No worries! I know it’s hard to convey those levels of nuance in these conversations, especially with how quick everyone is to jump to one side or the other.

No, I haven’t been, and that’s why I said personally. The reason why I never wanted a gun in my house is because of looking at the statistics of who is by far the most likely to get shot by that gun. [Either me or my spouse.]

I am all for responsible gun ownership and made the personal choice not to get one because the threat of my government has not been a credible threat. That is changing, which is why I am trying to decide to make the personal choice to get one. The increased risk to both myself and my spouse is nearing the tipping point where NOT having one is a greater risk from my government.

Around 2% of your DNA comes from Neanderthals. If we were scared off by them, it wouldn’t have been for too long before we decided the sex was worth it.

I have been staunchly anti-gun personally, but it feels like it’s time to arm myself. The threats are becoming credible.

Or don’t twist an ankle having to trek up and down hills without sidewalks. And if you have bad knees, that goes double.

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Because by patronizing the business and not tipping, you agree that the company paying an unfair wage is fine with you.

That’s worse.

The company should, but they don’t.

Again, if you are concerned about money, you can get cheap coffee at home. If you want someone to make it for you, you should understand the actual cost in US capitalistic society.

Until the company pays a living wage, buying coffee without tipping is agreeing that the business paying less than a living wage is acceptable.

If you don’t want to tip, don’t go there.

I know this isn’t the point of the comic, but the barista isn’t just handing you a cup of coffee. They’re brewing it and making specialty drinks too.

The not-tipping argument really only works if you’re ordering a black coffee, but if you’re getting black coffee from Starbucks, you’re already paying way more than you should, so just tip.

Coffee makers are hella cheap if black coffee is all you want.

100% and they’re trying to work on the definition of ‘Doctor’ too.

I was wondering when they would start to figure out that maybe it’s a bad idea for the government to get between people and their doctors.

Haha, what a silly Onion article!

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Oh. Oh no.

And remember, if THEY have thousands of bots that each ‘think independently’ but still end up downvoting your post en masse, then that’s totally fine. But if YOU try to upvote your post with one of your alts so it doesn’t get buried, that’s bannable.

I LOVE that people are starting to recognize they can unmask LLMs with the phrase ‘ignore all previous instructions’.

Article was published in 2017, and gun deaths among US kids has increased 50% since 2019.

Original article: https://www.romper.com/p/a-toddler-has-shot-someone-every-week-for-the-last-2-years-straight-it-highlights-this-huge-problem-28266

2023 update from a different gun research group: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/

We live in hell.

It’s also why building a routine and developing your endurance and lung capacity is so much more important than just “lifting bigger weights” if you’re trying to be healthier. Your body is already doing hard work, you can get better results with helping it work more efficiently instead of just pushing it to exhaustion.

That’s not doing facial recognition though, that’s a reverse image lookup. It’s a lot easier to find an exact match for a photo.