The fuck are you talking about?
I have never not used the ok hand symbol because we succeeded in turning it into a ridiculous hate symbol.
I love living in an area where we don't duck when we hear gunshots, we wonder which one of our neighbors is having some fun.
When I first viewed my house with the realtor, hearing gunshots wasn't a negative, it was a positive "oh, cool, people are cool with me shooting my gun here."
Only closeted gay men brag about how many women they've made orgasm.
Straight men, like myself, brag about how many men we've made orgasm with our mouths alone.
I have literally never thought that trans people are a threat to me.
We're already doing exactly that.
by describing how a cock feels inside of you, yes.
Doubtful, but this law is more regarding 80% receivers and such which truly is just a loophole to the existing law. The 3D printed shit is just caked in with it 1) to appease liberal voters who don't know shit about guns and 2) because that's just where the line happened to be drawn and allowing 3D printed guns would require an explicit exceptions.
We need to stop wasting our time trying to defend loopholes and start actively pushing against the laws they are a loophole for. If we want people to be able to purchase guns without a background check, then we should actively try to repeal laws requiring background checks instead of trying to defend a very specific way for people to get around the law by purchasing an incomplete receiver.
The same goes for pistol braces. We all know that it's just a loophole to be able to legally put a stock on your rifle platform "pistol" without it being classified as an SBR. Instead of spending so much time demanding the ATF honors this loophole with their "opinion" on what constitutes an SBR, we should be proactively trying to get the law repealed that requires SBRs to be tax-stamped at all.
Forced diversity is good. You want a diverse group on your team.
But diversity in talents and skill-sets, not diversity of random traits like race and sex; that would just be retarded to force.
That's kinda gay, bro.
She let this fester inside her for the whole elevator ride, but waited strategically until she was getting off the elevator to say anything to increase her chances of having the last word and not having to engage in any sort of discussion. But thank God this man had a quick retort to ruin her entire day.
You want whatever they are threatening to take away more than you want bodily autonomy.
Until someone holds you down and uses force, you are giving consent.
Fuck right off. By this logic, a strict vaccine mandate where you get thrown in prison if you are not vaccinated would still produce a population who "consented" to being vaccinated. So long as they don't physically force the needle in your arm, they can do whatever they want. Hell, by this logic, holding you at literal gun point and saying "agree to take the shot or die" still counts as consent as long as the man doesn't hold you down and force the needle in your arm.
The government punishing people who do not comply, whether that be a fine, losing your home, losing your job, being thrown in jail, or being killed, does not jive with the concept of consent.
didn't know these people actually existed outside Twitter lmfao
I didn't know people who wear Overwatch military jackets existed outside of Reddit.
I eat these weird, hard, tumor looking things that my chickens literally shit out.
I agree. The entire industry is filled with incompetence nowadays.
I believe it's a mix of consumer tolerance, "diversity hires," larger project sizes, and no incentive to make it right.
Consumers nowadays are increasingly more accepting of things just not working right. In the past, everything had to work, or consumers wouldn't buy it. It had to work and it had to be repairable. Our culture has shifted tremendously and this is no longer the case. Particularly with electronics, consumers are just okay with things taking forever to load and lagging. If they do get frustrated, they often direct their anger at the wrong thing. They'll sometimes blame themselves ("oh, I just installed too many apps") or they'll blame the hardware ("I need a new phone!").
As companies grow their hiring is taken over by HR, rather than the actual engineers/managers. HR is shit at hiring, and often hire to satisfy personal biases. I call these "diversity hires" to make it easier, but they aren't always people hired for their race or whatever. Sometimes they're just people hired because they check the boxes that HR looks for (a college degree, good interviewee, etc.), rather than their ability to do the job (which HR knows nothing about).
As we progress into the future, everything gets more and more complicated. A piece of software nowadays is many times more complicated than a piece of software from the past. As such, the team sizes need to be bigger. The bigger the team and the bigger the project, the more is going to be lost in communication and missed.
And why would they bother making things work right? With the first point: consumers don't care if the shit doesn't work and, in many cases, if your shit doesn't work, it will just encourage the consumer to give you more money by purchasing a new device or something. What's the incentive to spend hours optimizing some code to save .0013 seconds?
They say that hardware gets faster and faster to deal with software that gets slower and slower. Think about it: we do essentially the same shit with our smart phones today as we did with our smart phones when they first came out. Watching videos, playing shitty mobile games, etc. So why does my phone which has better specs in every regard take just as long, if not longer, to load all of that shit?
Bugs and poorly optimized code get put into these giant products and then simply never fixed. They all add up and it's all just shit. Memory leaks are ridiculously common nowadays when they should never happen. They are inexcusable in my book, especially from a huge tech company's software.
The best case scenario for this is that the app is just incompetently programmed. The worst case is that it was maliciously programmed. Either way, you shouldn't have the app.
So many people are tech illiterate and don't give enough of a shit about poorly programmed apps on their phones draining their battery. People won't recognize that it's a specific poorly coded app that's causing the problem; they'll just think it's because they have "too many" apps.
This really gives insight into how the left think. They don't understand how people can have individual needs and desires, and let others have their own, different needs and desires.
They think that if you find something to be the best option for yourself, you should be actively trying to impose that on other people, and if you find something to be undesirable, you should be actively trying to ban it for everyone.
I don't smoke weed, but by this logic I'm a hypocrite for not fighting for criminalizing it.
I own guns, but by this logic I'm a hypocrite for not fighting for a mandate that everyone owns a gun.
Southwest also said, in the same breath, that it was weather and ATC issues.
No other airlines were affected by this "weather" and the ATC came out with a statement essentially saying "no, it wasn't us."
Southwest airlines directly lied to their customers. Whether or not the real reason is a vaccine mandate strike or not doesn't change that, that's just a fact. And using that statement as a source for anything is horrible journalism.
I don't see how anyone can believe that something major won't happen as vaccine mandates go into effect.
We can clearly see that the number of vaccinations has plateau'd, even despite harder and harder pushing, indicating those not vaccinated intent to hold strong. They can pretend it's due to "lack of access" (seriously, they say this about black Americans not being vaccinated), but we all know that's bullshit when you can get the vaccine literally anywhere nowadays, walk-in.
And we all know that the percentage unvaccinated is at least 20%. Likely much higher, but it varies depending on the source you find. But at 20%, that's a huge hit to the economy.
But there's another variable, too. That 20% figure is across the entire country, but how much does it vary within different industries? We all know that teachers skew liberal, so the vaccination rate among them is probably much higher, maybe 95%. But what about the industries that skew conservative, aka, the people who do actual work? What percentage of the military is actually unvaccinated? Construction workers and other tradesmen? Pilots? Police? Engineers?
staffing shortages due to COVID
I called it. I knew they would try to blame this on COVID itself.
It's even easier in speech because you can just change your inflection. You can also throw in longer explanations in lieu of just the word ("their idea of science") very quickly whereas in text it might look unwieldy.
It'd be pretty awesome if they took it to court and the courts ruled it was a private business, thus shutting down governmental vaccine mandates entirely.
It won't happen, but that's be kinda cool.
With that said, it's time we stop the "private business" argument. At this point we're being too principled and allowing the other side to mandate private businesses left and right, but we refuse to do it ourselves. If private businesses don't have the right to not hire a black person, then the "private business" argument is moot, imo.
When drug companies have advertisements, they have to list side effects, including death, no matter how rare.
But when drug companies have politicians and media do their advertising, they don't need the "fine print."
If the drug company claimed "safe and effective" directly, there'd be an asterisk for sure.
THIS IS IT GUYS WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY ENDED RACISM
And people throughout history have also repeatedly made change without literally dying for it.
Whether you expect people to literally die for their cause or not doesn't change the fact that giving in to a threat is not "consent."