Same here. The only place I've seen them is online, where people are promoting them as a fad. Is it really a fad if I live in a moderate sized city and I've yet to see one in person, or has the media decided it's a fad, because that gives them something to write about. (Because our current politics need some foil.)
Why would you expect that gravity has a significant impact on lifespan? Telomere shortening looks like the major impactor, but it's not clear to me whether or not that's followed or trailed by cancer.
That's not an apples-to-apples comparison, however. Would Prime cover operations if everyone was required to have it to shop at Amazon? Because that's the Costco model.
Apple could do two easy things to increase jobs in the US: 1) Pay their apple store employees more, and provide better training and benefits, and 2) reduce the cost of iThings.
The net result would be people with more money, able to spend it on more things. That drives the economy, and ultimately produces jobs. An even better impact of this is that money is then taxed, both as income tax and sales tax, and the resulting economic activity is taxed, and we're now injecting more money into the country as a whole.
Instead they have enough cash on had to buy something like 100 million iPhones at market prices and hand them out to people. That's not helping the economy in any appreciable way. If that was injected back into the economy, it would be a definite benefit.
I absolutely agree. It's amazing how much value there is for content creators when they can budget based on a set amount of income every month. Special perks for me, and I help fund something that entertains me or that I think makes the world a better place. That's seriously cool.
How is this newsworthy? And I actually looked at the article, and there's no additional content there.
It was newsworthy when we switched from newspapers and the nightly news to the internet, for sure. But why would anyone care what device people use to get their internet news? Does the smaller screen of the phone change the meaning? (And no, that's a rhetorical question. There is no additional content in the article which would add anything remotely of value.)
It's not even torrent sites anymore. There are tons of websites streaming....everything....for ad views. I can make a list of 4-5 movies I'm interested in, and generally find a couple of them being streamed at 1080p. Live sports too! A little computer running Ubuntu and Google are all I need to watch pretty much whatever I want when I want it. Is it 4k? No. But I don't have a 4k TV, so that doesn't bother me. Sometimes are there compression artifacts? Sure. But for the cost and convenience, it blows away the competition.
If kickstarter had some sort of mod tools, maybe it could be open. But as far as I can tell, there isn't much you can do to mod the comments on your project. That's a recipe for disaster if it's an open forum. A troll's paradise is an unmoderated forum.
At the same time, the goal of kickstarter isn't to croudsource ideas. It's to croudsource money. The ideas and planning should be finalized far before you start a kickstarter, or you're setting yourself up for disaster. No reason to let people not interested in spending money on the product comment in that case. If a project isn't for you, either ignore it or start your own, better version, with blackjack and hookers.
Title IX's reinterpretation by the Obama administration opened the flood gates for destroying men's lives via false sexual assault claims.
Where's your evidence for this? Does this happen more or less often now than sexual assault happens? Because if Title IX has significantly reduced sexual assaults at the cost of very few men's lives' destroyed, your anger about it is rather misplaced. Or do you not feel that a false accusation of rape and rape are on the same level when it comes to destroying lives?
In case you missed it, Trump is the man who said he wanted, a, "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States". I'll point out that he didn't say, "I want a total and complete shutdown of citizens from the following countries with poor security situations entering the United States...." Had he said that, it wouldn't have been blatantly anti-Muslim. And this is also a man who said he wanted to shut down mosques.
FFS, the courts are using his own anti-Muslim tweets and speech snippets to kill his Muslim ban.
How in the world do you manage to hate Hillary so much and love Trump so much that you conflate the two on their attitudes towards Muslims? As soon as Hillary makes some anti-Muslim tweets and suggests policies to ban them and shut down mosques, they'll be equal. I'm somewhat skeptical that that will happen.
I think it's something else, actually. In decades past, sexual assault was the victim's fault, and it generally wasn't talked about. You could push for sex and probe boundaries very aggressively, because there were no real consequences for doing that. Now the pendulum has swung the other direction, and you can face serious repercussions for pushing too far. This is a radical shift in power, and this shift means more rejection.
I think this power shift triggers deep fears, such as, "What if I'm falsely accused, and suffer consequences?", and "If everyone understands how consent works, what if nobody consents to sleep with me?"
If you never had to face sexual assaults and unwanted groping, it probably looks and feels more like persecution than equality and civility.
I went back to grad school for the second time within the last ten years. I graduated about six years ago, and this certainly wasn't the case then. And this is at a university of ~50k students.
As far as I can tell, this meme stems from alt-right buthurt that universities are actually talking about and working to address discrimination. That there are systematic campaigns to talk about sexual assault.
When your social and emotional foundations are built on your superiority complex, it's quite threatening to see those you feel superior to empowered. The easiest way to counteract this is to continue to demean them, thus the trigger and micro-aggression memes.
...I bought a stainless microfilter and a french press...
I have a drip to make coffee while I'm in the shower. Set it up the night before, stagger out, mash the button, go shower, and come out to coffee. But on the weekend? I'll happily take the 10-15 minutes to make up a nice french press coffee. It's just so much better than most any other coffee I've ever had. If the pour-over wasn't so labor intensive, maybe I'd like that as well, but fuck that shit. I have no idea how adding any amount of tech will ever be able to beat a good coffee, coarse ground, in a stainless steel french press.
Because it's marketed as convenient and a time saver. Marketing is really, really good at convincing a moderate percentage of the population to give away their money.
Mom stops in the parking lot with a shopping cart full of groceries. Pulls out her phone, clicks, "Preheat to 350", puts it back, drives home, takes a fully trussed and stuffed turkey out of her bag and throws it in the hot oven.
Mom is out walking the dog, and her phone buzzes. "Washing Machine has 10 minutes remaining." She turns around and walks home, shows up as it's done, transfers to the drier, and then takes the kids (and happy dog) to soccer practice.
Don't discount marketing to hide the complexity, the potential for abject failure, disaster, and the potential to waste an order of magnitude more time and money than you ultimately save. Lots of us will avoid this shit like the plague, but marketing will definitely sell a lot of it to busy, clueless people.
The proliferation of IoT in damn near every device around you is exactly why this whole story is NOT bullshit.
You like being afraid, eh? I can't say I get it, but it seems popular these days. Until manufacturers start either requiring an internet connection to function or bundling a 4G modem with a lifetime data plan, I can avoid IoT devices. I have a "smart TV", which is disconnected from the internet. It was cheaper than a dumb one, which is why I bought it. I have some smart lights which are isolated on the local network and not allowed out. Could they somehow be nefariously communicating with their masters? Sure, I guess. But it's not likely.
And the more YOU choose not to participate in a society that desires and demands interconnected citizens, the more YOU will become a monitored anomaly.
I call bullshit on this as well. I've worked in many different careers, and every one of them had some sort of data that needed to be analyzed. And all of it included incomplete data. Did I ever look at the incomplete data? Sure. But the very nature of it being incomplete made it far less valuable. Could some of those pieces of incomplete data be linked together to make a complete record? Maybe? But the value is in the complete data sets.
I blackhole most ad networks, noscript and purge cookies. I use an RSS reader instead of visiting websites, facebook, or twitter. I log into gmail on Firefox, and chrome gets a different google account associated with it. I have a name_phone@gmail.com address for my Android, which doesn't connect to my other google shit. Could google figure out they are all associated? Probably. But is there more value in doing that for me than there is in better leveraging the data of a hundred million other people who give Google everything? That's doubtful.
I intentionally fragment my data, because I understand that squeezing 0.001% more data/money out of a hundred million people is 100,000x more valuable than piecing together my personal data puzzle. Now, if 100,000 other people are doing exactly what I'm doing in the same way, granted, it's more even. But that's not super likely.
Unlike your fear of this being a scarlet letter, I'm of the opinion that it's camouflage. With millions of users to keep track of, the partial data needs to get dumped. Until the major corps run out of money to squeeze out of the sheeple, it's always going to be more cost effective to do that than try to piece together our data puzzle.
Don't want to have to wait an extra 20 minutes for dinner? Plan better. Say no to sports, band, and the other thousand things that most soccer moms seem to spend all their time driving their kids to. My wife and I manage to get home at 5:15 and eat by 6pm. If you're actually cooking a dinner, it takes longer to prep what you're cooking than to pre-heat the stove.
Want to know when your laundry will be done? Set a fucking timer on your cell phone. Takes me all of 10 seconds to do that. 5 if it's one I've used before. You don't need an internet connected washing machine for that. A fucking $3 egg timer will do the same job once you figure out how long it takes.
To the busy mom or parents, they are a godsend.
For exactly as long as they work correctly. As soon as these things stop working, get hacked, an update breaks them, or they malfunction and burn your house down, all that convenience is entirely negated. All the time saved now a stupid choice, because you're wasting more dealing with the fallout than it would have taken to just avoid it in the first place.
We already have an IoT botnet, and adding washing machines and ovens is just going to add to that. If some sizable percent of manufacturers were actually doing real security and regular updates, I wouldn't be so pessimistic. As it is, all of the "hey, this is convenient" you describe is likely going to end in tears and a lot of wasted money. Planning better and using dumb tech to do the same tasks is going to win out for the foreseeable future.
China is only a scary boogieman if you ignore all of the serious internal issues they have. They're undergoing a socioeconomic change the pace and scale of of which the world has never seen before. That can't continue if they need to divert resources to a war. It's not clear if it can continue anyway, given the serious raw material and energy shortages they have.
A million plus man army is indeed staggering, but china has 1.3 billion people that are increasingly exposed to and embracing the standards of living in the west. Hundreds of thousands, now perhaps millions of young people educated in the west, and who saw the freedom the west has. While I don't discount that China has stolen vast amounts of tech from the west, and is using this to make dramatic leaps forward, their current struggle is to take care of themselves. More and more goods are not being shipped to the west, and are instead kept for their own populace.
The major issue is this rapid pace is slowing down, and a half billion Chinese still live in abject poverty. Large swathes of China still aren't electrified. China's rapid growth is not impacting half of the country, and that's causing a lot of unrest. As China's manufacturing growth slows and exports continue to drop off, that's going to really impact their economy. None of this is conducive to them being a world military power. Regional? Sure. But definitely not one that's going to go out and conquest. That's just a fever dream.
Way back in the day I worked at a place like this. Put in 4 hrs extra during the week and kick off at noon on Friday during the summer. It was amazing. Then the parent company 500 miles away decided that it could possibly run afoul of labor laws or something, and made us stop.
That's a great way to crush morale. A better way? Have nobody in your corporate offices on Friday afternoons in the summer while we're being forced to work.
Getting laid off from there was the best thing ever. A dozen years later, and the company doesn't really exist anymore.
My current place doesn't really keep track of time. (Other than being forced to put 40 hrs into the payroll software, since that's how it works, whether your salaried or hourly.) We tend to put in more than 40 semi-regularly, but there's no pressure to put in 40 when there isn't work to be done, or if you went way over in the last few weeks.
And you are required to use iCloud. I fought this battle for months, and finally just got a Dell Precision with Ubuntu, because it was time to upgrade anyway.
I did everything I could to disable iCloud, but I could never escape the random pop-ups in OSX telling me that I needed to enter my iCloud password. It was fucking ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the Android bug where Gmail tells you you can't use it because Google Play doesn't have the microphone and body sensors allowed....
I'll show that fucking unamerican asshole some terrorism.
And that's where I am right now, and where I have been for some time now. I'm left on the European scale, to give an idea of my political leanings. But fuck all these unamerican pussies. This pants-wetting, hand-wringing, gun-clutching, freedom-surrendering bullshit needs to die, and everyone who espouses it needs to die as well.
We didn't skip trying to go to the moon because a rocket blew up in another country. We didn't skip rebelling against England because they were mean to us. We didn't let the South succeed or not try to succeed as the South because we were afraid that someone might get hurt.
My fucking ancestors and relatives fought, bled, and died for this country to be free. I'm liberal to the point of making US liberals uncomfortable, and I haven't owned a gun in years. Why? Because I'm a gun hating liberal? Sure, a bit of that. But a bigger reason is that I'm not afraid of shit. Because I know that I live in a very safe country, and that if I die, it's likely because shit happens sometimes.
I'm not going to run around trying to hide my shriveled balls behind as many guns as I can carry. I'm not going to give up my goddamn freedom because a bunch of unamerican pussies are afraid.
So fuck everyone who has made it so that I need my balls fondled to get on a plane. Fuck everyone who made it so I can't bring a coffee into the airport with me. And fuck everyone who is not rebelling at this newest load of bullshit. Maybe people will die if we remove these restrictions. So. Fucking. What. People die every day from the cold, flu, car crashes, and falling in the tub. If you're that afraid of the safest way to travel, then I concur:
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING OUT OF A FUCKING STEEL BUNKER
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Same here. The only place I've seen them is online, where people are promoting them as a fad. Is it really a fad if I live in a moderate sized city and I've yet to see one in person, or has the media decided it's a fad, because that gives them something to write about. (Because our current politics need some foil.)
Why would you expect that gravity has a significant impact on lifespan? Telomere shortening looks like the major impactor, but it's not clear to me whether or not that's followed or trailed by cancer.
That's not an apples-to-apples comparison, however. Would Prime cover operations if everyone was required to have it to shop at Amazon? Because that's the Costco model.
Apple could do two easy things to increase jobs in the US: 1) Pay their apple store employees more, and provide better training and benefits, and 2) reduce the cost of iThings.
The net result would be people with more money, able to spend it on more things. That drives the economy, and ultimately produces jobs. An even better impact of this is that money is then taxed, both as income tax and sales tax, and the resulting economic activity is taxed, and we're now injecting more money into the country as a whole.
Instead they have enough cash on had to buy something like 100 million iPhones at market prices and hand them out to people. That's not helping the economy in any appreciable way. If that was injected back into the economy, it would be a definite benefit.
If your copy is an exact replacement for mine, something's very wrong.
I absolutely agree. It's amazing how much value there is for content creators when they can budget based on a set amount of income every month. Special perks for me, and I help fund something that entertains me or that I think makes the world a better place. That's seriously cool.
How is this newsworthy? And I actually looked at the article, and there's no additional content there.
It was newsworthy when we switched from newspapers and the nightly news to the internet, for sure. But why would anyone care what device people use to get their internet news? Does the smaller screen of the phone change the meaning? (And no, that's a rhetorical question. There is no additional content in the article which would add anything remotely of value.)
Google will be able to monitor and backup files inside of any folder you point it to.
Even /dev/urandom?
It's not even torrent sites anymore. There are tons of websites streaming....everything....for ad views. I can make a list of 4-5 movies I'm interested in, and generally find a couple of them being streamed at 1080p. Live sports too! A little computer running Ubuntu and Google are all I need to watch pretty much whatever I want when I want it. Is it 4k? No. But I don't have a 4k TV, so that doesn't bother me. Sometimes are there compression artifacts? Sure. But for the cost and convenience, it blows away the competition.
If kickstarter had some sort of mod tools, maybe it could be open. But as far as I can tell, there isn't much you can do to mod the comments on your project. That's a recipe for disaster if it's an open forum. A troll's paradise is an unmoderated forum.
At the same time, the goal of kickstarter isn't to croudsource ideas. It's to croudsource money. The ideas and planning should be finalized far before you start a kickstarter, or you're setting yourself up for disaster. No reason to let people not interested in spending money on the product comment in that case. If a project isn't for you, either ignore it or start your own, better version, with blackjack and hookers.
Title IX's reinterpretation by the Obama administration opened the flood gates for destroying men's lives via false sexual assault claims.
Where's your evidence for this? Does this happen more or less often now than sexual assault happens? Because if Title IX has significantly reduced sexual assaults at the cost of very few men's lives' destroyed, your anger about it is rather misplaced. Or do you not feel that a false accusation of rape and rape are on the same level when it comes to destroying lives?
In case you missed it, Trump is the man who said he wanted, a, "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States". I'll point out that he didn't say, "I want a total and complete shutdown of citizens from the following countries with poor security situations entering the United States...." Had he said that, it wouldn't have been blatantly anti-Muslim. And this is also a man who said he wanted to shut down mosques.
FFS, the courts are using his own anti-Muslim tweets and speech snippets to kill his Muslim ban.
How in the world do you manage to hate Hillary so much and love Trump so much that you conflate the two on their attitudes towards Muslims? As soon as Hillary makes some anti-Muslim tweets and suggests policies to ban them and shut down mosques, they'll be equal. I'm somewhat skeptical that that will happen.
I think it's something else, actually. In decades past, sexual assault was the victim's fault, and it generally wasn't talked about. You could push for sex and probe boundaries very aggressively, because there were no real consequences for doing that. Now the pendulum has swung the other direction, and you can face serious repercussions for pushing too far. This is a radical shift in power, and this shift means more rejection.
I think this power shift triggers deep fears, such as, "What if I'm falsely accused, and suffer consequences?", and "If everyone understands how consent works, what if nobody consents to sleep with me?"
If you never had to face sexual assaults and unwanted groping, it probably looks and feels more like persecution than equality and civility.
I went back to grad school for the second time within the last ten years. I graduated about six years ago, and this certainly wasn't the case then. And this is at a university of ~50k students.
As far as I can tell, this meme stems from alt-right buthurt that universities are actually talking about and working to address discrimination. That there are systematic campaigns to talk about sexual assault.
When your social and emotional foundations are built on your superiority complex, it's quite threatening to see those you feel superior to empowered. The easiest way to counteract this is to continue to demean them, thus the trigger and micro-aggression memes.
...I bought a stainless microfilter and a french press...
I have a drip to make coffee while I'm in the shower. Set it up the night before, stagger out, mash the button, go shower, and come out to coffee. But on the weekend? I'll happily take the 10-15 minutes to make up a nice french press coffee. It's just so much better than most any other coffee I've ever had. If the pour-over wasn't so labor intensive, maybe I'd like that as well, but fuck that shit. I have no idea how adding any amount of tech will ever be able to beat a good coffee, coarse ground, in a stainless steel french press.
Because it's marketed as convenient and a time saver. Marketing is really, really good at convincing a moderate percentage of the population to give away their money.
Mom stops in the parking lot with a shopping cart full of groceries. Pulls out her phone, clicks, "Preheat to 350", puts it back, drives home, takes a fully trussed and stuffed turkey out of her bag and throws it in the hot oven.
Mom is out walking the dog, and her phone buzzes. "Washing Machine has 10 minutes remaining." She turns around and walks home, shows up as it's done, transfers to the drier, and then takes the kids (and happy dog) to soccer practice.
Don't discount marketing to hide the complexity, the potential for abject failure, disaster, and the potential to waste an order of magnitude more time and money than you ultimately save. Lots of us will avoid this shit like the plague, but marketing will definitely sell a lot of it to busy, clueless people.
The proliferation of IoT in damn near every device around you is exactly why this whole story is NOT bullshit.
You like being afraid, eh? I can't say I get it, but it seems popular these days. Until manufacturers start either requiring an internet connection to function or bundling a 4G modem with a lifetime data plan, I can avoid IoT devices. I have a "smart TV", which is disconnected from the internet. It was cheaper than a dumb one, which is why I bought it. I have some smart lights which are isolated on the local network and not allowed out. Could they somehow be nefariously communicating with their masters? Sure, I guess. But it's not likely.
And the more YOU choose not to participate in a society that desires and demands interconnected citizens, the more YOU will become a monitored anomaly.
I call bullshit on this as well. I've worked in many different careers, and every one of them had some sort of data that needed to be analyzed. And all of it included incomplete data. Did I ever look at the incomplete data? Sure. But the very nature of it being incomplete made it far less valuable. Could some of those pieces of incomplete data be linked together to make a complete record? Maybe? But the value is in the complete data sets.
I blackhole most ad networks, noscript and purge cookies. I use an RSS reader instead of visiting websites, facebook, or twitter. I log into gmail on Firefox, and chrome gets a different google account associated with it. I have a name_phone@gmail.com address for my Android, which doesn't connect to my other google shit. Could google figure out they are all associated? Probably. But is there more value in doing that for me than there is in better leveraging the data of a hundred million other people who give Google everything? That's doubtful.
I intentionally fragment my data, because I understand that squeezing 0.001% more data/money out of a hundred million people is 100,000x more valuable than piecing together my personal data puzzle. Now, if 100,000 other people are doing exactly what I'm doing in the same way, granted, it's more even. But that's not super likely.
Unlike your fear of this being a scarlet letter, I'm of the opinion that it's camouflage. With millions of users to keep track of, the partial data needs to get dumped. Until the major corps run out of money to squeeze out of the sheeple, it's always going to be more cost effective to do that than try to piece together our data puzzle.
All these excuses are dumb ones. Sorry.
Don't want to have to wait an extra 20 minutes for dinner? Plan better. Say no to sports, band, and the other thousand things that most soccer moms seem to spend all their time driving their kids to. My wife and I manage to get home at 5:15 and eat by 6pm. If you're actually cooking a dinner, it takes longer to prep what you're cooking than to pre-heat the stove.
Want to know when your laundry will be done? Set a fucking timer on your cell phone. Takes me all of 10 seconds to do that. 5 if it's one I've used before. You don't need an internet connected washing machine for that. A fucking $3 egg timer will do the same job once you figure out how long it takes.
To the busy mom or parents, they are a godsend.
For exactly as long as they work correctly. As soon as these things stop working, get hacked, an update breaks them, or they malfunction and burn your house down, all that convenience is entirely negated. All the time saved now a stupid choice, because you're wasting more dealing with the fallout than it would have taken to just avoid it in the first place.
We already have an IoT botnet, and adding washing machines and ovens is just going to add to that. If some sizable percent of manufacturers were actually doing real security and regular updates, I wouldn't be so pessimistic. As it is, all of the "hey, this is convenient" you describe is likely going to end in tears and a lot of wasted money. Planning better and using dumb tech to do the same tasks is going to win out for the foreseeable future.
China is only a scary boogieman if you ignore all of the serious internal issues they have. They're undergoing a socioeconomic change the pace and scale of of which the world has never seen before. That can't continue if they need to divert resources to a war. It's not clear if it can continue anyway, given the serious raw material and energy shortages they have.
A million plus man army is indeed staggering, but china has 1.3 billion people that are increasingly exposed to and embracing the standards of living in the west. Hundreds of thousands, now perhaps millions of young people educated in the west, and who saw the freedom the west has. While I don't discount that China has stolen vast amounts of tech from the west, and is using this to make dramatic leaps forward, their current struggle is to take care of themselves. More and more goods are not being shipped to the west, and are instead kept for their own populace.
The major issue is this rapid pace is slowing down, and a half billion Chinese still live in abject poverty. Large swathes of China still aren't electrified. China's rapid growth is not impacting half of the country, and that's causing a lot of unrest. As China's manufacturing growth slows and exports continue to drop off, that's going to really impact their economy. None of this is conducive to them being a world military power. Regional? Sure. But definitely not one that's going to go out and conquest. That's just a fever dream.
Way back in the day I worked at a place like this. Put in 4 hrs extra during the week and kick off at noon on Friday during the summer. It was amazing. Then the parent company 500 miles away decided that it could possibly run afoul of labor laws or something, and made us stop.
That's a great way to crush morale. A better way? Have nobody in your corporate offices on Friday afternoons in the summer while we're being forced to work.
Getting laid off from there was the best thing ever. A dozen years later, and the company doesn't really exist anymore.
My current place doesn't really keep track of time. (Other than being forced to put 40 hrs into the payroll software, since that's how it works, whether your salaried or hourly.) We tend to put in more than 40 semi-regularly, but there's no pressure to put in 40 when there isn't work to be done, or if you went way over in the last few weeks.
Hope that things can be changed for the batter...
Well, he struck out on that one!
And you are required to use iCloud. I fought this battle for months, and finally just got a Dell Precision with Ubuntu, because it was time to upgrade anyway.
I did everything I could to disable iCloud, but I could never escape the random pop-ups in OSX telling me that I needed to enter my iCloud password. It was fucking ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the Android bug where Gmail tells you you can't use it because Google Play doesn't have the microphone and body sensors allowed....
That's beautiful.
It doesn't matter what docking parts it has! Stop being a bigot. It should be able to go into the hanger it identifies with.
I'll show that fucking unamerican asshole some terrorism.
And that's where I am right now, and where I have been for some time now. I'm left on the European scale, to give an idea of my political leanings. But fuck all these unamerican pussies. This pants-wetting, hand-wringing, gun-clutching, freedom-surrendering bullshit needs to die, and everyone who espouses it needs to die as well.
We didn't skip trying to go to the moon because a rocket blew up in another country. We didn't skip rebelling against England because they were mean to us. We didn't let the South succeed or not try to succeed as the South because we were afraid that someone might get hurt.
My fucking ancestors and relatives fought, bled, and died for this country to be free. I'm liberal to the point of making US liberals uncomfortable, and I haven't owned a gun in years. Why? Because I'm a gun hating liberal? Sure, a bit of that. But a bigger reason is that I'm not afraid of shit. Because I know that I live in a very safe country, and that if I die, it's likely because shit happens sometimes.
I'm not going to run around trying to hide my shriveled balls behind as many guns as I can carry. I'm not going to give up my goddamn freedom because a bunch of unamerican pussies are afraid.
So fuck everyone who has made it so that I need my balls fondled to get on a plane. Fuck everyone who made it so I can't bring a coffee into the airport with me. And fuck everyone who is not rebelling at this newest load of bullshit. Maybe people will die if we remove these restrictions. So. Fucking. What. People die every day from the cold, flu, car crashes, and falling in the tub. If you're that afraid of the safest way to travel, then I concur:
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING OUT OF A FUCKING STEEL BUNKER