DC Tom

At least Metallica and D&D are finally off the hook.

If I owned the team, I'd keep it up. And paint it black. Both for heightened awareness about domestic violence. I'd sooner try to do good with it than erase it from memory. "Guilty" and "liable" are not the same thing.

That was World War 2. The first fully motorized army was actually the British, shortly before the war. The US Army didn't get rid of horses until 1942 (there was horse cavalry in the Philippines.). Every other combatant used horses until the end of the war - most German artillery was horse-drawn, and because of limitations of the Eastern theater, the Russians used horse cavalry in "Calvary-Mechanized Groups" to great effect, and didn't get rid of cavalry until 1947. Side note: Patton, as a second lieutenant, designed the last US cavalry saber - the Model 1913 Patton sabre. He also had a tank named after him: the M47 Patton. He's probably the only person in history to have cavalry equipment and an armored vehicle named after him (suck it, MacArthur!)

Truly, the Agony of Da Feet.

What? Why am I just finding out about this now? How come no one's ever mentioned this before???

You're no more real than I am.

People like me. You'd be surprised. I am.

I wouldn't even bother. All Quiet on the Western Front, by the guy who directed Jarhead? Best thing I can say about it is it's not a Roland Emmerich film.

It was never seen in Philadel... ....ohhhhhh...

You're not actually real people. Just characters on a screen.

They're better off. I went out with friends last night for the first time in four years. It was stressful as hell.

Sounds like a more idiotic Deep Blue Sea, which I didn't think was possible. But...why? Why make this movie? Why is this a series? Who the ***** is watching these movies, and what the hell is wrong with them?

Never happened. Eldridge was in the Bahamas in October of 1943.

I certainly wasn't expecting the comfy chair...

No you're not.

I'm white, and I work in immigration. I'm a genuine Nazi. He's got nothing else.

But how many people in wars have mosquitoes killed? Since the dawn of time, in all the wars fought disease has killed more than violence. The Gulf War was the first war where disease wasn't a major casualty-causing concern.

Buffalo716 kills everyone's patience. Ban him.

But again, define "mass shooting." In as much as the FBI defines it, it's four people killed in a single gun incident, including the shooter. Stanford defines it as three or more killed or wounded, including the shooter, in an incident not related to any other crime (drugs, gangs, etc.) The Gun Violence Archive defines it as four or more killed or wounded, excluding the shooter, without any differentiation. Mother Jones uses four people killed, but differentiates from other crimes. The GVA is probably the best definition, for being purely objective and consistently implemented. Mother Jones is likely the worst of the group, partially for being a subjective definition, but also largely because their research methodology is atrocious - basically, what they can find reported online (interestingly, Stanford's is just as bad - they specify searching for "online reports" going back to 1966) and from the looks of it cherry-picked to suit their subjective impressions. The FBI's is not very good either, as they just reuse their definition of "mass murder," and don't even differentiate guns from other means (e.g. running people over with trucks.) Plus, most of these lists only started less than ten years ago. Before the late-80s or so, there was no centralized reporting for "small mass shootings" of three or four victims - those were local crimes. Unless one of these groups has people physically reviewing local law enforcement records for crimes that fit their definition of "mass shooting," every list is going to have a recency bias (again, GVA is probably the most honest...but only goes back to about 2012 or so.) Meaning: of course "mass shootings" look like they're increasing in frequency...because they get reported more frequently, and compiled in to lists more easily than 30 years ago. Which is not to say they're not more frequent. It's just to say that you can't rationally say they are more frequent - it's a subjective impression you have, built on many factors, each of uncertain contribution (and yes, I just called you irrational. Live with it.) Which is, again, why I say: prove it. And I know, you personally are not going to prove it. But you're relying on people who aren't proving to form your opinion.

Prove it. Use math. And a consistent definition of "mass shooting." Do you not remember being afraid to go to the post office in the '80s?

It's been about 35 years since San Ysidro. And 80 or so since Bath. This isn't all that new. Wall-to-wall reporting is.

In DC? They're crawling all over the place, and the zone pricing is cheaper than Uber, judging by the costs people quote me. "I took an Uber across town for $40." Really? I can take a cab to Baltimore for less.

That's not what he said. That's a dishonest conflation of two different stories: P&G taking an $8B write-off on buying Gillette, and the CEO saying "it was worth it" to lose unwoke customers by running an ad campaign "targeting millennials." He's still an idiot - millennials aren't buying Gillette because they're buying from online "new economy" providers (same reason they take Uber instead of cabs, even when cabs are cheaper and more convenient.) Not because of Gillette's lack of support of LBGTQAIP rights ore the #MeToo movement. (*^*&%^$^#CEO is a woke loonie who thinks structural problems can be cured by social positioning. But let's call him a (*^*&%^$^#for the right reasons, and not falsify stories for it.

Promoting gun violence on the DC Mall? They should have been arrested.

Partially. No one in government's freaking out about this, mostly because Capital One, not Amazon, was at fault. Capital One's probably buying IaaS, so it's their responsibility to configure their own firewalls, not Amazon. But it still looks bad, bad enough to trigger a review. Particularly since IaaS is what the Pentagon would be buying.