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America is more than ready, considering how much we spend on the military. This article is a few years old, and definitely sensationalist, but is still an interesting read-

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/how-long-the-us-military-would-last-against-the-rest-of-the-world/

And on top of that, the US Army just started deploying robotic troop carriers, and is finishing up remote combat vehicles for the front lines so that first contact isn’t with soldiers. Yes, we’re going to have killer robots on the front line. And soon.

It’s like they all watched House of Cards and were like, “Waiiiit a minute… We could do that!”

They bet on the wrong horse, and the one they expected to get a pardon from didn’t win. They proverbially fucked around and are now finding out.

While I do think we need to enact much stricter gun control, people touting this website about “mass shootings” always gives the outside world the idea that all of them on that list are like the Vegas concert shooting, which people think of when they hear the term “mass shooting.”

From their methodology page on how they characterize a mass shooting-

In that, the criteria are simple…if four or more people are shot or killed in a single incident, not including the shooter, that incident is categorized as a mass shooting based purely on that numerical threshold.

If you click through the incidents and read the reports, almost all are isolated incidents. Gang violence, mentally ill people murdering their family and committing suicide, other terrible things like that. Which is tragic and very much strengthens the argument about needing stricter gun control. But people keep linking that page, people go there and see a wall of reports, and assume all of them are crazed gunmen firing indiscriminately into a crowd at a shopping mall or the like. It’s not like that at all, but curating the data with their methodology and saying the details don’t matter and all mass shootings are the same as long as 4 people are injured just paints a disengenuous picture to people who don’t live here. I’ve seen plenty of people that post they refuse to visit the US because they think they’ll be randomly shot for no reason while walking down the street, which isn’t at all a normal occurance. Sadly I’m more afraid that if a cop wants to stop and talk to me that I’ll get shot much more than I am going to a festival.

Luckily it’s on Gamepass that I subscribe to anyways. So no regrets of it’s bad other than the wasted bandwidth to download.

Buy a few good reusable masks (that you can run through the washer) that have a metal strip inside to conform to your nose. Have the top of the mask up high on the bridge of your nose and push down on it so the metal strip conforms to your nose shape. Rest the plastic feet of your glasses on top of the metal strip, so that they’re resting on the mask and not on your nose. That’s what I figured out keeps my breath from escaping the top of the mask so it eliminates fogging.

I think it is a testament to the site’s design that despite constantly testing my patients, I still want to use it

It’s cool that you’re a doctor and all, but you shouldn’t be forcing your patients to use a social media platform.

And I’m pointing out it wasn’t that way 10 years ago.

It’s referring to cable packages. Oh you want to be able to watch FX shows? Then get the blue-tier package to add 30 random channels, 28 of which you don’t want for another $30 on top of the base price! Oh you want AMC too? Then get the green tier for another $45 as well that also has 35 channels you don’t want. Sorry, we don’t have a package with both FX and AMC, you’ll need to get the blue AND green packages on top of the $60 base subscription. Sorry, you can’t just choose what channels you want.

Circa 2011 it’d just be like Netflix and/or Hulu were all you need to get most of the content since they had deals with the different studios. Now they’re all segmenting off onto their own.