JohnWhigham
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Fintech professional in Chicago
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Comment · 4 years ago
Hello Jack Thompson
Comment · 4 years ago
it was meant to facilitate another American revolution (against our own government should it turn tyrannical).
"Was" is the key word now. People have become so indoctrinated and addicted to 24/7 news cycle that they'll more readily use them against their own neighbor than the real source of the problem (government/corporation collusion).
Comment · 4 years ago
Guns are a tool, a very deadly tool, but a tool none the less.
Really tired of seeing this argument. They're made for killing, period. Fertilizer, box cutter, automobiles all have other uses. Killing is not one of them. For guns, it's in the top 3. And I say this as a gun owner.
Comment · 4 years ago
Doesn't track for many places in the US. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control in the country, yet also has a mass shooting every other week in the summer.
Comment · 4 years ago
Children left to their own devices nowadays would just endlessly scroll Tiktok. They don't have the mental capacity to stop otherwise.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's been shocking the amount of "emergency" funding for Ukraine that has been passed in the past 2 months. If it were for anything else other than the military, Republicans would have a gargantuan hissy fit over it and probably filibuster it to death.
Comment · 4 years ago
Read Dr. Shanna Swan's new book, it's all about this. Very scary shit
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not against all usages of it. I think where one needs a supremely robust material (like in the military) it's very useful.
However I think it should be banned from any and all contact with foodstuffs.
Comment · 4 years ago
Much of the Midwest is corn and soybeans, both garbage since a good portion of them are synthesized into corn/soybean oils. We should make better use of the farmland but Big Agro would rather torch their fields than stop their government handouts.
Comment · 4 years ago
What do we do with the leftover toxic brine?
Comment · 4 years ago
Reading about the Mead Reservoir the other day and now this, I'm thoroughly convinced the US needs some sort of large scale disaster for something to really change in this country.
There's obviously various pockets in the country that suffer from shitty public infrastructure (e.g. Flint, Michigan), but for most of the country, it's been OK; they're still able to to go to Wal-Mart to get their feed and be content. There's always talk about potential future disasters, but it never seems to come. We've had an inept federal government for multiple decades that doesn't work for the people anymore. We need an episode of millions of people to get mad enough for something to happen.
Comment · 4 years ago
I once heard that you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time around
It's also "you are your friends". If you're normally a mild-mannered guy that starts hanging around belligerent unscrupulous types, well, to outsiders you're one of them.
Comment · 4 years ago
1 billion to just to say "nah I actually don't want to do this". 1 billion for, after all is said and done, nothing to actually materially change. Does that sound supremely fucked up to anyone else? All that fucking money...and it just goes to whomever bank is financing this because nothing happened?
What a massively fucked world we live in.
Comment · 4 years ago
In the context of divorce court fucking over men, California is by and far the worst in the country.
Comment · 4 years ago
11. Get a prenup. No, really, do get one.
While true, unfortunately in many (blue-leaning) states, they're starting to become at the judge's discretion. Absolutely sickening to be honest.