The word genocide itself is banned? Or you can’t use it in reference to isreal? What if you’re talking about WWII? Or you’re one of the people protesting that call Biden “genocide Joe” (which is not specifically referencing Israel, but implies it pretty hard)…

I only ask because banning words is a pretty fuckin Republican thing these days and this don’t seem like that kinda place.

Oh shit… My mother was actually a computer… There was a time when that was an actual job title in certain fields.

Gonna have to register my mom now…

“COMPUTER OR COMPUTER-DRIVEN MACHINE OR DEVICE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT FROM A DIGITAL MODEL.”

I can print an origami pattern on my inkjet using my cell phone…

My father wasnt a great role model, so I got to see that movie on the big screen as a little kid.

The dog shit joint was one of the few parts I really comprehended completely, and the direct line to the sewer immediately made me think of it :)

Direct vent to sewer gasses…

“It’s mostly Maui Waui, but it’s got some Labrador in it”

Gotta be a couple folks in here old enough to catch that one, right? ;)

This is a ridiculously well authored article, and it makes it harder to read than the typical “just say what the audience wants to hear” clickbait that news has become, but it’s well worth the effort :)

Primary extraction (of rare earth metals) in the US is limited; only one active mine, the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility in California, produces rare earth elements domestically.

That stood out for me :) I’d expect California to have more stringent mining requirements than anywhere else and be less likely to have a mine looking for these very contemporary materials… Dafuq is going on here Oregon? New England? Both have rare earth reserves, let’s go…

It’s a girl, My lord, In a flatbed Ford…

Browser gets a vote when it comes to HTML. Loading the site on your browser might not look the same as it does on someone else’s.

Hell… The author could have an adblock plugin themselves… :)

Id have thrown a David Tennant in there…

I might be one of those people Michael Caine was talking about ;)

Why not add yet another $20/mo subscription service?

Polls are crap anyway… Lol

Lol, elections don’t get decided by straight ticket states, they get decided by a handful of states (with occasional exceptions) that sit on the fence, and shit like calling yourself a dictator is exactly the sort of nudge that’ll put em off.

Trump might be appealing to the states that would have voted for him anyway, but there’s no actual gains there to be had… Ya know?

Did he actually say that shit? Please tell me he said that shit… He’s hosed next year if he said that.

Agree completely. Old school calculator is wrong, but why? Pemdas wasn’t really big in school curriculums until around the turn of the century, but the order of operations existed at the previous turn of the century, and should operate correctly on every digital calculator ever made…

Gonna allow PlayStation and steam to sell games on the Xbox?

I’m 100% in favor of games being available on every screen. All games. Every screen.

It looks like either pushing in on the center section, or possibly rotating the center section, but there’s no practical means for either…

It looks like there’s the possibility of putting a small wire into the smaller hole on top of the barrel that forces the cam lobe looking deal inward to pull the sear out. I’m thinking that’s probably the most likely. Basically ends up being a small button above the barrel and pushing the button will fire it (or given the shape, pushing the whole thing against something would be more likely).

It also looks like a quarter turn of the upper section in relation to the bottom could possibly disable/enable it. I think that’s the purpose of that lobed section…

We’re at a point where someone claiming weed use can reasonably be assumed to have used it legally. Even if they live in a state where it’s illegal (a minority of places), they could have easily made a road trip over a weekend.

A positive THC test is in my opinion not even remotely an indication of having broken any laws. It’s recreationally legal in far too many places now for that to be the assumption.

One day I was walking and I found a big log. I rolled the log over, and underneath was a tiny little stick.

And I thought “that log had a child”

If they banned all alcohol for everyone, its indiscriminate, and I would not consider it to be discrimination (I'd consider it a bad idea based on the obvious). In your example, a ban on wine, but not whiskey, with the publicly stated intention of reducing alcohol intake among women, would be the equivalent, and I'd absolutely consider that misogynistic. In the case of a wine ban, yes, it would be immoral to impose that ban, because it would be targeted at women specifically.

They aren't banning cigarettes. They're banning menthols, and the publicly stated intent is to affect use of cigarettes among minorities. The policy is specifically intended to affect a demographic. Not because I say so, or because I think it does… it's what they're citing as the basis of the policy… they published it as such.

The pragmatic solution is to ban cigarettes. That would still affect the minorities disparately, but it's no longer an inherently racist proposal at that point, because it's about tobacco use period, not just the tobacco use specific to the minorities.

It's not a false analogy, it's just brutally logical and completely disregards the merits of the situation…

Logging is the deadliest occupation on earth. Banning minorities from the logging industry would greatly improve their odds of survival. It's exactly the same as banning their chosen cigarettes.

I don't really have a preference on tobacco bans at all tbh. I do think people should have options, but I don't disagree with the intent of smoking bans either… the issue here is, it's not a choice between those two for everyone, it's a selective ban that removes the options from a singular group, and the selection is based on race and orientation.

The merits of the ban are, in my opinion, not all that relevant. I don't disagree with banning cigarettes entirely, I don't disagree with onerous taxation as an incentive to reduce sales, I don't object to any measures that are indiscriminate, because I don't really care that much tbh, I switched to vapes in 2012.

I object to the specificity.

From another perspective, were talking about a ban on tobacco that selectively preserves tobacco use for straight white people… does that make it more clear why I object?