One important thing to note is that there are only two types of commercially available rodenticides. The 2024 state law banned one of them, because the WAY that it kills is “grosser” than the other one.

The problem is veterinarians only have a cure to treat dogs/cats that accidentally eat the rodenticide for the one that was banned, and not for the one still available. Before, if a dog/cat accidentally ate rat poison, there was a good chance the vet could easily save your pet’s life. Now, they just say, “sorry, nothing we can do while your pet dies a slow, painful, but not outwardly gross death.”

As the saying goes, “if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle.”

If he actually did what the state accused him of, then I would be in favor of him spending his life behind bars. But since the ONLY evidence against him is a pair of forensic specialists whose testimonies have been overturned as junk science in 9 different cases already (including the only living one of the two saying he no longer believes in the science he testified about back then), plus the recanted testimony of a jailhouse snitch, then the burden of proof has not been met. There were no witnesses and no other forensic evidence that this wasn’t more than negligence in leaving a 2 year old in a bathtub.

That’s why I have a hard time with the death penalty. A lifetime in jail gives time to find out the state did something wrong (like in this case). Once a person is dead, then we can’t say, “whoopsie.”

Exonerated might not be the correct term. His murder conviction was vacated and death sentence set aside, which is different from saying he is exonerated.

What would a non-criminal person be expected to do in this scenario? Let’s assume for a second that these people were innocent (tough to do for us Americans, assuming people are innocent before given a fair trial by their peers), and their boat suddenly explodes in the middle of the ocean. Are they expected to stay floating in the open ocean forever just in case a second explosion happens? Or are they expected to try to not drown or get eaten by sharks?

That’s not being a bootlicker. That’s stating the actual official policy of the DoW, disseminated to everyone who has a NIPR account and “proclaimed” in an executive order by the President. It isn’t official law as passed by Congress (yet), but nobody in this administration cares about the law. They are making everyone who works with the DoW call it the DoW.

Yeah, I hate it so much and still call it the DoD in casual conversation at work, but “they” being the DoW did change the name even if Congress hasn’t.

It is hard to argue he isn’t correct.

However… Wow. It’s so shocking to see how happy people are these days to flaunt how evil they are. It’s not like evil people didn’t exist before, but it’s almost like they are celebrated these days.

Holy crap, her eyes are burning into my soul.

Does France not already have a giant database of citizens and various visa holders with their information and all that? Do they not give out cards to use at the doctor’s office?

What extra burden would “not giving out that card to retirement visa holders” add?

Showing this was not about security at all.

So the most informed people should not be able to make public statements because people who make policies might listen to them? That’s an insane take.

Where did I use the word “trust?” Nowhere. I said they have a well-informed opinion on the topic at hand.

When you take a shot at the most powerful person in the world (hyperbole to make a point), you better not miss.

I’ve decided not to apply for a promotion I was likely to get partially because it would have meant managing a person I dated 18 years ago. She is a lawyer. I shouldn’t be smarter than her about what could represent a workplace ethical violation.

But of course he did.

I mean, I get that he wouldn’t be able to get it to trial until Trump is already dead. But it just sets a bad precedent to let a President try to steal an election.

Show me where he is setting military policy. I’ll wait.

Oh, hang on, he isn’t. He is making a public statement about what he thinks politicians should do based on what he observes in his daily work on the job. It’s literally the Chairman’s job to make public statements about what is best for the industry they work in and what is best for their company.

Another commented said Fully Remappable Controls, but I want to foot stomp it. On PC games, I use EDSF instead of WASD, but if some controls can’t be remapped and they overlap with EDSF then I won’t play the game.

On console, I fucking hate that Elden Ring maps “crouch/sneak” to pushing down on the movement stick. I’m furiously fighting for my fucking life against a boss that attacks every 0.7 seconds. I’m moving that stick as fast as I can, which means I’m pushing hard on it. It sucks to be trying to run away from an attack but then start crouching and sneaking away from a 40ft tall axe coming down on you.

Fully remappable controls is my biggest wish. I hate WASD and swear by EDSF, but some games like Fallout 4 hardcode some controls. E is hardcoded to “interact” or “open door” or something, but the game DOES let you map “move forward” to E. So I can run around like normal, but every time I run past a door it auto opens to a zombie hiding behind it.

The Chairman or CEO or whatever of a major defense corporation has a vested stake in what things might affect the defense industry and very likely has a team of people informing him of what is going on geopolitically. This person is someone who probably knows more than you on things like this, so maybe listening to him is worthwhile. We don’t have to follow what he says, but hearing what he says is probably a good idea.

Who said anything about stock price? I sure didn’t.

Who cares what the CEO of a major Defense contractor thinks about the defense of the continent that company is located in? I’d say a lot of people.

Dmitry Peskov said: “Why is he involved in nuclear weapons?”

“Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov expressed surprise that a representative of the civil aviation industry would make such statements.”

I have to think that Peskov knows Airbus is not just a civil aviation company… He does know that Airbus is a major defense contractor, right? The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) just rebranded itself as Airbus 10 years ago. The literally make missiles. Why wouldn’t the CEO of a company that makes weapons talk about making weapons?