I know this is a joke but you wouldn’t come within 50ft of that person as they’d claim it was self defense to shoot you dead.

Personally, though, many people who hunt probably wouldn’t hunt at a national park IMO because there risk of other non hunters being there. Normally, iirc hunting has policies to signal you’re a person (like wearing orange while hunting deer).

I’m personally not a hunter, but we own firearms; and I believe anyone who’s afraid to use them, or hates on them is in for a rude awakening. This country built in the right to own them to protect ourselves from our government because they understood that people with power lust for more power, and we’ll likely need a reset in the future because of this. Learn to protect yourselves! Your way of life and your life will depend on it someday.

Executives across retail, restaurants and packaged goods are increasingly worried about US shoppers with tighter budgets amid surging gas prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East.

“They’re literally running out of money at the end of the month,” Kraft Heinz Co. Chief Executive Officer Steve Cahillane said in an interview this week. “We’re seeing negative cash flows in the lower-income brackets where they’re dipping into savings.”

DIPPING INTO SAVINGS???! WTF are they smoking?! I don’t know many people with a cushion of savings let alone a comfortable one; especially lately since our pay has stagnated, job market’s trash, and EVERYTHING has risen in price! Who’s got the ability to even attempt to save?!

Dude we’re way beyond $4.50, I think the cheapest I’ve seen in Illinois is $4.89. I use premium, so $5.99-$6.09 depending on the station and their octane rating. I aim for 92-93 for premium. Nothing like a 50%+increase within a few weeks!

Oh, gotcha. Well OK that makes a little more sense. I figure either way, the price of crude was still around $100/barrel (I think now it’s over) and gas hadn’t gone so high before, so regardless I was just basing it around prices.

The gas prices are bullshit and nothing more than a ripoff. In 2001 with the “war” in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it didn’t get this bad. Same with 2008 market crash and 2022 with Covid. Check the charts-especially Monthly Avg Domestic Crude

https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-adjusted-prices/historical-crude-oil-prices-table/

This has been posted a lot. GOOD LUCK.

Another law passed by those who are clueless about what they’re doing!

Do you have a reading mode button at the top? I just enable reading mode (But in Waterfox) and it starts to function without paywalls or popups.

I’m not saying you’re an asshat nor do I think you came across that way! Thanks for being civil at the very least and adding to a debate without getting heated. It’s nice to have a great discussion!

Touché. Again, just playing devil’s advocate for this topic, having lived both sides. More so it’s easy to be dismissive of something one does not understand.

Understandable, and that’s the issue. I’m not saying morality should be an exemption, but there’s a difference between actively supporting, condemning, and just allowing people to coexist-knowing we’re the same yet not all the same.

If I could hire at my company, I would! “We don’t have the budget” for extra IT.

If you’ve never “practiced” a religion, then its pretty easy to be judgmental towards it. Many people grow up in very religious households and it’s hard to beak away from what was so normal for so long. I grew up in one of these households, and while I don’t actively participate in going to church anymore, it still helped shape me to be who I am, and I wouldn’t have such a strong core group of friends without it.

All the crazy stuff people associate with Christians is due to televangelists mostly being predatory, movies/TV, bad spotlight or events coming to light (like ~20 years ago there media focused on all the Catholic boys who were molested by various priests).

I, myself, am not about to get preachy and defensive towards religion, but I would like to play devils advocate and argue that the racial equality fight, women’s rights, and more recently LGBTQ movement towards equal healthcare and or acceptance is no different than a simple:

“If you’re going to be accepting of somebody, you should be accepting of everybody”.

Funny how some (not specifically picking on you or anyone) can get so defensive and upset fighting for acceptance of one thing while simultaneously they themselves can’t accept others merely for their beliefs… Kind of hypocritical, isn’t it?

Hell yeah! Time to rise up!

Amen. Been saying this a while. He knew this shit was coming so he’s was prepared with this Ace up his sleeve.

Step 1: get people addicted, monetize it to no end

Step 2: cover it up and lie about it being fine, spread misinformation of you have to

Step 3: plan a scapegoat tactic as a backup just in case. Maybe 2.

Step 4: buy out politicians who’ll support you when it’s time to take action; like “age verification” as a redirect (as if the gov has ever fine anything promptly!)

Step 5: Get the media to sort of drop coverage to get people to forget about it with other stuff, and watch the lawsuits and trials fade away into the background as there’s no more media coverage for it.

So, birthrate drops, just funnel in more people who don’t know America’s corruption, and now jobs markets are fucked with over-crowding while the billionaire class gets more bodies to leech off of. Great plan.

Maybe it’s a ploy for an intervention 😆

Well it was Mark Zuckerburg who’s made the big push for it… You know, offload responsibility from his platform being addicting and all… Plus, both sides are equally corrupt, so really it’s time to move to something new. Forward, Green, Reform, Libertarian, etc.

Anything to keep the people docile and from rising up!

More war means less working class lives to pay wages to, which in turn means they can take even more from us!!

Gotta have more data to mine and sell, too… Gotta make a few bucks for the trouble of getting citizenship. “The start of a beautiful relationship” aka the start of monetizing more new data for those AI and big tech.