It's one thing to block the road.

It's another to call the police and say the school is being shot up.

This isn't protesting. This is using fear to get people to break. Aka, terrorism.

There's been this push for drag shows to be performed in front of minors like it is some sort of family friendly activity.

I think it depends. Like if I saw a parade float with some drag queens on it I think it's harmless fun.

However, if you've ever been to a drag queen bar it can get nuts there. Not really a place for kids.

I do not think we should be criminalizing men wearing dresses and putting on makeup but I also don't think we should be taking kids to the bar to watch drag shows even if it is being "catered" to children.

The hard truth is these medical services cost money. A lot of money and the family is hoping the hospital would just front the bill.

If the hospital did this for every case they probably go broke and be ran out of business. If the family wants to keep her there then they should find some way to pay for the services.

Doctors, nurses, and facilities aren't free. Buildings need to be maintained. People that work careers need to make a living and pay their bills.

Democrats just need someone that will stick with the party line. They don't care who it is.

Oh. You mean this person will represent us and what our state wants? Ha! You still believe that shit?

May explain why my electric bill doubled for no reason.

This guy gets it. There is way too much corporate welfare in this country.

That to me doesn't sound like a bad thing since it helps make the market less of a monopoly in Amazon's favor.

I host a lot of my own data so I see the value in keeping it in house instead of getting stuck with one company. It's like with cellphones. It's hard to move between Android and Apple.

Well if Bitcoin is unprofitable they are sure as hell going to pivot and turn it into a hosting data center especially since they probably sunk many millions of dollars into building this facility already.

That said, crypto still has a market so while this sub may think it's dead it's not.

Qualifications are a "want" list buddy.

The only qualifications that matter is have Act 120, be 21, have a high school diploma or GED, and don't have a criminal record.

Even the initial hiring may be conditional where the department will pay for you to get your Act 120.

Pay is a correlation to qualifications because it shows what the market values in said qualifications for the position.

You add additional requirements and you're going to have to pay more for it.

They pay state cops starting 60k a year or somewhere around that. Sheriff deputies and municipalities pay less. Indeed puts it around 47k a year for a cop in PA.

I'm not a cop. I decided to not do that because I don't like the long hours and how much negative press comes with the position so I backed out and I am so glad I did because I make WAY more than that and I only work 40 hours a week.

All LEOs in PA do need to be Act 120 certified. I guess HACC provides an academy training program for Act 120 and so that is what you go through in order to become a cop in this state. It's probably not that hard, but they aren't making 6 figure salaries either so if you want more quality cops you need to attract the talent. Otherwise you're going to get what you're going to get.

Pa state cops need to have 60 college credits or 4 years of military experience and 30 college credits to even apply.

You also have to take the civil service test. Once you score high enough on that they then invite you to an interview. If you move on from the interview you then have to get a polygraph test and pass a PT test.

After that you go to the academy which is like 32 weeks or something like that. Even once you graduate you still have a 3 year probationary period.

It's not easy to be a state cop.

You can't have thousands of cops with the physique of a pro football player and a master's degree in criminal justice.

Power attracts dangerous people. That is why you decentralize it the best you can.

It's unbelievable for profit jails are even still a thing. If there is one thing that needs to be done away as soon as possible it's this.

So only a certain part of the gun is the actual gun which has the serial number on it.

For an AR-15 that's the lower receiver..

That's the gun. That's the part that you need to pass a background check to buy it.

The background check consists of a call to a system where the store contacts to say yea or nay. You fill out the form 4473 and they usually use your social security number or your name if you don't want to give your SSN. The problem there is that if your name is John Smith there is a good chance there's a few John Smiths out there with a criminal history so you may fail a background check.

It's not complicated. There isn't any additional taxes unless you're buying an NFA item. NFA items are machine guns, short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns, "any other weapon," and suppressors. Suppressors aren't actually guns and they don't actually silence the weapon's gun fire. They just lower the sound to a low enough dB level to where you may not need hearing protection.

Buying a gun is pretty easy. Just have the money and interest and you can get one. Just be able to fill out a form and pass a basic background check. To be a prohibited person you would need to have been convicted of a felony, some misdemeanors (ones usually involving domestic violence) or be involuntarily committed. Having a DUI on your record wouldn't prohibit you.

In the case of this story he was machining lower receivers. These things are actually pre-machined bricks of metal that you need to do the rest to make it into a functional lower. This actually is not illegal. You can manufacture your own personal firearm. You just can't sell them without a license. That's the real crime here.

You can even 3d print lower receivers. All the other parts you can freely purchase online and have delivered to your door.

I'm not sure. It's probably harder today to get a gun as a felon these days than it was 50 years ago simply because up until I believe 1964 background checks weren't even a thing.

I really find the term ghost gun to be stupid.

Considering rifles aren't registered in PA that would make even serialized AR-15s bought at the gun store through a background check ghost guns.

There is no central state or federal database of these weapons. The best you get is the 4473 is stored at the gun shop it was stored at. They only need to hold onto that form for 20 years so after that they can just destroy them.

When a serialized gun is used in a crime yes the investigator can run the number to see if it was reported stolen but they otherwise have to call up the manufacturer and ask which gun store they sold it to then go to that gun store to look at the 4473. From there they call the original purchaser and that guy may have sold it to some random dude in PA because guess what, it's a rifle so you can sell rifles to other PA residents without needing to drag them to a gun store to run a background check.

So those looking to hide their gun purchases from the government in PA at least is almost pointless. Everyone knows the PSP has an illegal registry of pistols. When we fill out that form they are most definitely storing that information somewhere. It doesn't matter.

The point is ghost guns is stupid, but the media will continue to use the term like assault weapons. News flash! Assault is an action. All weapons are used to violently attack someone or something! All weapons regardless if they are a club or a nuke are used to assault things. They are used to do damage!

It's ballot harvesting.

The law may not call it that, but when you manage to get a bunch of people to vote since they otherwise wouldn't have especially in large numbers you're harvesting something. Harvesting people to go to the ballot box. You're just not directly collecting the ballot and delivering it yourself.

If you're a democrat. There is no problem.

If you're a republican. There's a problem and you're going to lose more elections if you don't adapt.

Go door to door.

Tell people to vote. It's in the mail. Hell you can offer to help them fill it out.

It's not a hard concept to grasp.

Mail in voting makes this super easy to achieve since people no longer need to take the time out of their day to go to the polls to vote. Way easier to just fill out a form and mail it.

I'm not opposed to the concept as long as it's done right and there's nothing illegal about going door to door and asking people to fill it out.

Just saying it's an easy way to get a bunch of people to vote that otherwise wouldn't have.

It's no different than driving up with a bus and picking up a bunch of people to go to the polls.

It's a form of legal ballot harvesting since you're just looking for folks that are most likely to vote for your preferred candidate so you target certain communities.

It's generally even easier for Democrats to do this since their strongholds are in cities. It's easier to hit up a dozen people in a shorter amount of time in an apartment complex than go door to door in a more rural neighborhood where people have an acre between each home.

Republicans are naturally disadvantaged since they have been traditionally represented by more sparsely populated regions.

I'd go with what gets you closest to zero debt whatever college that might be. If it's Haverford go with that.

A bachelor's degree from any accredited college is fine since after a few years of job experience the education in your resume becomes a footnote to check a box.

The most important thing to consider in a college is first, the cost. If you got a free ride that matters. A lot since if you end up going to what is considered a better school and you are now carrying around 60k+ in student debt you may be stuck with that for the next 10-20 years depending on how you manage to pay it off.

The second thing would be does the school have a strong network within industry you're looking to join. In the case of Haverd is in good with companies like Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, etc. then you will have an easier time finding a job while or after you earn your degree which is the whole point of college.

You need to look at this as a financial investment. If you're just looking it as just a learning opportunity or experience you either have a trust fund to work off of or you're going to be hurting once you realize how much those student loans sap away at your income once you begin to pay them off.

Kind of easy to exploit too since mail in ballots struggle with the chain of custody.

We assume it's all fine the second you put it into your mailbox but it's really not.

That said the issue with mail in ballots isn't necessarily the risk due to the lack of chain of custody. It's more that you can more easily ballot harvest.

I can guarantee you republicans saw how much easier democrats had it having people go door to door encouraging folks to just fill out their mail in ballot and put it in their mail box. They will be able to get otherwise uninterested folks to quickly fill it out with little insight on the election to mail in their ballot.

Those who know a lot about the election are the actual minority here. Many people just don't have the time or interest to follow it all so you really only need to pitch some subject that sparks their interest and tell them to vote for their guy.

The last car I owned that struggled going over 70 mph was a 1991 Dodge Spirit. A true shit box of a car. My lawnmower is probably more powerful than that thing these days.

Any car made in the past 20 years can easily manage 80-100 mph. If it doesn't you or the previous owner have done a terrible job maintaining it.

That Dodge spirit on the other hand could only do 75 mph if it was going down hill and struggled to maintain 70 mph up hill.

Answer basic questions though like your name. Not sure if you need to give your address but it would have limited harm towards you.

When they begin to ask questions about what were you doing, or where you were going, you can kindly decline by saying I'm not going to answer any other questions.

If things do get worse for you showing that you were cooperating with the police by showing ID and giving your name only benefits you and answering nothing else is completely in your favor. Even if you're being questioned as a witness you don't need to answer questions with ones that could be incriminating to yourself. Don't self incriminate.

Great. Love technicalities. Still would prefer to not have trash being attached to my door.

All the fricken trees ruined by all this junk mail and flyers by political candidates is crazy. I don't know how much I've just tossed straight to the trash. Credit card companies are the worst though. So much junk mail.

There is just no easy way to get actual mail sorted so that you never have delivered to you.