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Bmorepirate 11 points ago +11 / -0

A scuffed up parking lot penny or 2

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Bmorepirate 3 points ago +3 / -0

Good on ya, I'm in my 30s, one divorce deep and still haven't gotten the baby cray.

I'm probably a little paranoid of having a kid after TDS ruined marriage 1.

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Bmorepirate 2 points ago +2 / -0

Pro tip, butter beans are an excellent addition to most dishes.

I particularly like them in my 7 bean salad recipe (great for BBQs):

  • 2/3C apple cider vinegar
  • 1/3C honey
  • 1/4C olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • 1 finely chopped onion
  • 1 finely chopped green pepper
  • 1 can garbanzo beans, drained
  • 1 can dark red kidney beans, drained
  • 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 can wax beans, drained
  • 1 can green beans, drained
  • 1 can butter beans, drained
  • 1 can navy beans, drained.

Mix all that shit together in a big bowl (start with the "dressing" then add beans and toss them gently in it).

Better if you make it the day before and let it mingle in the fridge overnight.

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Bmorepirate 4 points ago +5 / -1

Obviously cut to make people look dumb (and yes, some responses were actually dumb - like breathing your own "carbon monoxide" -- it's dioxide)

The dude walking 20 miles was moving at an aggressive clip (which you would need to do to walk 20 miles in a day). A mask would get soaked from respiration. He's not out strolling casually.

It's about as dumb as asking dudes on bikes to wear masks. Uh, no, they're exercising and breathing heavy.

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Bmorepirate 3 points ago +3 / -0

The amount killed in Baltimore by not-police in a year approaches the number killed nationfuckingwide armed AND unarmed.

To call it "genocide" is to diminish the meaning of actual genocide, as well as ignore real, annual genocide inside our inner cities.

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Bmorepirate 1 point ago +1 / -0

Literally made me cackle out loud

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Bmorepirate 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ahhh aids Skrillex and Carl the cuck were such an amazing duo

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Bmorepirate 67 points ago +69 / -2

Buy two of everything, put in car, return, buy two of everything.

Bonus is that if you and other do this you'll increase their register wait times because of their stupid policy.

Maybe ask why a *brand" with perfect substitutes in other aisles has a limit, and not simply canned beans.

Or tell them to get fucked and shop elsewhere because capitalism.

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Bmorepirate 38 points ago +39 / -1

Check out my most recent comment on that thread. Marked up the provisions for what I can agree with. Spoiler, it's very, very little.

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Bmorepirate 2 points ago +2 / -0

I took the liberty of marking up the bill to what is agree with, disagree with, etc. It's basically one giant bill promoting moral hazard and rewarding behaviors detrimental to society.


Section 1: Divesting from police

Divesting from agencies like the DEA and ICE as well as moving federal resources away from incarceration and policingDEA maybe, but ICE hell no

Eliminate ankle monitorswut? If you're not going to incarcerate people, keeping tabs on criminals is necessary

End civil asset forfeiture, which even some conservatives say is readily open to police abuse I'm fine with this, that shit is unconstitutional

End life sentences and mandatory minimum sentencesthis is absolutely necessary, there are bad people out there. Plus, Baltimore's problem is not adhering to minimums for gun crimes, putting violent people back on the streets constantly

Develop a "time-bound plan to close all federal prisons and immigration detention centers"No.

Decriminalize and retroactively expunge both state and federal drug offenses (only non-violent, maybe just for weed)

Section 2: Community safety

Offer a 50 percent federal match for projected savings when states and/or local jurisdictions close detention facilities, including jailswho is going to pay settlements to the people impacted by increased crime?

End cooperation with immigration authoritiesno, federal immigration law is constitutional, states have no right to ignore it -- doing so is aiding and abetting a federal crime

Ban "pretextual" police stops and searches, even where police obtain consent. It's not clear how the lawmakers would define a "pretextual" police stopliterally impossible to define and implement, and LivePD made clear is effective given how many times a tail light being out leads to other shit.

Abolish police gang databases, as well as armed cops and metal detectors in schoolthis is insane and will lead to deaths in schools, especially if there are no juvenile detention centers

Forgive all outstanding court debt I'd be ok with limiting "court costs" to no more than any fine levied. Got a DIP where my fine was $25 and court costs were $75 and that's laughably absurd

Tie state grants to intervention programs that involve specialists other than police responding to some 911 calls I have a hard time with this - mentally ill people, especially drug-induced psychosis, can be dangerous. Practically speaking this is a terrible idea if they mean specialists responding IN PLACE OF police.

Section 3: Allocating new money

Create a plan to close youth detention centersthere are socio psychopathic kids that need to be removed from society. Sorry, it's true, and they murder and assault people

Pilot programs for universal basic incomethe fuck does this have to do with police?

Develop curricula that examine the political, economic, and social impacts of colonialism, native genocide, and slaveryMarxist lunacy

Create tools to promote environmental justice, including by subsidizing "community" energy solutionsword salad

Provide lifetime education for illegal immigrants and the currently incarceratedas a reward for breaking the law? GTFO

Ensure all communities have safe access to waternothing to do with police

Eliminate state laws that bar formerly incarcerated people from serving as guardian for their own children or others in their communityseems like a mechanism for placing more kids with pedos

Section 4: Holding officials accountable

Pass the Commission to Study Reparation Proposal for African-Americans Act and establish commissions to "design reparations" for mass incarceration to include those caught up in the War on Drugs, border and police violence and the "systemic violation of the U.S. Government’s treaty obligations to Tribal nations"**no, I'm not responsible for that and won't being paying for it **

Enfranchise all incarcerated individualsnope, only OK with restoring voting rights to people not on probation or parole for federal offenses, and also restoring 2A rights to non-violent offenders

Guarantee private right of action for recovering damages when a federal official has committed a constitutional violation fine with this, but should include all levels of government and trump and Flynn should immediately use it against the FBI

Allowing local and state resident voting for illegal immigrantsno, they're criminals

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Bmorepirate 218 points ago +218 / -0

Charging the St Louis couple is an absolute abortion of justice.

Imagine a similar scenario: a group of white people comes into a black persons property, with the intent to intimidate (as this crowd was absolutely doing). Do you think the DA would have charged a black couple for doing the same thing?

The answer is no, and that means justice isn't blind, which means what happened isn't justice at all.

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Bmorepirate 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have a co-worker who lives in a remote part of a remote state.

His county of 160k has had a total of 100 cases.

He and his wife are still doing shit like disinfecting their packages and groceries, and are wary of going out.

This shit is at odds with reality. I like in a county with 6k cases out of 650k people (order of magnitude higher than him). Never disinfected shit, went out of my way washing my hands at first diligently when I got home or sanitizing as I got in the car, but haven't given a fuck in like 2 months. Haven't gotten it (had the antibody test).

Turns out my mom had it early on (before testing, recently confirmed by antibody test), and I was in her presence briefly when she was symptomatic. She's healthy, in her 60s and fine. My dad never got it despite sharing a house with her the whole time.

People need to stop freaking out. It just isn't that bad, and in the end it's going to be a fatality rate of a bad flu season. I guarantee it

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Bmorepirate 5 points ago +5 / -0

...any ideology that think tearing one group down for absolutely no reason implicitly builds up another group is fucking idiotically dangerous

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Bmorepirate 1 point ago +1 / -0

The Holness is like a roving band of cancelling SJWs, desiring purity. Change my mind.

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Bmorepirate 1 point ago +1 / -0

FUCK YES.

(but seriously I love that movie despite it's 31% on rotten tomatoes -- 6.1 on IMDB)

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Bmorepirate 2 points ago +2 / -0

Widely panned because it's 3 hours long, it's also a gloriously patriotic post apocalyptic epic film, and shows the power of voluntarism in the face of chaos and danger.

It's one of my favorite movies and based off the David Brin book of the same name.

10/10 will be watching again

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