Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.

Bullets, even from small handguns, travel a very long distance very fast until they hit something. This is exceptionally negligent. It doesn’t matter how many bystanders there were. The most common round used in handguns is a 9mm, and it travels at upwards of 1300 feet per second and can travel for miles. No one’s life was in immediate danger, there was no reason to discharge a firearm in public. I’ve owned guns all my life and it’s negligent things like this that make responsible owners and competent police look bad.

But their charge was WITH them. There was no immediate danger. If you’re worried about the vehicle being tampered with, you call in another one. You don’t open fire in the vicinity of a market on a Sunday. Unless something inside that vehicle is a matter of national security or someone was in it, there is zero justification for opening fire. I say this as a lifelong gun owner, this is exceptionally negligent. You do not discharge your weapon at someone, especially in public, unless there are lives in danger, especially in a populated area where you do not know who or what are further down range.

Are we not acknowledging that an agent opened fire on people for breaking into a vehicle? There’s no danger to anyone’s life yet a Secret Service agent just opens fire in public where, based on the article, there were likely hundreds of other citizens around shopping.

I’d wager you’re right, the lines to the right of the deltas flex with the uniform, so they may have used a metallic puff ink screen printed on.

Me children what?

Get the fuck out of here with your Tucker Carlson “I’m just asking questions” bullshit. The little kids table is to the left of the soft serve machine.

I agree with what you’re saying for the most part, but for a population the size of Australia with 1000 respondents, a 99% confidence level has a margin of error of 4% which is perfectly acceptable. Unless the survey targeted very specific demographics versus a random sample, it should be very accurate.

I’d tend to disagree that MAGA people haven’t had a hard life. Many have been stuck in a cycle of poverty (of arguably their own creation by voting for politicians that lie to and exploit them) for generations, and MAGA talking points speak right to their frustration. Cults in general seek out vulnerable individuals and exploit that to their own means. MAGA politicians continue the cycle while blaming liberal policies, so they’re just reinforcing the Republican lie to a new generation of voters.

Fawkes wanted to bring down the Church of England fascist monarchy in order to replace it with a Catholic fascist state. It’s the equivalent of a Sunni terrorist group trying to overthrow a Shiite government and replace it with their own. He’s a terrorist, not a hero.

Now V on the other hand, was a great role model…one second, I’m being told V was also a domestic terrorist who murdered anyone who disagreed with him. I know it’s super cool and edgy to scrawl an anarchy A on your notebook and act like V was a superhero, but if you actually watch and absorb what’s happening in that story, he’s no better than the people he’s fighting against.

Guy Fawkes was a sectarian domestic terrorist. Sounds just like modern day MAGA to me.

This right here. Traffic is a shit show in my city, my usual route could add 20+ minutes if there’s an accident or lane closure, so I always check before I leave.

Love this logic by them. If I commit a crime in a state I’m not a resident in, they can’t touch me! She headed up Trump’s businesses while he was in office and those businesses are heavily entrenched in NYC.

Gonna blame its marketing, because this is totally up my alley but it’s one of maybe three films in this list I’ve never heard of.

No, Apple can begin supporting RCS and play nice with other phones (not just Android) using a modern, encrypted, and open messaging platform. But they choose to fall back to SMS intentionally in order to market their devices as superior.

Eh? RCS is an open standard. Yes, you’re basically required to use Google’s RCS endpoints at this point unless you want to host your own, but it’s far superior to SMS. Apple made their own proprietary version in iMessage instead, so you have iPhones on iMessage and every other phone in the world on RCS.

It very much is a difference. If you’ve ever worked a corporate job, the relationship between devs and execs is exactly the same as a publisher and studio relationship. The devs did not want to release the game yet, nor do I think they wanted to support legacy consoles, but the shareholders forced that on them.

Thank the EPA (in the US) for that, not consumers.

Also, 40 cents in 1975 is equivalent to $2.28 USD today.

Brand new previous year models go on sale for that cheap every year when new models are released. If you want a killer deal on a brand new car, start looking at the handful of 2023 models still sitting on lots now that 2024 models are out.

Assuming that’s about a 60 mile commute and they average 30 miles per gallon, that means it costs your friends 1/8th of their income just to drive to work.

2 gals x $4/gallon x 2 trips = $16. That’s one hour of their eight hour shift that they have to work just to be able to work.

That’s if they get 30mpg. At 20mpg, it costs them $24, or 1.5 hours of work just to afford to get to work.