Try applying that standard to literally anything. How many people die a year cooking? Choking on food? Sleeping?

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I live in DFW, in Texas. They’re pretty big on fireworks here. I live about a mile from the city limits of my suburb. Once you’re in the county people are able to set them off all they want. I also have two dogs. When I hear people whining about this, it really makes me chuckle.

4th of July is on the 4th of July every year. You have about 3 months from right now to figure it out. Go get ear plugs, medicine from your vet, a weighted blanket, or whatever right now.

I don’t tend to get very many random fireworks, or I don’t notice them. I am able to hear the local gun ranges though when the wind is blowing the right direction. It’s just not a big deal, regardless. It’s just noise.

Here are some statistics to suck up

I don’t think you understand what “suck it up” means. I have no problem with those stats. 6 people died related to fireworks over a whole year in a country of nearly 350m people? I can’t think of anything that’s comparable. Something like 30 people a year die from lightning in the US.

As for the 4th being the deadliest day for pets, as pet owners, it’s our responsibility to take care of our pets. You know when 4th of July is. You know when new years is. That’s on the pet owners.

There’s no way to predict? You have zero insight into when this is happening in spite of telling me exactly when it’s happening?

It’s fine that you’re not a fan. We can’t ban everything that has a little bit of risk and some homebody doesn’t like. There’d be literally nothing left to do.

Legitimately great post, this is fairly unpopular.

I love fireworks. Some of my favorite memories are driving down the road to the fireworks stands that are only open a few times a year and watching people go nuts. I’m from southern Arizona originally where they had pretty stringent bans on them, so living in a different area of the country I finally get to experience them.

The other thing is that you know exactly when the fireworks are coming literally years in advance. There’s no excuse for not being prepared. And the “nobody wants to see it” reeks of conservatives talking about pride parades. Suck it up.

Because that makes members of Congress more likely to sign off on spending bills, not because Alabama is a great place for it.

Prove him wrong and drive my motorcycle into a highway median at top speed 5 minutes later. I’ll be god dammed if I’m gonna let some doctor think he got the better of me.

I’ve trained my arms for 3 days in a row, nothing fancy: upright rows, bent-over rows and triceps kickbacks, 10 repetitions each, 2 rounds. After that I’m so sore I cannot do more, so I turn to cardio and do planks (front and side) and some yoga.

Really recommend finding a workout split. I do push, pull, legs x2 and an hour on the stationary bike on Sundays. Monday is push, so my chest, tris, and shoulders are all hit. Then they’re rested the next two days when I get back to push. You could do also do a bro split or just find something that works best for you. The important part is that you’re giving your muscles time to rest between sessions.

On that note, the most effective way to gain muscle is to be in a calorie surplus, train to failure, and progressive overload (and steroids). So make sure you’re gaining weight (slowly, don’t just start bingeing cake). Push your sets to the point where you can no longer keep form. Try to lift more than you did last time (either more reps or more weight).

Don’t skip legs. I don’t mean cardio, do some actual resistance work on your legs or prepare to find yourself top heavy. “Skipping leg day” is a meme for a reason.

What exactly do you think my thesis is?

What exactly do you think “support” entails?

It’s clear you lost the plot on the first question ages ago and you have a child’s perspective on the second.

Geoffrey Farrow at Raphael, a jeweller on the other side of the street, can only just bring himself to sell lab-grown diamonds. “They are synthetic,” he said. “Lab-grown sounds exotic, but it’s created – they make it by the buckets. There’s no history to it. The price is going to go down further and further.

“It makes the stone that much cheaper, and people have the illusion that being big is something special. It’s not. It’s quality that you want.”

What the actual fuck is he talking about? Is it the suffering that gives it quality? They’re impossible to tell apart without a magnifying glass.

There haven’t been any new arguments for a while. You repeat the same junk about how you’re a victim because you’re not able to access the IRS in the fashion you zealously demand. You continue to be hilariously upset about getting called out on basic definitions. And you continue to talk about classes and school. I’m 100% certain you’re a child. Maybe fresh out of college.

Grow up.

You keep beating on this phrase because your zealotry has pushed you to a singular idea of what “support” means. Another word you might consider looking up in the dictionary.

They don’t support tor. They aren’t obligated to, morally nor legally. Any argument that they are is founded on zealotry and ignorance. If you feel undignified or a lack of respect because you can’t use your favorite browser, then you’re an idiot.

I don’t think anyone is embarrassed to be not supporting tor, bud. What’s embarrassing is throwing a fit about it, misunderstanding basic English, tossing out trash analogies, attacking strawmen, and being a massive whiner because you can’t use your protocol of choice.

Saying “whoosh” doesn’t make your analogy any less shitty. Further, explaining how your analogy was inaccurate just proves the point.

There is no moral obligation to support tor. I get it. You’re a zealot. Nobody gives a shit. Sucks to fall hard on a niche utility. Grow up and move on.

You are neither legally owed nor morally owed tor access.

Not supporting tor does not indicate a security fault.

The McDonald’s analogy doesn’t apply to the context of this discussion. You’re morally outraged that McDonald’s doesn’t provide plastic straws. Instead of using the straws provided, not using a straw, or bringing your own plastic straws, you’re yelling that they’re poisoning the drinks.

There are other ways to handle your taxes, if you find them lousy or undignified, that’s a real bummer for you.

Your opinions on security are worthless. You are clearly an uninformed zealot.

You keep trying to pull this down to semantics because you don’t have a leg to stand on. Nobody owes you tor access. Nobody is obligated to allow tor access.

You have options, you’re just refusing to use them, probably because you just picked up using tor for the first time out of high school and, like all young idealists, took a hard line on it. Grow up.

Really recommend you go look at a dictionary, thesaurus, and some introductory material on security.

You’ve already been told that you can’t dress up a deliberate act of sabatage as merely “neglecting to support”.

You’re trying to turn this into semantics. They don’t support tor. That’s a factual statement.

I presented my own argument, not yours.

You presented a strawman and attacked that strawman.

Both scenarios block an arbitrary group

Blocking tor is not the same as blocking random IP addresses. There’s really no point in pressing with this analogy.

While claiming that anonymity is non-existent

Did I make that claim? I recall saying tor doesn’t provide you with perfect anonymity. Another factual statement.

Yes

Cool, so use a VPN.

“Owing” is /not/ a drop-in replacement for “obligation”.

It’s a synonym. Maybe you should look up synonym while you’re at it. The IRS is not obligated to support tor and they do not owe you that support.

Context is important.

It is important. Which is why claiming there’s a security issue because they don’t support tor is silly. Just don’t use tor. The website also doesn’t support the entire demographic of people who don’t use tech at all, like the Amish. No reasonable person would say that’s a security issue.

THAT’s incorrect.

No, it’s absolutely correct. You can continue to whine that they don’t support your particular use case, but that’s your problem. The documents and services are all available right now for all Americans. You insisting on using your niche protocol is nobody’s problem but your own.

You can also /randomly/ block large swaths of people arbitrarily and with the same mentality claim “better security” because you think a baddy likely got blocked, a claim that inherently requires disregarding availability as a security factor.

This is a stawman. Tor is notorious for bad actors. Not even remotely the same as blocking addresses at random.

Infosec, comp sci, and all tech disciplines cover most diligently principles and theory which are resilient over decades, not tool-specific disposable knowledge.

You really need to go back to school. No principle and no theory in infosec requires every protocol be available in order to achieve “availability”. All of these fields are relatively new and still evolving.

Perfection is never on the table in the infosec practice.

Indeed, that’s what I was saying.

But Tor most certainly provides anonymity in the face of countless threat agents, among other features.

So does a VPN, you twit.

“Owes” implies a debt. I never spoke of owing or debts. The IRS has an obligation to inform the public.

English your second language? It’s fine if it is, just know that “debt” and “obligation” are synonyms.

When they exclude demographics of people from their service (in particular people who funded them), it’s an infosec failure and an injustice.

Anything to be a victim. Grow up. Nobody owes you tor access.