Yes it does.

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I'm not understanding the connection? In order to help oppressed countries we need to our culture to have a gun fetish?

Replying to myself sorry. But look. I can't even write up 3 paragraphs about violence in american culture without referencing shooting something.

I think American culture has a fetishization of guns to a degree that other countries don't. Our culture is more violent as well. You can see it in video games, tv, movies, and language. Yes, other countries get our media(tv, movies, games) but they aren't the culture that this is coming from. The US culture is also very aggrieved. Someone is driving and they cut you off, it's a personal insult. They did it to you!! How dare they. We are very isolated, as in we don't have a culture of community. There are just so many reasons that the culture produces mass shooters. We need to start changing our culture and one of the easier things to do, more than taking away our American independence(which is where I would say the aggrieved/personal insult comes from) is trying to make our culture less violent.

It's like bleach(guns) and ammonia(american culture). Each on their own is fine. But combined they become something more dangerous.

I'm not going to pretend like a complex issue like this has a silver bullet. It needs a multi-front approach. But this is definitely one path.

I can understand your point about people being marginal and that is the reason that they can't get a raise. But then I wonder why they can leave that employer and get a new job that pays more? And this can consistently happen. So I disagree with your point. Companies value outside talent more than they do in house talent. When working for a company the work experience gained at that company is ignored and not factored into wage. It's strange and backwards. It's almost like they would rather hire someone with 5 years experience(call them person1) than pay the person that has worked there for 3 years with 2 years prior experience(call them person2) the wage they would be willing to offer person1. And since we all know how hard it is to hire good people and you said there are a lot of people are marginal, what are the chances that they replace person2 with someone that is not marginal? Pretty bad. Person2 goes to another company with their resume now showing 5 years, and gets the same wage as person1 was just hired at.

Just some more minor points. If the company was so good at hiring non-marginal people, how did they end up with person2 to begin with? And if person1 is such a rockstar why are they looking for a new job? Wouldn't person1's old employer doing everything they could to keep them? People will put up with a lot of abuse for the sake of stability. The vast majority of people would like to work at 1 job where they are treated right. Job interviews aren't all that fun for most people. It's just that most work places aren't valuing their employees. The modern United States employer work culture is toxic. It's all about short term stock gains at the expense of anything else, which usually means employees. And the main thinking in wages seems to be hire people at the going rate for their experience and keep them at that rate indefinitely.

We clearly work in the same company if not on the same team.

I dislike how you spend 15 minutes every map getting your gear you need to play. Looting isn't that fun to me anymore. There's no challenge in running building to building looking for stuff on the ground. At least with RPG's usually require you to kill things to get your loot. If the response to this is then that I should loot in high population areas, it's not fun running into someone who was lucky and found a AK/M4 and all you found is a frying pan...

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

I posted already, saying that Apple sells your data. Based on the idea that all USA companies are greedy bastards that will do anything they can do maximize profits(shareholder earnings). Convince me that Apple actually doesn't double dip. Charge people more and sell their data. Honestly, if you could, I would literally by an iPhone tomorrow. I just don't see why they aren't.

But that's just it. No company in the USA is about long term. It's about short term. How many people can we lay off to boost this quarters profits? I always assume that companies that charge you, and have access to your, sell your data. At the very least, if the product is free, you know you are the product. With people like Microsoft(win 10) and Apple, you are the sucker and the product.

Cattle eat other things than grass. Alfalfa, corn, soybeans, ect...

If you treat the government as an adversary, trying to undermine them, then I would say you are more of a parasite to the country. I see no reason for those types of companies to be dissolved. They want to take advantage of the government infrastructure and exploit its people but not give back their due. If you disagree with what a government does, you should not interact with them, or you should work to get the laws changed. They are instead just disregarding the portions of the law they do not like, and actively trying to circumvent the government.

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Isn't that his point though? That you have to look? He complains about a poor signal/noise ratio and you tell him to spend more time looking. Personally what has worked for me is setting up pandora with a few bands/songs I like and let it play.

Have you considered that maybe you like everything that has a melody to it and have no real idea what good or bad music is? Not defending anon's post. But if you are going to go that route in this debate...