In the age of zero tolerance, my son discovered that the school security will respond to fights, but not punches.

He had someone bullying him in high school, making fun of him for having a big nose. Told the guy he was done, and didn’t want to hear it anymore, and said if he said one more thing, there’d be trouble.

The guy opened his mouth again, my son stood up, punched him in the face, and sat back down. There was a security guard walking by at the time, and he saw it, and just kept walking.

I’ve felt my son’s punches in karate class, so my first reaction when he told me about it was to ask if I should prepare for a visit from the police, but he said he pulled the punch.

No one ever said anything about his nose again.

It amazed me that anyone would ever consider bullying him. 6’5" tall, solid muscle, about 12 years of Karate classes. It seemed like bullying him would be obviously suicidal, but he is a good kid who didn’t want to hurt anyone, so bullies irrationally thought he was an easy target.

That’s only in the girls class.

In my case, that’s not from having ADHD, it’s from having coworkers.

After a brief period of work in the morning, it’s nothing but meetings and calls until mid afternoon.

Came here just to upvote you.

Accept the plane, say thanks, then sell it.

The state has no say in the matter. Neither does the Democratic caucus. The Constitution defines the circumstances under which a member of Congress could be removed. The only way to change that would be via an amendment to the Constitution.

He’s a senator, so it would be the state of Pennsylvania.

From my googling, there’s no legal mechanism in Pennsylvania to recall an elected official. However, even if there was, recalling a member of the U.S. Congress would be unconstitutional.

The Senate would have to throw him out, and that’s not likely as long as the Republicans benefit from having him there.

For me it is the faith in the non-existance of a supreme being or deity.

I agree. I prefer to consider myself agnostic rather than atheist.

I’m really a dishonest agnostic since I can’t really imagine a proof of deity that I wouldn’t discount as a hallucination.

I did have a dream many years ago in which I woke up with absolute proof that God existed, but then I went back to sleep.

When I woke later, I couldn’t remember what the proof was. If the proof was real, and God let me forget it, then he’s an ass and he doesn’t deserve my belief.

Based on what the article said, your general intolerance of religion might be the very symptom they were referencing.

Their research doesn’t suggest that damage to that particular area of the brain causes religious beliefs, but rather that it more or less locks you into your beliefs religious or otherwise.

The injured brain becomes less able to consider other viewpoints, so changing beliefs becomes less likely even when confronted with facts that disprove the belief.

Do you realize…

Dude started out by mentioning a couple of concussions and ended by stating he might not understand the research because of the concussions, so perhaps the answer is…maybe not.

Was it the fascism?

A real government would just make it based on mileage and weight regardless of how it is powered.

It is.

Just like it would be outrageous to claim that Hitler was a Nazi. It’s outrageous to claim something that everyone already knows.

I got a new shirt to wear to protests:

They probably check to make sure you’re running a current version of Windows. The code assumes if you’re not on Windows 11, then you need to upgrade.

I thought everyone agreed the Japanese internment camps was a dark spot on our history.

They did, but a frightening percentage of the population were bothered that it didn’t go far enough.

Edit: in other words, vastly different reasons why some thought it was a dark spot.

This is what I use at work:

https://a.co/d/clAv3hV

It’s just a cap that you can put on almost any soda bottle or water bottle.

I keep an old 20 oz soda bottle in my office to use with it.

Great for travel and very discreet.

What is his objection?

Damn, looks like I forgot to sharpen the blade. Eh, just keep raising it and dropping it. It will get through eventually.

That’s completely ridiculous! Not all 40+% are people that worship Trump! A significant portion couldn’t care if Trump lives or dies, but they like to see people hurt and/or they think they can profit from it.

If all we had to worry about were the cultists, Trump would be rotting in prison now.