are in lock-step? They’re getting orders/clues from somewhere.

I’ll never apologize for them, nor ever forget who they are\were, but you’re giving the man-on-the-street way too much credit as to knowing what all Trump is speaking about.

For example, my flag-flying MAGA neighbor likely doesn’t know about any of this month’s events, except in vague terms, stuff he saw on FB, from the aforementioned influencers.

Maybe I’m nitpicking? Anyway, there’s a wide gulf between “official” MAGA and the asshole on the corner.

How?! Every cop I’ve seen has a proper holster to prevent that. If you know how they work you might snatch it, but it would still be a bit awkward.

The job is stressful, bullshit pay and about any moron who can follow rules gets in. I expect nothing from them, and that’s what I get.

Yeah, but cops don’t make professional money. $61K after 3 years around here.

Could not have written my exact take as closely as yours.

Only thing I’d add is using it to screw around with personal photos. ChatGPT is cleaning up some 80s pics of my wife that were atrocious. I have rudimentary PhotoShop skills, but we’d never have these clean pics without AI. OTOH, I’d gladly drop that ability to reclaim all the negatives.

Very few laymen have noticed or give a shit about RAM prices. My young friend across the street and I are likely the only people on the block who know what RAM does, let alone are able to build a PC.

Business purchasing is where we might see some backlash soon. I’ve bought all the IT goods, hardware and software, for my last two companies, and I’d be screaming.

Boss: What the hell? Weren’t we getting these laptops for $1,200 last year?!

Skill in Excel is wholly different than skills in other Office products. But if Excel is on your resume, your better expand and show what real use you’ve made of it. Otherwise it comes off just as you said.

I do. Got a free license from my last job and Excel blows the doors off Calc, or anything else. For business, Excel is moat of the reason they’re so tied into Office.

You are correct I believe! Been some time since I’ve watched the videos, but I remember feeling the same.

Spell it out then. Mod’s opinions are not evidence. Chapter and verse please. I’m willing to defend my words, and none defended pedophilia nor were transphobic.

That’s rather my point! What are we to replace a free market with? Everyone screams SOCIALISM, but no one seems to agree on what that actually means.

Shall we do the literal, textbook definition? State ownership of the means of production? That’s been a complete failure.

What we need is a capitalist economic system, reigned in by:

• Unions, to protect the workers
• Breaking and disallowing monopolies, so they never get so large as to control the government
• Democratic governments who protect us, voted in by an educated electorate

But I repeat myself. I guess the Nordic countries, and most of Europe, who act exactly as I outlined, are failures.

Spell it out then. I am willing to listen, willing to be wrong.

Oh FFS, what are you on about? The one time I stated “attraction is not a choice”? And the second sentence being, “That does not absolve one of their moral actions.” Are you one of those people who think LGBT is a choice?

Florida water is weird here in the NW. Tap water is fairly “hot” in the summer since the lines are close to the surface. But YMMV. Our bathroom water is distinctly different than the kitchen water, in a tiny house, 8-years old. 🤷🏻‍♂️