GooseFinger

Not to distract from the content of this article, but why is journalism so poor now days? Almost every sentence/paragraph in this article says "she was a victim of childhood marriage," just worded in various ways. I appreciate the background info on the origin of these laws and the the discussion of how widespread this issue currently is, but this article could be reduced to 6 or so sentences without losing any information.

I'm in the same boat as you OP - a tongue tied adult who's considered treatment a few times before.

I'm not sure of all the benefits there are to getting it fixed though, other than being able to lick [icecream cones] with competence. I also can't roll my Rs which made high school Spanish miserable.

I've read that recovery is rough the first few days after surgery, and I'm sure we'd have to relearn how to talk to some degree. This tradeoff doesn't seem worth it to me, so I haven't gotten it fixed.

Besides, it's a fun conversation piece if I ever need it.

More games should use real skyboxes like this. Makes me wonder why they don't.

Tenant: "Hey landlord, my furnace isn't working anymore. Fix it please."

Landlord: Makes one phone call to a contractor and uses 10% of this month's rent to pay them

My landlord makes maybe two phone calls like that a year, and she will have "earned" $40,800 of my money. Somehow, people like her have convinced people like you that simply owning a home that and doing 1 hour of cumulative work once a year is worth 30% of an engineer's income.

Fuck off, leech.

Looks like these comments are to drum up hype for a crypto scam. Whoever made the coin is leeching off Amazon's brand recognition to dupe people to buy some. Scams like this are pretty common since the crypto boom unfortunately.

What's that?

Your plastic is jammed. I think the clicking sound is from the extruder moving, but since the plastic is stuck, it compresses a mil or two before springing back and compressing again.

Your jam might be in the hot end. Heat it up really hot, pull the plastic out, and clear the nozzle with a fine metal pin. If that doesn't fix it, you might need to replace the nozzle and reseat the bowden tube against the nozzle, making sure the end of the tube is cut very straight and perpendicular.

Hope that helps! This happens to me too from time to time.

It's a breath of fresh air seeing a nuanced and thought-out response like yours, so thank you.

I thought I'd see better discussion about this topic when I ditched reddit, but some people here still can't think past "black guns = dead children = evil"

What an intelligent and nuanced response. You even managed to answer my questions, good job.

In your opinion, what new benefits would requiring a license to own guns have? How will requiring this license supplement existing laws? Specifically, how would this change improve the gun "problem?"

Maybe the people you talk to who claim to be well versed in firearm safety oppose licensing requirements like this because they're well versed in existing gun laws and the culture war against ownership? Not because "muh guns!"

Your grandparents could've mail-ordered machine guns to their doorstep, no background check required. Hell, when they were kids, they could've walked into a corner store and bought a rifle with their saved up lunch money. That's what my grandpa did.

If gun laws have only gotten stricter over this time, then why are mass shootings essentially a new thing? What changed between now and then that could explain it? Living conditions have plummeted, people are poorer, breaking the poverty cycle is basically impossible, our public schools aren't getting proper funding, prisons are cruel and don't reform, college tuition has skyrocketed, healthcare has become inaccessible, women are losing bodily rights, etc.

Unfucking our society in all the ways our corporate and political elite have fucked it would do more to curb violence than anything else. Why would anyone mindlessly kill others if society's worth living in?

I'd almost rather see our government burn down and get replaced by another than let status quo limp along another four years.

Real issues that real Americans want fixed have been ignored by Dems and Repubs alike for longer than I've been alive. Real issues, like widespread poverty wages, declining quality in public education, inaccess to healthcare, the prison system, terrible public transport in cities, no social safety nets, little action against climate change, etc. These issues have only gotten worse over time, so why would I vote for the status quo knowing that?

Hell, the "good" party in charge right now is actively supporting genocide in the east and keeping healthcare so expensive at homr that I can't get a cavity filled without taking lien out on my car. I'll never own a home despite being an engineer and having virtually zero debt. Life as an American fucking sucks, and if the last 80 years of American politics are anything to go by, then voting in the status quo in 2024 will continue making life worse.

The only American government that's been in charge while I've been alive has done nothing but make my life worse. If things continue this way, maybe Americans will finally reach their tipping point 100 years from now and grow the balls to take their government back. I'd rather not wait that long.