Just wondering: if California just stopped paying federal taxes would the net effect be the same? That way they haven’t gone through the process of seceding, but at the same time they are refusing to entirely be part of the union.

Mayor Bass should be thanking us

I see another “did you even say thank you?” moment coming…

You don’t drive a car without willingness to kill

It has been a while since I’ve come across a statement that leaves me wondering how anyone came to such a disconnect with reality. Watching these mental gymnastics is making me sea sick.

I drive a car with a willingness to get from where I am to where I’m going, quickly. A comparison to a gun is just retarded: guns are killing machines because that is their sole purpose. The purpose of cars is fast transport of people and cargo.

Now, “murder” needs to show intent, and it sounds like you’re concluding anyone who is killed by a car is murdered because drivers must intend on killing someone simply because they got behind the wheel. I’m going to go ahead and assume you either a) don’t have any friends or family who drive, or, more likely, b) don’t have any friends and don’t talk to your family.

He won’t admit to taking it just because he doesn’t want to say Thank You

You mean beyond the ice wall that marks the edge of the disc? We’re not allowed to know /s

But I bet Putin said “thank you” when he received said plans…

I must have missed the War With China chapter. Where was it?

Well being the cause of most of the problems certainly makes the solution easier to find.

Britan: the tan you get by standing the the English rain.

Street Fighter. It’s fantastically bad.

In case anyone wants to know

Yeah, apparently he lives in Massachusetts.

Step 1: use a chainsaw instead.

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Better drop a grenade on him, just to be sure.

So the article says. What of it?

Here’s a fantastic case for a union. There simply MUST be a minimum number of personnel looking after any given airspace for it to be considered safe, or the whole area gets shut down. It really is pure insanity, and no single person should be responsible for all flights at an airport. If something bad had happened who would get blamed? Who would live the rest of their life knowing they had been taken advantage of and put in a position where over a hundred lives were lost? It’s simply unacceptable that one person should bear that responsibility.

I recall he was left watching someone else’s screen while they went out for a break. He did notice the collision course but unfortunately gave one aircraft a direction that was the opposite of the TCAS directive, then missed further radio comms, so the confused crew followed the ATC order and collided with the other aircraft. I think that air traffic controller got hunted down and killed by the husband of one of the victims too… a horribly tragic story for all concerned really.

Huh?? If a streaming site (or any product for that matter) is free, the user is the product - be it their time, personal info, whatever. It is known and accepted that a “free” service will have a catch that allows the provider to make money.

If a user PAYS for a service it is expected that the payment is enough remuneration for there to be no strings attached. Of course companies will look for shitty ways to do shitty things to make more money, and those companies ought to be punished, generally by a reduction in customers, for their shitty behaviour.

Not sarcastic, but rereading it now I can see why you’d say that. I’m grateful for preferential voting because there were a lot of seats that had Liberal first preference majorities that swung on preference counts. I wasn’t actually aware that preferential voting came along 17 years after federation and that it was the states that gradually brought in compulsory voting… and now in wondering why, and what happened to cause us to shift away from the British model we were no doubt following beforehand. Thanks for the new rabbit hole!