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Not around here. Even the rural cities are starting to emulate the large city bureaucracy with ever increasing regulations and hoops.

Unless you know the loopholes.

Isn't that what the E-Verify [1] system was supposed to be? Several companies are now discovering it's not all it's cracked up to be, as ICE shows up at their door.

[1] https://www.e-verify.gov/

I've seen this argument a lot, but I don't see people clamoring to leave. I don't think anyone is taking makeshift boats to Cuba from the US, for example.

If you live in the US, are you actively looking to leave?

Perhaps you're not aware, but starting a sentence about something you don't like with "I like how..." is basically a form of sarcasm.

Soon with their AI, it'll be "photos you haven't yet taken"

I've never heard of Kars4Kids. Must be an East coast thing.

Nobody has knives? Axes? Baseball bats? Where do you live, I wanna come visit.

> This is especially true when you are likely to have guns in the home

Citation needed, because I highly doubt you're correct.

> A community where every household does not have guns is safer than one that does

Except this isn't borne out in the data. Look at deeply conservative places where guns are literally everywhere, and you'll see very low crime rates compared to cities with strict gun control.

And why? Well, as a criminal, I'd be loathe to try something when there's a good chance the victim is armed.

In your perfect community scenario, a single armed criminal would wreak havoc, completely unopposed.

Strong disagree. Education is key, as are not leaving children that are too young to be educated alone where a weapon (not just a gun) is.

Curiosity is the number one problem with kids and guns, and that's because we hide them behind a mystique and don't make them understand. But talk to any redneck kid, and guns aren't a big deal, because they've had the mystique removed through education and familiarity.

The state will only protect you under certain circumstances. You're far better off being able to protect yourself, and pray you never have to.

The biggest is probably "Charade" with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Walter Matthau.

Fishin' With Fred by Da Yoopers

Excellent book, one of my favorites of his.

I've used both; DBeaver for personal stuff, Heidi at work. Heidi has a much more intuitive interface, IMHO

Isn't that every party currently in power?

Perhaps not coincidentally, that's the same thing that generally happens with gun control laws.

They're all built on a flawed principle - that criminals don't have and will not use workarounds. In reality, only law-abiding people have no workarounds.

> thinking (in my naivety) that all US dwellings would have way more space than the terraced house I was living in

As you've no doubt discovered, this highly depends on where you live. In a major US city? You're going to pay a premium for yard space. In rural Tennessee? Not so much.

I have a reusable cotton filter that I use in a metal mesh pourover. Seems to work and is easy to clean.

As an opposing anecdote, one of my cats loves watching it when it activates, and will hang out in the thing for fun (not while it's cleaning, of course). But only 1 of the 3 cats wants anything to do with it.

We didn't pay $700 for it, though. They had a sale a while ago on the previous model, and it was less than half that price.

You almost had me agreeing with you, but advocating for someone to kill themselves is way out of line.

This is my shocked face

See, I would have just put a WiFi extender near my bed...

> why does a child need to break through a plateau at anything?

If for no other reason than to teach them that some things are worth persevering for.

You can't teach kids to give up at the first sign of adversity...

> that other books should be distrusted at risk of harms to yourself? Say, the Christian Bible

A bit off topic, but I find it interesting that the Christian Bible is always the example of a "bad" book, when there are other, very popular, religions whose books literally tell them that non-adherents are worthy only of a grisly death.

I skip specifying Standard or Daylight time altogether, and just use ET (or CT, MT, etc). Much easier on my brain, and nobody actually cares which they're in at the moment.

I just got one that was off by 2 years and 24.2 meters, but it was kinda cheaty because it showed Barbara Bush on the South lawn of the White House.

Interesting. Even with Biden seemingly confused on stage so often and slurring his words?

I'll have to look closer at Trump's public appearances.

I wasn't talking about Trump specifically, or even conservatives.

Everyone on both sides automatically thinks the worst about everyone on the other side these days, usually just to score some internet points.

It's a terrible way to go through life. We should show a little grace sometimes.

Genuinely curious what your take is on Biden's competency during his presidency.

He's been talking about tariffs since before the election, so they likely were anticipating it.