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I used to be buddies with a retired NYPD patrolman. He said it was overwhelmingly common to have your service piece in your hip-holster and an unregistered "drop gun" in an ankle-holster. The idea being, if you need to shoot someone, you can cover your ass by dropping the spare on the body and saying they brandished it at you.

He wasn't the type to exaggerate or make shit up, so I tend to believe him on this. Just further proof, though: ACAB.

I've tried to watch Discovery multiple times, because everyone tells me that it gets better, but I can't even make it through the pilot. It's just so extra.

Jesus Christ, that link was exactly what I needed to read. And now I'm crying in my cubicle. You should've put a trigger warning on that: "TW: you will be seen, and it will make you sob. Save it for when you get home."

Anyway, thanks for sharing.

Oh no, Spiders-Man is a real Marvel character and I love them.

They are "A hive-mind of thousands of spiders with the memories of Peter Parker." I'm so glad that sentence exists.

Nothing will top the feeling of playing Steel Battalion on the original XBox, but if this can compare, it might be worth trying.

Mine is a two-in-one where the keyboard can fold fully backwards and it puts the laptop in "tablet mode." I use it constantly for reading comic books, as rotating to a portrait frame and swiping through pages is much easier than scrolling/zooming on each page with mouse and keyboard.

I also occasionally use it for doodling when I'm traveling, but I've got a nicer setup for that on my desktop. So that's a corner case.

For anyone who doesn't know: Ona Judge's story is absolutely wild and shows how morally bankrupt and petty Washington was.

Very short version: Pennsylvania was one of the first abolitionist states in the nation. When Washington exploited a loophole to keep Ona from gaining her freedom in the state, she escaped and fled to Maine before the Underground Railroad had even become a thing yet. Then Washington spent his entire life trying to get her back.

The Souls games actually do have difficulty settings; they're just a bit esoteric. I think of it like the Mario games: almost anyone can "beat" a Mario, but there are secrets and collectibles all over those games that are only pursued by players who want more of a challenge. It's the same game, but the player is opting to increase difficulty.

Souls games start at a higher skill floor than the average Mario, but you can unlock tools to make the game easier if you choose. There's co-op summons, overpowered weapons and equipment, places to easily farm huge numbers of levels. Plus plenty of cheesy strategies for most of the toughest bosses. It's all optional in-game choices you can make to tweak the difficulty to your taste without the devs putting in a menu slider that just gives every enemy double-HP or something. And they've gotten better at implementing these tools every time they've iterated. The few people who dunked on Elden Ring often criticized how easy it was relative to earlier FromSoft games. It's not inherently easier, there are just many more ways to scale down the challenge if you want.

Pew Research polling finds Republican leanings in every economic class except the absolute highest and lowest earners. They're the closest thing America has to middle class voters, not the poor and stupid underclass you suggest.

Harris appearing completely uncritical of Biden's administration and doing almost nothing to put forward her own policies or priorities does imply she liked what was happening and wanted to keep doing it. I'm not pulling rabbits out of a hat here: this was a criticism consistently levied during the campaign and discussed in the autopsy report that the DNC reluctantly put out. I cherry picked one quote as an example out of a whole article discussing missteps the campaign made. I even included the link so you could see the context, including the part where Harris seems to realize she made an error with that quote.

But I appreciate the unduly condescending tone. It really makes this place feel like Reddit.

I can't believe I'm the first you're hearing this from, but a common criticism of Harris' campaign was her failure to distinguish herself from Biden.

“What, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?”

"There is not a thing that comes to mind"

She even campaigned as the only one who could stop Trump. Which sounded very similar to Biden's campaign for the soul of America.

So, yeah, I guess I was misled into thinking they both might govern the same way.

Nothing as concrete and firsthand as that interview. Thank you for answering my question.