Americans graduate from 12th at 17/18

So I think I’d have been 12, and it was a public generic school

And if that sounds too early, hunting season started like a week earlier than the class and another 12 year old in my class already had his license (lots did) but that kid climbed a fence with a loaded shotgun while hunting and blew off a couple of his toes.

So like, it’s hard to argue it was “too early” because the kids were already running around unsupervised with guns.

Before Columbine people would go hunting before school and if they didn’t get anything they’d come straight to school with their gun in the back window of their truck. After they just stopped leaving them clearly visible.

since kids aren’t usually allowed to train with guns

What?

I went to a rural school, and everyone had a “hunters education” class in like 7th grade. We never touched a gun but we could legally go hunting with a gun after.

A shit ton of kids hunt, and most ranges are fine with kids if an adult is with them too.

Like, it varies state to state, but in lots of areas it’s weird for someone to graduate highschool before shooting a gun.

But besides all that, guns aren’t difficult.

so can any person with no expirience technically just pick up a gun and start shooting people?

So yeah, pretty much.

What an idiot…

He just insulted all his customers and put “/sarcasm” at the end more like a “just a joke bro” instead of any actual sarcasm.

Saints was just a way to appeal to polytheists back when everyone hadnt moved on from multiple gods.

That fertility goddess? She was a person, and now she’s a saint and a road to jeebus. Some chief whose corpse you’ve been carrying around for 100 years? Perfectly cool, lots of Christian churches did the same thing.

Especially for Catholics, praying to a saint is like calling God’s secretary, that’s why they all have their own fields like “gaming”.

Locals got a way to continue existing rites and festivals, the local leader got to tell the church they were converted, and no invasion “had” to happen.

It was the franchizification of millennia old religions that are practically extinct today.

New Zealander

Oh good, I thought they were Australians…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii2nenUg

I read somewhere that “Dead by Daylight” has a (relatively) high percentage of women, because there’s zero voice chat.

That’s obvious enough that you don’t need to go to a Nazi website to read about it…

For years people have been pointing out how substack is harboring opening Nazis, the website isn’t gonna ban them, and everyone still using it is just helping them promote Nazism

I understand why so many people keep telling you specifically not to go to college now at least

What?

, just go into the trades instead.” This view seems increasingly common, and it’s worrying. There’s a trend of glorifying blue-collar work while demeaning white-collar paths, as if pursuing higher education is somehow less valid. Young people should be encouraged to reach for higher education and intellectual growth, not steered toward careers that can wreck their bodies with manual labor.

It sounds like you’re upset that some people are saying you should go to school for something that will have available jobs…

By all means, if you want to be an unemployed coder, go into coding.

They just want a label they can claim.

They’re not asking for a subculture, they’re asking for a descriptor to feel unique.

Typical teenager stuff

As a neurodivergent

Fucking everyone is “neurodivergent” because there’s thousands of places to diverge in hundreds of different ways

Is someone was “typical” in every single aspect, just smack dab in the middle average, they would be the most statistically unique person on the planet.

“typical” isn’t even always best, it’s literally just the range of average most people fall into.

And if i could i would select the physically attractive ones so that all people can have a girlfriend.

No wonder you said this goes sideways every time you try to talk about it…

Because it’s almost always just done on a racial bias and not something voluntary targeted at eliminating genetic diseases.

Even then, a lot of that stuff has a racial lean. Things like Sickle cell may be a huge advantage in places with malaria, but a negative everywhere else.

There’s 100% some generic issues with no positive tradeoffs, but any system that would incentives them from not reproducing and passing on those genes would just be too open to corruption.

The risk/reward just isn’t worth it

It’s kind of a shitty job, so lots of people sign up, do it a very short time, and quit

Sometimes they sell the account, sometimes it gets hacked.

But it’s a way for people who shouldn’t be able to deliver for whatever reason, are able to deliver.

If you were nicer, people would stick around longer and try to help you underthings…

You get that?

An Ontario film distributor has alleged that the shootings are linked to an intimidation campaign by other film distributors to prevent popular South Indian movies from appearing in large chains.

Guy who distributes Indian movies claims attacks on random movie theaters are to prevent his movies from being watched…

I didn’t search very hard, but I can’t find a single other source for that being a thing.

Even if it was, that’s basically the opposite of a protection racket. You get that right?

Yeah.

If you pay protection, it’s because the payment is less than random thefts would be.

The gang you pay, is supposed to be scary enough that random crime doesn’t happen in “their” areas.

So you getting robbed, is an insult to their reputation. And to regain that rep, they find the idiots who robbed a store under their protection.

Now, whether or not you see any of that money back isn’t really for sure. Because what matter is the reputation among the criminal underground.

But the whole process is outdated, I’d be surprised if it’s still happening large scale. Most likely only for businesses who are already breaking the law, they couldn’t contact cops anyways.

Like a methlab.

You can’t call the cops even if you know who robbed the methlab. So if you don’t have muscle. You pay for protection

It’s not like they backed factions based on ideology…

In virtually everyone of those proxy governments it was a dictator who agreed to back one side or the other

I keep hoping they won’t fuck this up… But it’s EA.

With how ridiculous COD is, all they have to do is keep it relatively on theme and they’ll get a shit ton of people.

Weird…

I thought it was clear the issue was how they asked, but apparently not.