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Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You're about to find out.

That's the point. That's always been the point of GOP government: take an axe to the thing you don't want, cry that it doesn't work now that you took an axe to it, and get the Congressional or public greenlight to take the axe to it again.

This is the final play of the segregationists. The real, hidden heart of the argument from a lot of people against the DoEd is "the schools aren't allowed to be segregated anymore and that's wrong."

Mark my words, you'll see schools rapidly segregated by race and gender soon enough. Fathers and mothers, I hope you're prepared to teach your daughters how to read and write, because all they'll likely be getting within the next 5 years is home-ec and how to be a submissive wife - and that's even if your state allows them to attend school.

Also where a lot of washouts from the military wind up, often for the same reasons.

It's also still useful in some situations. I had a family friend with hydrocephalus that had a hole in his skull.

Yeah, remember Trump telling those Christians "we'll fix it so you don't have to vote anymore". They don't need their voters when every position down to your city council is directly appointed by your local Lord (Governor).

This isn't even true in a lot of places now. If you have a college nearby, expect your local trade school to have tuition similar to that college.

There's also the fact that Canada is not nuclear-armed, but they sure as hell are nuclear-capable. They know how to build nukes, they have the infrastructure and manufacturing to do so, the country has simply chosen not to do so over the years.

Yup, same shit as Putin. The only measure of the Tsar is how much land they can add to the kingdom during their reign, and Trump is OBSESSED with this idea that he's a master negotiator. Negotiating the purchase of an entire sovereign nation would be the masterstroke.

I often think there should be one boardmember whose entire reason for being there is to say "hey that sounds like something a supervillain would do/say" when shit like this gets proposed.

Pretty much this. Like, the first part of "it's just a thing", I'll agree with that. It sucks, but it's an object. You can get another laptop.

What you really can't get back is the anxiety, the worry, the loss of feeling safe. I'm paranoid of keeping anything either in my vehicle or at work at all because I've had things stolen from both places, and this was YEARS ago. I barely keep things at home for similar reasons, and don't always feel safe THERE - I had a shitty landlord who just let her maintenance guys do whatever without proper notice, and I've woken up to strange guys in my apartment at 2AM as a result.

Usually you would soak the hide roof with water first. Makes it pretty damn fireproof. Oil and other liquids wouldn't be a huge problem unless they're literally right below your walls (and your moat would be several feet wide at least). Arrows would still be an issue at closer range, but that's why you cover this thing with your own volleys and siege engines.