According to https://gunviolencearchive.org/ over 50% of every gun death in the USA each year is from suicide. More than half. Nobody gives a shit because while the numbers are staggering, they're not kids in school or people in a theater, mall, or grocery store. They're still dead though.

Gun ranges won't let you rent a gun unless you: 1) Have someone with you 2) Have another gun with you (and clearly you just want to rent their gun to try out a different gun) because they're afraid (almost certainly through experience) that you'll kill yourself.

This nation not only doesn't give a shit, it gives even less of a shit now as seen in this article.

What utter horse shit. Prices for appliances won't go down so much as single cent, meanwhile it will cost more to run them. Great job, MAGA fuckwits.

I can't imagine why he bothers, what are they going to do, charge and/or convict him of a felony? They've done that... 34 times. It didn't do shit. I honestly don't understand why he feels the need to pretend the bullshit he's doing isn't illegal/immoral/unconstitutional/etc.

I’m going to my states senate office on Monday

Monday is Presidents day, are you sure they'll be open? I know a couple state employees and they have the day off. This could vary by state and office I guess. I'm just saying maybe check the website or something.

Because those who should be doing that are complicit, that's how.

Same. I hope they're kind and don't just ship us all off like the Uighurs.

That's why I don't download or purchase ebooks from Amazon, but only get them from places I can download a non-DRM'd copy. I'm not looking to break any laws, but if I pay for it, I want to be able to have it whenever I want even when the Internet is down. Recently a buddy gave me his old blu-ray juke box, and now I'm doing the same thing with my favorite movies as well. And building a home lab. It's finally time I decreased (not completely ended) my reliance on the cloud, given the shit show my nation collectively voted for.

Yep, now that it's far too late and the damage is done and they don't have a majority.

Greed and oligarchs.

I use it to write code for me sometimes, saving me remembering the different syntax and syntactic sugar when I hop between languages. And I use to answer questions about things I wonder - it always provides references. So far it's been quite useful. And for all that people bitch and piss and cry giant crocodile tears while gnashing their teeth - I quite enjoy Apple AI. It's summaries have been amazing and even scarily accurate. No, it doesn't mean Siri's good now, but the rest of it's pretty amazing.