Ultra Max Power
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On 12/3/2023 at 10:27 AM, BeachGuy23 said:
There's literally hundreds of thousands fewer conservatives now than two years ago.
Surely there are studies out there backing this up right?
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9 minutes ago, u.k. said:
If the intent is to ban sexual acts, then ban sexual acts, don't ban homosexuality.
acts of... in public
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I blame lawyers for this. Probably outdated wording, but the obvious intent was to ban sexual acts in public. Anyone who can't see that has an agenda.
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The Real Truther is pretty bad at math. If 47% of poll respondents say they know someone who died of covid, that doesn't equate to 155 Million American deaths.
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That is sad and scary. T&P.
I think the guy in red tried to impede Johnson getting to the net and threw himself at him.
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1 hour ago, The Real timschochet said:
I’m not blaming Indiana. But if Indiana allows the purchase of a weapon without a background check and Illinois does not, then logically folks with a bad background who live in Illinois and want to buy a gun are going to drive to Indiana to do it. Same with California and Nevada. That’s why, for any gun restrictions to be effective they really have to be federal.
Then this idea fails at the Federal level because of Mexico gun laws and the lack of border enforcement. Guns are still making into the country and only in the hands of the worst of the worst.
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I think the WNBA team would beat 90% of high school boys teams.
A "State championship" caliber team would absolutely smoke a WNBA team.... like Clay said.
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Wealth inequality is at an all time high.
Record poverty.
Record credit card debt.
Home affordability is the lowest in 40 years.
Every one of these continue to trend in the wrong direction under Biden.
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1 minute ago, Cloaca du jour said:
Um....drinking age...cigarettes....sunday beer sales...so many things that vary from state...even gas prices.
Yeah, but its the same line of thinking of blaming Indiana for Chicago's murder rate. It's never made sense to me.
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38 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:
. Because if one state is restrictive next to another state that is permissive the results are meaningless
Why would you say this?
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8 minutes ago, GutterBoy said:
Yes, I know a rifle is different than a handgun. I've played enough COD to pick that up.
I'm asking specifically about this type of rifle, and what you're telling me is it's no more powerful or deadly than other guns, which according my research is inaccurate. I'll share some links and ask you to comment.
5.56 vs .22, this guy says there is no comparison on the power. Your thoughts? https://youtu.be/jIVp71snruk?t=151
Here's another link describing the damage an AR15 does vs a 9mm. Do you disagree with these ballistic tests? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edsmI6UCj4w
Here's another gun person describing how this gun is better at murdering people than other guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjjWPvL9j0
So this is all wrong?
no, you're just conflating things.
An AR is a model gun that can be chambered in like 10 different calibers. So that is about 10 different levels of "powerful" coming from that weapon alone.
Depending what gun you use to shoot each caliber, an AR may be more powerful for some and less powerful than others.
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9 minutes ago, GutterBoy said:
I don't care what it looks like, answer my question. Is an AR15 any more powerful than a 22? or a 9mm handgun?
An AR is a model, 22 and 9 are calibers.
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5 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:
lol, this dipsh1t wants us all back in the coal mines
Yeah silly me. A 40 hour workweek is basically the new black lung.
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3 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:
I don’t think you’re understanding. Progress was good then, and it’d be good now
No, your "progress" example was people being phased out of their jobs. Its not good for them.
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29 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:
Actually probably most of them died, but their children and grandchildren were able to go to college and get safer jobs with better benefits
And then complain about those jobs being too tough. Perfect circle.
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6 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:
Was it a reality for a lot of companies when people worked seven days a week down in the coal mines, getting black lung if they were lucky enough not to get killed earlier in a mine cave-in?
Times change, and thank goodness for that!
Yeah, pretty sure all those coal miners were laid off. Thank goodness for that.
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3 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:
That's true. Just surprised he was able to shoot that many people then still get away. Pretty scary for those in the area.
I also assume everyone in Maine is a white guy with a beard
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12 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:
In reading the responses to what I proposed (unsurprising but illuminating) what it really comes down to is your basic philosophy of government. If you view the government as malevolent, will all sorts of intent to impose an ever increasing tyranny or authoritarianism, then you’re never going to agree on any measure that could even theoretically remove your individual rights. On the other hand, if you view the government as sometimes bumbling but generally well meaning with a serious interest in preserving public safety without destroying freedom, then you’re going to be more willing to accept at least moderate proposals for change. It’s basically the same debate that took place over Covid.
And we see how well they handled Covid.
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11 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:
Certainly the messenger is annoying, but I think it’s fair to ask whether the 40 hour work week is necessary any longer.
With so many increases to efficiency and productivity why do we still need it?
And if we do still need it, then what’s this all for? Technology, AI, work from home, etc etc, what good is any of it if there’s no corresponding reduction in the work grind?
I think the theory is that you make more money when the business improves. It's not the case everywhere, but as someone who works hiring actions I'm confident when I say that if you give the employee a choice of taking more time off or getting a pay increase as a reward, the pay increase is the clear winner.
I think the generation wants to work less and get paid the same and that just isn't a reality for a lot of companies.
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33 minutes ago, kilroy69 said:
Orrrr allow people who CAN be remote TO be remote. I am a recruiter. I have literally no need to be in an office. Ever. I can get my job done sitting on my pontoon. What would ever make me want to go back to wasting 15 hours a week if I did not have to. A lot of jobs are like this. A lot of jobs can be done at home.
If you can work remotely and a company is still forcing you to come in, it may be time to look for a new position. If no one is willing to come into work the company will adjust. If they find someone to fill that opening it's the nature of the business.
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6 minutes ago, GobbleDog said:
7 pages trying to figure out how to keep guns AND reduce gun violence rates. Better background checks, national gun registrations, ban certain types of guns, lock up mentally ill, cops on every street corner, ban violent movies and music, etc... anything to keep our precious guns.
Gun rights & low gun violence rates cannot coexist. Either keep the guns and learn to stomach unconscionable carnage (which Americans have), or give up the guns. One of the other. Any other discussion is pointless.
Gun homicide violence is a pretty isolated problem once you boil down the stats.
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18 minutes ago, Strike said:
This guy said he was hearing voices and expressed a desire to shoot up a national guard base or something like that. We don't know the details of why he was released. What I do know is we have been pulling back our support for mental institutions for at least 30 years. Would he have been released in, say, 1980? I don't know. But maybe we need to do more to identify, detain, and diagnose mentally ill people.
Totally agree with you here. This is a difficult situation to navigate and we should be doing a lot better on this front. Again I just see it as another area that we're all too divided on to make any real progress. Mental health in America is falling fast and we're in standby mode.
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6 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:
This is a reasonable response. And I admit I don’t know how and when it is proper to determine that someone is mentally ill. But this guy supposedly was talking about shooting up a military base. It seems like something like that should be enough to take his guns away.
I'd agree depending on the context used. Someone who is a serious threat should have their access to a gun reviewed/restricted.
Our society has developed a bad habit of taking everything literally. I'd personally never make a statement about shooting someone or something up, however there are people who say dumb things in that context that aren't real threats. I wouldn't support taking their guns away because they are idiots.
A kid at my daughter's middle school was just suspended for 3 weeks for "making death threats" after he said he was going to kill one of his friends after they had an altercation in gym class. These are they type of scenarios that just ruin the whole process for people who would be willing to buy in.
I'm not trying to make this a liberal vs conservative thing, but I do feel that the liberal crowd needs to pick and choose their battles better. When everything is a problem, nothing is a problem. I could actually get behind some forms of gun control and gun reform in theory, but hell no I'm not going to loosen the reigns to an ideology that goes too far with things on the regular.
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5 minutes ago, kilroy69 said:
I do not see a lot of hating work. What I see is a lot of people starting to question the idea of free hours. If I am going to come INTO the office you should pay me for the commute. Even if it is only 20 mins. I was commuting 3 hours a day at one time to do a job I have been easily doing from home for years. Just so I could make a living wage. That is 15 hours a week I was losing from my life. For freeeeeeeee. That is not even counting the gas or the stress of having to fight 94 every day. The cost of going IN to work is what I hear most people complain about. Not the hours or even the job.
I think this causes too big of a headache for the company. When I first started at my current job there was a policy to live within 45 minutes of the base due to recall timelines. It was slowly complained about enough that they finally dropped it.
If employees start demanding companies pay for their commutes, companies are going to dictate commuting restrictions.
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Rent gouging is a byproduct of Bidenomics. Everything the landlord provides and covers has gone up 15-20%, so the rent naturally does as well.