The guy I helped frame for my friend’s scam didn’t deserve getting fired. He loved working there and his only crime was being annoying.

When I was younger I tried to write that book because there was more than enough material, but set it aside halfway through. I didn’t want to be known for my most painful traumas. I’d rather get a bunch of rejection letters trying to sell weird fiction than a deal selling pain.

Yeah, actually.

The second worst was in-house marketing at an Oil & Gas services company where years long difficulty with the son of the owner, an extreme level or boredom and unfulfillment lead to a full on nervous breakdown at work that cost me my job and a good chunk of the life I had built for myself.

The worst was working on my father’s shrimp boat as a deckhand at 15. The job was from 5am to 9pm and the work was mostly sifting through literal tons of shrimp by hand to sort out all the non-shrimp while fighting with crabs and aggressive seagulls during sweltering Texas summers for no pay. The smell alone… I still won’t eat fish 30-ish years later. The first few days I was beaten for being too slow until he decided the improvised rope whip wasn’t working well enough. He let me finish the most recent drag (the net is dragged and pulled in 4-6 times per day) and then threw me overboard, tossed out a short rope, and kept going with me holding on for dear life until it was time to bring the net in again, which was about 45 minutes. The only money for the entire season was from soft shell crabs I collected on the side to sell at the fish market, but he took that money too once they started giving me a decent rate.

With the benefit of hindsight I actually really regret doing this, but at the time I was a shithead that only thought of themself.

One summer a friend, who was the assistant manager, got me a job working at Game Stop. It was the third worst job I’ve ever had and I hated working there. My friend was running a scam in the store where he would take all the games in the drawers that didn’t show up in inventory and exchange them for cash. Just the transactions I ran for him, he netted several hundred dollars.

What my friend did not realize though, was that there was a lag time between a game being traded in and it appearing in inventory so he actually had been turning in games that were in the system. The store manager became suspicious, ran inventory himself, and discovered several thousand dollars worth of missing games. During the course of his investigation he interviewed all of the employees and when it was my turn the only thing I said was that another employee that I didn’t like personally because he was a mouth breathing know-it-all was the only one who brought a backpack to work everyday, he was fired several days later. A month after that I quit after the store was robbed at gunpoint for the third time in the three months I worked there.

I keep a water gun filled and primed next to my front door for this exact reason.

Never trust an addict. You might love them, they might be family, but their drug of choice will always be more important than you.

Only commit one crime at a time. Make sure you don’t have a headlight or turn signal out or speed if you’ve got something in the car you’re not supposed to. Being a person of color counts as a crime if you live in the south or a large city.

Authority must be questioned. Just because they’re your boss, a cop, or a politician doesn’t make them automatically right or justified. This also extends to subject matter experts whose qualifications, methodologies, and other bona fides should be interrogated.

You will have regrets for some of the things you didn’t do, but also some of the things you did. Choose the exciting risk over the boring comfort and you’ll have fewer.

There isn’t any good data to support or refute that, but the correct pronoun for a transgender woman is she/her unless she says otherwise. The US federal government has commissioned a study to examine a link between gender dysphoria, transgender identity, and violence, but even before it’s begun there are serious questions about it’s methods that would likely prevent it from being peer reviewed or replicated which would make it worthless scientifically.

I saw in other comments you were meaning that allowing a transfem prison to either transition or continue their already in progress efforts, but no one could say with any authority how that would effect levels of violence. In US prisons violence is an intentional feature rather than something the powers that be would prefer to mitigate. Threats of physical and sexual violence and their application serve the interests of the prison industrial complex which seeks to punish criminals and deter would be ones.

The US employs punitive justice and the suffering of those who are incarcerated is the point. Denying transgender prisons the ability to maintain their transition serves that goal, but also is a relatively safe way of stripping rights away from transgender individuals in a way that can seem unsavory to defend for a large portion of the US population which serves authoritarian political interests.

Bubba, Junior, Dale, Billy Ed, Dwayne, John Boy, Rooster, Bobby, Earl, Carl. For women Sammy, Carla, Porsha, Krystal (specifically with a K), Deb or Debbie.

Having grown up white trash and being middle aged I can tell you that most of them go by some nickname or another and those that don’t generally go by their first and middle name.

service@domain.tld won’t actually prevent spam, it will just give you the grim satisfaction of knowing which service leaked. I used that pattern for a few years and the only thing it was ever really useful for was figuring out that a service I signed up for years prior had changed their name or used a third party service to handle portions of their site features.

If you’re careful about what you sign up for, spam shouldn’t really be a concern. The places you’re most likely to get spam from are your contacts email getting compromised, sketch online services that go out of business, and big services outsourcing marketing. Just be sure to religiously unsubscribe from any promotional materials because the longer your email remains contactable on a list, the more likely it is to be shared/sold by some shitbag marketing firm.

It probably was the strongest aryan military on earth. Luckily for everyone else staffing a military based on aesthetics rather than fitness is a stupid idea.

I’m not so sure about the claim all other organs originate from the gut. Reproductive organs aren’t related to the digestive system. Broadly, life has one genetic goal, continue. If anything the digestive system exists in service of the reproductive system. Humans are a huge asterisk though. Since we’re thinking meat we can opt out of the biological imperatives (survive, reproduce) entirely should we choose, so humans are more like a ghost driving a meat suit.

How is it ever justifiable to be killed for shoplifting?

Someone’s medical history is between them and their doctors. There are times that there should be exceptions to that rule, such as if a patient poses a clear and present danger to others. Also in the case of sti’s it might be worth exploring some way for people to identify people with conditions that have no cure like herpes or HIV. It might make more sense though to approach that from the other side and have civil and/or criminal penalties for not disclosing and sti that would scale with severity of the disease. Either way though the whole system would hinge on people using their real names for dangerous sex. But for everything else it should be totally private with harsh penalties (big fines and real jail time) for releasing it.

Public servants shouldn’t need to disclose their health conditions publicly, but should be given annual physical and mental health evaluations by non-partisan, publicly accountable clinicians with a failing result ending in termination/removal from office. But the public does not have a right to know the specifics.

You should know we’ve been trying to reach you for some time about your car’s extended warrant. To avoid this fate please locate the reset button in your simulated reality, press and hold for three seconds before stating the shape the rebooted environment will take and release the button. It’s very important that you do not flig the loompture or woogle the sauren. Normal service should resume after the universe reboots.

Don’t. Nothing you could say is going to change their mind. They’d need to hear it from new sources they trust and their peers and then it still wouldn’t be guaranteed they’d reconsider their position. Confirmation bias and a whole host of other brain stuff makes changing someone’s mind incredibly difficult. Save your breath.

I couldn’t say for sure, but it’s probably spiritual guru scam. He’s got some system or whatever he’s developed to feed victims the right vibes to keep them hooked. in most of these situations they prey on people with very low self-esteem and he sells them an identity.

It doesn’t look like a cult yet, but give this guy time and as soon as he hits a threshold of money he’ll have a little compound that “elite” followers will be invited to. I lived next door to a woman that got sucked into the Twin Flames cult and that’s exactly how they went. Started with a product exploiting people in a vulnerable state, then grew into online classes and workshops and then finally a compound.

I don’t disagree with you, I’d just like to point out my story happened a long time ago. This was before Ellen Pao and Gamergate and most of the reddit controversies younger people remember today. I was in my mid 20’s when I was participating in /r/foreveralone and now I’m in my early 40’s. Back then /u/spez, when he was still almost universally loved, posted about not banning the red pill community and it’s satellites because of free speech which is what ultimately destroyed the forever alone community and allowed the alt-right pipeline to take root.

I agree with most of what you’re saying. OP asked so I tried to game it out the best I could. Personally I think we need to approach gun legislation like we do cars. License to carry in public, strict rules about thier usage, and automatic max penalties and enhanced charges for any crime committed while carrying a gun (legally or otherwise), which can include losing your carry license.

I would say though that your trainer wouldn’t be thwarted by a bullet ownership limit either, it would just slow down their training. They’d buy their 50, shoot them, then have to buy more all of which could be done at the range.

I broadly agree with you about lists, eventually they will be misused. But the chilling effort would be the point. A chilling effect isn’t universally a bad thing, modern HR practices had a chilling effect on sexual harassment in the workplace, banning nazi symbols had a chilling effect on the spread of fascist ideals in post war germany, etc. In this case the chilling effect of reducing the amount of ammo purchased might be beneficial.

That’s pretty much what the Black Panthers did in California in the 1960’s. They organized armed marches through California cities and within a year or two the state had passed very restrictive gun control laws.

I often with we could organize a armed, unified, poc and queer movement that regularly demonstrated. Sort of a modern take on Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition, but with guns. Worse case gun laws change, best case, they listen.

I wouldn’t say ammo is easier to regulate at all. The average gun owner keeps several boxes of handgun ammo and 500-1000 rounds of rifle ammo on hand to start so none of that ammo will be caught by your regulation.

If you outright banned the new purchase of ammo it would take years before the effects are really noticed, especially considering the rush to buy up every bullet on the market before the ban went into effect. Afterwords you’d see gun owners driving to a state without an ammo ban.

If you slapped a max limit on ownership, say you can’t have more than 50 rounds of ammo per gun, that wouldn’t have stopped almost any of the mass shooters in the last 10 years who almost all fired less than 50 shots on their rampages. Not to mention enforcing that law would be next to impossible because you’d basically need a signed warrant to check a house for illegal amounts of ammo or catch them in transit.

If you put a massive tax on ammo combined with a max purchase limit, let’s say 1,000% tax and a limit of 50 rounds per ID card per day, it would be business as usual, just more expensive.

One thing that might be worth exploring would be an ammo purchase registry. Gun owners haaaaaate their names on lists aand fight it tooth an nail on guns, but they don’t have the protection of the 2nd amendment for ammo. Who knows it might have a chilling effect. Or just drive more transactions through the gun show/private seller loop holes.