Tonava

OP could be a bot and it doesn't still negate the point. I can imagine there's plenty of people affected who probably feel something along the lines

It's a good question and I personally love discussions about morality. Still, I'd like to raise up another angle that seems to be where OP has started this thread: How do the people in the imminent danger feel? It's easy to talk about morality, but in the actual human level the people being affected right now don't really get the luxyry to view it that way, they just are in imminent danger.

When you are in a group that stands in the lowest levels of the ladder (immigrant, disabled, us transfolks etc.), it is very much personal. We're the ones who will be always taken first when the fascists get in power, while others can still have a debate about it

To be fair it sounds like OP feels betrayed, and is kinda scared about ending up in a death camp (and it's insane they have a legitimate fear about that, wtf USA?!). It's easy to point at nazis and say it's their fault (it is), but they weren't your allies in the first place and didn't betray you, they said they'd throw you in the death camp. Your allies were the ones that could have saved you... and it looks like they chose not to. I'd be raging too

Unrelated, but this just brought back memories from long ago when I was a kid and used to watch the advertising channels on purpose. Endless stream of useless gym equipment and weird kitchen tools; they painted such a bizarre and surreal world full of repetition, forced plastic smiles and all sorts of almost otherwordly things that had nothing to do with reality. It was fascinating, almost like watching something of the fae folk

Nah, I'm a vile little goblin.

That tracks, without any background in coding php is very simple to get into. I'm not a woman, but as a personal anecdote I've never done anything outside some self-taught hobby-level web designing requiring html and js, and I only know some php because it's what was easiest to learn by myself to get the stuff I wanted done.

I've looked into actual programming languages a couple times, but I never get far since I don't need them for anything and all the tutorials start super boringly and won't tell about the possibilities you could potentially do; it's assumed you already know. With php I just knew what I needed and did some web searches and found the answers, and that kinda spiraled into leaning along the way. There's no way to do that if you don't even know where to start

the prevalence of guns in the hands of civilians.

We have a lot of guns in the hands of civilians here as well (Finland), but the difference is that they're mostly hunting weapons and we have strict gun control laws - how you can get them, how they have to be stored, what types you can even have, and all that. What's crazy about US is the amount and type of guns, how easily you can get them, the ways they're kept so loosely, and the craziest to me; in some places even carried openly. To an outsider the lack of proper gun control seems to have lead into some GTA type of insanity

I only care about them because of dr. Doom - and they somehow immediately fucked that up yet again. It takes some serious skills to make such bad decisions, thrice

Yeah I'm trying to avoid MS if possible, especially since I probably have to try to make the jump to linux eventually with how things are going. I probably need to at least try Visio though, to see is it able to do what I want, so far I've had no luck with alternatives for it.

For example draw.io doesn't seem to work for this (I've tried before as well), since I really need easy auto arranging for the nodes for it to be usable enough - and I haven't been able to do that with it. So far the only thing that I've found to work even relatively well for what I want to do has been this even with it's many limitations, since it allows to just pulling the lines wherever and it will auto arrange everything. When the trees grow to crazy sizes (over a hundred etc.), it's almost impossible to make things work without the auto arranging, otherwise I wouldn't even need the tools I'm looking for...

Thank you, I'll look into those!

This is basically why it's important to allow pets see the bodies of dead family members. Dogs, cats, birds etc. can all understand death to a point, but if the person or another pet just disappears, they might be left forever waiting. Just like how people can be left waiting and wondering what happened for decades if someone just goes missing.

It's just the risk that has to be taken when threatening to bite, if the threat is bluff it's not wise to try it. I mean it's probably not wise to try it in the first place, but sometimes idiots just need some bared teeth at them to learn