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If you made it, you're welcome to do that if you want. If someone else made it then you're an asshole of assholes and this is grounds for execution or exile to the farthest reaches of the globe.

Honestly, the real question to me is how many innocent people were maimed, injured, or killed in this attack. This is incredibly indiscriminate, even though the idea is that only the bad guys are holding the pages or walkie-talkies, but if they're in a cafe they're not the only ones getting hurt. Think of it as attaching an explosive to a thousand Hezbollah people, and then exploding them as they wander through a city. That's the true crime, the potentially disproportionate massacre of innocent civilians.

"Yup, and it seems like more and more that it wasn't explosives, but regular pagers tampered with to explode using parts they already contain as to not arouse suspicion."

There's no way this can be the case. Regular pager batteries do not explode. At most they can catch fire, but they don't explode. There's no way there wasn't a high-grade explosive in each of the pages. The electronics may have been normal and triggered with regular software, but there had to be an explosive and a detonator in the pager.

That sucks man. Religion ruins childhoods.

I'm sorry, but let's be realistic... if she came out in support of trump she would get a lot of negative responses also. We're a pretty divided country.

I think Elon musk's case, the drugs came first.... After that came social media and mental illnesses.

That's another way to say metric. Fuck the English system. Especially when cooking.

Wow... Maybe for you, but it was everything and more for me. Fuck childhood. Give me freedom, independence, and not having to follow the rules of my parents.

No curfew, no bedtime... You can figure out what you want and do it. Living with a girlfriend. Making and spending money. Driving your own car. I get that maybe adulthood may not be for everyone, but I'll take it any day over childhood!

Technology has moved from nitch nerdy thing to general public usage and as it did so it became usable without knowing what's going on. Gen Z doesn't know shit about technology, they just know how to use it.

When I was a kid, if you wanted to get a computer working you had to screw with the RAM settings or build the computer yourself from components. If you didn't know how to do this you talked with someone who did. I've forced my kids to learn at least some of this, but the idea that they're more tech savvy is ridiculous. They're users of tech, but it's become too complicated (and more user friendly), so they don't know what's happening behind their screen.

The US tends to suck for many things worker related, I wasn't arguing about all the different policies. However, I double checked, all our Scottish employees have a "use it or lose it" rule on vacation days. They must use all their vacation days per calendar year. They get their vacation days on Jan 1st and if they don't use them by Dec 31st, they lose them. This is also the model the other employees have in the US, with the exception of the two of use who live in California where that type of policy is illegal.

Since you must know, I get 20 days of vacation a year plus all federal holidays (11 days). I don't get sick days, they come out of my vacation days. However I'm a high value employee and you're comparing me against the blue collar workers in Scotland. I believe they get either 15 or 20 vacation days per year and I don't really know about their sick day program. I hate the calendar "use it or lose it" vacation day plan and I think the California rules are much better.

I would make the written English language 100% phonetic.

I would make SI mandatory in the US.

I would make one night a week a "have dinner with the neighbors" day.

Edit: I would make bidet toilets mandatory. Dry toilets would be phased out like cars without back-up cameras or asbestos insulation.

It's absolutely a company policy, but in California it's not legal to have a policy like that. The whole idea that you must use all your holidays every calendar year is stupid. Having a policy where if you haven't used all your vacation days by December 31st, you lose it, is stupid.