“Catch a guuuuuun! Ugh, I’m never doing that again.”

You should’ve countered with telling them that it looks like PepsiCo read that one greentext and took it as a challenge.

I know you’re all laughing at the name of this board game, but these knock off monopoly board games are pretty god damn depressing, and just not funny at all if you actually look into it. Especially since I know there’s a lot more of these local themed monopoly games out there, and in practically the nearly the exact same box and graphic design. The one in the OP is for Cumming, GA.

It continues to boggle my mind that any engineer actually signed off on this.

It’s easy, the engineer wanted to not have to start looking for another job.

Sounds more like everyone used [realname][number] as their password because IT decided that changing your password every couple months is the most “secure”. Even though it’s not and causes [realname][number] passwords in the first place.

This is pretty much reaffirming my position that the only mercy and compassion that evangelicals should ever get is the wall.

Carbrain from a hexbear, for shame.

This one line is heavily assuming that the above poster lives in a urban area, meanwhile they could be someone like me who lives out in essentially a rural area. In my particular case I live in one of the many ‘rural cities’ (and one that’s doing “better” than a grand majority of them) the populate the US outside of your big cities.

Honestly it feels that rural areas just keep being a huge glaring blind spot for most everyone here.

In actuality it was always about maintaining a legal and socially acceptable avenue for continuing this country’s legacy of racism and slavery.

Sorta, in actuality it was created with the intent to get around the 1st amendment protections and silence the civil rights and anti war dissenters of the time, the relevant quote about this is below. After the Vietnam War ended and the Civil Rights Act got passed it turned into what you describe it is today.

"You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Okay, at the risk of being that person, the F-35 loses in a stand up fight because it’s not designed in a doctrine sense to get in stand up fights. On paper it’s designed to leverage its status as a stealth fighter to avoid those stand up fights by either avoiding them entirely or get one of the most important things in a A2A engagement, getting the first missile salvo off.

So regardless on how actually good the F-35 is, having it’s blueprints to have the knowledge on how to counteract it is still incredibly useful in case it happens to be very good for what it’s designed to do.

Do teachers who do this really think it discourages the disruptive kid

The key thing here is that this isn’t designed to directly discourage the kid, the purpose of doing this is to get the other kids to let’s say do some creative persuasion techniques to not do that again. You might recognize this as one of the stereotypical methods that a military would do when dealing with problem soldier, punish the whole unit/squad instead of the single soldier.