vonhoother
vonhoother t1_j9pkt1m wrote
Reply to Small Crack on Toilet by Doop132
Read Mark E. Eberhart's Why Things Fail to understand why cracks in most materials just get bigger. Thank your toilet for not failing catastrophically (yet).
vonhoother t1_j75ebok wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in 2 arrested in central California shooting that left 6 dead, including mother clutching 10-month-old son | CNN by Creams0da
The 2nd Amendment was written to satisfy Framers who were afraid of a standing [federal] army and slaveholders who wanted to preserve their right to mount armed patrols to catch people escaping slavery. The standing federal army has been a fact of life for more than two centuries; slavery was abolished in 1865; so the 2nd Amendment is now useful as a fundraising tool for the NRA and the Republican party, and to make domestic violence more deadly.
Today's ultra-simplistic interpretations of the 2nd Amendment are a fraud, as former Chief Justice Warren Burger said. I honestly think Justice Clarence Thomas (author of the Bruen decision, now being cited to restore gun rights to wife-beaters) detests this country and is using his position to destroy it with its own constitution.
vonhoother t1_ismqb9z wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Woman, 80, on tricycle dies after Orange County hit-and-run crash, troopers say by Darzanak
That's why she was riding a trike -- they can't fall over.
"Reckless and irresponsible" describes the SOB who hit her.
vonhoother t1_je5dhpo wrote
Reply to comment by Abbot_of_Cucany in TIFU by accidentally giving my nephew a book about a little girl killing her family members by AustinLVII
When our daughter was small we bought the complete Grimm fairy tales. Some we read out loud. Some we didn't, like "The Jew in the Thornbush."