I don’t know for sure, but I believe it’s a context issue.

There’s nothing wrong with discussing the size and consistency of my bowel movements with my doctor, but it’s probably not OK for me to do that with a stranger on the bus.

Holy bald-faced foreign propaganda, Batman!

America bad, you see.

Therefore when America do good, is actually bad.

As everyone else has said, it’s a blood blister.

What hasn’t been mentioned is that those sometimes rise up through the skin instead of dissolving as they heal. If that happens, throw a bandage on it and keep it clean. Your usual wound care should be fine.

Out of context and from another speaker I would interpret that statement as “I’ve had longstanding connections with this guy. Watch out, he’s a perv but to a degree that’s publicly tolerable. Watch out, he’s got a thing for young girls. All of that has to be tolerated because he’s socially connected.”

Given the speaker, though that between the lines reading may be giving too much credit.

I believe the connection is aviation.

Or it could be the thousands of grape vines planted on the hill…

Didn’t realize it was a vineyard. Neat.

You ever think of switching to decaf?

Congratulations on being the first user I block on Lemmy.

Fuck me for trying to answer your question, I guess.

There’s no uniform definition, but groups with an agenda will count any discharge of a firearm on property owned by a school as a school shooting regardless of circumstances.

One notorious case was a person who committed suicide in the parking lot of a closed down school. It happened in the middle of the night and classes hadn’t been held in that building for years. Advocacy groups still counted it.

NPR did a whole investigation into over reporting in 2018. Here’s a link:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

I heard on NPR that a lot of the key ships and equipment the army used were almost decommissioned in 2019. The last time they were used was in Haiti in 2010.

Hopefully this convinces army brass to make the investment to maintain this capability.

Well, that’s a braindead take if I’ve ever heard one.

Unless you live a subsistence lifestyle and somehow also produce all of the complex goods you need, you care.

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would more or less kick off world war three. To say that’s bad for everyday life is an understatement, and that’s assuming nobody launches nukes.

Not making me feel better about my previous statement…

Ok?

Tell yourself whatever makes you feel better about getting played by political candidates.

Because the gun laws in place are about as far as things can go without repealing the second amendment. Further laws are either doomed to fail or make only marginal differences.

Those bills and proposals waste precious political capital that could otherwise be used passing laws that address the root causes of homicide.

And how did those bills go?

Congress loves to let issues fester to garner attention and drum up support. They’ve been fucking around with the debt ceiling for decades to do that, and that’s a problem that they create from whole cloth.

The political will of the populace to make real changes to address the root causes of homicide are squandered by focusing on the weapons used. Want to see those bills pass? Don’t buy into the dog and pony show that is gun control.

If you really, truly believe that banning guns is the silver bullet to solving homicides get the second amendment repealed. All the half measures that get thrown out time and time again are usually unconstitutional and doomed to fail, they’re just there to keep the public engaged.

Yeah, I didn’t answer your question.

I’m refusing to give you what you want.

You’ve been warned that this is an exercise in futility. I won’t engage in it no matter how much you want to.

They’d have my vote, along with probably tens of millions of other independents.

Honestly, gun control is the “poison pill” of the Democratic platform. They’ve got a ton of great ideas and policies but demand one of your civil rights in exchange. Even for people who aren’t into guns, the idea giving up any civil right is problematic to say the least.