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I find it highly disturbing that all my social media feeds have advertisements for 'pee-proof underpants'.
So far, the work at this place has been pretty easy. But they don't allow you to access the internet. At all. I might get asked back, but at this point, I'm burning through the work they're setting me...
The thing about gun control is that it doesn't lower crime. People find a way to assault, attack, threaten, and brutalise others if that's what they want to do. It just means that gun massacres don't happen. And the big, "thoughts and prayers" events that get reported on aren't just 'crime' - they're 'massacres'.
As for the mental illness angle: in June 2016, a man with a knife threatened a busy markets at my local shopping centre. He'd escaped from a mental health facility, and got hold of a knife. He was taken out by cops, who shot him (non-fatal), and the ricochets got three bystanders. Nobody died. That day, I had two friends with their children at restaurants that face onto that market. They went home with an exciting story, and one even said she got the shopping done afterwards. Because the mentally ill guy couldn't access a gun, he couldn't massacre the people in the market. He could threaten them - he'd have threatened them with a crowbar or a baseball bat or a wifflebat - but he couldn't shoot ten, twenty, fifty people because he couldn't get hold of a gun.
Gun control doesn't change crime - people find weapons with which to commit crimes. But a gun is made to kill many people in a short period of time from a long way off in an impersonal manner with no training or expertise required. No other weapon presently available does this.
But America passed its event horizon when it saw children die at the hands of a gunman and did nothing - or, at best, half-measures.
President Obama had it wrong for once: it's not wisdom that America needs, it's will. And America's politicans, at least, lack anything resembling a spine.
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NaNoWriMo is going...badly. I'm only at 8.5K and I think I'm supposed to be at 12K.
I'm getting the best writing done in the morning, though - rising early before going in to the client.
So far, the work at this place has been pretty easy. But they don't allow you to access the internet. At all. I might get asked back, but at this point, I'm burning through the work they're setting me...
The thing about gun control is that it doesn't lower crime. People find a way to assault, attack, threaten, and brutalise others if that's what they want to do. It just means that gun massacres don't happen. And the big, "thoughts and prayers" events that get reported on aren't just 'crime' - they're 'massacres'.
As for the mental illness angle: in June 2016, a man with a knife threatened a busy markets at my local shopping centre. He'd escaped from a mental health facility, and got hold of a knife. He was taken out by cops, who shot him (non-fatal), and the ricochets got three bystanders. Nobody died. That day, I had two friends with their children at restaurants that face onto that market. They went home with an exciting story, and one even said she got the shopping done afterwards. Because the mentally ill guy couldn't access a gun, he couldn't massacre the people in the market. He could threaten them - he'd have threatened them with a crowbar or a baseball bat or a wifflebat - but he couldn't shoot ten, twenty, fifty people because he couldn't get hold of a gun.
Gun control doesn't change crime - people find weapons with which to commit crimes. But a gun is made to kill many people in a short period of time from a long way off in an impersonal manner with no training or expertise required. No other weapon presently available does this.
But America passed its event horizon when it saw children die at the hands of a gunman and did nothing - or, at best, half-measures.
President Obama had it wrong for once: it's not wisdom that America needs, it's will. And America's politicans, at least, lack anything resembling a spine.
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NaNoWriMo is going...badly. I'm only at 8.5K and I think I'm supposed to be at 12K.
I'm getting the best writing done in the morning, though - rising early before going in to the client.
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Agreed.
On the work subject: How does anybody get ANY job done these days without internet access? My entire company would grind to a halt without it.