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The confrontation was the latest in a dispute between the two neighbors over Owens’ children playing in a grassy area near both of their houses. Prosecutors said Owens had come to Lorincz’s home after her children complained that she had allegedly thrown roller skates and an umbrella at them amid a long-running annoyance at their boisterous play outside.

I can’t even imagine how hateful you have to be to behave as this woman did.

I will admit that I find “boisterous play” annoying to have to hear. But I also recognize that children need to play and it’s my problem, not theirs. So I grumble and make jokes about getting a cane to shake at them. I don’t assault the children and then murder their mother, Jesus Christ.

Of course, I’m also not racist, and I’m sure that was a factor here.

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If people like him had shared these sort of stories more in the early days, it might have helped more Americans to take it seriously.

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I taught a bunch of Gen Zers back when they were in high school. None of them knew how to type well, and it was a rarity that any of them knew how to type at all. I was supposed to teach them things like Microsoft Office, but we had to start with typing and basic PC usage before we could move on to something as complicated as MS Word.

This is what happens when people don’t use computers and instead just use cell phones.

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That is so obviously something his majority-undereducated followers would disapprove of.

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This is a really sad story, but it’s also a story of parental neglect. Why did this kid with mental health issues have unrestricted internet access? Why did he have access to his stepfather’s gun?

Those aren’t the fault of some chatbot.

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If you’re only two lengths away from the car in front of you while driving at highway speeds, you are tailgating. Back off. It’s far more dangerous than speeding.

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The really special part is that Jassy is saying that he wants it to go back to like it was “pre-pandemic”. Well, as a techie in Seattle, I can assure you that his new policy is much stricter than it was pre-pandemic. Being able to work from home was pretty lax back in the day, and they weren’t tracking your badge-ins.

Very disingenuous. It’s all about the shareholders, real estate investment, and pressure from city and business interests to get wallets back downtown at lunch time.

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I’ve never heard it used as an insult, more as a very mild expletive.

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This is the sort of thing that the Medal of Freedom should be given out for.

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