PP doing PP things, like assuming he’s at all relevant after getting his teeth handed to him in the election.

Everything you say here, I have felt and am feeling as well. Before the pandemic I went out with friends and had fun. Now it’s so hard to deal with other people, it makes me so tired to fake being like them, and I beat myself up when I realise I didn’t mask well enough. It’s like the pandemic made my symptoms worse, but I think it’s just lack of practice. Also maybe burnout over everything else going on in the world.

You’re not alone bud; now you know why things have been so tough your whole life, just like us. You’re part of a big cool club 😂

“Junk” really just means “I haven’t found a use for it yet” 😅

Or,

Nothing that dangerous could possibly exist, I’ll prove it!

Or,

If it’s that dangerous, I gotta see it!

As a human, let me assure you: this would not be enough.

Well, the original bill itself wouldn’t have been written with this in mind, but the update was definitely written in such a way that it applies to everyone but can be used against prisoners as well.

These are the kind of activities typically covered under “outfitting” in U.S. law:

• Guided hiking/backpacking tours
• Guided fishing trips
• Guided hunting trips
• Guided horseback riding tours
• Guided kayaking/canoeing/rafting trips
• Guided wildlife viewing tours
• Guided photography/sightseeing tours
• Renting camping/backpacking gear
• Renting fishing equipment
• Renting hunting gear (e.g. blinds, tree stands)
• Renting water sports equipment (kayaks, canoes, rafts)
• Renting horses and related tack/equipment
• Renting photography/optics equipment
• Providing shuttle services for outdoor activities
• Catering and food services for guided outdoor trips
• Providing lodging and accommodation services for outdoor activities
• Operating ski/snowboard equipment rental shops
• Offering guided winter sports activities (skiing, snowshoeing, etc.)
• Providing guide services for off-road vehicle tours
• Operating retail stores selling outdoor gear and equipment

So I think in addition to fighting fires, they basically want to replace the park rangers they fired with prisoners.

I believe they’re referring to the fact that prisoners have been used in firefighting efforts, but they’re still subject to minimum wage and maximum hours laws when they do that work. With this amendment they could be paid nothing and thrown at fires with no rest until their bodies give out.

You think “yes, they’re citizens of the USA” is fascist shit? You’re dumber than I imagined possible. I’ll spell it out for you:

If they’re not Americans, it’s by their own choice.

If you believe there should be rules that bind but do not protect, you know what that makes you?

Obviously yes, for now anyway. That’s a question of their legal status, and that doesn’t hinge on personal beliefs or views in America. Which is kind of exactly the point I’m making, if you were able to see it.

That’s funny, I didn’t see any of those people specified in the document, and it’s been updated a few times too. Arguing intention might be interesting but it isn’t what I’m doing here; I’m going off the text of the document, and things like the right to trial are pretty valuable to me. Which of the civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution are the ones people mostly or entirely don’t care about, in your view?

Hey, I didn’t say it first. If that’s what those fuckers want, it’s what those fuckers get. It’s not a slippery slope, it’s the same idea as the social contract (well, it is the social contract): if they won’t respect the rules then the rules don’t apply to them. That might sound like a good thing until you realise the rules protect, as well as bind.

MAGA wipes their collective ass with the founding charter of this country so I’d argue that they are de facto fundamentally no longer Americans.

But where will the writers get a full series of content from, then?

It’s sort of a plot point in a novel I read once - a character can’t remember words to speak, but they can remember songs so they just pick a song that roughly conveys what they mean to communicate. The author attributed it to the areas of the brain that control speech being different than those for music. I’ve never bothered looking up if that’s accurate, but it sounds like it might be, based on this (or, it might be based on this!)

These comics feel like excerpts from a role-playing-heavy game of Caves of Qud. Dunno if it’s intentional, but it’s great.

Don’t think this will affect anything other than his cronies’ attempt at looting our country. The rest of us don’t get a look-in.

Why do people ask for me to fix their computer issues, only to ignore me or tell me I’m wrong when I give them the solution? Yet it happens every day. People are weird, man.

I point out that “the way it used to be” trained the public to see the police this way, and your response is “But it’s not that way anymore”. Do you understand how training works?

If you want this perception to change, it’s going to take at least as many decades of the police being exactly what they should have been this whole time. That’s the fact. The public perception makes sense, whether you want to admit it or not; arguing against decades of practical training is a losing proposition.

I’m not interested in your justifications, because that’s not what I’m doing here, so I’m going to block you now. Do think about this further, I believe you’ll be able to understand what I’m saying eventually.

The funny thing about being a conscious entity with the capacity to remember things is that, in order to survive and navigate the world, one tends to notice patterns in the world at large. One then uses these past patterns to predict future events. This cuts down significantly on the processing required to survive and navigate the world, which is evolutionarily advantageous because energy is at a premium.

We know this is effective because we are here and that trait has persisted in our species. It is part of the human condition.

So, you should not be surprised when we all notice this pattern of cops doing violent crime with no punishment, for decades, and we then do a human consciousness about it by assuming - with solid factual basis - that the cop is the aggressor in every situation. It is not our fault, it is theirs - the police, as an institution, lost our collective trust because of their collective official actions. Are there some good cops who do their best to serve their community, and care deeply? Yes. It’s that the official stance of every police force in America? Of course not. Stop blaming us for this pervasive attitude; we are taking the logical stance in the face of what we have observed.

I do this always. It’s the “I’m not a threat” thing. I prefer the discomfort or personal inconvenience to being seen as a threat or even causing anxiety in that direction. Maybe it makes no difference, that’s fine, maybe they think I’m weird, also fine as long as it has the intended effect of getting across that I am not a threat. It’s worth it for the times it does matter.