If filming ice agents get you arrested anyway, then might as well go all the way and get arrested for something worthwhile.

3, take it or leave it

I don’t work for the government, I’m not violating anyone’s free speech.

Instead of defund the police, it’s now “run out the police budget”

Is it a crime to buy a vinyl decal for a car that says “rainbow painting” and drive around a city, occasionally stopping near crosswalks to check your phone? I don’t think so.

In that universe, humans also have FTL travel and colonies on hundreds of planets, yet have mysteriously lost the arcane technology known as “email” and require everything to be done in person.

Also most of the colonies are either one family living alone on a distant space rock, or abandoned military outposts full of an inexplicable amount of space pirates, and somehow the two rarely interact.

And humans didn’t destroy earth with climate change, instead the FTL drives they invented blew away the atmosphere… somehow. Yet this is a secret protected by big engine or some shit, because every other habitable planet still lets everyone use their FTL drives near the planet anyway.

God that game sucks.

My favorite to poke at is treating anything with a blade on it like it’s a deadly weapon with no other purpose.

Can’t have a locking pocket knife.

There was a group that wanted to ban pointed kitchen knives.

Had a dude tell me he doesn’t carry an axe or saw when camping because it “might scare passersby”

Photos of police “hauls” that show screw drivers and hammers as “deadly weapons that don’t belong on the streets”

So it’s at least 4 jokes.

Well if you accelerate over the course of 1 second, you’d experience 30,591,067 g’s of acceleration.

Now for some reason NASA doesn’t have that figure on a time of useful consciousness chart, but I think I could do it

Appreciate it, been a minute since physics class

I would like to introduce you to the concept for kinetic energy. Force=Mass*Acceleration

A very heavy object moving at slow speeds can easily have the same energy or more as a lighter object going moderately fast.

Forklift accidents also typically involve unsecured loads rather than just a collision between two objects. The collision is often an instigating factor that causes a poorly secured loads to fall and injure either the driver or a passerby.

I am a huge fan of hard sci-fi, but always hated Cold Equations.

The FTL ships can drop out of Hyperspace close enough to a planet for a rocket propelled ship to reach it, but the big ship can’t just drop the cargo off or have a purpose built cargo shuttle drop it off?

How do they unload the big cruisers anyway? Land the whole big ship?

The big ships run on such a tight schedule and rocket fuel is so precious due to weight that the computer calculates the fuel requirements to the milligram, but doesn’t allow for alternate landing sites? These supplies are supposed to be critical, but if your pilot can’t find a perfect spot instantly, or gets blown off course by a gust of wind, he’s going to crash and die on the way down? The fuck kind of emergency response is that. Like sending a food truck with no brakes.

The weight of a human when compared to cargo and vehicle dry mass is negligible. A margin of error for landing would easily account for the deltaV required to decelerate 100kilos.

The tightest moon landing, fuel wise, was Apollo 11, and even they probably had about 45 seconds of fuel left when they finally touched down. At the time it was thought to be 15 seconds, but later analysis found a fault with the fuel level sensor that’s caused it to read lower than it should.

Even in the 60s, NASA made sure there was enough fuel to allow the astronauts to pilot to a good landing site. And in Apollo, every ounce counted, the margins were extremely tight.

It would be a better story concept as a long haul trip where food, water, and oxygen would be used at twice the intended rate and that’s why the stowaway had to go. But fuel should not have been the primary reason.

Therapy for a year through my insurance: 900 dollars out of pocket.

Glock 19 gen 5: 550 dollars out of pocket.

Hmmmmmm, I wonder why this country is so fucked up.

1000 dollars in 1960 would be about 11 grand today.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t know if I’d last 6 months on 11 grand. Maybe 3 or 4. Rent alone would nuke over half of that, and I live in a cheap ass place.

We’ve been robbed

I was enrolled in a Christian school for kindergarten through second grade.

I was suspended in first grade because I threw a tantrum over the teacher saying that dinosaur fossils were all fake and created to deceive people into believing evolution. According to her dinosaurs and humans coexisted before the flood, and scientists know this but carve rocks into bone shapes to fool people because atheists are evil.

Naturally, being a dinosaur obsessed little boy, I flat out rejected this hypothesis. My grandmother had taught me to read way above my level, and I read encyclopedia entrees on different dinosaurs before bed every night, often annoying the shit out of grandma because id ask for explanations of sentences from scientific articles as a 6 year old. So after calling the teacher a moron for the fifth time, I was sent home early. When my mother heard my side of the story, she went to the public school the next day and asked for an enrollment form.

Fuck Christian schools. Science is awesome and dinosaurs are cool.

You want paint pens, not sharpies

It’s one of those things where everyone just assumes it’s illegal and that their government wouldn’t do illegal shit.

Protip: governments only care if you follow their laws, cause what are you gonna do about it?

It’s entirely possible that there are no aliens in the “New York City” part of the universe.

Dense regions of space will have much more interactions between stellar systems and may not be stable enough for life to evolve. It could be why we haven’t seen anyone else, they’re all in their own little pockets of peace.

I’m trying but those sprinklers are really strong.

I hate that we evaluate the health of the economy by the growth in the stock market.

The stock market would continue growing until the power grid failed if every human on earth just evaporated into mist.

Actually it would probably break before that when one of 6 people’s two factor authentication timed out and the computer no longer had access to their accounts.

We are the ferengi

I’m just a good citizen that reports armed gangs in my neighborhood.

They might be selling drugs to my neighbors for all I know.