As would I. Been a home theater/audiophile guy for 25 years

It is not only rare but a red flag if you can drink like a 21 year old in your 30s and 40s. If you can drink like that in your 50s you probably have ascites.

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But what about prohibition era gangsters smuggling guns cigarettes and liquor? How will we fight that scourge?

I just don’t know why we’re not making better legislation about single-use plastics rather than just arbitrarily banning plastic straws. It’s so weird. One fucking turtle video. This isn’t even picking low hanging fruit, this is legislators picking an apple off the ground and holding it up like they harvested a whole crop.

Meanwhile, I’m getting served a paper straw in a plastic cup with a plastic lid, neither of which I can recycle because it has food residue, and there are no public recycling bins anywhere anyway, and even if there were we don’t recycle that plastic in my district we just dump it directly from the recycling center to the landfill. That’s lip service, not progress. I’m throwing away garbage cans full of plastic every week without scrutiny, but the package of plastic straws that would have lasted me years is the focus of attention? Not biodegradable plastic? Not reusable packaging? Not paper packaging for consumer goods? Not analyzing the weight savings in fuel vs the increased weight of reusable packaging made of wood, glass, metal, cardboard, etc? No, just choose the smallest thing possible that still feels conspicuous enough for voters to think progress is still happening. With Amazon orders I’m throwing away as much bubble wrap these days as a retail store.

The topic is so big that any real progress is beyond the capabilities of our current government. The Democrats can’t generate political will, the Republicans are obstructionist, and both sides simply report to their corporate overlords anyway. The only levers progressives can pull are hoping that enough moralizing, intersectionality, and virtue-signalling will offset overconsumption. It’s the plenary indulgences of capitalism–we can still wastefully overconsume if we only buy fair trade products made out of recycled materials made by a diverse indegenous non-hierarchical employee owned collective of secular humanist queer amputees with developmental disabilities who donate a percentage of profits to protecting charismatic megafauna in developing nations. I can’t even afford regular groceries, fuck that.

Cool bro go yell at clouds then

Bro do you understand tilting windmills is foolish, and that’s the point of the expression?

You being butthurt about common linguistic usages isn’t your valiant struggle, it’s your autism acting up

I prefer the term idiot savante

Are you a bot?

Can you just educate yourself to the fact that words have multiple usages, and children both means youth as well as offspring so we don’t keep having this retarded conversation?

Sure but OP said 200 years ago.

Because when talking about the economics of specialty outdoor products in the US market you have to recognize that manufacturing for most US consumer products is in China. Settle down

Ah. My point was not to say that mass shootings are strictly because of advancements in firearm technology. Anyone who thinks it’s not multifactorial is a moron. But anyone who thinks the underlying technology isn’t fundamentally required for the phenomenon to occur is also a moron.

I was only responding to the fact that OP said 200 years, and just from a practical perspective 200 years ago you just couldn’t do a mass shooting. If you ask me why we didn’t have mass shootings in the 50s through 70s that’s a different question that actually gets to the point of the matter. 200 years is such a long timeframe as to be silly. Might as well ask why people didn’t send bulk emails in the 20s.

Not sure the point you’re making…

ellipses are vague…

Obviously you don’t have kids.

how the hell are you going to shoot a big bunch of people with a musket?

I think like everything pedophilia is a spectrum. Big difference between a clandestine serial predator like a priest, and a young teacher fucking a high school senior. I’m only against it if it doesn’t make my weiner move.

Female dominated cultural spaces are intolerable to me. Male dominated cultural spaces are intolerable to them.

It’s almost like there’s a difference in genders and maybe you should let men and women self segregate along lines of interest.

You find underage sex revolting, and I find furries revolting. I think both should be allowed.

I don’t really see the behavior these days as progress, and I think you could use a dose of cultural relativism when it comes to things like teen or arranged marriage. Sex isnt inherently violating. Your modern western ideology isn’t automatically progress, if anything it’s a return to pagan pre Christian sexual mores. I fully support sexual freedom but I also think its current form is inherently unhealthy. I say bring back heteronormativity.