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Ah, yes, the same chart from DogsBite.org that all the anti-pit-bull types pass around like highschoolers passing around a particularly juicy note. The website with an incredibly obvious and documented bias against pit bulls. Surely I can trust their spin on things over the multitude of studies that conclude that breed isn’t a reliable predictor of aggression.

https://programming.dev/comment/15126036

No it isn’t

So many? Like, a statistically significant amount that would show in an unbiased study, or just anecdotal accounts from social media?

Eh, Vance being invisible so far is just usually how it is for VPs. I think people forget that the role of the VP is basically just two things:

1. Break ties in the Senate
2. Remain alive so they can take over if the president dies

As someone with the ability to read, you’re either lying or potentially disclosing information you shouldn’t be. According to this article on the literal DOE’s website, the average age of our nukes is 28, not 40.

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/us-nuclear-weapons-stockpile

Yeah I really think it’s that simple. Elon Musk and the like have more money than God, and that’s really the only thing Trump cares about

You’ve either fallen for the propaganda, or you’re purposely being dismissive of the efforts currently taking place. Either way, your participation in this discussion is not helpful.

I see this sentiment a lot. “Why aren’t Americans doing anything? Why aren’t leftist militias rising up to take back the capital? Etc. Etc. Etc.”

First of all, asking “why aren’t Americans doing anything” is a highly unaware question. We are doing things, but they aren’t going to give any airtime to the protests, marches, boycotts, and legal efforts taking place, because the media is now firmly on the side of those with power, not the common people.

Second of all, it’s pretty heartless of you to just casually ask us to “exercise the second amendment”, because when you ask that, you’re asking for at least some of us to die. Put yourselves in our shoes, and be honest - if you were in our position, would it be so easy and casual to just pick up a gun and join a violent revolution? Would you be willing to risk death in that situation? Personally, I’m not a soldier, I’ve never had an interest in guns, I’d be less than useless in that capacity. So I’m looking at other things we can do before escalating to that.

I get that everyone’s scared because the nation with the most powerful military on earth is falling into fascism. That’s terrifying to most Americans as well, and I think a lot of us are still frozen with that fear. I understand and agree that this problem is on Americans to fix. But I hope the rest of the world will be willing to help when we call on them, instead of just sitting idly by wondering when that magical second amendment is gonna kick in.

You absolutely sit in an ivory tower when you make comments like that though. You get to absolve yourself of the responsibility you’re trying to lay at the feet of Americans who are also suffering (and who, I might remind you, the majority of which did not want Trump in office) merely because you have the privilege of living somewhere else.

I can’t control that I was born here, I can’t control that I can’t leave here, and I can’t control that the system is so fucked that I’m basically powerless to change it. Don’t act like you’re better than me because you were lucky enough to be born into (or privileged enough to move into) a better country with a better system. If you do, I have every right to say you sit in an ivory tower.

The main point though is that this stupid blame game helps no one and just further divides the people getting fucked. Climb on down from your ivory tower and try a word of encouragement instead, or if that’s too much for you, just don’t say anything. Whatever you do though, please stop driving the wedge further between the people getting fucked, because that’s exactly what the assholes in power want.

Oh yeah that’ll surely fix everything, for all the people that didn’t want Trump in office to take responsibility for Trump getting into office.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe instead of berating us from your ivory tower (which I’m inferring from your comment is an ocean away), that maybe extending a helping hand would be more productive?

I don’t know a single lick of French but somehow my brain knew this is the intro to Foux Da Fafa, a song I haven’t listened to in over a decade

Great explanation, but I have a tiny, tiny, minor nit-pick

Basically what he said is incoherent to anybody who has worked with larger data.

I’m being pedantic, but I disagree with your wording. As a backend dev, I work with relational databases a ton, and what Musk said wasn’t incomprehensible to me, it just sounded like something a first year engineer fresh out of college would say.

Again, the rest of your explanation is spot on, absolutely no notes, but I do think the distinction between “adult making up incomprehensible bullshit” and “adult cosplaying as a baby engineer who thinks he’s hot shit but doesn’t know anything beyond surface level stuff” is important.

I promise you you’ll have a much better time here when you realize that we’re not all out to get you, and are all actually on the same side. Treat people like that, and most will return the favor.

No, come on now, don’t do that. Don’t sit here and claim you were just “asking for clarification”. We can all see the thread, we can all see how much snark you injected into that comment and the follow up replies. You weren’t just asking for clarification, you were belittling someone you thought did something “wrong”.

Please let me give you a bit of advice, if I may. Try and remember that pretty much everyone is suffering right now, and that a kind word goes a long way. Lead by example where possible, rather than trying to force people down a certain path. And try not to get too riled up if people don’t follow your lead, because not everyone will.

I downvoted because you didn’t add anything to the conversation. Do you know what Dellinger can do now that he’s been reinstated? If so, tell us. If not, find out and tell us. If you don’t want to find out, that’s ok too, but in that case you don’t have to say anything. The route you chose did nothing to further the conversation, it just ended in you browbeating a fellow citizen for making a desparate plea in a desperate time.

The one I’ve always liked is “the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is… about a billion dollars”

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So, I happen to have friends that live in Lakewood, and from the sound of it, you just might live in a different Lakewood than them. Lakewood is economically similar to the majority of other suburbs of the major Ohio cities, and seeing as I also live in one of those suburbs, I can assure you that you’re lucky to be paying what you’re paying in rent, even for a studio apartment.