This is a great response, but I just wanted to highlight something you said that may come off the wrong way to someone who may not be as familiar with the geography of the USA:

Yeah, all day this.

“Heated.”

Fucking Chad.

In the New York Times, psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman discusses some of the leading research on vacations. In 2012, Dutch researchers found that vacationers’ sense of wellbeing peaked around day 8 of long vacations, indicating that more isn’t necessarily more, a finding that other research has corroborated.

This is the most reasonable take.

I think it’s the fuck-you quotient. The thing that makes these characters attractive to that kind of person isn’t just their apparent superiority to normal folks, it’s their sense of superiority - or more often, utter contempt.

Counterpoint: YES YOU ALL ARE STOP LYING TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER

You’d be happy too if you were posing for stock photography!

“Some guy called Justin Lin a chink once and we fired him, so I don’t see why we can’t fire this lady for calling Donald Trump a white supremacist.”

...I mean, she didn’t, though.

No. Headline is fundamentally wrong.

Good question. I looked it up - Tennessee is a shall-issue state with reciprocity, which means that if you meet the guidelines, the state must award you a license. However, Tennessee does require the completion of a handgun safety course.

It’s... a little odd, but it makes more sense in the full context of the article. Katie Quackenbush is alternatively referred to as “his daughter” and by her name after Jesse Quackenbush is introduced in the story, which is about halfway through. Possibly they haven’t released the name of the other party (the friend)…

I mean, who knows, because the dad wasn’t there, and we’re going by what he claims the defendant said to him, but... yeah. If that’s her defense it is not a good look.

But then, early in the episode when Phil asked if she considered herself mentally ill, Sinead responded, “I don’t believe I am no, unless you say that complex post traumatic stress disorder is a mental illness.” She described herself as “a little out there, unusual, irregular, eccentric.”

According to her dad, the guy got up and approached her again, and she warned him that she had a gun.

Oh, read the original article. It’s even stupider than that. Emphasis mine:

What is the efficient way to breathe dying sprints? (Waiting with bated breath).

Nice fringe. Is your Titan’s name Ryuk, by any chance?