WY had snow in July this year. I had friends visiting me in Montana and they wanted to take the scenic way into Yellowstone via the beartooth highway. That shit was closed down due to a blizzard.

These photos take me back to playing high school sports in North Dakota. If we were playing in towns like Bottineau, Rugby,…

every time I see a new picture of her hiking in the woods, looking serene and like herself-sans the required lady uniform of hmu I cry because she deserves so much more than what we gave her. That woman is a goddamn treasure and this country fucked up.

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thank you so much for articulating this. The video is infuriatingly naive about the ability of students and teachers to stop mass-shootings; shouldn’t teachers be paying attention to bullying for the well-being of their children, including but not limited to potentially retributive acts of violence? Shouldn’t…

I agree. There’s a ton of research on workplace shootings, and a lot of the “warning signs” are things like “White male, ages 24-45, angry, likes guns, under a lot of stress...” There are SO MANY people that fit that description. We really don’t have any good predictors of what makes one angry male go home and…

Not to mention it’s a skillset that will serve you well in old age. Dementia will feel like a pair of comfortable old slippers.

As a gun owner and conceal carrying citizen I recognize and hate how easy it is to purchase a firearm. We require training and licenses to people to get behind the wheel, to purchase liability insurance, pay for inspection on the car, pay for registration, a vehicle that can and has caused many deaths. When we want to…

When I was thirteen, in 2000, I was arrested for my fake hit list that had Carson Daly on it. I made it because I had told a boy I had one, for some fucking reason, and he did not believe me, but told me he would give me five or ten dollars or some shit if I proved it. Cops came and took me out of fifth period lunch…

One of my classmates in highschool would have been their favourite target. He was a bit of a loner, he was regularly absent because of a chronic illness, looked a bit unconventional (waist-length hair), was an avid metal fan and was programming his own shooter game with some friends. As far as I know he actually works…

Agreed. This is a terrible ad. To begin with, “no one noticed” in the film, because we were paying attention to what the camera asked us to pay attention to. In real life, everyone is hyper-aware of young men who aren’t pro-social and who show an interest in aggressive activities or themes. If you’ve ever worked in a…

Exactly! We know who the students are who need help. We just have one high school counselor for 1500 kids, or one school psychologist at the elementary school, but she only does special ed testing, or one person providing therapy through an outside agency, but their budget was just cut in half. That’s the reality.

“I’m not excited about passing the buck to this handwavy notion of “awareness” when the problems we are facing are so clearly institutional.”

I wondered about this, too. I’m a teacher and we’re trained in how to respond in the event of a shooting, but not in detecting the signs. I’m guessing because it’s never as clear-cut as videos like this make it out to be, and the idea that teachers need to be more watchful is insulting. If a teacher is doing their…

This! Before I saw the final words of the video I thought the message was about trying to come up with sensible gun regulation, not policing students who might appear to be different or troubled. It really rubbed me the wrong way.

I had this EXACT same reaction and had a fight with my husband about it. It felt very victim-blamey to me. Like, “they didn’t notice and their kids died!!”. I think it would have been a stronger message if it was geared more toward “let’s talk about bullying, and easy access to guns”. Which I suppose is a more…

I lived in Eugene, Oregon when Kip Kinkel killed his parents and then went to school and killed multiple kids. The signs were there, interventions were tried - we don’t know how to intervene, how to help these kids - we don’t know what works. Mental health services are also woefully difficult to access and…

Agreed. After all, after Columbine, it seems everyone was hyperaware of that kind of stuff—turning in kids to the guidance counselor office if creative writing assignments had violence, etc. It seems like becoming overly cautious, like this video seems to suggest we should be, is just as dumb. I’m not sure that there…

That’s so true. That’s like, when a woman slaps a man it’s never assault, but when a dude beats a woman with a hammer all the sudden he’s in jail. Such hypocrisy.

There are some not quite ready for huge PPV numbers people lurking. Sage Northcutt, Paige Van Zant, Wonderboy, Yair Rodríguez (if he destroys BJ like he should next month, expect a huge push) but overall you are completely right, Conor has the UFC by the balls and him & they know it. This is the 4th story on the front…

Perfect typography. Could literally hear his voice shouting that in my head.