Thank God we have Bernie Sanders right now. If we didn’t, all the Dems would be doing is focusing on this Russia shit, which will lead to exactly nothing in the end.

The GOP creates these dramas over healthcare because they have to signal their opposition to the ACA without actually doing anything about it. The reason they don’t want to do anything about it is because they know that this opposition is a double-edged sword: if they don’t make a show for their constituents, they’ll…

Every time I come across one of these “Oh, _______ could never get made in these POLITICALLY CORRECT times!” things, I wonder if the person has actually seen some of the stuff that makes it to the screen these days.

GameStop corporate is notorious for this kind of shit. They put just enough pressure on store managers (and by extension ordinary store employees) to meet certain goals that they do this type of shit “of their own volition.” Then, if anyone complains loud enough, the company can say it’s not policy and put the kibosh…

Seriously, 1Password. You have the app installed on your computers and mobile devices, and you use the built-in Dropbox functionality to keep your password archive synced between all of them. The password to this archive can be as complex as you want it (mine is a sentence fragment from a novel), and it will be the…

I think she understood that what Sanders was offering my generation was a pipe dream, and handouts to a generation of people that for the most part want life the easy way.

It’s not that cops universally cannot aim at and hit a limb rather than the torso, it’s that we know trying to do something like that in an actual high-intensity situation is never, ever going to be like doing it in a training scenario. You can’t rely on being able to disable a target by hitting limbs, so cops are…

And yet, if I’m also never using Bluetooth, why keep it on? The fact is that it uses some amount of battery power unnecessarily (for discoverability), just like allowing the use of location services in apps where that’s a non-critical function (a maps app reasonably needs to know that information, my browser not so…

Pretty sure a lot of them do, yeah.

It’s also a waste of fucking batteries. The first thing I do whenever I get a new device is turn off Bluetooth.

No fucking shit, the video is above. I’m saying what they SHOULD do. How do you not understand that?

They had adequate time to get the proper assistance and gear for handling a person who might not even understand the situation he’s in.

Bullshit false dichotomy. I never said they should be completely passive. I said they should take cover, fire warning shots, and see other solutions. That’s active, not passive, you jabroni.

Was he in the same room? I didn’t see anybody else in the same room. If the guy was behind a wall then yes, the cops should also take cover, tell the other guy to leave the fucking apartment, and work to calm things down and contain them.

Oh, shut your fucking face for once in your damned life.

I mean, the case for police restraint is obviously a good one. I think that cops are, far more often than we’d like to see, the sorts of people who enjoy abusing the power the job gives them, and who intentionally escalate situations just so they can play rough with citizens and blow off steam. You can see it again…

However, I will ALWAYS be perplexed by why some cops totally unload their clips when shooting someone. If they shot him once there’s a good chance he’d of been fine after a trip to the hospital.

And yet, wouldn’t it be far more interesting for “echoes of the past” to culminate in an ending that diverges from lore? After all, the first peace didn’t hold, so why should doing things the same way yield a different result?

Yeah, I mean, I watched The Sopranos starting from when it first aired. It was so good that I didn’t give a shit about the hype machine surrounding it. But all of my interest was definitely in spite of the watercooler talk about who’d be “wacked” next, or like, the umpteen “Sopranos cook books” littering the market…

Especially if they are utterly insistent on you liking something and can’t learn to back the fuck off and let someone experience it themselves. Don’t overpraise.