Ah, the Wicked Bible, first brought to my attention while reading Good Omens.

Can’t argue with the word of god.

I had been at work for two hours, but yes.

I missed the “X” in that title, and read “EFF is leaving the Electronic Freedom Foundation,” and was very confused.

You keep saying “I understand” and then displaying that you don’t understand.

I mean, I can explain why Grand Moff Tarken blew up Alderaan. I understand why he chose to do that. There is no slippery slope from there to “it’s ok to blow up planets.”

It is crucial that you understand the motivations of your enemy, and understand why he makes the decisions he does. You aren’t going to defeat him by guesswork.

There is a difference between “justify” and “explain.” He’s not saying what happened is OK, he’s explaining why some people were motivated to ruin what most purple thought of as a good thing.

Did you check to see which sub-lemmy you’re in?

Define “extinct?”

If I had the skills. . .

Working my way through the Lost Fleet series. It’s mediocre, but in an entertaining way.

This is an anti-gift.

I agree with you, but no matter has good your training and equipment, you’re taking the chance every time.

As someone pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the same is true of driving to work, which makes OP’s position rather questionable.

This is the worst headline I’ve read all day.

I don’t think he has any beef with firemen, but if your job is to deliberately expose yourself to an incredibly dangerous situation on the regular, death is kind of an expected outcome.

I agree, as far as that goes, but I still feel sorry for them.

I’m on board.

A good point.

Wait, how many of those do we have? I’d expect us to have at least 10,000 given how we are supposed to be the bastion of goddamn freedom. Can hardly claim to be the stalwart defender of democracy if we don’t have enough ammo for at least a month.

And if we don’t have ammo, maybe we shouldn’t be starting wars with nations that have a military.

This is your doing, buddy boy.

If I could get a slide-out keyboard, like I had on my sidekick, or even a T9, I’d ditch autocorrect in a heartbeat.

No, just autocorrect deciding it knows better than me.

I’m a huge fan of her work. The world needs more hot athletic women with swords.

If necessary, “hot” can be dispensed with. “Athletic” too, as required.