Honestly I don’t think that the grandfather or child was out of bounds here. I’ve seen plenty of tourists get way closer to dangerous animals before. That bison was just an asshole. It seemed to be provoked by the pickup-truck and just started rampaging.

They may not have observed regulation distance, but they did not approach or do anything to provoke the animal. The tourists were just in the wrong place/ time.

You can’t do love by yourself. What you experienced may seem profound, but it can’t be anything but myopic because it’s all in your imagination. This is like falling in love with a fictional character or a celebrity.

It’s the difference between sex and masturbation.

There was once a Japanese celebrity who’s stalker was able to find out her location by a street sign that was reflected in her eye. You don’t need an astrolabe to be a creep.

One of the biggest obstacles to participation in youth programs in the US isn’t money, it’s transportation and time. Having a parent available for hours on weeknights plus away games for months implies a solid middle class home before any dues are collected.

In more well resourced sports like football and baseball, getting the poor kids a ride home after practice and games is often essential for the program.

Language changes and it doesn’t matter if you like it or not. Complaining about it is just “old man yells at cloud”.

Terrorist is a social distinction not a rational one; It’s a slur. Trying to launder it with definitions and fixed meaning misses the point.

Terrorist isn’t even synonymous with violence because depending on where you are, a terrorist is a race, ethnicity, politics, or religion.

I’m very suspicious of anyone who thinks punishment is the solution to anything. Double that when the person being subjected to suffering is low on the social order.

That’s my secret. I’m always turned on.

Those plucky Windows users love to hack hardware to get their niche software running. Good for them.

Rich, out of touch asshole thinks that the biggest worry of laid off workers is the legacy of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstine.

Don’t be a Nazi rapist. -impossible standards of the puritanical left.

Microslop is confused that the people forced to pay for shitty software won’t pony up for the optional shitty software.

It may surprise you to learn that social justice vs. economic justice is just about the oldest and most contentious debate on the left. Coming down hard on one side like it’s a neutral fact that everyone agrees with is the opposite of “bringing people together”.

It’s cool that you empathize with rednecks, try women and POC next.

This is good actually. The current standards assume that exposure to ionizing radiation is always bad no matter how small. The evidence suggests that small doses are absolutely safe, and arguably beneficial.

Panicking about small radiation doses has absolutely caused public harm and even death. Many people argue that some of the evacuations around Fukushima were overly conservative and ultimately more harmful than doing nothing.

Yeah, I generally agree with always believing a victim. But

This is going to be the legacy of Plantner’s campaign. Not that he was a fake-leftest, but that so many of his supporters turned out to be.

My mother, who used Office software her whole working life recently asked me, un-prompted to help her switch to something else. She was tired of the always online, always signed in obnoxiousness of Office 365. She was tired of looking for stuff in Onedrive. And the software had changed so much over the years, that she figured learning a new office suite wouldn’t be any extra effort.

Guns equating to freedom is straight up NRA propaganda. Do we really think people in Australia, the UK, and Japan are oppressed by tyranny?

The 2nd is the only “right” that the lowest government official can execute you for exercising. That’s what passes for freedom in America?

It’s most similar to beef. I would recommend adding it to chili, stew, or curry. In dishes that are cooked forever and heavily seasoned, you may not be able to tell much difference.

I’ve never tried it grilled like a steak, I would suspect that’d be quite different to beef.