Gun control is a stupid measure backed by governments who want to declaw their own citizens and thus allow massive expansion in government power by way of not having to fear any resistance from their own people. If not that, then it’s a “get out of problem free card” that they play in an attempt to “deal with crime” without actually dealing with crime. It’s either a cop out by a government refusing to look deeper than the face value issue or it’s a strategic ploy to remove the chance of easy resistance from the population at large.
It’s sold to gullible people who are under this idea that somehow you can easily eliminate a problem with a system that hasn’t been able to clamp down on drugs, crime, pretty much everything illegal and have the ability to stop mass shootings despite America having a news culture that fellates big stories like that to such a degree that it ends up developing a funnel for gullible edgelords to get their 15 minutes of fame on live TV and make them more than depressing rejects from their respective social media.
It has never worked, and any slack jawed fandom blog desperately trying to bring up places like Australia, Japan or Europe don’t seem to realize how wrong they are. Australia’s had a massive rise in illegal gun ownership and tons of illegal gun manufacture, Japan’s system basically records a lot of crimes as “suicides” or “natural causes” because it’s Japan, and the EU is just trying to eradicate any potential dissent from those it has under its “roof”.
It is not just an American right, it should be a world right to be able to own firearms to defend yourself. It’s the great equalizer that makes a 100 pound woman equal to a 300 pound man in an alleyway in terms of force, what can help a man take on three armed burglars in his own home and survive, what can help someone fight against corrupt government officials with ease. Politicians and “activists” can trumpet how an AR won’t save you from a tank, but you can’t drive a tank through everything. For that argument, I got only a few words for that.
You’re supposed to rinse it half a dozen times or more to remove the cloudy white starch. Then let it sit 10-15 min til it stops crackling/has soaked up water. Then cook it with a lid on. Once you’ve boiled it til it sits solid in the pan/the water is mostly gone, take it off the heat and let it sit 10 min for final steaming, and do not take off the lid.
The last step’s the most important one. I usually dont bother washing/soaking. Yep, i’m white.
“yep I’m white” “I only know this because I’m a weaboo”
White ppl know that rice is like… not exclusive to the japanese right?
Overlooking the obvious fact that if you are writing about or even
making games for a living then having at least a competent level of
gaming skill is necessary, much in the same way being able to read is
important if you want to comprehend literature.
The real issue here is that there are those that don’t want to
acknowledge that gaming skill is a valid form of expertise. There are
reasons as to why this situation has come about but it’s mainly to do
with how the games industry is now currently structured.
In a political sense, if gaming expertise were to be openly
acknowledged as being useful to the medium then most people in
publishing would be out of a job.
Here we all were, innocently chucking rocks at the gaming press, when Old Man Forbes walks up and shoots it in the head.
“I’ve NEVER. Eaten a DONUT. In my ENTIRE LIFE. And I’mNOT. About to start NOW.”
-Crazy customer I had today, upon being offered a complimentary donut
Why is this a real thing that happened in the real world what’s the meaning of this
I’m just gonna copy paste the story here from discord because honestly the whole story is worth hearing
so lady comes through drive thru. “Hi what can I get for you?” “A sesame bagel with extra cream cheese.” “A sesame bagel with extra cream cheese, sure no problem, can I get you anything else today?” “No” “Alright, you can pull up” and I just hear this quiet disgrunted “ ‘Please’ ?”
I’m like uhhhhh, was that even directed at me, I don’t know, I don’t know how to respond to that so I just ignore it like I didn’t hear it. I go up to the window and see this woman, which she honestly looked like a tomato with messy gray hair. Before I have the window halfway open I see her roll her eyes at me so I’m like oh boy here we go, time to put on the stupid sweet customer voice
“Hi how are you today?”
She hands me the money for her bagel and goes “Just a tip. It’s ‘Please pull up to the window.’ not ‘pull up.’ I found that incredibly rude.”
I go “I’m sorry about that, I didn’t intend for that to be rude, I just meant that it was okay to pull up to the window now.” “I know what you meant. But it was rude.” “Well, I apologize. Here’s your bagel, have a great day.” She goes “I’m a MYSTERY SHOPPER.” (If you don’t have Mystery shoppers where you are, it’s kind of like undercover boss where the store owner hires someone through the Mystery shopper program and they place a regular order just to make sure people are following policy) I’m like “… ok”
So I’m about to tell my boss and coworker what just happened when she comes in. And I jump to the front counter because no way I’m letting her talk to my boss before I do.
“Hi, can I help you?” “Yes. This bagel was supposed to be NOT toasted. You toasted it.” “Ohh, I’m so sorry about that! I didn’t hear that. I’ll make you a new one right now.” Coworker beats me to the bagel and I say “A little extra cream cheese on that.” She looks at my boss “She just said a LITTLE cream cheese. I wanted EXTRA cream cheese.” Boss goes “Oh, she said a little extra cream cheese.” “Oh”
Boss goes into kiss ass mode as well and says, “I’m sorry about the mistake, would you like a donut?” Lady goes “I’ve never. Eaten a donut. In my ENTIRE LIFE. and I’m NOT. About to start NOW.” Boss is like “… ok” and we’re all internally going sdhakgsdgkja?
So we get the bagel out and she says to my boss “And I have one more thing to say.” She leans in with a sneer. “Mystery shopper.” boss goes “We don’t do that here.” “yea you do.” “No we don’t.” “yea you do.” “Have a good day.”
Basically we’re pretty sure the lady was crazy and she was absolutely lying because Mystery shoppers are not allowed to tell you that they’re mystery shoppers, and they aren’t allowed to coach you. And even if she was, “please” is not one of the things they look for. They look for a Greeting, whether or not you repeated the order and the price back, and whether or not you upsold. We haven’t participated in the program in over 7 years.
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