JamesTBagg

@JamesTBagg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad my two anecdotes of 25-ish years of driving have given you a complete picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did I say it doesn’t count? The cop didn’t issue me a ticket so he didn’t think so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was once pulled over for doing 50 in a 30 and I was just coasting down a long hill. I’ve also been pulled over for doing 35 in a 25mph zone (a classic Texas small town speed trap where the posted speed went from 65 to 55 to 25 in a very short distance with a cop posted at the 25 sign. You had to be on the brakes to make it.) Some cars are quite quick, foot on the gas pedal a moment too long and you’ve blown through 8mph. Some people spend more time with their eyes outside the car than on the dash. Hell a lot of you drive around with highbeams on and there’s an indicator light for that too.

  But also, “Watson already had nine points on her licence before the speeding incident occurred, the court heard.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this was before the industry decided on their panic price increaes. It’s weird how post panic prices never corrected. Going shooting is almost painful now on the wallet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I moved out of Texas in 2016, some friends told me there was a $5 bounty for hog tails from the state. So, you could do it for more than fun; less than a dollar a round for .308, then 5 dollars per tail… that’s a decent profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ya know, guns can just ✨ magically appear✨ so any attempt to ban them is impossible. Dumb liberalssss tryna to take away my GOD GIVEN right to murder people!!11!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition […] Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ya know, guns can just ✨ magically appear✨ so any attempt to ban them is impossible. Dumb liberalssss tryna to take away my GOD GIVEN right to murder people!!11!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worse than what was faced overseas, here at home you have large number of War on Terror veterans. Trained, armed and experienced, many disillusioned with the tilting of the government, and the media, and the populace around them. There’s been a blue shift in both active duty and veteran communities.

  The optimist in me hopes it’s enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbolt never misses⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure all those old European royal families are going, “Yeah, yeah, it’s those tiny middle of nowhere American towns where the inbreeding happens. Not here. Never here.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In general, people on Lemmy don't want high effort or high quality posts that take longer than 30 seconds to digest.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is conflating effort and quality. Seems they think just because they put effort into something it should be accepted as good quality, so they deserve worthless upvotes.
  They aren’t getting that so it’s everybody else’s fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that the line you quoted from the article is pretty much a bait and switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Myanmar rebels take the road to Mandalay⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The news has been barely covering this, even since the outbreak. I forgot it was happening and am surprised and happy the rebels are still fighting.