"We've done nothing to prevent it and we are absolutely stunned that it happened"

This feels like one of those things that sounds really reasonable but is, in fact, complete bullshit.

(Obviously I was being facetious, but a bit of clarification on how bullshit these laws are: )

Not familiar with Minnesota legal code, but in the states I am familiar with, assault is threatening with a weapon, not battery or attempted. Most jurisdictions I am experienced with also include threats with a weapon that was presented to the victim as deadly in the same category, so airsoft or other props count the same as a functional weapon.

8 year old trying to steal your car with a nerf blaster painted black...

That doesnt matter, it's orders of magnitude faster to generate their BS than it is to write even one well-reasoned rebuttal.

You can't debate someone that isn't arguing in good faith, and these people never ever are. Yeet and move on, save your energy for the people that have just been mislead by the altright and may actually change their opinions.

It's all fun and games until a Microsoft Purity Enforcement squad is kicking in your door.

I'm trying to imagine getting car-jacked by a 10 year old and it just keeps getting funnier. Man... that poor kid is an idiot, but at 10 there's no way this is his fault.

I fucking wish we could share medical details between government agencies, but we can't even competently share driver's license info.

Humanity, everybody!

Y...es, I did read those words.

May the raccoons treat the world better than we have.

fucking hell, how much are they shelling out for carbon emission reductions (like, say, public tranist)

Gonna be honest, I'm failing to see how having your once vehement detractors campaign for you is somehow a bad move. It seems like, if anything, a power move. IDK.

Possibly because that bus system has no fare, or they were having an exasperating day, or you are so bad at paying a fare that its easier just to have you sit down?

Its basically a template generator, which is really helpful when you're generating boilerplate. It doesn't save me much if any time to refactor/fill in that template, but it does save some mental fatigue that I can then spend on much more interesting problems.

It's a niche tool, but occasionally quite handy. Without leaps forward technically though, it's never going to become more than that.

It's hard to admit, but I find myself really hoping their read on the situation is right and that the US won't absolutely steamroller them get involved in this on Israel's behalf. Fuck, I just want to not be involved in a mideast war at some point during my life. Stability isn't worth much when its foundation is laid on the bones of children.

You're doubling down on the most implausible details, even the ones I fudged in your favor (wpm), and that's just silly. If that's truly what a stream of consciousness looks like from you, and if microsoft word really is (despite all of human history serving as a counter example) helpful to you (I loathe that software more than words can convey), then you truly are the Michael Phelps of internet commenting, and I suppose I commend you for that.

Have a good day, and I mean that sincerely, because this is a really stupid hill for me to be trying this hard to die on, and you seem nice.

A reasonable policy. Would that more people were of the same inclination, then maybe there would be less cause to use "TBI" with such frequency in sports reporting

I should have clarified - the practice by which declaring "godwin's law" would call for an end to a discussion, because it had clearly devolved beyond the point that there was anything worthwhile to continue to extract from it, was explicitly excepted from applying to discussions of fascism, where the comparison was (indeed) frequently apt