Emphatically wrong! Sleeping on a bare mattress is crazy. I just use the couch like I do many nights anyway.

I loved my Windows phone… the lack of quality apps was their real downfall IMO.

Goth girls = boots?

Keep going. We haven’t sunk Florida yet.

It’s sad how far the military standards have fallen over the last couple of decades. On the upside with shit cardio, these fat boys shouldn’t be challenging to evade.

Same. I can’t wear shoes without socks, and I can’t wear socks without shoes. It’s a both or neither situation.

Did they not have any good choices?

Did I read that article correctly that they accidentally did it on purpose?

Claims it was cut down in error, then a few paragraphs later talks about how it was removed because it was obstructing train drivers view of signal signs.

Yup, black bears are lower risks than browns, and attacks rarely end with fatalities. That doesn’t mean I wanna fistfight a bear because it felt like starting something while I’m alone in the woods miles from help.

Yes and no. They’re not as large or aggressive as a grizzle bear, but they’re absolutely still bears. I’ve had encounters where one walked right up into my camp and stole my dinner completely undeterred by me or any noise I made. I’ve also been stalked through the woods by a lone thin looking bear, probably looking for an opportunity to get the drop on me… and then there’s the mama bears. I don’t go out in the woods without bear mace and a heavy caliber handgun with bear loads, better safe than food.

After thought: I also have bear bells that announce my presence as I walk, and more often than not, that will be enough to scare off any in the area so my encounters are rare and spread out over years… still would rather be safe.

America doesn’t have insane gun laws. We have outdated gun laws that are in need of some common sense reforms, which is a monumentally difficult task due to gun ownership being baked into our country from the founding. The only way to change this is through a constitutional amendment, which would need to be approved by 38 or more states, and more than half our lands are still mostly undeveloped rural areas where guns are very much still a necessity to live there.

The world is not like the US period. What works for the world won’t necessarily work for America.

Switzerland has 28 privately owned guns for every 100 residents.

America has 120 privately owned guns for every 100 residents.

Please explain how 28 is more than 120? Must be counting with that metric system I’m to American to understand.

I’m no expert on the subject, but if I were to venture a gues as to why that is, I’d probably point to Switzerland’s population being just 9 million while America’s is over 340 million as a starting point.

I’m not trying to justify any gun deaths, especially of children, because I hunt. Those are your words, and I’d thank you to not put them in my mouth. What I said is there’s still parts of this country that people need guns for food and protection from dangerous animals.

Believe it or not, there are some of us out here in the woods that still rely on firearms as a part of our daily lives to both put food on the table and protect against dangerous animals in the area (mainly black bears around me).

Three for each, or is one of them greedy?

It is possible to be empathetic about the manner of his death and the suffering it has caused while still being happy he is gone.

As long as the replicator works, I’d call that a win and sort out the rest in a classic Star Trek hairbrained way.

I would love a fully functional self powered Star Trek industrial replicator (pre-programmed)… oh, and while you’re at it, if you could tweak my brain to do the dopamine thing in a healthy way, I’d appreciate it, but fully understand if that’s too much of an ask.

Aside from all the jokes I got about being a 16 year old boy driving a pink car, I actually mostly loved that tracker… soft top was my biggest bitch in the winter months it was impossible to get it warm.

Took my test in 1997 in a 1994 magenta geo tracker with a stick shift.

He stacked military leadership with loyalists. It’s still each and every individual soldiers responsibility to determine for themselves whether they will follow an order if they believe it to be unjust. Many in the military are Maga, but there will be many that would refuse such orders as well… Basically, I’m just trying to say the military isn’t a hivemind. If orders came down to attack us citizens, I’d hope there’d be significant pushback throughout the ranks.

Guess it’s time for an impulsive road trip since the other sources don’t appear to be working currently.