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Because they're fucking everywhere, something like 90% of the US population lives within 10 miles of one.

It's basically shorthand for "this is a common and readily available thing that you can acquire anywhere in the country for cheap even if megacorps have driven all of the local specialty retailers out of business in your areas"

As opposed to something like a HF ham radio which is a specialty item that no big retailers like walmart, to the best of my knowledge, carry, and so you're probably not going to be able to find it locally.

I keep a CB radio in my car, and have a few friends with them

It is actually really handy when you're road tripping together in different cars to be able to just grab the mic and say something to the other vehicle when you need to stop for a bathroom break or you're having an issue with your car or want to give them a heads-up about whatever.

If you're fairly close together a set of cheap FRS walkie-talkies from Walmart does the job just as well. Probably worth stepping up to CB if you expect to lose sight of the other vehicle though, range is usually a bit better.

It's especially handy if, like me, you go camping and such in rural areas with unreliable cell coverage.

You do occasionally also get helpful heads-ups from truckers if you're listening to channel 19 about road conditions, police activity, traffic, etc. but mostly it's just idiots babbling about conspiracy theories and immature bullshit.

I feel like that's kind of the point they're making

When you tie so many of those things to marriage, you've created an inherent inequality between married people and unmarried people.

Let the idea of "marriage" be up to you, your spouse(s) and whatever god(s) you think may exist.

And let people sort all the rest of it out for themselves.

For example

You can have your spouse and kids covered under your health insurance that you have through work. You don't necessarily need to live together or even be on good speaking terms as long as you have that piece of paper that says you're married.

So why shouldn't you be able to share those benefits with someone else of your choosing? Maybe you're single and would like to make sure that your best friend and their kids who you see all the time and think of each other as family can go see the doctor when they need to. You probably have a closer relationship with them than someone with an estranged wife and kids they never talk to, why shouldn't you be able to add them onto your health insurance?

Not only that, but it was one of the launch titles, so it was always available on the GameCube

I remember waiting in line at Target on release day and walking out of there with the console and Luigi's Mansion in-hand.

After sitting outside for a few days getting a little bit shriveled I think they look even better. This pic is actually from almost a week ago when they were freshly -carved, if I remember I'll snap a new pic of them later on

But yeah, I think they just generally have a lot more character than pumpkins, and you can usually get a couple turnips for the price of one decent carving pumpkin

The trick or treaters in my neighborhood always seem to appreciate them too, even if half of them don't seem to know what a turnip is (a disappointing amount both of kids and parents call them onions)

I just use a forstner bit in a cordless drill to do most of the work, so not really.

It would probably be a bit of a pain if you were to do it all by hand

A few previous year's turnips

Yeah, I don't think so. Need to search around for some more clips to confirm, but that one seems to be about an ICBM that would launch into space instead of a cruise missile that would fly low along the ocean

Also I'm pretty confident it wasn't a comedy

Based on the descriptions of the movie I can find and the date, I'm tempted to say no, but if anyone has a link to a relevant scene I'm open to changing my mind

I'm having a hard time finding clips or screenshots of this one that might match up to what I remember, so I can't say yes or no yet. The description doesn't sound like it would match up, but if anyone happens to have a video or screenshot to back this one up I'd appreciate it.

Not, definitely not the rock. Solid thought though!

That's fairly close to the scene I remember, I'm not totally sure it's the one, but it's probably the closest-looking one so far

Solid guess, but I don't think it's the one I'm remembering though.

I feel like the scenes with the missiles were during the daytime, and the camera angles and look of the tomahawks don't feel quite right to me

The movie I'm remembering was definitely live action, solid guess though

No, I think I got you figured exactly right. You're a whiney loudmouthed asshole who wants to complain.

You weren't offering any solutions, you weren't encouraging people to do more, you were just bitching that what they are doing isn't enough without any advice on what they can be doing better.

Now I've managed to tease some of that out of you over the course of this conversation, but it sure as hell wasn't what you were doing when I started, and I doubt that you would have ever bothered to elaborate on your own. You'd just be another nuisance around Lemmy making everyone's day a little bit worse. Hopefully you'll keep that up in the future instead of just spouting sarcastic whining like

Forgot all about how that happened and then nothing happened… again

And

Not in the United States of Obedience.

Complaining about a problem is only useful if you're following it up with at least an attempt to find solutions if not offering them up yourself. Otherwise you're just a whiney, loudmouthed asshole.

No, because your tactics are actively harming my attempts to bring more people into our fold.

It's already an uphill battle getting people to do anything without assholes like making them feel like since they're not yet willing to go all-in on a revolution that they might as well not do anything at all.

Be less of an asshole, so that we can get all hands on-deck instead of just a few loudmouthed assholes who won't be able to get anything done by themselves.

There is a huge difference between asking people to help, and being an asshole like you have been. Give examples of what more people can do to help don't just poo-poo what steps they're already taking.

And no, I'm not a fed, and I live in Pennsylvania. And before you start on why I'm up at 2am, I work night shift.

I really like that he seemed to think it wasn't an effective tactic, but it sure seemed to keep him busy all day instead of bothering other people.

Not a fan of people shitting on you for how you're trying to contribute to a movement? Gee, I wonder how that feels.

And dude, if you think this is harassment, you're probably way too thin-skinned for the kind of action you're trumpeting for, I think you need a little warming-up yourself before you're ready because the kind of actions you want to see come with consequences you can't just block or log off of Lemmy to avoid like you can with me.

Tell you what, if you agree to knock off being an asshole to other people on our side, then this is the end of it from me, that's all I've wanted from this conversation from the very beginning. But if I log on tomorrow and see your name pop up pulling the same shit in the comment section of the 2nd or 3rd post I open tomorrow like I did today, I'm gonna pick it right back up again. Deal?

First your asking for a date now you want me to slide into your DMs to tell you how naughty you are, you really are enjoying this, aren't you?

I certainly don't claim to be perfect, when I'm wrong, which I often am, I'm happy to be corrected.

But when I see someone being a prick for no damn good reason and hurting causes I care about, I'm gonna say something about it.

Say something constructive or hold all criticism until 7/12/2178.