There's a reason scam artists target the elderly. If a box on the computer screen says "put payment info here" then who are they to argue with the box?

That's a good question. But keep in mind that they're are significant taxes associated with selling a home in most places that would dissuade landlords from trying to game the system that way. Then again, they're just one more loophole from making that plan work.

Imagine having that much of an issue with barely offensive words that their kids will never read because most don't use the school library anyway.

And imagine letting your kids come home and access whatever media they want including actual pornography on the internet. Most of these parents have zero clue how to block internet sites on their home computers and laptops let alone the phones that their kids all have.

But of course, that's another problem some parents are asking the government to solve by forcing porn sites to require visitors to affirmatively identify themselves and their age. Of course, that only applies to the major porn sites that play by the arbitrary rules anyway. All so stupid.

Good teacher. Authors choose their words intentionally. I'm guessing "fudging", "friggen", and "ducking" (thanks iPhone) are not great replacements for the subject matter.

That really depends on how you look at it. They did murder an innocent person exactly because they made the wrong decision to engage in the first place. You can't put yourself in harms way when it isn't necessary then blame the danger you knew about in advance.

My opinion would be different if there was someone else in the apartment for them to defend, but there wasn't.

The cops made a bad call and now someone is dead.

TBF, I'd rather a soldier show up at my door than a cop. At least soldiers are usually better trained in discipline, situational awareness, and appropriately evaluating threats. They are also trained on rules of engagement and usually aren't terrified about every single engagement they find themselves in.

Maybe our police would be better if they received the same level of training as soldiers. And maybe that's it. Soldiers are more confident in their abilities because they've received adequate training.

There sort of is now but most people don't know about it yet. Instead of 911, dial 988. I don't think 988 sends people to you, but they are trained mental health specialists who can talk instead of shout and threaten violence.

Read more here: https://988lifeline.org/

I think the point is that we have appropriately trained crisis response professionals, and those people should not be law enforcement. Cops have their role, and it is enforcing the law. They are not not should they be tasked with becoming mental health professionals.

I don't want cops showing up when I really need an ambulance.

Note to everyone here: 988 is a new emergency number for mental health crises. https://988lifeline.org/

"Don't be evil" was a canary clause. There's a reason it doesn't appear in any of their documents anymore.

Yup. The way I like to phrase it is "there's no problem that cops can't make worse."

You make a valid point, but the reason people are undecided is that they they have no properly informed opinions. I hate this narrative that Biden is ineffective. Biden has done a lot of good things. And where congress failed, he found a way to get shit done anyway. People don't know that because media sucks and their echo chambers don't tell them. Or alternatively, their expectation about what a president can do in one term is completely unreasonable.

And that is all while ignoring that a republican congress will hold back the entire country for years just to make sure their guy looks better. And it works! People complain about shit not getting done but couldn't tell you how their representatives voted on those things.

So yeah, pretty much what you said. They think the candidates are roughly the same, but they have no clue how what their candidates do actually affects them.

I can't imagine they would. I'm merely suggesting that he be placed in an exit row seat on a recalled Boeing 737, fly it through their air space, at let nature take its course.

What are your expectations? Biden has implemented far more policy than he gets credit for. He can't fix everything all at once. It has taken us decades to get where we are, one presidential term is not going to be enough to right the ship.

We all have to work within the framework as it exists today - even the president. He has some challenging lines to walk just to get seemingly simple things done.

So what policies do you want? And in what ways have Biden's progress been unacceptable to you? In what ways have they been acceptable? Given the current landscape, what do you realistically think he could or should do differently?

I'm sorry, I must be misunderstanding you. You aren't asserting that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in Gaza started within the last 12 months, are you?

Because if you are, then I strongly encourage you to look a little bit deeper into this whole thing. It's been going on for decades.

This is completely tone deaf to the things that Biden HAS been able to accomplish. I'd encourage you to research his presidency before you accept and parrot all of the bad things you hear.

To name just a few:

• Unprecedented student loan debt relief
• Improvements to Medicare including the ability to negotiate drug prices and capping prices of certain medications like insulin
• Extremely low unemployment, just a few short years after the pandemic
• Pardoning of minor federal marijuana convictions and initiated the process of having marijuana rescheduled
• A push to make birth control pills available OTC without a prescription in the wake of conservative attacks on reproductive health rights
• Renewed focus on infrastructure spending
• Policies friendly to green energy

And that's not mentioning the things that could have happened were it not for constant obstruction of Republicans - specifically, efforts to better protect our borders and efforts to curb gun violence.

The president is not a king or autocrat no matter how much Trump and Republicans might disagree. His policy decisions must be focused in order to make any progress at all. He can't simply wave his hand and make everything a magical utopia.

So before you continue complaining about the lack of progress, I implore you: take ten minutes to do some Google searches about the things that are important to you and the reasons why more progress is not being made. You might be surprised at weary you learn.

It is critically important that we do not give up ground and backslide because the conservative media machine is so powerful that it makes it seem like nothing good has happened.

There's also the fact that there were no warnings. I've read some potentially conflicting accounts, but the consensus seems to be that there were no warning pamphlets dropped on Hiroshima ahead of the nuclear blast. At best, there may have been leaflets dropped that included Hiroshima amongst a list of 35 Japanese cities that could be the target of a bombing. At that time, the level of destructive capabilities were unheard of, so even seeing those leaflets, the thoughts citizens may have had is that there would be some firebombing. Destruction and death could be expected, but nothing like the complete obliteration that actually happened.

The use of atomic weapons was a demonstration of US destructive capabilities. They were a warning built of indiscriminate evil that saught only to strike fear into the eyes of anyone who would dare attack the US.

The use of atomic weapons may have legitimately reduced the number of American casualties, but I'm with you. It's impossible to know whether lives were saved beyond those of American soldiers. Many civilians perished on those days, and that is not something to be celebrated.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaflets/

Counter-counterproposal: Let's drop Lindsey on Gaza

I grew up in Michigan and this traffic pattern is insane to me. In intersections like that in Michigan, there is no left turn. You drive past the intersection, after which there will be an immediate turnaround. You get into the turnaround lane, go back towards the intersection, then approach the intersection from the opposite side so that you can turn right.

It's so common that it blows my mind how it isn't more normal nationwide. Michigan left

Growing up, there was a four-way stop near my house that one of my friends absolutely hated. It was a pretty busy intersection, and he hated that drivers didn't seem to follow the rules that the person to the right goes first or whatever.

One time when I was driving, he was shocked like "what are you doing!? Its not your turn, you're gonna cause an accident!" when I went. I was like "what are you talking about?" I had driven through that intersection hundreds of times and never really thought about it. When I payed attention to the way the intersection flowed, I figured out the unwritten understanding that I and everyone else approached it with. It was basically just "stop and wait for a car or two to go before proceeding". There was no guaranteed order that I could come up with, it was just that everyone in the area seemed to understand.

Written rules are great if everyone is following the written rules. If you follow the written rules at that intersection you'll be fine, but you're likely to annoy someone for a moment. Nobody is going to be confused if you wait, just impatient.

I agree with you. More important than following rules is to pay attention and adapt as appropriate. If you're the only one following the written rules, there's a chance that you're the one acting unpredictably.