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Yeah that is exactly what I think will happen here. We’re perfectly set up for it.
Many areas already have little government presence outside of the local sheriffs department. There are heavily armed ultra religious freaks everywhere, a group that heavily overlaps either the aforementioned sheriffs.
Add onto that our crumbling infrastructure. A few attacks on some important pieces of infrastructure and it’s not hard to imagine the federal government struggling to maintain control.
It’ll be lots of terrorist attacks and militias fighting each other and the remaining state trading control of territory.
Robert Fedvans has only done one thing I really liked, and it’s the original 10 episode series of “It Could Happen Here,” before he made it a long running more news-y show.
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The Syrian civil war but with 1.2 guns per person instead of 0.08
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If you want an intro to the question like people always do when asking politicians questions you could mention that China has been leading the world in green energy production
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If you have insurance but don’t have the card yet, a large chain pharmacy can likely find your insurance info themselves without a card. A few months ago I needed my meds while I was waiting for a card after switching insurance, and CVS was able to just look me up.
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That didn’t happen but if it did that is cool and good and there should be more of it
Technically he’s just making sure he doesn’t violate international law. Given the high percentage of Israelis who’ve served in the IDF, doing business with any Israeli has a very high risk of implicating you in crimes.
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Being centralized was kinda the whole point of Twitter. The problem people have is much less to do with the basics of how Twitter works and solely with 
and the changes he’s made
The only thing that surprises me is that Twitter (Sorry, X the everything app) has held on this long. At least set something up to auto post your posts on both while you transition over, but moving to BlueSky should be everyone’s obvious goal with the cesspit Twitter is now.
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Sure, but I really struggle to think that of the over 3000 sheriffs and however many mayors in this country none have tried. These are not all people with a rational way of calculating personal risk. Sheriffs and mayors are largely “The most insane weirdo you could find in the county/city.” Like, the currently sitting sheriff in my hometown killed a pedestrian drunk driving and is it’s widely known he continues to drive drunk. He clearly doesn’t think that much of his own safety, is it that big of a stretch for him to decide to save America from the evil Joe Brandon just by doing his job?
Like, do you think Joe Arpaio is out here like “Man I would love to arrest Joe Biden, but due to the risk I perceive to my own safety, I’ll have to let him go”?
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The complete unwillingness of anyone in the American “justice” system to do their fucking jobs is wild to me.
Like, if nothing else, being the one guy willing to go after a big fish will catapult you into a media career if you want it.
Why isn’t there one random rogue mayor or sheriff willing to take a big gamble and arrest someone powerful for blatantly breaking the law if for no other reason than clout? Why did no one arrest Trump for violating their mask mandates back when those existed? Why hasn’t anyone arrested Biden for violating US law by giving weapons to Israel? Or Nancy Pelosi for insider trading?
Like, will it work in the end? Probably not but fuck it, why not try? There’s nothing legally preventing it, technically high ranking politicians are no different from anyone else and if they commit a crime in your jurisdiction you have just as much right as with anyone else to drag them out in handcuffs, book them, and throw them in a cell awaiting trial. In fact, wealthy powerful people are a huge flight risk, you should probably deny them bail.
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30% seems like a very high estimate of civilians honestly, since less than 30% of Israel’s population are civilians.
Over 90% of Israeli adults are current or former IDF. Finding a place where 30% of people are civilians would honestly be impressive.
Although following the news you’d think the IDF is somehow the world’s only all-civilian military. Like that Israeli-American “hostage” whose family the Democrats kept trotting out, who finished active duty in Gaza ~6 months before October 7th. Thats not a hostage, that’s a prisoner of war.
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:this: The only innocent people who died on October 7th were Hamas fighters
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I really want to stress part of this. The US and UK are bombing Yemen for upholding international law.
There are only 3 countries on earth that are actually in accordance with international law right now, and those countries are Yemen, Lebanon, and Iran. Those are the only 3 countries fulfilling the Responsibility to Protect. Every other country on this planet (I’m glaring at China while I say this) is failing that responsibility, and then a select few are dropping bombs to prevent those 3 from fulfilling that responsibility.
Every country selling a single cent of goods to Israel is violating this principle. There is a legal and moral responsibility to be dropping bombs on Tel Aviv, and not doing so is both a moral and legal failure. Xi, I’m sorry man, where the fuck are you?
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My only “IoT” device is a Roomba, not whatever brand this was but it’s not like the Roomba brand is somehow immune to this kind of thing.
I love this machine, having 2 cats and a very furry dog it’s a life changer. A vacuum that runs every day on its own with me just having to empty the bin? Fucking amazing. Can’t recommend it enough.
I wish so badly that it wasn’t connected to the internet. Why do you need that? Can’t we just have some buttons to set a schedule? Did I really need an app?
Robot vacuums that have no internet connection do exist, but they’re worse. Like, they will literally just do a worse job of vacuuming your floor. The dumb ones just bump around randomly until it notices there’s no more dirt. The internet connected ones map the room and can put straight lines on the floor and make sure they don’t miss spots.
But they don’t actually need the internet for any of that aside from starting it. If the internet goes down it keeps the same schedule and map. Which means they could do all of it with no reason to connect to the internet.
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They say things like “battery low” and “bin full” normally.
Why yes this is totally solvable with a colored indicator light or just beeping a certain number of times
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Oh yes that’s what I was thinking of!
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I had actually not heard of the second case, it was Nintendo’s roms I was thinking of
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It is October 15th, 2024 and Stalin saved the world from fascism
Oh my god that was so scary, dark as fuck outside going 55 on country roads when I see a weird dark spot ahead-*oh fuck that’s a family of bears*. I swerved and slammed the brakes and everything is okay but holy fuck. It was a mother black bear and 2-3 cubs, they were super cute for the second I could see them.
Lately I’ve just had a fucking hair trigger on crying and if I ever do anything slightly wrong or upset my partner I feel such overwhelming guilt and start crying and then my partner feels worse for upsetting me and then I feel even worse. Like, this morning we were having a totally normal conversation, but then I said something rude that I didn’t process correctly, she was hurt, and then instead of being normal about it I had a fucking breakdown. Which sucks for me and is really not fair to her. If I mess up cooking food or planning an afternoon I become inconsolable. Especially if it was for my partner, like if I can’t do things right for her what is even the point. I think I’ve cried more days in the last two weeks than I haven’t.
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This is fucking insane Post text: Am I overreacting to my girlfriend's experience of assaulting homeless people in the past? **I am not The OOP, OOP is u/Silver_Effective_441** **Am I overreacting to my girlfriend's experience of assaulting homeless people in the past?** **Originally posted to r/AmIOverreacting** **Thanks to u/soayherder for suggesting this BoRU** **TRIGGER WARNING:** >!physical assault!< [Original Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/comments/1ebbd7e/am_i_overreacting_to_my_girlfriends_experience_of/) **July 24, 2024** So I've been dating my gf for like nine months. She just recently turned 26 and we were celebrating her birthday. At the end of the night we were both kind of drunk and were talking about our craziest stories from college. She said that her boyfriend at the time and a friend group of guys and girls would sometimes go out at night and "mess with" homeless dudes including beating them up with bats. She also referred to them as junkies and generally dehumanizing terms about them and she even mentioned that it was great stress relief. She can get pretty crazy sometimes and has a bit of a mean streak honestly, but it really shocked me when she said this. I thought she was joking because she was laughing while telling the story. But as I acted skeptical she kept affirming it was true. I just played along and kind of laughed thinking she was just drunk. The next day it still bothered me subconsciously so I asked her again about it casually and she said yeah it was true. The thing that disturbed me though was there was no remorse. She told the story like a "lol good times" kind of story. I think if she was embarrassed about it I would have felt different. I still tried to ignore it over the next days but I obviously wasn't able to because I ended up researching online for information about similar crimes in that city at that time (I didn't find anything btw). Unfortunately I definitely believe her at this point though. She never does these kind of elaborate jokes over days plus I can just tell she's being truthful just knowing her. Anyway, like I said it continued to bother me so I brought it up one more time a couple days later. This time I was more serious, basically just straight up asking how could she not feel bad about that. I was honestly just curious. She got kind of pissed this time. She asked me if it turns me on and that's why I keep bothering her about it. I said no but I just couldn't imagine doing something like that myself so that's why I'm asking. Then she started saying stuff like "why are you judging me about stuff that happened years ago" and saying it's none of my business who she slept with back then or anything else about her life. That's when it occurred to me that she might have thought I was jealous or something about her ex, since he was apparently one of the guys in that group. She might think I'm trying to guilt trip her out of jealousy related to him or something, which I'm not. But anyway, that was how it ended and I'm obviously not gonna bring it up again. Even though I honestly considered breaking up over this, I kind of saw where she was coming from in that it was a long time ago and maybe I'm being kind of a dick for judging her over this? What do you think? I'm no saint at all but I can't help that it bothers me. I can't look at her the same way now and I really think it might be over. Thanks for your advice. **RELEVANT COMMENTS** **pixiekaela** >nor but why wasn’t this a deal breaker for you???? **OOP** >>I think it was. I'm just saying I was second guessing it. It's hard to process. **~** **Virtual-Discipline-1** >Why the fuck are you with a evil person like that damn bro your a POS also **OOP** >>Sorry I'm not trying to justify it it's just really hard for me. But people do change. I was a totally different person in college too. This would be so much easier for me if she was just sorry about it. **pontoponyo** >>>But she’s not sorry. She’s mad you keep bringing it up and is acting like the dude she did those horrific things with is the problem, and not the assault and battery on innocent people. >>>This shouldn’t be hard dude. **TOP COMMENT** **Mountain-Guava2877** >She’s a psychopath. She admits to violently attacking people. >Your aren’t married. You can leave. >Knowing she is capable of this, you are underreacting by staying with her. One day she could easily do something like that to you. So take precautions when you leave. [Update](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/comments/1eh037h/update_am_i_overreacting_to_my_girlfriends/) **July 31, 2024 (1 week later)** I just wanted to let everyone know that I broke up with my girlfriend. I absolutely do not condone any violence against unhoused people. That's the reason I asked about it because it seriously shocked me, but then everyone turned it on me and acted like I was condoning it. I'm sorry but it just takes a lot of time to process when you're in a relationship with someone. You can't just end it like that. Plus you know I try to be really mindful of things like shaming women for past mistakes and relationships. The last thing I want to be is one of those guys. And when she accused me of that herself, I started believing I may be wrong. But anyway when I told her we were gonna have to break up because of what she told me, she actually looked shocked. I think she believed I was joking at first. But I straight up told her how wrong she was for doing that, which I hadn't had the courage to do before. I said how she could have even killed one of those guys and not known it, etc. She didn't have much to say, just looking really angry honestly. But anyway once I showed I was serious she started guilt tripping me about how I'm trying to shame her for her past etc. The same point she had made before. But in the end she started insulting me really harshly and eventually turned it around on me and it was like she was breaking up with me instead. However she wants to think of it is fine with me. Some of the things she said were really hurtful if I'm being honest but I know she was just angry and I just have to keep reminding myself that I did the right thing. As for reporting the crimes like some people said, I did try but I had trouble talking to a person at that police department over the phone (it's across the country from where I am). The phone recording tells me to file reports online. The online form asks me if I know who did the crime and when I check "yes" it tells me I have to file the report on the phone or in-person. Anyway I'm still working on that but it seems like there's a lot of beauracracy to do through. Sorry for not responding to a lot of you before but I was really overwhelmed. Even though this isn't my main account I want people to know I did the right thing. Take care.
[Link](https://x.com/drewjanda/status/1811545528083316798)
[Source](https://xkcd.com/2914/) My dad sent this to me this morning, we saw totality for the 2017 one and now my partner and I are in Cincinnati to head into the path tomorrow to see it I genuinely can’t emphasize how amazing it was to see. It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.
I don’t think I’ve actually seen anyone make this point before. Not only are they obviously not accidents because open your eyes, but if that *were* the case, that’s *even worse*! If they whoopsie-daisied their way into killing >40,000 people given the technology they have, taking that power away from them would need to be the highest priority! > These people, who you have just established are *lethally stupid*, have access to nuclear bombs! It’s only a matter of time before they spill peanut butter on a control panel and level Chicago! Our number one priority needs to be invading Tel Aviv and putting them all in straight jackets and padded cells for the safety of the world.
Was making coffee and considering throwing out my K-cup coffee maker because I almost exclusively use a French press now, and got curious what other people did 
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I’m sick and came to the doctor to get tested for covid, strep, and flu, since those are going around my work. I asked the doctor if I could get paxlovid if the covid test was positive, and he goes “Oh I don’t think you’d need it” Motherfucker almost everyone who catches covid should be fucking taking it wtf is wrong with you. Oh I’m young and otherwise healthy? Yeah and I’d like to fucking stay that way thank you very much, and I’ll take any reduction in the chance of becoming *permanently disabled*. Also of the medical professionals I saw today, they were only wearing surgical masks, not N95s and I can’t comprehend it. Why in the hell would you go into the room of a likely covid case not wearing an N95 are you insane? I’m so fucking sick of being the only person in this entire town that’s actually worried about catching this disease, even the fucking doctors don’t care anymore. I work in a research facility attached to a hospital and when I go to the food court and shit at best like 1/25 people are wearing masks. In a hospital. Thank you Mr Joe Brandon for ending the pandemic, you’ve truly cemented your place among history’s greatest killers.   
My trough is empty and I need more slop
And the answer is……. ::: spoiler drumroll please White South Africans! ::: You do not, in fact, “gotta hand it to him”
  There was a matching George Washington one. The best time to raze Washington and Lee University to the ground was 1865, the second best time is now.
I cannot stress enough how much worse Biden was than Trump. He’s a genocidal maniac. I can’t write the things I think should happen to that man  Ending the public health emergency was easily the worst decision a president has made in my lifetime outside of maybe the invasion of Iraq