"OK, devil did it, I'll buy that. How are the prayers and exorcisms working out for you?"

"um..."

My. God. Yes.

Japan is the 3rd largest economy in the world.

What /u/Vlacas12 means is this; There are $X tons of CO2 released naturally. There are $Y tons of CO2 released due to human activity.

$X isn't such a big deal, taken apart from $Y, because nature recycles it. Add in $Y, which is more than nature can make use of, that's a big deal.

Does that makes sense? OP is breaking it down, you're taking a total approach. One can't say either view is wrong.

And if the consumers weren't made whole, those are some of our company vendors. Price hike for us, less money for us.

I should note: My company shares profits very equitably and is 100% aboveboard as to reporting our financial health and plans.

Another reply from me.

"Defund the police", is about the dumbest political slogan I've ever heard in life. And I ain't new here.

Too much to unpack from that phrase. You and I know the idea is to divert police funding to more appropriate responders.

And yes, drop the drug war. That's not gonna fly because it's an effective way to lock up "undesirables". Read: "POC, white trash, anyone we don't like."

Sane reply there. Of course reddit will bury you for not toeing the party line. Comrade /u/Colt1911-45

I'd argue this; Police don't need more funding and training. After all, you can't train morals. It's nice to think more training would work, but as you say, "If we keep shitting on policing as a career you are gonna get more lazy and stupid cops and some who join to bully people. " I'd say it's far, far too late. We've been there for decades.

If we keep spouting "ACAB", and I'm a believer BTW, we push them into tighter and tighter isolation. There are no good outcomes from isolating a group of armed civilians.

We need to fund teams who will intervene in situations where armed men do not belong. Mental health crisis's come to mind. We should not be sending a bull to deal with an unruly teenager or a man having a schizophrenic episode. FFS, cops have responded to suicide calls and shot the "offender".

Anyway, sorry you got beat up for that post. Nothing terribly controversial there. I see less and less ability for us to have a civil conversation in America.

(BTW, LOVE your username. My Government Model is my all-time favorite. The history behind that machine is fascinating. Got a framed canvas print of the original 02/14/1911 patent by John Browning. Say it with me, "Back-to-back world war champs baby!")

"You're not cop, you're little people."

Even more true than in 1981.

Killing over property. Fuck is wrong with us?

Local man had a empty trailer on an adjacent lot. Some guy came creeping around, looked like he was breaking in. Next night, this guy setup a lawn chain in the tree line to execute the intruder.

Victim survived, last I heard. Dude was shocked to be arrested for murder. Yeah, they found 5 spent .223 shells around his chair. Imagine that. Fairly sure he admitted shooting the guy, little fuzzy on that fact.

If I'm not clear, the intruder was trying to jimmy the door on an empty trailer, next door to the shooter. Shooter owned both lots and the trailer.

Anywho, over on nextdoor.com, people were defending the shooter. About 50/50:

"The fuck is broken with your moral compass?!"

and

"Fuck around and find out."

America doesn't have a gun problem. We have a morality problem.

Parade that flag around me you goddamned fascist, see what happens. What is it you filth say? "Fuck around and find out."? I am game, all in. "Gagging" would be the kindest result I can think of.

"We have hateful views and speech, so what? Why are we being cancelled?!"

You're being cancelled because polite society finds you to be vermin.

Now, would you like to talk about current Republican legislation to limit the 1A? Money says you do not want to talk about that particular cancer. Fucking coward.

Ah! Makes more sense. But I see Disney simply telling stories that resonate with children, making 'em money. Every example you give is a child's power trip fantasy. "Yeah! I could do that thing!" Got any kids around? They're dumber than rocks when it comes to nuance; They're not reading life lessons into a cartoon.

Do you honestly see Disney having some sort of moral agenda? Reddit tells me all corporations are mindless money-making machines with no morals.

If you state that Disney does have some sort of agenda, especially a liberal one, why aren't they publicly dropping the hammer on DeSantis for his shenanigans? (May be getting far off track here, especially if you're not up-to-date on the story.)

That was the most unnatural damned thing. Got the frisson thinking about it...

It's funny when they discover stuff like Animal House or Porkies.

LOL, and we were prepared for horror by Rikki Tikki Tavi and the like. JFC, who thought having proto-Darth Vader, Orsen Wells, narrate would make it a kid's film?!

First day of fifth grade, next day. Didn't sleep, wouldn't eat, passed out in the 105° Oklahoma heat. Made it to the hallway! They scooped me up and took me to the front office, only place with air conditioning.

> pajamas that will melt to your skin

You must have been there in the day. Hung my footies on the wall-unit bathroom heater after The Muppet Show. It was Sunday night, I had to shower!

Dripping plastic and black smoke.

What sort of moral obfuscation? "Corrupting the youth" is a charge that must be heard. And you must be serious.

LOL, my house has both. Drove me nuts trying to hit in my outdoor closet (interior wall).

What if we only repealed the 26th? Would that kick the voting age back to the states? Was that how it was before? I was all of 2-months old, don't remember.

You got me thinking. It's not really the same difference is it? Just the same effort. And you're right, this country couldn't pass an amendment making it illegal to eat orphans.

They're more than welcome to waste time and energy on the subject. Raising the voting age would require a constitutional amendment.

I was arguing with a (much smarter) friend about resistors one day. He insisted that if you got the voltage right, you didn't need one. "Dude, LEDs pull amps until they burn, sometimes instantly. You have to either get stupid lucky with current and voltage or you have to use a resistor."

To this day he doesn't believe me. "Dude, take a $1 store light apart, there's a resistor soldered onto the hot lead. Every. Time. Why would China put unneeded parts in there?!"

They made a lighter version https://imgur.com/a/p1TrdNj.

Thought this looked like a, "Look at my origami!" post. Randomly impressive.

Precedent is, "how a law has been interpreted in the past".

Making a new law shoots down that ambiguity. Best the court can do is say, "This law violates the Constitution." They cannot just make up new laws.

It's a fine line that I'm failing to impart...

No lie, about the funniest thing I've ever seen on the internet.