Most Americans don’t shoot very often, even if they own a bunch of guns.

Part of it is that ammo is just expensive. A trip to the range can burn hundreds of dollars in ammo in just a few minutes.

American here. Can we begin our deportations with Musk?

Superman’s main antagonist supervillain is literally a billionaire CEO.

Yeah. Kids are allowed to love their parents. My parents are flawed. They’re not evil, but they’re the kind of people I wouldn’t spend time with or associate with if they weren’t my parents. We simply have different values and opinions.

But I still love them and love spending time with them, and they feel the same.

Exactly. Finding one is difficult because of barriers to entry caused by the realtor lobby.

There are Real Estate Agents that aren’t realtors. But they’re rare because of issues like the lock boxes that prevent buyers agents from being able to show a house if they aren’t a realtor.

I left the business

He probably did intend to scare insurance company executives. I can see calling it terrorism, even if I think he should get off.

I’ve dealt with back pain, and during the height of my battle with the insurer I absolutely would’ve been tempted to kill the fuckers given the chance.

First step is to revoke the trademark on the word “Realtor.”

The only way to use that word is to be a member of the National Association of Realtors, which is a private lobby that spends most of its money governments, people, and companies that if you aren’t a realtor you aren’t a real estate agent.

Houses for sale usually have locks on the front to let agents access the home, but those Sentrilocks are only accessible to realtors. So the NAR essentially has a monopoly on home sales, and monopolies increase prices.

But they also demand way too much money. Selling a $400,000 house to a real estate investor shouldn’t come include 2 $12,000 commission checks for the agents.

I worked in the retail mines for a few years as both a peon and a peon first class (manager).

Everyone had stories about the absolutely worst assholes they had to deal with. I always told my staff to try to remember that the reason those assholes stood out so much amongst everyone else is because they were not the norm.

Most of our customers were fine or even great. But since that was the norm, they don’t stand out in our memories.

Also, I was always willing to kick out asshole customers. My staff’s job was to take care of the customers. My boss’s job was to take care of corporate.

My job was to take care of my staff.

The Microsoft Zune had a y2k9 bug caused by a lingering clock issue from leap year from the extra day in February 2008 that caused them to crash HARD on Jan 1, 2009. I remember It being a pretty big PITA getting it back up and running.

Gimp is free, but God is the interface terrible.

Lots of free software is great. I love my QGIS and Inkscape, but Gimp just can’t replace photoshop for me.

Depending on the tool, gloves can be very dangerous.

If my hands brushes against the wrong part of my lathe, I cut my hand.

If the lathe grabs my glove and pulls me in, I’ll die.

Most life insurance policies don’t cover acts of terrorism.

I’m just saying…

That’s called “American Healthcare” since it doesn’t include teeth.

My sister said she loved not being told by random creepy dudes at the grocery store that she’d be prettier if she smiled more.

I went to one in Orlando one time.

I don’t remember what the conference was even for, but I sure as shit remember scuba diving in the Aquarium at Epcot.

I’m talking about batteries, specifically. And the US is decades behind on batteries.

If I can get one I’m buying one. I think their performance/cost ratio is excellent, and will probably make NVidia and AMD bring down their mid-range card prices.

But I’m not forgetting who made the prices come down. I’m all in on supporting a new player in the GPU game, and the 5060 would have to make me grow new teeth or something to get me to give Nvidia money over Intel at this point.