The second ammendment was wirten back when the people and the government had the same weapons.

That was the point. A point that has been lost over the years.

It’s easy, you just aim a little lower.

A person has to get in that tank, and sooner or later, they have to get out again…

That could have been me… I once had a virus in the 90s. I didn’t know I had it until I took a floppy into the university to print something, and it alerted me. So I installed McAfee, it found and took care of this virus. Then a month later my PC wouldn’t boot. Long story short, I had to remove McAfee to fix it. The experience stuck with me- antivirus has caused me more problems than any virus ever did. I have lived dangerously ever since. (Though before I run anything even slightly questionable, I will fire up a disposable VM)

My (now ex-) wife hates it… But our kids do it all the time, so what’s the difference if I do too?

I do, and I prefer 2560x1440

I still have a ~30 year old tube tv that has never needed anything, it still works… But I’ve been through at least 4 HDTVs.

Every part doesn’t have to last forever if the parts can be replaced…

I grew up in Boston, it was not only accepted, but expected.

There’s an etiquette to elevators and subway trains and buses, and really any other confined space- it’s better for everyone if you let people get off before you try to get on.

When I first moved to Phoenix, I was on an elevator at a mall, when the doors opened for my floor, two teenage girls tried to push their way past me and my wife… But I’m a pretty big guy, so I just kept walking. The one that was directly in front of me got knocked on her ass. I felt a little bad, I hadn’t intended to hit her that hard… But only a little.

It probably helped put her mom at ease that I am woman

Probably somewhat… As a man, it’s a crapshoot what kind of reaction I’ll get if I try to help someone else’s kid. Last time I was ice skating with my kids, a little (like 4 years old I’d guess) girl had fallen, she was getting quite upset, she was trying to get up but couldn’t get her skates to cooperate. Her older sister (who wasn’t much bigger) was just standing there kind of helpless while their dad (who didn’t have skates on, so wasn’t allowed on the ice) yelled incoherent instructions from 20 feet away. I asked the girl if it was ok if I helped her- she didn’t even say anything, just grabbed onto me, and let me pull her to her feet- and that’s when the dad decided to ignore the rules and walk out onto the ice himself finally. He grabbed her with a bit of a dirty look in my direction. They left shortly after.

It is definitely that, but the justification for it is it’s not the intended use of the drug.

Weird, my ex had endo as well… Didn’t want sex for a long time, and I was doing my best to be understanding and not pester her… Then she unexpectedly ended up in the ER with extreme pain and heavy bleeding, bad enough she was on morphine and needed a blood transfusion… It took months, but I eventually found out she had cheated on me with our son’s best friend’s dad, and that apparently triggered the event. Hence why she’s now my ex.

My (now ex-) wife developed diverticulitis after a few months of mounjaro… Apparently that’s not uncommon…

Not necessarily… Several of the new weight loss drugs are primarily something else, and the weight loss is an “off-label” use. My (now ex-) wife was prescribed mounjaro for her type 2 diabetes, and proceeded to lose a considerable amount of weight. She wanted me to do the same, but insurance only covers the primary use, I wasn’t/am not diabetic, so I’d have to pay out of pocket, and that shit is expensive.

Would be really interesting to find out a lot of lefties in red states had guns that were off the books… Don’t look at me, I lost mine in an unfortunate boating accident.

Or you could, you know, ask people what they mean when they say it…

Fuck grocery shopping, buy a house.

I think you misunderstand a little… I am someone that grew up riding the short bus. I have been on the receiving end of this kind of ableism all my life, even before I knew it was a thing or what to call it. That’s why it pisses me off so much anytime some person or forum or whatever discourages use of specific words - it’s not helpful and often tends to backfire and hurt the people you’re so valiantly trying to defend.

I think you have it backwards - calling someone a slur doesn’t make the negative association, society as a whole has already decided those traits are negative, and as a result, we use them as slurs. Stopping people from using hurtful words does not fix the problem, I think it lets some people self-righteously think they’re helping, but it doesn’t really do anything.

We’ve seen that happen with using “gay” as an insult - society has shifted over the years, so that being gay is no longer seen as a bad thing (at least not so much so as it was in the 90s, we still have some room for improvement…) therefore it has lost its power as an insult. Somebody calls me gay today, I don’t really care - it’s inaccurate, but it doesn’t hurt me any. And because it doesn’t hurt me, they’re not going to use it as an insult, because that’s what they’re going for, and it’s not effective.

But certain classes of people will always be looked down on, so those traits will always be used as insults. If society makes it unacceptable to use those words, assholes will continue to use them when they think they can get away with it, or find new words. Think of how many words there are for “mentally deficient”. Many of those words were the clinical term for specific disabilities until they fell out of favor after being used as insults. Stupid is one, as is idiot, moron… The only real difference is recency.

But sometimes you want to convey the backwardness, or that something is a product of a past that should be let go… is it still a slur if you’re not using it as a slur? Kind of like cracker, if you’re using it to refer to a white person it’s a slur, but nobody is going to stop you from calling a saltine or a cheese-it a cracker because that’s what they are… Or do we have to call them mass produced unleavened bread products?