This, in a nutshell, is everything wrong with our society. We have way too many people who think that jaywalking and prison rape are equivalent.
In most countries, jaywalking is not even a crime. In America, it is mostly used by the police to target young people and minorities.
Is that because other countries aren't as litigious as the US? I'd almost be willing to bet that the reason we have jaywalking laws is because some idiot walked out into the street from behind a parked car, got hit, they (or their family) sued the driver, and won. As for how the laws are currently used, I can't really speak to that. But on my frequent visits to New York City it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that if you didn't have any of these regulations that people would be crossing the street every 2 feet and driving a car would pretty much become impossible (well, more so).
Dust 514 would probably also have been much more successful if they had launched it on the PC and not just PS4.
Dust 514 was on the PS3, not the PS4. If I remember correctly, it was to be replaced with Project Legion, which is now to be replaced with Project Nova which I recently registered for an invite to be an alpha tester.
All that aside, I agree they should have released Dust on the PC.
Take a look at what the food you eat comes packaged in.
I'll take mine as an example
Breakfast: Oatmeal, bacon and eggs. Oatmeal packeaged in a plastic container, bacon in a plastic pouch, eggs in in plastic foam carton
Lunch: Salami onion and cheese on rye (good jewish rye not that supermarket crap): Salami plastic pouch again, cheese plastic pouch, rye bread paper bag
Dinner: Stir fried vegetables (from my garden)
Of that only the food I grew myself, and the Rye I got from a kosher baker didn't have plastic involved, and I am not all that sure about the Rye. Is it any wonder there's plastic in poop ?
The question is what effect does it have ? Probably none as food grade plastics are indigestible and aren't going to be spending that much time in your digestive tract. Kids after all have been eating the damndest things since time immemorial
Let me make sure I understand. You go out of your way to get bread from a kosher baker, and make a point of how its good Jewish rye and not supermarket crap, and then slap on crap salami from a plastic pouch instead of buying some wrapped in paper from a butcher?
SJWs do, in fact, have a term for what they consider to be "toxic femininity." It is, like so many SJW things, an acronym that probably meant something once but no one really cares any more: "TERF." A "TERF" is basically a feminist who believes that feminism is something for women and not "for everyone" or something like that.
If you can't figure out WTF that means, congrats, you're sane. There's no real difference between a "TERF" and a regular "feminist" but SJWs hate "TERFs" anyway even while they spout the same crap. It's actually kind of hilarious: TERFs have seen the same censorship that conservatives have, with some "feminist" college banning a feminist speaker because she was a "TERF." SJWs are insane.
I had never heard of this either so I searched it. Here is what I found on Wikipedia
The term "TERF" is short for "trans exclusionary radical feminist". The term is used by trans advocates to describe feminists who oppose the inclusion of trans people in female spaces and organizations, whereas those it is applied to see it as a mischaracterization and a slur.
> but a lot of the rules do make sense for any community:
And a lot don't.
54. Not to speak useless words or words that move to laughter.
No humor? Wow, talk about sticks in the mud.
/sarcasm On noes, humor! Quick, that's eeeee-vil !!
Judging by all of the responses of "if its supposed to be a joke, I don't find it funny", it sounds perfect.
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It really annoys me that sometimes when I want to find a quick reference to how to do something relatively simple, that could be documented on a one page bulleted list, all I can find is videos of some illiterate idiot rambling on about the topic with loud techno blasting over the narration.
And how they always spend the first 3 minutes talking about who they are, and asking you to subscribe to their channel, etc.
they have the right to exercise their freedom of speech.
And the have the right to exercise their freedom to leave the United States. I'm a vet, two of my kids served, my dad, my grandfather all served. These whiney ass brats would be the first to scream for military aid if the Chinese invaded Washington State.
They have the rights you mention because of the US military and all the men and women who put their lives on the line protecting the rights of these ungrateful children.
Time for them to shut up or ship out.
I'm just going to come out and say it, you sound like a total piece of shit who only served in the military for a legal opportunity to kill people. Otherwise, you might understand the hypocrisy of your tirade about fighting for and defending the rights of your fellow Americans but in the same breathe criticize them for having the audacity to exercise those rights.
Will you feel the same way when it's a D nominee being accused at the 11th hour. Because it will happen, assuming they ever nominate a decent presidential candidate.
I don't know. Will that D nominee be belligerent, evasive, and misleading in their response to inquiry? If so, then to hell with them too.
How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
(I'm not saying he's innocent by any means but I'm certainly not writing him off as a rapist because I dislike him)
The correct question is "How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime due to your response to an accusation?"
Regardless of the merit of the accusation, the way in which Kavanaugh lost his shit and was all over the emotional spectrum does not present a picture of an emotionally stable person. This would instantly get you crossed off the list at the vast majority of employers. Also, imagine if a woman had responded to something in this manner. She would likely instantly be cut and be labeled an emotionally unstable wreck that would be unfit for such a position.
No, the true hypocrisy comes when these people under 18 who send pictures of themselves are charged with producing and distributing child porn, as an adult.
I woke up at 3 am in a NYC hotel with abdominal pain. I tried to defecate, I made myself vomit thinking it was gas or a stomach bug. I got back in bed for another hour before meeting up with the rest of my family to go to the airport for a flight back to Houston. At the airport I tried a few more times to go to the bathroom, still thinking it was some kind of food poisoning or constipation. By the time we were in the air, I knew it wasn't food poisoning.
We landed in Houston and I drove myself straight to the hospital. I waited in the ER for at least 5 hours during which they would intermittently check on me and drew some blood to check my white cell count. Eventually they confirmed it was appendicitis and gave me some morphine so I could finally get a little rest. Around midnight I finally was taken in for laparoscopic surgery.
I spent the next 3 days in the hospital with an IV and a little suction bulb in my side. I was barely 30 years old at the time and in good physical shape.
OP put the beginning of their comment in the subject line. To read his post in full: "Until antibiotics no longer work", obviously referring to the the over-prescription of antibiotics in general and their reduced efficacy as a result.
Agreed. I had my appendix removed about 6 years ago. After waiting in the ER for over 5 hours in intense pain, morphine, anesthetic, surgery, and 3 days in the hospital the bill was over $40,000 before my insurance kicked in. I was just over the 3 month mark at my new job when I qualified for health insurance, so I was incredibly lucky.
actually there is, its called fiduciary responsibility.
Fiduciary responsibility just means acting with the best interests of those represented as opposed to serving your own interests. It does not obligate a company or corporate officer to prioritize profits above everything else.
Not when it comes to food insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need food at some point and the best way to ensure the best food for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to housing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need housing at some point and the best way to ensure the best houses for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to clothing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need clothing at some point and the best way to ensure the best clothes for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Yeah, it sure does suck when you feel sudden and unpredictable hunger pangs and have a steak at your favorite restaurant only to get a bill for $43,000.
Last month, I somehow tore a hole in the arm of one of my dress shirts. I went to a shop to buy a new one. I'm now homeless and living under a bridge due to the tailor sending my account to a collection agency over a bill I received in the mail two weeks later for $107,000.
Do you see how your reductio ad absurdum argument makes you look like a callous asshole?
Office layout and the bathrooms are honestly two of the most accurate indicators of how employees are treated that I've seen. If you interview at a place with a bathroom that looks like a place you're likely to be mugged or raped, or if the toilet paper is empty or so thin that you can see through it, run.
My daughter dreams of going to MIT one day... I'll have to pay something for cost of living, but I won't spend a dime on the school itself. And she's well on track to get there too. If I lived in the U.S., I'd have to plan taking a second mortgage to cover her education even on those high salaries.
Why wouldn't you have to spend a time on the school itself? Are you assuming she'll have a full scholarship, or does Norway pay for its citizens to attend universities in other countries?
That is actually not 100% true as it varies from state to state. In Texas, it is completely to change lanes in an intersection, so long as it is safe to do so. Source
Agreed. I know for a fact my twitter is shaddow banned and ive had numerous posts on FB removed and banned a number of times for innocent posts simply for going against groupthink.
either everything goes, or they are no longer innocent in what is allowed on their platforms. choice is yours.
Can you share what you did to get your numerous facebook posts removed and banned for simply going against groupthink? I'd personally like to experiment and reproduce these to see if I also get banned.
According to this it looks like the distribution of medical school graduates by gender appears to be pretty close to 50/50 at 47% female and 53% male for a whopping difference of 6%. Compare this with the distribution of nursing facility residents by gender where you have a 32% difference favoring females.
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This, in a nutshell, is everything wrong with our society. We have way too many people who think that jaywalking and prison rape are equivalent.
In most countries, jaywalking is not even a crime. In America, it is mostly used by the police to target young people and minorities.
Is that because other countries aren't as litigious as the US? I'd almost be willing to bet that the reason we have jaywalking laws is because some idiot walked out into the street from behind a parked car, got hit, they (or their family) sued the driver, and won. As for how the laws are currently used, I can't really speak to that. But on my frequent visits to New York City it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that if you didn't have any of these regulations that people would be crossing the street every 2 feet and driving a car would pretty much become impossible (well, more so).
Dust 514 would probably also have been much more successful if they had launched it on the PC and not just PS4.
Dust 514 was on the PS3, not the PS4. If I remember correctly, it was to be replaced with Project Legion, which is now to be replaced with Project Nova which I recently registered for an invite to be an alpha tester.
All that aside, I agree they should have released Dust on the PC.
Take a look at what the food you eat comes packaged in.
I'll take mine as an example Breakfast: Oatmeal, bacon and eggs. Oatmeal packeaged in a plastic container, bacon in a plastic pouch, eggs in in plastic foam carton Lunch: Salami onion and cheese on rye (good jewish rye not that supermarket crap): Salami plastic pouch again, cheese plastic pouch, rye bread paper bag Dinner: Stir fried vegetables (from my garden)
Of that only the food I grew myself, and the Rye I got from a kosher baker didn't have plastic involved, and I am not all that sure about the Rye. Is it any wonder there's plastic in poop ?
The question is what effect does it have ? Probably none as food grade plastics are indigestible and aren't going to be spending that much time in your digestive tract. Kids after all have been eating the damndest things since time immemorial
Let me make sure I understand. You go out of your way to get bread from a kosher baker, and make a point of how its good Jewish rye and not supermarket crap, and then slap on crap salami from a plastic pouch instead of buying some wrapped in paper from a butcher?
SJWs do, in fact, have a term for what they consider to be "toxic femininity." It is, like so many SJW things, an acronym that probably meant something once but no one really cares any more: "TERF." A "TERF" is basically a feminist who believes that feminism is something for women and not "for everyone" or something like that.
If you can't figure out WTF that means, congrats, you're sane. There's no real difference between a "TERF" and a regular "feminist" but SJWs hate "TERFs" anyway even while they spout the same crap. It's actually kind of hilarious: TERFs have seen the same censorship that conservatives have, with some "feminist" college banning a feminist speaker because she was a "TERF." SJWs are insane.
I had never heard of this either so I searched it. Here is what I found on Wikipedia
> but a lot of the rules do make sense for any community:
And a lot don't.
No humor? Wow, talk about sticks in the mud.
Judging by all of the responses of "if its supposed to be a joke, I don't find it funny", it sounds perfect.
It really annoys me that sometimes when I want to find a quick reference to how to do something relatively simple, that could be documented on a one page bulleted list, all I can find is videos of some illiterate idiot rambling on about the topic with loud techno blasting over the narration.
And how they always spend the first 3 minutes talking about who they are, and asking you to subscribe to their channel, etc.
they have the right to exercise their freedom of speech.
And the have the right to exercise their freedom to leave the United States. I'm a vet, two of my kids served, my dad, my grandfather all served. These whiney ass brats would be the first to scream for military aid if the Chinese invaded Washington State.
They have the rights you mention because of the US military and all the men and women who put their lives on the line protecting the rights of these ungrateful children.
Time for them to shut up or ship out.
I'm just going to come out and say it, you sound like a total piece of shit who only served in the military for a legal opportunity to kill people. Otherwise, you might understand the hypocrisy of your tirade about fighting for and defending the rights of your fellow Americans but in the same breathe criticize them for having the audacity to exercise those rights.
Then I guess its so long, and thanks for all the beef.
Some people get smarter. Some get more stingy and paranoid and want to pull the ladder up behind them.
Will you feel the same way when it's a D nominee being accused at the 11th hour. Because it will happen, assuming they ever nominate a decent presidential candidate.
I don't know. Will that D nominee be belligerent, evasive, and misleading in their response to inquiry? If so, then to hell with them too.
As far as I'm aware it's not proven yet.
How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
(I'm not saying he's innocent by any means but I'm certainly not writing him off as a rapist because I dislike him)
The correct question is "How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime due to your response to an accusation?"
Regardless of the merit of the accusation, the way in which Kavanaugh lost his shit and was all over the emotional spectrum does not present a picture of an emotionally stable person. This would instantly get you crossed off the list at the vast majority of employers. Also, imagine if a woman had responded to something in this manner. She would likely instantly be cut and be labeled an emotionally unstable wreck that would be unfit for such a position.
No, the true hypocrisy comes when these people under 18 who send pictures of themselves are charged with producing and distributing child porn, as an adult.
I woke up at 3 am in a NYC hotel with abdominal pain. I tried to defecate, I made myself vomit thinking it was gas or a stomach bug. I got back in bed for another hour before meeting up with the rest of my family to go to the airport for a flight back to Houston. At the airport I tried a few more times to go to the bathroom, still thinking it was some kind of food poisoning or constipation. By the time we were in the air, I knew it wasn't food poisoning.
We landed in Houston and I drove myself straight to the hospital. I waited in the ER for at least 5 hours during which they would intermittently check on me and drew some blood to check my white cell count. Eventually they confirmed it was appendicitis and gave me some morphine so I could finally get a little rest. Around midnight I finally was taken in for laparoscopic surgery.
I spent the next 3 days in the hospital with an IV and a little suction bulb in my side. I was barely 30 years old at the time and in good physical shape.
OP put the beginning of their comment in the subject line. To read his post in full: "Until antibiotics no longer work", obviously referring to the the over-prescription of antibiotics in general and their reduced efficacy as a result.
Agreed. I had my appendix removed about 6 years ago. After waiting in the ER for over 5 hours in intense pain, morphine, anesthetic, surgery, and 3 days in the hospital the bill was over $40,000 before my insurance kicked in. I was just over the 3 month mark at my new job when I qualified for health insurance, so I was incredibly lucky.
Also, realize that _disrespect_ can also be earned.
One way of doing that is to indulge in pointless semantic arguments.
So in other words, disagreeing with you...
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actually there is, its called fiduciary responsibility.
Fiduciary responsibility just means acting with the best interests of those represented as opposed to serving your own interests. It does not obligate a company or corporate officer to prioritize profits above everything else.
Not when it comes to food insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need food at some point and the best way to ensure the best food for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to housing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need housing at some point and the best way to ensure the best houses for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to clothing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need clothing at some point and the best way to ensure the best clothes for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Yeah, it sure does suck when you feel sudden and unpredictable hunger pangs and have a steak at your favorite restaurant only to get a bill for $43,000.
Last month, I somehow tore a hole in the arm of one of my dress shirts. I went to a shop to buy a new one. I'm now homeless and living under a bridge due to the tailor sending my account to a collection agency over a bill I received in the mail two weeks later for $107,000.
Do you see how your reductio ad absurdum argument makes you look like a callous asshole?
Office layout and the bathrooms are honestly two of the most accurate indicators of how employees are treated that I've seen. If you interview at a place with a bathroom that looks like a place you're likely to be mugged or raped, or if the toilet paper is empty or so thin that you can see through it, run.
My daughter dreams of going to MIT one day... I'll have to pay something for cost of living, but I won't spend a dime on the school itself. And she's well on track to get there too. If I lived in the U.S., I'd have to plan taking a second mortgage to cover her education even on those high salaries.
Why wouldn't you have to spend a time on the school itself? Are you assuming she'll have a full scholarship, or does Norway pay for its citizens to attend universities in other countries?
It's illegal to change lanes in an intersection.
That is actually not 100% true as it varies from state to state. In Texas, it is completely to change lanes in an intersection, so long as it is safe to do so. Source
Agreed. I know for a fact my twitter is shaddow banned and ive had numerous posts on FB removed and banned a number of times for innocent posts simply for going against groupthink. either everything goes, or they are no longer innocent in what is allowed on their platforms. choice is yours.
Can you share what you did to get your numerous facebook posts removed and banned for simply going against groupthink? I'd personally like to experiment and reproduce these to see if I also get banned.
A shame that there will probably never be an official Half-Life 3 considering that Half-Life is what originally launched the Steam platform.
According to this it looks like the distribution of medical school graduates by gender appears to be pretty close to 50/50 at 47% female and 53% male for a whopping difference of 6%. Compare this with the distribution of nursing facility residents by gender where you have a 32% difference favoring females.