“drastically increases your odds and everyone in the household’s of dying at the receiving end of said gun”

“maybe she can educate him that gun ownership drastically increases your chances of being killed by a gun.”

““Risk” increases from an infinitesimally small number to...an infinitesimally small number.”

Having guns around is not a “huge risk”, it is simply a non-zero risk.

“You and those you loved ones are far more likely to be killed by an automobile than a gun. “

Just to clarify, though owning a gun does make the chance yourself or your family member will be shot with said gun non-zero, it is not particularly dangerous if you’re a responsible gun owner. And yes, while I would be loathed to kill another human being, if you attack me in my home I’m not going to ask questions...…

Honestly it sounds like you’re doing great. You’ve paid off a large amount of student debt in just 2 years and have a good job. You didn’t mention how old your son is but even if it took you 2 more years to pay off the rest it isn’t that long in the grand scheme of things. After that you can move to an area with…

You don’t “believe” that regular people can want to get paid to have sex for a living?

The second timeout is bogus, sure, but the first one was legit racism. It sounds like you’re confused by this?

Costco...

More like “You’re more likely to kill yourself with a gun than to be shot by someone else, then we don’t have to pay out...”

Are there no degrees of badness when it comes to this kind of conduct? I mean, is Franken really the same as a 31 year old guy who wanted to have sex with 14 year olds? Is nuance dead?

Okay, then 95% of women are all bold-faced liars. All in the name of avoiding “conflict”...

Doing my IFR training and I was surprised to learn that most structural failures in thunderstorms, in GA aircraft anyway, are due to the pilot trying to hold the plane steady. Apparently the correct thing to do if it’s so bad is to just let the plane bounce and hope you don’t fall out of the sky.

BECU

Use a credit union instead of a bank, they’re better in every way and have all the bells and whistles the big banks do these days. You’ll establish a history and they have the lowest rates for things like autos and other loans.

Research is key. Modern technology is amazing. Use a calendar and set reminders, but you actually have to follow through and do things. That’s most of being grown up, just not being lazy...

Absolutely, in an ideal world. These people are human after all, so things like, I don’t know, giving him the minimum amount of pain medicine required for a given scenario could occur.

So, for things like this I like to imagine it applied to other groups. If it then becomes morally reprehensible perhaps that’s a sign that doing so to the original group isn’t the correct approach.

Hmm, here in Washington they don’t seem to care about cameras. I’ve seen a couple people snapping pics with their phones while chatting with their CSRs.