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Until there's a school shooting and every teacher is expected to be the Good Guy With Gun™.

I'm in favor of them. Just from a utilitarian standpoint, it helps to be able to demarcate the bounds of a school so that you don't have random people just wandering up throughout the day mistaking a schoolyard for a park and causing disruptions. Moreover, it gives kids the freedom to roam relatively unsupervised during recess/break time without worry of them wandering off somewhere. In densely-populated areas, it's basically a necessity to fence off athletic fields as well to prevent any accidental damage to nearby property if a ball goes flying.

There's a lot that can be done to make school buildings feel less prison like, but a fence is just a fence and is innocuous enough.

There is security footage capturing the actual explosion, though unfortunately the only one I've seen was sent to me as a Xitter link, so apologies that that is all I have to offer:

https://x.com/johnEiid/status/1874540631172989237

Like others have said, budgetary restrictions and limited imagination is the honest answer, but there are a couple somewhat interesting "handwavey" explanations a sci-fi universe can use. Off the top of my head:

1. Directed Panspermia: Life on Earth (and other planets) was seeded by an intelligent higher order. Evolution occurred mostly naturally, but all following the same starting blueprints with variations to account for environmental differences. Eventually this leads to intelligent, humanoid life. Basically, sci-fi intelligent design theory.

2. Convergent Evolution: Two unrelated organisms can evolve similar traits because they happen to be best suited to certain tasks. For example, the number of times crabs have evolved independently, because crab-like traits work universally well for their shared niche. So in theory, if humans are distinctly advantaged for our evolutionary niche, it stands to reason that other forms of intelligent life might resemble humanoids as well.

In case you're genuinely asking, it is someone who is a furry and their fursona is a dog, wolf, or other canid.

Even if it was, presidents are now immune from criminal charges, and he is set to begin his next term in just a couple weeks, so not likely that anything could stop him from continuing to do this without sweeping reform of the office of president.

Mass shooting? Sounds like a normal Wednesday.

The FBI, apparently.

Bollards that can raise/lower aren't that expensive and they don't need to be mechanized. Back at my university, they'd raise them when they'd close off driveable areas for events and there's just a hook to lift them up and secure at a higher height with a lock. They were made of solid metal and concrete so I assume they had some sort of counterweight underneath to help raise them.

According to some of the news I just saw, they said the driver is dead.

Ridiculous.

I get the notion that biological sex is one thing, but gender is another thing entirely. They're still conflating the two.

And even in saying that, biological sex is not a binary because we know intersex individuals exist—people born with ambiguous sex organs, sex organs that don't match chromosomal makeup, or even chromosomal makeups beyond the typical XX/XY. For all of the claims of "scientific reality," the figures named in this article seem to do a very good job of cherry picking facts while ignoring the actual, less convenient reality of science.

Linux is the most secure among all OS given that it is an open- source operating system which gives users the ability to customize and implement security patches.

Imagine trusting folks to keep their stuff up-to-date, though. People get very hostile at the mere suggestion that they need to update when "everything works fine right now, why should I?"