I’m a lefty gun nut and secure storage is my only idea that will help and get past the courts. Won’t make a huge dent in overall gun deaths, but shit like this is inexcusable. Parents deserve prison time for these events. And I say that as a parent to two young ones who could find myself in front of a jury if I fuck up. Gun safety does not make allowances for “oops”.

Now I’m really lost. As I understand it, kids can’t have personal lockers anymore. So where does a 6-yo hide a gun? And then get to it later? From what I’ve seen with my stepson, and now my own little kids, they’re marched around like prisoners, watched every second. Can you tell me more?

a strong derogative slur for disabled people

Oh for fuck’s sake OP. I have never in life heard gimp used that way. One might be limping a bit and say, “My hurt leg’s still a little gimpy.” If one were back in time by several decades.

Where are you from? This isn’t a thing in America.

People can’t figure risk any longer. It’s a big world! We can’t fault anyone for not understanding it.

And I thought she smelled bad… on the outside.

Get in there you hairy oaf!

Risk: .0001% chance a bad thing happens.

We’re not talking about your cousin’s sketchy moonshine here.

Are you afraid to get out of bed? Falling 2.5’ imparts more energy to your body than getting shot with a .45ACP bullet.

Seriously, how does one navigate the world calculating every bad thing that could occur? Scooping a speck of mold out of my jam doesn’t move the needle on my risk meter. I cannot live in a “zero risk” world.

Walked a 2-mile round trip to the store today, orders of magnitude more risky than flicking a bit of mold out my jam. And BTW, I have “emphysema light”, doctor’s words. I’m not exactly a tough guy.

How will you react when faced with real risk? I’ve saved my own life twice, arguably three times. Will you curl into a ball? “NOAWW! The jam might blind me!”

Having some science education, I choose not to live in fear.

I’m learning! Define “milt”. New one on me.

I could step out to check my mailbox and get smeared by an inattentive driver. In all seriousness, I’m more afraid of slipping in my shower and breaking my neck. Instant death or living out my life having a nurse dig shit out of my ass? (My niece did that for a living.) Not too worried about a little mold in my jam.

Some y’all’s “risk vs. reward” mechanisms are utterly broken. Can’t blame ya! We didn’t evolve to calculate risk in the modern world.

tl;dr: Take risks. Life is not worth living in fear, not worth calculating infinitesimal odds.

Yes! I might complain and return it, but it’s not the death hazard these comments make it out to be. :)

I’m most surprised an airport allowed that behavior!

Scoop it out and go on with your day. I’d only toss it if it tastes or smells funky, even a bit. Just tossed a jar of salsa after skimming spots of mold off the top for months, exactly as yours. Not because it was unsafe to eat, it just sucked as salsa and I felt it was getting more and more untrustworthy. Jam is going to be somewhat like honey, too much sugar for anything bad to get a deep hold.

Anyway, none y’all are going to survive another worldwide depression. “Er mer gerd! THROW IT!” Your great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents are laughing at you. I’ll be in the woods out back, eating live minnows and fighting the deer over acorns.

Zwerner’s attorneys said Parker failed to act in the hours before the shooting after several school staff members told her that the student had a gun in his backpack.

You have to be fucking kidding me. Several people knew there was a 6-yo wandering around with a gun and they felt they had to kick it up the chain to get a response?!

Yep! LLMs are an excellent tool for getting over a hump, maybe finding a new pathway to solve a problem. I scan the output and pick the bits I want to try. ChatGPT may spit 40 lines of broken code, but I only need that one thing I hadn’t thought of or didn’t know.

It’s no replacement for knowing what you’re doing. Almost all IT work is knowing enough to recognize good and bad ideas, knowing where to look for solutions. LLMs can’t replace experience.

Be nice while driving since I refuse to look at a screen, let alone type on it.

Last update changed the phone buttons around for no reason I can discern. Not sure that’s ever happened because I was shocked, never had to relearn the buttons.

Can I rant for one?

I love my wife dearly, but I know her one weird issue is jealousy. Knew that when I married her, fought about it many times, many tearful apologies from her later.

Was pirating the first episode of “Derry” when she looks at my screen. (It’s a 40" TV, can’t avoid snooping.)

<imagine an angry Filipino accent here>

“Who are ‘Derry Girls’?! Ha? Ha? What is this show? HA?!”

“Fuck I know. <pointing at screen> I was downloading a new horror show we might like. You liked the movies. <points to the actual download folder>”

“DERRY GIRLS ha!” <stomps off>

Fuck me. Now I’m afraid to watch Derry Girls. If she ever finds my porn stash I’m doomed. :)

I was learning BASIC on a VIC-20 around that age.

more programming than coding

What’s the distinction?

I started with a VIC-20 at twice that age. In the 80s computers were viewed as somewhat magical, a bit scary. Took a 2-week summer camp on programming BASIC and two things they told us made me feel way better.

You can’t physically destroy the computer typing at the keyboard. I took that to mean no matter how badly I screwed up, the problem could be unscrewed.

It’s a dumb machine, no brains, period. That means you are in control of it. Some people could use that lesson today. 🫤

IBM in 1979 was the polar opposite of hippie or liberal. You’re thinking of later, younger outfits, Pirates of Silicon Valley types. IBM was white shirt, black tie, solidly stuck in their ways.