It’s the new thing privileged people are doing. Throwing soup at paintings in art gallerias in Europe. They target ones that are behind glass, “just a prank bro”. Anyway it’s all a ploy so they can “raise” awareness about the Whales, Tibet, or Firefly being cancelled or whatever cause de celebre is hot this week.

Actually solving issues is difficult and slow. Throwing stuff is easy and makes you feel good about yourself. And in the end, only the feelings of the children of privilege matter.

I saw the video. He waved a gun around.

Waving a gun around is always provoking.

Waving a gun around is intrinsically aggressive and provocative, no matter how much you insist that it isn’t. Rittenhouse did literally everything wrong that merited the disarming attempt on him thrice that day.

Well on the brightside I would rather they be doing this instead of shooting at each other

I designed a quencher system that failed closed, no water flowing, during outages once. Granted I was an intern but still not my proudest moment.

It’s weird now as my employer is slowing moving into motion control tech for waste. Seeing the changes like having to really think about hardwired limit switches and safety relays. Chemical world I feel is easier.

The dude never existed but had he existed he wouldn’t have said that and has he said that he wouldn’t have meant it the way you think he did.

The Roman state religion worshipped the emperor. His face was on the currency. Monotheistic people are obviously going to take issue with this. About 2/3rds of the population there thought it was fine, just using money not worshipping a human, 1/3rd thought it was totally not fine and you couldn’t use the currency. However, everyone agreed that in the temple you had to change the coins.

Ok so Paul’s followers were running his fund raising stuff and this controversy was still lingering when the author of Mark came on the scene, despite the temple being burned down. Mark needed the fundraising to continue and needed people to think Paul was the best shit ever. So he made Jesus weight in on the issue and weight in in such a way that would apply to the modern times with no temple around.

No analogy is perfect but imagine if Ted Cruz claimed to have found a secret document that George Washington wrote saying that the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to abortion. That was roughly what was going on.

Even if there were a historical Jesus and he historically took this side on this issue that doesn’t mean he was taking a side on a related issue that hadnt happened yet.

Worst. Neighbor. Ever

“I know you are but what am I”

Just call them up and make it clear that you are mentally unstable enough that you might go to the person’s you are talking to home. If they are afraid of what you might do paperwork gets done fast.

Be creative with it. Last time the insurance denied one of my daughter’s claims I accused the adjuster of getting off sexually on the act, in graphic detail until they agreed to process the claim

I am readinf this book on the history of being a heretic. It really is amazing how there is no bottom to this. People have been murdered, in multiple eras, in multiple parts of the world because of facial hair choices.

Give the religious types the slightest amount of power over culture and they will show zero restraint

They aren’t thinking. They are looking for things to whine about to justify their failed existence.

Sour grapes, resentment, call it what you want. Easier to devalue the success of others vs achieve something of your own.

The taxi driver union is a joke, almost no driver is a member of it.

I don’t know if you want your taxes so bad just keep using them. They smell like ass, huge vehicles that guzzle gas, have ads that won’t stop playing, don’t take credit/debit card, charge insane amounts, but if this is what you really fucking want go use it.

I design process control equipment for a living and you are 100% correct. When the controller/PLC dies or the power goes out everything goes to a safe state that protects the human. Big part of the design decisions.

Have them throw a can of soup at a painting to raise awareness

Pretty much. Some weird perverse incentive would make it worth keeping them empty.

Rural living was never cheap. When you factor in the lower salaries it was always always going to be the more expensive choice.

Literally all of that I can do in an urban area. Especially video games. I know this is shocking to you but us city people have video games. Jesus

Not hyperbole. If someone pointed a gun at me and told me that they would shot me if I don’t agree to move back to my sub-500 people Northern Appalachian village I would help that mother fucker load the gun.

Those rural people should start throwing cornstarch paint on stuff to raise awareness of this important issue

You would accomplish much more by voting and getting two people under 30 years old to do the same.

Also I missed the part of the civil rights movement where they blocked ambulances and threw paint on stone hedge.

Not exactly a great message in terms of optics. Usually a bad idea to insult your audience