Actually, that comes at 30.

Funny enough, it was an agricultural class where the utility of the quadratic equation hit me. Professor didn’t even call it that, but we used it to calculate maximum efficiency in fertilizer spread.

Neat! Never seen one around salt water, but we do have an army of pelicans that hang right at the fisherman’s feet. Filthy beggars. :)

We had a monster blue heron break out of the trees and across our canoe path in the swamp. H U G E

No shit. Been saying for years that he’s as easily manipulated as a toddler, and I mean that literally, not even as an insult. Best part? He’s too dumb to ever know when he’s getting played.

Seems you’re correct. So how are poppy seeds so common if they’re Papaver somniferum? Weird.

Mother was a narcissist, not on Trump’s level, but I’ve never known another person so eat up with NPD. Impossible to overstate that these people cannot understand personal responsibility for their actions. Their failures are always someones else’s failures. They cannot fail.

I was well into my 40s before it occurred to me, mother never once admitted fault or said she was sorry. Sure, some people act like that, sometimes, but you can tell they have a sense of guilt, a sense of wrongdoing. Sure, we’ve all know people who misdirect blame. A true narcissist cannot feel those emotions, cannot be wrong.

Telling a lie is a falsehood you know is false. Trump has never lied. He believes every word that has ever come out of his mouth. It tears my brain apart every time he’s accused of lying or bending the truth. Anyone having a hard time with the notion I just described is suffering cognitive dissonance. Have fun with that, he can’t feel it. You can because you’re sane.

Trump isn’t playing games. He isn’t a tactical or strategic genius. He’s simply a wealthy narcissist who struck political gold. He got dumb luck, like some of us do, and ran with it.

LOL, yeah! That’s exactly what happened. He wouldn’t have personally ordered it, but he the buck stops at the Oval Office.

Thank you for your take! American gun nuts tend to think Europeans can’t own a weapon, at all. Funny enough, what you’ve described is most of my gun collection. A dozen shotguns, mostly single shots and vintage/antiques. Loads of .22s, but my wife’s Walther .22 is a total POS! How funny is that? And yes, American hunting rifles are typically bolt-action. I think there are a couple of states where it’s illegal to hunt with an AR platform? The rounds are too wimpy for clean kills. (That’s a joke meme.)

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First day teaching my little kids I took an empty beer can and holed it with a .22. Tiny hole on one side, tiny hole on the other, no surprise.

Then I pointed out that humans are mostly bags of water. Filled the same sized can full of water, shot it with the same gun, same round. They shit kittens.

Y’all acting like Trump personally ordered the raid and is suddenly backing up, TACO.

Trump told ICE, “You’re weapons free, you got a quota.” And they went for it. Because of course they did.

This is Trump screaming, “Not like THAT!” Which is somehow hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

Trump didn’t personally order this raid. He told ICE they were weapons free, here’s your quota. Now that the predictable consequences are hitting, “Not like that!”

Brexit barely squeaked by, but still, it shouldn’t have been close.

Fox News is great at the lie-by-omission thing. In fact, they rarely tell a bald-faced lie.

Remember the Snowden revelations? When that was going down, I was trapped in a house for a week where the people had Fox on 24/7. I mean that literally. They’d smoke weed and fall asleep in their recliners. Headline news, worldwide, and I did not hear a single word from Fox. Not one mention. Which I still haven’t figured out as they could have nailed Obama to the wall.

First term, I think the Washington Post stopped counting at 10,000.

Only the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The rest are just fine.

No, I don’t expect parents who are ignorant about guns to teach their kids safety. We shouldn’t have to, but that’s where we’re at.

Sounds like an elective class. My ex-wife’s niece was in an after-school shotgun club. I gather it was more target practice than hunting.

I’m of the opinion that familiarity with actually shooting is more of a deterrent to the school shooter mentality than fetishizing guns. I’m basing that mostly on the idea that these school shooters can’t seem to handle a weapon, given that kills are the goal.

Taught my kids the basics at 9 and 11. They need to understand the lethality of guns, what is safe and not safe, and maybe most importantly, how to recognize someone who is not being safe and get the hell away from them.

Plus, took the mystery out of the whole thing. Now they just don’t care much.

As someone on reddit once pointed at, the AR-15 platform is designed such that the dumbest 18-yo recruit can use it.

Gunshot wounds are surprisingly survivable given swift medical attention. Which astounds my because I know a fair deal about guns, shoot most weeks, and know what various weapons and rounds are capable of.

I’m guessing the shooters are scared shitless and shaking like leaves. I doubt most are as cold blooded and methodical as the Columbine shooters. I’m also guessing the Colorado shooter lost his nerve in a hurry when he saw the consequences of his actions. The vast majority of wounds don’t seem to be anything like the Charlie Kirk fountain. In a way they’re more horrifying because the victim drops like a puppet with their strings cut, not much blood at first, no drama, just dropped straight down. Somehow that scares me more.

That incident being, in my opinion, the beginning of these shootings. Shit like this simply didn’t happen when I was a growing up, 70s through 90s. And civilians had access to the AR platform that whole time.

Funny thing about Virginia Tech, most of his kills were from his .22 pistol, about the last gun we would ever ban. That guy was calmly going for a high score. Again, that seems very atypical. Las Vegas shooter was the same particular brand of batshit insane.

Another shooting that should have been worse was the Aurora movie theater. Dumbass used a tacticool high-capacity mag. No, not the 30-round mag the gun was designed for, it was either a 50 or 100-round. It jammed almost instantly, because of course. LOL, I absolutely support idiot mags like that.