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... in other, good, news, Missouri has apparently struck down a bit of GOP union busting bullshit, nixing a right to work proposition republican lawmakers had been trying to push through. Thing got loving crushed, with a two to one margin putting it down.

Quote from: Naxza on August 07, 2018, 11:44:03 am

Somehow it's okay to nest 24 boolean flags in one series of nested if statements.

Why... How... What??? So much evil in this world.

I'm pretty sure I had something along those lines for some later-in-semester modern logic class assignments. Can be fun! For fun. Never do it for any other reason. The logic gods will strangle you in your sleep.

I maintain that if the gun is properly retained and handled (finger off the trigger) it cannot go off, this is my argument that you can safely wear your firearm with a round in the chamber, hammer cocked, and the safety on,

Like... okay, but that's just kinda' wrong. Those things do make it safer, but not safe. Shit happens, and about the only way you can be sure an otherwise functional gun is not going to fire is if it isn't loaded. Full stop. There's no guarantee for anyone that they're going to be able to keep a firearm pointed in a safe direction in case of an accident.

We accept the risks for certain roles, and ideally provide the resources they need to mitigate them as much as possible, but that doesn't mean they aren't there (or a civilian can actually meet similar standards of mitigation, for that matter. Big ol' difference between being fed for keeping up to standard and having to feed yourself while keeping up to standard, et al).

E: ... any case, yeah, like basically every single bit of firearm training I've encountered over the course of my life have been pretty clear on transporting loaded firearms, with the directive about as clear and consistent as pointing it at something you don't want to die. Don't. Don't do it. The same alcoholic with a history with organized crime that taught me how to make pipe bombs when I was a pre-teen even repeated and was consistent on that one.

I... don't think we'd entirely run out at all? Pretty sure there's non-organic processes that produce oxygen dottering around, and beyond that there's bunches of the stuff entangled with other junk. The air might go oxyflat, but something near half the earth's crust is apparently made of the stuff so you're going to have some hella' hoops to jump through to get rid of it all.

Lies. That's clearly an escaped member of the alphabet zoo. Call animal conrol and ell hem you found he missing T.

Take the time to varyingly literally shoot a russian before bricking, maybe. Burn an effigy of the electoral college for overriding the popular vote in favor of a republican fuckwit again, too. Go find a branch of fox and co. to metaphorically set on fire, I'unno. Buncha' stuff to do before bricking someone, really.

Would you guess as well that the younger generation isn't doing so well about being taught how to manage emotions and where to draw clinical conclusions about how they feel?

I'd guess they're doing a few orders of magnitude better than the older generations did, at least. They were pretty impressively shit at it, partially visible by how poorly the people they raised do at it. Stuff like widespread lead poisoning didn't help, heh.

Not doing so well is still pretty applicable for the younger'ns, though. Maybe another generation or two five and mental healthcare will be purged of its stigmas and/or actually funded and we'll be able to upgrade to doing middlingly well!

[We don't generally have corruption like "sorry you won't get power to your house unless you pay us extra" kind of stuff.

Shit along those lines is pretty damn common, actually, from what I've seen. Usually not specifically re: basic utilities (though ware the poison and whatnot) and it's more "know the right person who you just happen to provide favors to or this shit will take forever and possibly cost you extra", but various low level bureaucracy and (breaking/bypassing the) law related shenanigans have it pop up pretty often.

Consumer level corruption largely amounts to stealing pens from work, but the next step up -- administration and elected local officials, mostly -- gets into all sorts of shite, particularly in less urban areas. The good ol' boy network is pretty bloody rotten.