No joke, at home convalescing from a long illness. I was already seldom going out for any reason other than family functions or to see friends at their houses for the most part. The whole quarantine, both official and unofficial were a breeze for me personally despite the difficulty that it brought others, having already adapted for my own personal health requirements.

Honestly, though, I don't know how I would have pulled it off without the 'net. Apparently the character George Jetson would have been born during the pandemic, which is lowkey kind of funny IMO, seeing as so many people adapted to talking with their bosses via tele-screen; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jetson

They should, you're right, but it's not going to happen. Imagine my surprise when I discovered decadess ago that the nation which routinely trumpets its defeat of Southern slavers during their grand civil war, has actually contrived to maintain legal slave labour through its prison system. Guess which demographic has been systematically targeted for arrest and persecution by the police and justice system?

What could go wrong? /s * anguished screaming SFX *

How am I going to rip on them until they have aneurysms if I'm not on there too?

Anti-Civil Engineering for helping to ensure that the Texas power grid falls to ruin?

They might face a stern ball-kicking by the Liberal & NDP parties, but my bet is that fuckall will be done legally.

It's a laudable philosophical stance, but if you're eligible for conscription in whatever country you call home, you'd better have a fallback plan, a cache of supplies, and place to hide out before fleeing the country in times of war. Armies don't fuck around with that shit, they'll either jail or execute able-bodied people refusing military service. Best of luck to you.

"How many times have the Jays won the Pennant?"

Honestly, that's my feeling too. The good news is that not every single person applying the munitions would need to know how to manufacture them, simply to deploy and arm them. The Russian's use of anti-tank mines against Thrid Reich railway lines comes to mind - the conscripts carrying the mines, locating the rail lines, and planting them to destroy trains and railway infrastructure weren't homebrewing them in a shed at home. They were supplied by the state and trained on how to use them, in a way that maybe similar to how modern army forces know how to use Stingers/MANPADS but not how to build them or the components.

They seem to be proposing the sort of normal military service that used to be fairly common, although exactly universal in peacetime. The sort of marksmaship that they're describing exists even in countries with strict gun control like South Korea, Germany and Britain. It pays off in spades in cases where war comes home and civilians must be relied upon to defend against invasion.

Some of the European countries phased their mandatory conscription programs out as recently as the 90's-00's, and it's maybe not the ones you might first assume who had them in the first place - the Danes, Swedes, Finns, the Swiss, etc. Others still have conscription in case of war, but that's not so unusual at all, and may not mean front-line posts for many who're unfit for the duty for one reason or the other.

Many roles in a nation's military are far from the front, everything from administrative, intelligence analysis, supplies and warehousing, medical roles - there's a pretty wide spread of tasks beyond holding a gun and firing it at your nation's enemies.

"We're going to make it impossible to use the entire volume of this product, because the tube that feed the pump-cap doesn't even reach the bottom of the container. If you're mad about it, select another ripoff product owned by the exact same parent company or maybe eat shit. We don't even care that it's useless."

Yes, journalist Daphne Galizia was murdered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia#Panama_Papers

Technically only half true. They know, but they're not doing fuck all about it, they're murdering the journalists that expose the rampant corruption.

* car bomb explodes *

The prophecy has come to pass! All hail Lord π, glory to π!

Never heard that, cool if true.

I mean, I'm not going to stop eating it anyways... what else am I supposed to cover my pancakes or waffles with, garbage corn syrup?

User's data was breached, I laughed because I'm not one of them. This isn't a doctoral dissertation, I don't care how it works.

Their cybersecurity is dogshit too. If the government can't keep people from stealing your digital records, no fucking way that gimmeDNA.com is going to do a better job.