Watching sitcoms from decades past through a modern lens is difficult.
Most 90s sitcoms haven't aged well at all. Multi-cam 3-wall sitcom in general don't. Single-cam higher quality production that aren't trying to replicate the old variety show live-theatre format have come around.
Sanford and Sons, Full House, and Cheers were really popular, but have aged poorly.
But things like MASH (especiallythe seasons after they dropped the laugh track), Arrested Development, and Scrubs have done really well because they didn't have an identity crisis between theatre and film.
Squirrels are very frequently hunted with a .22. It works great for squirrels, but (like a pellet rifle) can be lethal to a human - especially if you shoot them in the head.
And there's legitimate reasons to shoot squirrels. I used to do it for an exotic animal preserve because their population would explode and they'd eat everything in site.
Hegseth and Trump were treating it like a political event where people worship them.
But these weren't their superfans attending a rally. They were professionals ordered to be there and to listen. And even if they were fans, you don't fucking clap and cheer at a military briefing.
I think both stances need more nuance. Yeah - if your company doesn't hire someone that can fulfill your essential duties while you're gone, that's on them.
But when you do have someone who can cover your duties while you're gone, it makes sense that you can't all take off the same day. I work in municipal government for a small city, and my boss and I are each other's backups. We've worked together for years, and we haven't taken the same day off yet, but both take several weeks a year. Heck - tomorrow there's an annual conference we both should attend, and we alternate each year who goes because someone has to hold down the fort.
The majority of guns are owned by white heterosexual male Christian Republicans. What's the group that the fascists haven't been targeting again?
The thing about guns is that they have caused incredible harm, and a lot of people have looked at the statistics and realized that gun ownership makes their family less-safe. So most gun ownership is related to irrational fear or a heritage of gun culture. I'm in the latter group myself, and own dozens of firearms, but I've never been under the illusion that my gun ownership made me safer on average.
But these are not normal times, and I fear that many minorities and those on the political left may realize too late that guns can suddenly stop being evil when they become necessary. And I absolutely believe they'll be cracking down on gun ownership. If trans gun ownership isn't banned in a year I'll be shocked.
And I won't be surprised in the least if NICS checks for registered Democrats start getting funky. I don't think Patel's FBI will be dumb enough to deny all Democrats, but it would be very easy for them to put a delay flag on a check.
Under a delay the full check is pending and the firearm can't be sold for 3 days, after which it can proceed so long as a deny hasn't been returned. But most major retailers won't transfer on a delay until a proceed comes back, which can take as long as 6 weeks.
And since NICS checks are only valid for 30 days from the date the check begins, a delay that is returned as a proceed after 6 weeks isn't valid and can't be used to sell a firearm. But since it's a proceed there's no grounds to challenge it.
But many of the others are very intelligent. When Trump dies on the toilet they'll appear way more sophisticated when they aren't having to fellate him while pursuing their evil agenda.
Doge and Trump have been working hard at shutting down everything the government does that actually serves the citizens despite having the funds. But at the same time they're spending trillions in making the country a fascist nightmare with secret police and concentration camps.
It allows you to move power from a live circuit to a dead one by connecting the outlets between them. The most common use I've seen is to easily hook a gas generator to a household circuit during a blackout.
But yes, they're very dangerous and there are less-stupid ways to hook up a generator that won't make tripping over a power cable lethally dangerous or risk burning down the house by bypassing the circuit breaker and overloading the wiring in the walls.
But this one is popular because it can be done very quickly and easily with minimal supplies.
We have the depraved indifference homicide rule. It's when someone knowingly acts with such disregard for human life that it is likely their action will result in the death of others that the indifference to life essentially counts as intent to kill. It's generally considered 2nd degree murder.
A real life example was the Sclitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. They had a dangerous waterside that had injured several people and was clearly too dangerous to operate. The company paid off the injured people to keep them quiet, and then, in August 2016, a child was decapitated by the ride.
The CEO was charged with 2nd degree murder.
Unfortunately, misleading information was provided to the grand jury by the AG, so the judge was forced to dismiss the case. The AG also charged the designers and engineers of the ride with murder, and introduced evidence to the grand jury in all cases (including the CEO) that the ride didn't meet Kansas safety standards and code, witbout mentioning that the code had been updated after the accident and that it did meet engineering and design standards at the time of construction.
If they'd just gone after the CEO and stuck to facts, the charges would have stuck. But as it was, the judge had to throw out the grand jury decision.
Watching sitcoms from decades past through a modern lens is difficult.
Most 90s sitcoms haven't aged well at all. Multi-cam 3-wall sitcom in general don't. Single-cam higher quality production that aren't trying to replicate the old variety show live-theatre format have come around.
Sanford and Sons, Full House, and Cheers were really popular, but have aged poorly.
But things like MASH (especiallythe seasons after they dropped the laugh track), Arrested Development, and Scrubs have done really well because they didn't have an identity crisis between theatre and film.