I got run over by an idiot in an SUV while riding my motorcycle.

Are we even sure that CEO was ever a real person? I think the whole thing is a made up story and that guy never even existed at all!

A big, juicy lawsuit is the reason I own my house outright and don’t have rent/mortgage payments. Which in turn means I can get by on the very little money I make on my hobbies.

So … yeah. Lawsuit for the win?

Plus, it will divert Russian personnel, fuel, and other resources away from Ukraine.

You could be totally screwed in that assignment just by having a very common name.

or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB

Yeah … good luck with that.

The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising

Yep. They only buy things on their list, okay.

So which brand of that thing are you going to buy? The one you recognize most and are most familiar with, maybe?

It’s cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.

Great. So now Facebook can become a literal ghost town.

I wonder how advertisers paying for ads on Facebook feel about paying to advertise to dead people?

Yep, either way, your job is toast.

AI succeeds: AI takes your job.

AI fails: Economy crashes and you lose your job due to the crash.

But you won’t be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.

If you donate even just $5 to my submarine balloon program, you can be part of the solution to this harrowing issue. Be the change you want to see in the world.

The primary argument of “you might forget to disengage it in the heat of the moment” is complete bullshit.

Even if you are in that (rather misguided) camp, there are better alternatives. Specifically, a grip safety. Safety automatically disengaged as long as you’re holding the gun properly. Can’t ‘forget’ to do that!

And, yes, there are good, modern designs that use grip safeties. The Springfield XD line, for example. (Those models also require a trigger pull for disassembly, though. Is it that hard to include some kind of decocker?)

Yeah… I don’t really want to see US infantry on the ground in Ukraine, but I would have really liked to see the US enforce a no-fly zone over contested areas and maybe also bomb the shit out of Russian forces in Ukraine from the air.

Hitting targets inside Russia could be politically nonviable, as it probably violates some international laws, but with Ukraine’s permission, they could absolutely hit anything they wanted inside Ukrainian territory.

Making a treaty with the US is folly.

Yep. If you need confirmation, just ask any Native American.

Even then … 20 years is a long time. Who’s to say the US won’t elect another Russian-puppet pedo within that time?

I assume that the new agreement would involve more concrete conditions and responsibilities

And what happens when (not if) the Trump administration (or some even worse successor) ignores those concrete conditions and responsibilities? Is Ukraine going to sue the USA in international court while they’re being overrun?

There’s no ‘security guarantee’ out there anymore that could possibly be worth the paper it’s written on.

If I were in charge of Ukraine right now, I’d be looking for ‘security guarantees’ in the form of mutual defense pacts with other countries in the region that could be in a similar situation. Poland, Finland, etc. Those might actually have your back, since they know that they’re next if you fall.

I don’t know if it’s necessarily that malicious.

Just … if your store ordered a lot of a certain clothing item, assuming it would sell well, but then it didn’t sell well, what do you do with it? If you leave it on the store shelves, it’s taking up valuable retail space that could be better utilized for displaying and selling something people actually want. Storing it in some back room isn’t going to work well – that will build up over time and you’ll end up having a whole warehouse of unwanted clothing.

Option 1: The right thing to do would be to put those items on sale/discount until they do sell. All the way down to free if you have to. But some stores think that would ‘cheapen their brand’, and most stores don’t want you to buy something at a steep discount if it means you’ll no longer buy a similar item for full price.

Option 2: You could send the unsold stock off to a discount/outlet retailer and let them sell it at a discount … if you even have such a company anywhere around. Or you donate it to some charity for a tax writeoff. But then there’s the expense of actually getting it there.

Option 3: You could send unsold stock back to the manufacturer … but that would be expensive shipping and the manufacturer usually doesn’t want it back, which is why nobody does this.

Option 4: You destroy it and/or just toss it in the dumpster out back. Cheap, fast, and easy.

Hopefully, making Option 4 illegal will make Options 1 and 2 more appealing.

Just an example. I’m sure they have 100 different ways to match your face to your name/identity.

Unless you’ve been living as a highly isolated hermit and you’ve been wearing a mask at all times when in public even since you were a child … pretty sure they’ve already got it.

There’s always a possibilty for the mechanism to trigger if you accidentally bump the gun

Ah, a Sig owner, I see.