If you were swimming in a deep point in the ocean and you wanted to commit suicide, would you be able to hold your breath, and swim as deep down as possible until you run out of breath? Or would you just mentally cave in?

KARMA_KUNT · 6 days

I would say those who have commited Seppuku would beg to differ, if they weren't dead that is.

barbarino · 7 days

Agreed. It is also against Reddiquette. The point still stands that they didn't imply the police got away with it.

barbarino · 7 days

The title insinuates that they successfully set up this woman

It does not. If you successfully set some one up you usually don't end up in the newspaper.

stepinrazor · 10 days

This is part of the problem. They don't want people to feel bad for protestors. Protests are far more effective when some one comes in to shut it down with force. They used to do it with guns but shooting people looks really bad. Then they started using rubber bullet but that looks very similar to regular bullets with less death. Then they tried chemical weapons, one zyklon B reference and that looks bad. Now they can cause extreme pain and it looks like nothing. Yeah freedom of assembly!

dbalci · 11 days

I would like to see where you got this information. I think atheists are generally louder not necessarily more prevalent. Also just because someone isn't subscribed to /r/christianity doesn't mean they aren't a Christian it just mean they didn't come here for Christian reasons.

FromHighAbove · 12 days

Gov. Bill Haslam's office Friday confirmed to Reuters that Haslam had signed the bill, which stirred up controversy nationwide and even was lampooned by comedian Stephen Colbert. "Kissing and hugging are the last stop before reaching Groin Central Station, so it's important to ban all the things that lead to the things that lead to sex," he said on the "Colbert Report" television show.

That quote is not from the Governor

Neckwrecker · 13 days

A once-a-week cleaning service on a 3-bedroom house is likely to cost $100 a week

Make your children do it as a prerequisite to allowance. Just saved yourself $2,500.

$5000 for maintenance

After 10 years or so you may no longer like your kitchen. 50k for new kitchen. That would be 5K per year. The problem is you are trying to average something that may or may not happen. If you are budgeting for the chance that something happens you are going to need a bigger budget.

$14,000 a year for grocery and household

And household makes this very easy to inflate to whatever amount you want. I assume that the cleaning people bring their own supplies though.

$6,000 for student loans.

This is dumb. They are paying interest on student loans while saving money for their kids college. How much student loan debt can they have? It says they have 60K. They are saving 33k for retirement and 8k for their kids college and pay 6k to their loans already. If they divert all those funds to pay off their loans they would have it paid off in 1.25 years. After that they have 47k to split between retirement and kids college. If you cry about how you are struggling when you can manage to squirrel away almost 50k you will receive very little sympathy from me.

luckyrocket · 21 days

Why wouldn't they be able to sell it? GO dose not sell food unfit for human consumption.

Sati1984 · 21 days

How do they know it isn't just someone shooting for food, defense, practice or any other reason? A stagecoach trip is measured in days, a short break to get new horses is inconsequential. How hard would it be to hear the shot if they were far enough away to not be seen? Seems like it would be very ineffective if this was indeed the case.

purplenurple66 · 24 days

Portlander here. If you are expecting to come here and find a job you are going to have a bad time. That being said it is pretty easy to couch surf and it is common to share a house with several other people in the more hipstery parts. Not quite as likely where you want to live though. /r/Portland side bar is a good place for info.

reddit · 26 days

There needs to ba a recall of everyone that voted for CISPA. They need to know if you try to kill internet freedom the people will remove you from office.

brauhze · 27 days

So what's more dangerous, a murderer with a knife or a murderer without a knife?

Depends on if they want to kill me.

This example is ridiculous.

Yes and your tiger mouse example was reasonable.

a cliff is more dangerous than some plains. There's no intent involved. dangerousness is measured by intent AND means.

Topography cannot have intent. Therefore it dose not meet your intent AND means requirement. People always have means. Which leave intent. If they don't have that they are not dangerous.

brauhze · 27 days

Once again those things are not comparable. A person without a gun is not like a mouse. Would you rather have a person with a gun not trying to kill you or a person without a gun trying to kill you? The person with the gun may have an easier time but not much easier. Someone with out a gun could still stab, strangle, or bludgeon you to death with little effort.

brauhze · 27 days

The two are not comparable. I was only disputing the implication that gun owners are dangerous and violent. Owning a gun does not make you any more violent than you already were. A gun would only make you more dangerous if you had intent to use it against someone.

brauhze · 27 days

No need for name calling, smalleyes accomplished what you set out for.

brauhze · 27 days

Seems more like a sarcastic comment meant to imply gun owners are violent and dangerous.

brauhze · 27 days

TIL owning a gun makes you violent and dangerous.

Reddit_Butthole · 27 days

It is certainly less quantifiable. Think about it this way, how many guitars have been indirectly sold because of Jimi Hendrix? How many people are employed to make Beatles merchandise? I don't think Bieber is as good as either of my previous examples. The entertainment industry needs celebrities like a company needs a CEO, it doesn't matter who it is but they need to be there.

Reddit_Butthole · 27 days

How so?

Reddit_Butthole · 27 days

10 times 0 is 0. I never said the GE CEO doesn't deseve his paycheck. I was saying that celebrities create wealth just like GE.

Reddit_Butthole · 28 days

How do celebrities not create jobs? Celebrities create tons of cash flow. Concerts, movies, TV and sports make a huge amount of money.

aspicot09 · 28 days

I agree. Throw those left over packets in the trash and go buy some pepper you bum.

tomzilla · 29 days

This is the most asinine cherry you could have put on top of your lovely cake of incoherence.

don't sit there like this guy refusing to admit that you might not be right. Don't cause or be a part of a life-changing accident because you can't get over yourself

Cute though. Let's try to take a couple more "critical thinking" classes in school first.

So that is about someone else? There is a fundamental difference in how we are thinking about this. I think that the people breaking the law are wrong. If everyone followed the law it would be safer. You are saying that only one person is following the law and is in the wrong. The one person not breaking the law would make things safer if they would speed up. The common theme is the difference in speed is what is dangerous. This is the exact reason speed limits were made. They keep people from having huge differences in speed. Therefore the people not following the speed limit are to blame for any accidents that occur.

tomzilla · 29 days

Argumentum ad hominem.

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