TBI is a commonly seen initialism in US reporting that stands for “Traumatic Brain Injury”. Given the relative amount of education in Tennessee, and their backwards stance on every issue from women’s health to wearing mixed fabrics, identifying as the ‘TBI’ is er… rather unflattering.

The “Tennessee Bureau of Investigation” would probably inspire more confidence if their acronym wasnt TBI.

If I’m understanding you correctly, no it’s not the same. Instructing someone to eat their vegetables because they dont want to is very different from denying someone vegetables that they do want to eat. There’s obviously parallels, but fundementally its a case of “Do the bad thing” vs. “Don’t do the good thing”.

(And my cooking is never a bad thing.)

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If I’m remembering right it was:

PILOT: Headset volume is unbelievably loud.
MECHANIC: Headset volume has been set to a more believable level.

A few more I remember from way back when:

PILOT: Mouse found in cockpit.
MECHANIC: Cat installed.

PILOT: Something loose in cockpit
Mechanic: Something tightened in cockpit

PILOT: Friction locks cause throttle to stick.
MECHANIC: Good, they’re supposed to.

(How did you get a new line without a blank line between them??? Formatting shouldn’t be this hard.)

I don’t have to, I’m an incredible cook. She’s practically begging for my zucchini.

I feel like there is a reference in that second one I don’t get :(

I will bet you one shiny silver nickle it’s not.

It’s nice that praise kinks are starting to get accepted (because man, they sure werent taken seriously for a long damn time), but to characterize this as “a lot” of the bdsm community is just comically wrong. It’d be like saying “a lot” of the community is into heavy rubber or petplay or ABDL - all very popular, but still minute fractions of the broad community.

Uh… No. No this is just wrong. I’m glad they’ve found enough outlets for their praise kink that they think the whole subculture is this, but man. No. Not even close.

… What?

That… this doesn’t change anything, because he vetoed it, so it’s not a requirement for anyone?

I’ve been told this was done mainly to steer the boat away from the side of the tunnels while the people in the rear used a pole to actually propel it. I’d love to know if this is true or not, there’s precious few resources about the subject.

Yep that’s all true, but they’ll pump it into the ground anyways because “venting nuclear fusion byproducts into the atmosphere” is going to go down really poorly with the “I hate and fear the things I don’t understand” “anti-nuclear” crowd.

You’re really not very good at this, are you.

Honks Clownishly. Lmfao tho, you’re the one that said “one bullet one dead” is the goal, which is so out of touch with doctrine it’s frankly hilarious. Just give up, man. Everyone can see how little you know about the topic and the only person you’re fooling by attempting to cast this as having been trolling from the start is possibly yourself. Though I suspect even you are aware of how desperate you sound.

Oooo, trying to spin this so you don’t take a hit in the ol’ ego? Good luck with that. Though there is something delecious about someone who clearly doesn’t have a clue what they’re talking about being this confident while being so very, very wrong. Its like some kind of delightful tonic for the soul…

The point of full auto is to improve hit probability, not increase lethality. There absolutely is a multiround bonus, and 3rnd burst has been used by every major military for this exact reason.

The amount of helium produced is truly miniscule, in the order of a few cubic centimeters. They’ll just pump it into the ground somewhere, assuming we ever get fusion working

“I̡̖̝͔̯͌̄̈́ ̧̙̮̈̈́H̥̫̭͈̖̐̆̒̂̓̾A̼͚̘̦̼͂͌̇͒̏̌͝Ṽ̡̡͙͙͌́̽Ȩ̮̝̪̞͖̍͆̋͋̄̒͝ͅ ̳̙͝R̥͕̱̠̱̈̈́͜I͎͒͌̋͗̈̑͜͝S̨͙̻͍̺̟̾Ẹ̳̖̖̼̥̊̓̆Ǹ̡̳͍̏͒͛̉̃̀,̳̅̋͑ ̡̡̠̗͈́͑̌A̡̧̛̦͛̅̎̄͒͂Ṅ̨͕͈͍͎͆̑̕D̻̑̾̔̊̉͊̚ͅ ̧̳̙̳͗̈́͊͊̓͝Ḭ̻̗̻̥̙͉̀̒̂͛̈́ ̢̡̯͖̩̻͍͛D̰͔͇͉̪̆E̛̝̻͇͚̼̤͗̊̑̀͋͜M͕̯̠͎̳͌͛͐͒̋͑Ä̹̺̥̤́̓̾̕N̝͎̓̓̆͋͐D͇̺̮̠̏͊̌͐̍̚͠.͓̼̰̈́͛̈̈͊.̺͎͖̰͔̻̇̂̉̈́̌.̢̮̣͖̳͖̜́͌ ̫̰̗͋P͔͗̑͆O̳͛͌̂̎̀Ṅ̦̣͖̭Ḭ̱̖̊̂Ė̛̠̺̭̓̉Ś̞͔͍̠̟͓̦̿̈́̆”

But for a child that is ready, who wants to know, what I mean to find out is why you would reject them.

Ah, I see. While I think you’ve got a really rose tinted view of childhood that very much is at odds with what I understand childhood development to look like, that’s probably just because I’m a very jaded bitch. But that said, I’ve been under the impression you think it should be the job of panelists or strangers to educate children. If we’re talking about a child I know, that I could reasonably judge would be able to understand the concepts and not be freaked out by them, then sure that would be fine.

But there is no way for me to judge that about somebody else’s kid - and it’s ridiculous that someone would think other people should be comfortable being forced into that situation (ie, the people bringing their children to these kinds of panels). I’m sure glad their parents might think they’re ready to face concepts from Paw Patrol After Dark, but so many parents are just neglectful bastards, or assume that their kids are ready for mature topics when they are clearly not. Hazbin isn’t exactly ‘toybox killer tapes’ levels of fucked up, but it’s certainly got some content that could really mess up a kid’s perspective of the world if they weren’t careful, and those topics are absolutely discussed at panels like this, hence why the panelists in question are uncomfortable having children in the audience.

I guess my point here is that while I do broadly agree with your point, and that I am (and even have been in the past) perfectly comfortable talking to kids about my scars (most of them now just emotional, yay), I’m not comfortable talking to every/any kid about that, and that’s been what I’ve understood you to be arguing in favor of. Sorry for that!

(Imo, the role of a parent should be to regulate when self-directed discovery should be and is encouraged, and when it should be curtailed until the child in question is ready to experience a given topic. A difficult line to walk, yes, but a pretty important one. Children are notoriously bad judges of what they are actually ready for, and you can’t build up an immunity to emotional trauma Dread Pirate Roberts style…)