I lived in the Deep South for a number of years and these idiots are everywhere and think literally everything is a sign of the end times. Hurricane coming? End times. War breaks out anywhere in the world? End times. House fire? End times. Bad cell phone service? End times. Red light taking too long? End times.

These dipshits are brainwashed and there’s no getting through to them.

You know who else looks ripe???

others say she had the right to say that because she was hurt and my girlfriend should have said yes

Nobody normal with average or above intelligence would say that

Sooo…you did, right?

I hear that Metallica is the safest band to take through an airport because they haven’t set off a metal detector since 1989.

“Hey I wonder if anyone posted the Gow-yup.”

Me, just now.

My ex and I are gonna hook up this weekend.

I mean you would think…

Pff! Where’s the fun in that?

Don’t touch liquid nitrogen with your bare hands.

Don’t touch glowing metal with your bare hands.

Don’t touch exposed wire with your bare hands.

I find myself thinking about this more and more as I get closer to retirement. I’m hoping that I get enough sufficient notice of my own death that I have time to close my checking/savings accounts, help liquidate any property I have that my kids don’t want, and convert as much as possible to cash. I intend to tell my family that any debt collectors that come knocking are to be told, in no uncertain terms, to fuck all the way off.

You can negotiate that rate. Tell them you need travel and housing reimbursement too. Rural locations tend to pay higher so don’t let them lowball you.

The English horn is neither English nor a horn.

Taco Bell serves fast food of average quality and that’s the dull reality of it. I have never in my life experienced bowel discomfort from Taco Bell, nor have I known anyone who has. I’m convinced that people who go on about such a thing are from inferior stock - the type of people who, in an apocalyptic scenario, are the ones who become food.

Well looky who’s back for her rabies booster! Come on over here and give ol’ Doctor McFadden a little sandy! 😚

An important distinction that I don’t want to get lost in our discussion is that this isn’t just a camera. It’s a device designed to provide a user with someone’s identity and, by extension, available information about the target without their knowledge or consent. I can instantly think of half a dozen ways that can be used to bring harm to others, some of which meet the legal standards for harassment.

So taking someone’s picture, and using facial recognition to acquire their identity and entire digital footprint for unspecified use by another private citizen, all in secret…line seems awfully clear to me.

I think it would be necessary. And if anyone has a problem with it let them bring legal challenges. In fact, let’s run arguments for and against identity and information harvesting by private citizens against private citizens through the courts and see what shakes out. Seeing as how your position is based on what’s legal as opposed to what’s ethical, I bet you’d be in favor of that.

Consider the hammer analogy, which says that my right to swing a hammer ends where you begin.

My right to privacy doesn’t end simply because I venture out into public. If I decide to go out, and someone little secret camera sees and records me, and creates a file to the effect of, “This is gigastasio and he was seen crossing 5th and Spruce at 11:32 am today, here’s who he was with and everything known about them available on social media, news reports, and more,” freely accessible to another private citizen with no need for that information, that’s antithetical to the value of respecting and protecting our privacy.

You would not walk up to me, ask my name, and begin searching me while I stood there and watched. If you did I would either ignore you or lie to you, which would be the proper response. If that behavior is wrong, so is secretly collecting someone’s identity, whereabouts, associations and other info. And there are very sound counterarguments against the “nothing to hide” stance that can be better articulated by others than I can do at the moment.

Rather than taking the attitude of “there’s already public surveillance, so more is okay,” I would instead say there’s already surveillance, so resist the temptation to add even more and work to dismantle what currently exists.

Isn’t every gun a euthanasia gun??