Greetings from Canada

Shut the door its fuckin cold outside. little rough around the edges. you can disagree with people and still consider them people. 30's/M. Heavy Equipment Operator. open to asks or submissions.

[goth-queen]

I made a battle axe out of monster cans

[beardyoakenshield]

I love women with massive gigantic battle axe.

[saturday-morning-stuff]

[worldwright]

youtube with ublock origin experience of the 20 second gap between every video on a playlist where youtube desperately throws itself against the impervious ever-evolving uncaring face of the adblocker's wall screaming and clawing and calling PLEASE! PLEASE, OUR AD REVENUE!! DON'T YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CREATOR? DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT OUR WALLETS? AND THEIRS? into the vast and empty sky before the adblocker gently raises one of its many iron-banded arms and flicks youtube away into the void just to hear its wails fade slowly into nothing

[melonisopod]

It's funny when I get the "You seem to be experiencing interruptions. Find out why" popup as if two unskippable 30-second ads wouldn't feel way more intrusive and annoying than a slight delay for a video to start.

[beardedmrbean]

Can't even assault random journalists anymore, and I thought this was America!!!!!!!!

[generallemarc]

Damn, she was really aggressive when she stood there and pointed. That finger could've killed someone!

[beardedmrbean]

I watched the video in the link and a couple others on YT before running this because I didn't want a Nick Sandman situation where clipped bits of video disguise the actual event.

She put her hand up at one point and moved someone back from her personal space, barely a push not even close to a shove, then this asshole comes up and punches her in the back.

And now he's got the stones to call himself the victim here, not a fan of the doxing and going after his family members, that's not cool, but he's still not the victim and his family members are the victims of his actions.

[cookingwithroxy]

If I remember right, he and his wife urged their daughter to be as aggressive as possible towards the reporter, and can be heard telling her to get more aggressive on the video. Specifically so that they could try and force the reporter to respond to it, which they would use as justification to...

basically do what they did here.

[fiyabwal]

"We are facing consequences for our actions, this terrifies us, we dont want to live here anymore"

I mean i know this is a standard mindset among these people but its intriguing for them to just say it and STILL not realize how fucking stupid it is.

[beardedmrbean]

Short answer is because it's a natural waterway not one that had to be constructed and then maintained.

[maybeasunflower]

Plus, those waterways run *through* the relevant countries (not international waters) and there exists an alternative route (unlike for this strait).

[tuulikki]

Also worth mentioning that Iran is only one country along the Strait of Hormuz.

[beardedmrbean]

Be like charging people to go through the Strait of Gibraltar, got Morocco, Spain, and the UK to contend with.

Only natural waterway like that where anyone charges a fee is in Turkey, but their territory is on both sides of the whole thing and they don't call it a toll for using the waterway, some other kind of administrative fee for it though.

[fiyabwal]

Quick google also shows that cargo ships passing through the panama canal can cost about $300k, while cargo ships passing through the suez canal cost around $450k

Iran. Who performs no upkeep on the straight, nor patrols the straight for security (if anything they actively send pirates to capture ships but thats its own point for a different arguement) is attempting to demand a baseline of 2 million per ship... if math is hard for you thats more than 4x suez and more than 6x panama...

[crazy-brazilian]

[fiyabwal]

I was actually thinking about this a while ago and wondering how much of the reason for boomers getting absolutely shreked by AI generated images is their failing eyesight?

Real life is already slightly blurry to them, of course they wouldn't be able to easily spot the telltale signs of AI slop in what they're getting bombarded with.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

ever wandered around in an open world video game and noticed there are no children? no elderly people? no fat people? no one using a wheelchair? no one with a guide dog? this is supposed to feel like a living world and there's so much of life that's just not there

[dragon-in-a-fez]

lots of people in the notes being like "open world games don't have kids/wheelchair users because if they did the players could kill them!" and I am unrolling my papyrus scroll with my curated reading list on the topic of "oppressed groups being imagined as symbols of innocence and vulnerability that must not be harmed in public instead of acknowledged as real people who are often suffering abuse in private, and why that is bad"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

like yeah I'm aware that our culture would go collectively apeshit over kid NPCs being shot up in GTA. I'm also aware that that very same culture is broadly fine with parents beating their actual real life kids, and that most people, even most people who would never hit their own kids, think other real life kids getting hit is not their business to be enraged about. so maybe like. there's something weird going on there.

[switch-up-snowfox]

what culture broadly are you thinking of???

[cookingwithroxy]

Honestly, this is a position so stupid that I'm stuck thinking about the whole 'Do you ever think about how, in open world games, you only ever see 30 models of NPC's?' or 'Do you ever think about how, in an open world game, there will be more combat npc's than non-combat NPC's?'

The statement 'Considering the limited processing power available to computers, games prefer to place npc's the player is likely to interact with in the world, rather than ones they are less likely to interact with' would be all that one would ever need. And while you can couple that with 'People responded exceptionally badly to people making fun of/assaulting a Suffragette in RDR2' and extrapolate a limitation on being willing to put said NPC's in games, all you really have to do in this specific conversation is point out that child abuse is a startlingly rare event (at 7.7% per 100000 each year in the US) and realize that this is not so much a conversation about NPC's at all and more of a 'OP wants to have an argument and is looking for a proxy to justify whatever yelling they wish to do'.

[fiyabwal]

>open world

>wheelchair

My brother in chirst i DARE YOU to take a wheelchair to a beach, or hell just a grass field that isnt a constantly mowed city park.

See how far you make it anywhere.

Even those highly specialized "off road" wheelchairs with is essentially their version of a mountain bike tire is exhauting to move anywhere outside of a dirt road.

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

Black guy tries to kidnap a child, woman stops him but gets stabbed in the neck. That women is a hero.

[brantheblessed]

If "intervening in a kidnapping" just start with a throat punch.

[fiyabwal]

Even if its spelled differently by one letter its enough that if leftists saw this they would instantly side with the pedophile because thats just how they work now.

They would assume shes a relative and throw a party.

[theprofessional-amateur]

[sunshinestarseed-deactivated202]

[fireflies-and-whiskey]

😁

[wispisstillverybored67]

If I "have to" be okay with harassment of others because they're "bad people" so I can be considered a "good person", then I don't want to be good. Hope this helps.

[wispisstillverybored67]

I wonder if this post will take off. Not because I do or don't want it to happen, but I wonder when it'll reach a certain type of people.

By a certain type, I mean those who I was talking about in the first place. Or folks who otherwise do this and claim they don't. And then prove to be hypocrites.

[beardedmrbean]

[1americanconservative]

[teenageponypandamuffin]

Also, if so much money wasn't embezzled by career politicians or spent (laundered) on useless pork-barrel "projects"....😠

[kstripling]

[beardedmrbean]