I Mess Up And Try To Fix It

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That's it. Those are your options. Homelessness doesn't go away based on "crime crackdowns." You will imprison the unhoused, and when they are free, they will be unhoused again. Or they will die in prison.

When you burn encampments or force people out without their stuff, they remain unhoused or freeze to death.

After working with the unhoused, it's become abundantly clear that those who don't want to support them instead want them dead.

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

So someone offers to let Toph touch their face

But being Toph, she is sick of merely explaining, again, that Blind People Don't Want To Paw Your Greasy Face

So she just makes them eat dirt instead

#( #prev: #You going to explain colors to me next? Because can show you brown #) #toph: *earthbends their face into some rock* #sokka: that's gray actually #toph: *earthbends sokka into the same rock*

Intense background and criminal background checks and anything violent automatically disqualifies you.

Make getting a gun/gun permit more like getting a driver’s license:

permit to learn

includes an exam with 18 or more questions on the policies, laws, and etc of guns and gun ownership

if you get more than 8 questions incorrect you must retake it.

30 hours of practical experience at a gun range with a licensed teacher

Must take a 5 hour class on the dangers of guns and how to use them safely which will then yield you a certificate that grants you to take the practical exam and lasts for one year. If you don’t gain the license within the allotted year you must retake the class.

A practical exam with a licensed instructor who will grade you on various skills. If you pass you may be granted a permit on the weapon of your choice, the exams may differ on the type of firearm you want.

Follow the Japanese model where you must have two gun safes in different areas of the house, one to store the gun and one to store the bullets and you must provide the police with information on where those safes are.

No concealed carry and only handguns may be allowed to be out in public.

If transporting a weapon, it must be in the trunk of the vehicle, in a bag or some other case, safety on and unloaded and may not leave the vehicle until you are at the destination.

If you’re a hunter or some other gun hobbyist that requires a functional weapon other than a handgun then the gun must stay on the premises, whether that is a gun range or the Fish and Wildlife facility.

If you live in a rural area where police (and people, for that matter) are few and far between, something akin to a deer hunting rifle should provide plenty of protection from predators and poachers, you still have to follow the aforementioned steps.

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA this scene hits me right where I goddamn live, and it really does justice to both Gangle and Jax's characters.

Even though she wants to feel sorry for her because being abstracted is such a terrible and horrific fate to suffer, she can't bring herself to do so because of how terribly and horrifically she treated her. It shows that she knows that even a person like her doesn't deserve to abstract as some kind of punishment for everything she's done. But how can she feel bad for her for everything she's done? For how cruel and malicious she was to her from the very moment she entered the circus! And the damage it did to her mental and emotional well-being!

And what I also love about this scene is that it reinforces the theme that, despite all of the hurt that she's experiencing (even before she abstracted), it doesn't automatically excuse the hurt she chose to inflict.

P.S. Also love how Zooble is comforting Gangle!

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