Humanity has bred race horses for speed, in order to get that speed a horse needs to be smaller and more fragile.

But it doesn’t matter, the sport is dying anyways. Legalized sports gambling is doing that just fine.

I mean, looking at the list of nominees in the category...not really?  It’s either someone else from “Game of Thrones”, the two hitmen from “Better Caul Saul” or Chris Sullivan from “This is Us”.  I don’t watch “This is Us” so it’s hard for me to judge Sullivan’s performance, but of the remaining 5 options, I’d take…

That’s one way to bypass the game’s annoying weapon durability system.

Holy crap, that was a video game?

Worth noting that if you go vegan or vegetarian, animals are definitely still being killed to make your food. Studies strongly indicate that a whole lot of small animals get killed in threshers and other automated machines used to harvest plants. Unless you’re growing and harvesting all of your own food, as a vegan or…

….or maybe that’s incentive to make games worth keeping? There are some games I own digitally that I want to keep, basically forever, because I’ve really enjoyed them and might be interested in another play through.

I’m not an expert on French law, but from what I understand French law is much more permissible than US law on software licensing.  For example, in French software license law you are allowed to reverse engineer software for the purposes of understanding how it works so long as you don’t intend to infringe upon their…

It’s possible, but it’s difficult to prove.

So let’s do nothing then?  Thoughts and prayers?  Fuck that.  I’m for action to fix the problem, and the fix is fewer guns.  If other countries did it, we can too.

Most people that attempt suicide are not going through a calm, rational decision making process.  The individual in the article, for example, went through months of approvals before she ended her own life.  With a gun, you can end your own life with a pull of the trigger on one bad day.

Just because unemployment is low doesn’t mean people can find a job that fits their needs.  And well, most people choose to be exploited but don’t realize they’ve been exploited until their out of the situation.  How many people are in toxic relationships, for example?  the point is to not let Uber and Lyft lay out…

So here’s the thing, generally speaking someone is not going to pull a knife and stand a few feet back, they’re going to be right up close. So if someone physically weak, old or disabled is jumped they’re generally still going to just get jumped. Does it happen? Sure, but it’s statistically unlikely.

Knives are everywhere and more often than not they’re going to be a weapon of convenience rather than well thought out choice.  When was the last time you heard “man with knife kills 10, wounds 20" in the US?  It’s the ease with which you can kill with an assault rifle that makes them so dangerous.

All right, the math is pretty simple here. Let’s say 100 people decide to kill themselves, if all 100 people have a gun, on average 82 of them will die. If all 100 people attempted to drown themselves, only 66 would die. If they decided to try to drug/poison themselves?  Only 1 of them would die.  The point is not…

Okay, so it only lowered the number of mass shootings for the exact sort of random shootings most people are concerned about right now....so what?  That still shows that banning certain guns can reduce the number of shootings caused by that particular type of gun.  How many mass shootings have been committed this year…

People who attempt suicide with a gun are more likely to succeed:

Why do economics matter here?  People may no longer be exploited thanks to this law, which is exactly the sort of thing government should regulate.  If it hurts Uber or Lyft...oh well.

If I’m menaced by someone with a knife, I have a lot easier time of, you know, running away, running away from someone with a gun is largely ineffective.  Alternatively, it’s possible I may be able to fight off my attacker; I know someone who did just that in my college days against three thugs, one armed with a…

I’m sorry, what?