It’s pretty easy for gangs to acquire cocaine and that’s illegal pretty much everywhere.
Even if you could wave a magic wand and disarm the American populace gangs would still be able to get guns from dirty cops, military arms dealers, or just get them from war zones. There’s virtually no accountability of the military aid that we send overseas to support our side in proxy wars.
I do. It’s a big country so maybe your corner of it is as you describe. I have personally lived in 5 different states and visited most of the rest and never encountered anything like what you describe.
Much like all over the world there are lots of bigoted idiots, but they are very much the tiny minority of Americans and they do not represent this country or its values.
If this country is so terrible why do we struggle to keep people from coming here to live illegally, or “undocumented” if you prefer that term?
> Supreme Court turn to the batshit insane side of reality.
Following the Constitution as written instead of legislating from the bench is batshit insane?
Federal protection of abortion rights should come from Congress, not an overreaching activist Judiciary. Also, if you’re in California nothing has changed about access to abortion and nothing will change for the foreseeable future.
For logical consistency either states have control over both guns and abortion, or neither. The picking and choosing exposes this as a religious crusade.
The establishment and mainstream media led by Hillary Clinton pushed the completely fabricated “Russian Interference” narrative that included the fake Steel Dossier, an FBI investigation, and undermined Trump’s Presidency as illegitimate for the entire 4 years!
Now we have people calling the Conservative members of the Supreme Court illegitimate as well because they disagree with the Dobbs ruling.
I’m just not seeing evidence of a widespread Conservative bias, and plenty of evidence of widespread Liberal bias.
Russian interference has been absolutely proven, and was in plain sight to see being openly invited by 45. The Mueller report’s conclusion was that there was interference from Russia, read it.
The current supreme court has lost it legitimacy considering how some justices were appointed, and how Mcconnell blocked Obama from appointing his own judge he was entitled to appoint, and how Thomas has refused to refute himself from a case where he clearly has a conflict of interest.
Your comment about fuel is definitely valid. However, what is so special about COVID as it currently stands now in 2022? There is zero hope of containing it, as it has become endemic so lockdowns are pointless. There are several vaccines and effective treatments available. It is not significantly more deadly than several other common ailments like typical influenza variants. I understand why we all did what we did in 2019-2020, perhaps even early 2021, but why are we still treating COVID like it’s a special case?
I hate tip culture. It’s just a way to hide and then pass on the true cost of employee wages to the customer. I agree with you, expecting a tip by default is an anti pattern. If someone is feeling generous or really impressed with the level of service provided, they should be free to offer a tip, but I hate feeling compelled to do so even if the service provided is mediocre at best.
The other fatal flaw of Wayland is that it’s support on anything other than Linux is abysmal. I can run an X server on Linux, BSD, Commercial UNIX variants, Minix, macOS, OpenVMS, and even Windows. Heck at one point there was even an X server for DOS!
I'm running FreeBSD myself and there is in fact a working Wayland stack. THe only issue is that the KDE integration is currently broken so I can't use it. But I've been told by people using other DE's and WMs like sway that it works great.
But yes X is a great common denominator. I used it back in the 90s with Xappeal on DOS. Was great at college when we ran out of free X terminals.
I think that's the point. The idea is to come up with every reason to deny people. It's a backdoor handgun ban unless you're wealthy and well connected enough to deserve one.
Even if you could wave a magic wand and disarm the American populace gangs would still be able to get guns from dirty cops, military arms dealers, or just get them from war zones. There’s virtually no accountability of the military aid that we send overseas to support our side in proxy wars.