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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Wow… I’ve worked in the fast food industry for 2 years, and that really hits close to home. With the kitchen display systems and headsets, with modern technology it would be easy to implement that… very easy. We’d still need one manager on the line for de-escalating angry customers but that would end up essentially the same as the book synopsis described. And the subsequent dystopia… I could literally see this occurring tomorrow. Kinda scary.









  • Don’t… I’ve been there. Tried it even. And after living a bit longer, I can finally say with certainty that I’m glad I survived. Will there be a heck of a lot more suffering? Yes, of course. Life is suffering. That’s the whole point. And when you find something worth suffering for - and you will, someday; I didn’t believe it either but it is true - you’ll see beauty in it, value, reason to continue. If you think you’ll hurt yourself, call 988 (in the US), whatever your number is there. Or call a friend. Yes, they really do care. No, it is absolutely ok to bother them at 12:30am. IK it’s what we all hear and sounds dumb but it really will help. Get help. It’s a hard step to take, but I wish I had earlier. Heck, DM me if you have to and have literally no one else. I can’t promise the pain will go away entirely - it won’t. But it will get better. Life is worth it - even when you can’t see that all the time.


  • The movies get silencers very wrong… It would be a bit louder than the acorn and sound much different (or about the same volume if the vehicle is really well soundproofed). The officer should have known immediately that it wasn’t from inside the car. If it was a downtown area where stray bullets are an actual threat, I might have gotten down and scanned the area for danger, maybe radioed the possible stray bullet and assessed vehicle damage after a couple minutes. And that’s just common sense, I have no real training whatsoever. But literally any kid who’s gone squirrel hunting knows better trigger discipline than that.


  • Agreed. While a sniper round with a silencer or stray bullet from a streetfight hitting the hood of the car might sound similar, there’s no way it could have been any firearm from inside the vehicle. A paranoid but well-trained cop getting down behind the engine block and visually scanning the area for danger? Understandable, but a bit silly unless you’re in a dangerous downtown area. But emptying your mag into the car? You can’t have people with firearms that poorly trained and that jumpy… I say if they must have guns (which could be necessary in the case of an actual armed criminal), send them to bootcamp and have the army drill some threat assessment and trigger discipline into them…