It seems that you can never be too young to carry a gun

Quote:Missouri school district revives paddling to discipline students

Classes started Monday for the 1,900 students in Cassville R-IV School District, about an hour west of Branson and some 15 miles from the Arkansas border. During open house, families were notified that the school board had adopted a policy in June allowing “use of physical force as a method of correcting student behavior.” Parents were handed forms to specify whether they authorize the school to use a paddle on their child, the Springfield News-Leader reported.

Formally known as corporal punishment, the disciplinary measure usually involves striking students on the buttocks with a wooden paddle. In Cassville, staff members will employ “reasonable physical force” — without a “chance of bodily injury or harm” — in the presence of a witness, according to the new policy. A teacher or principal must also send a report to the superintendent explaining the reasoning behind the punishment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...-spanking/

(August 27, 2022 at 11:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It seems that you can never be too young to carry a gun

Quote:Missouri school district revives paddling to discipline students

Classes started Monday for the 1,900 students in Cassville R-IV School District, about an hour west of Branson and some 15 miles from the Arkansas border. During open house, families were notified that the school board had adopted a policy in June allowing “use of physical force as a method of correcting student behavior.” Parents were handed forms to specify whether they authorize the school to use a paddle on their child, the Springfield News-Leader reported.

Formally known as corporal punishment, the disciplinary measure usually involves striking students on the buttocks with a wooden paddle. In Cassville, staff members will employ “reasonable physical force” — without a “chance of bodily injury or harm” — in the presence of a witness, according to the new policy. A teacher or principal must also send a report to the superintendent explaining the reasoning behind the punishment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...-spanking/

I must have missed something - what does this have to do with carrying a gun?

Boru

For self-defense. We always hear how guns are for self-protection especially when the government becomes too violent, and this seems to be the case.

Huh.

Boru

I see that Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. The cost of this flight, and three subsequent flights will be $4.1 billion each, with a total project cost of $93 billion by 2025.

How many hungry people could you feed for $93 billion? How many homeless could you house? How many schools and hospitals could you build? How much medical research could be funded? How many climate change projects?

Manned spaceflight is the boondoggliest of all boondoggles.

Boru

(August 28, 2022 at 7:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I see that Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. The cost of this flight, and three subsequent flights will be $4.1 billion each, with a total project cost of $93 billion by 2025.

How many hungry people could you feed for $93 billion? How many homeless could you house? How many schools and hospitals could you build? How much medical research could be funded? How many climate change projects?

Manned spaceflight is the boondoggliest of all boondoggles.

Boru

I agree Boru, this should not be our priority right now. 

I think this is narcissism on our species part at this point. I think there is currently sufficient evidence that practical long term manned space flight, for now, is hardly cost effective. Unmanned space probes have proven to have the ability to go anywhere in the solar system and even out of our solar system. Our priorities should be on combating climate change, reducing pollution, and deforestation, famine, and increase global education. I agree

(August 28, 2022 at 7:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I see that Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. The cost of this flight, and three subsequent flights will be $4.1 billion each, with a total project cost of $93 billion by 2025.

How many hungry people could you feed for $93 billion? How many homeless could you house? How many schools and hospitals could you build? How much medical research could be funded? How many climate change projects?

Manned spaceflight is the boondoggliest of all boondoggles.

Boru

On the other hand, 98% of the money spent is still here on Earth, wages to the engineers and technicians involved, they can spend their money on good causes if they want to

(August 28, 2022 at 8:20 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote:

(August 28, 2022 at 7:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I see that Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. The cost of this flight, and three subsequent flights will be $4.1 billion each, with a total project cost of $93 billion by 2025.

How many hungry people could you feed for $93 billion? How many homeless could you house? How many schools and hospitals could you build? How much medical research could be funded? How many climate change projects?

Manned spaceflight is the boondoggliest of all boondoggles.

Boru

On the other hand, 98% of the money spent is still here on Earth, wages to the engineers and technicians involved, they can spend their money on good causes if they want to

Those engineers could be doing useful space exploration work at 1/10 the cost (freeing up taxpayer money for those ‘good causes’), as opposed to investing their skills to do something you’ve already done.

Boru

In this month in 1971, the socialist president of Bolivia, Juan José Torres, was deposed in a US-backed coup following his move to convene a People's Parliament of workers, peasants and students. He was replaced by a violent right-wing military dictatorship, with Nixon's support.

The dictatorship, led by Hugo Banzer, banned all left-leaning political parties and arrested, tortured and/or killed thousands of political opponents.

(August 28, 2022 at 7:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I see that Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. The cost of this flight, and three subsequent flights will be $4.1 billion each, with a total project cost of $93 billion by 2025.

How many hungry people could you feed for $93 billion? How many homeless could you house? How many schools and hospitals could you build? How much medical research could be funded? How many climate change projects?

Manned spaceflight is the boondoggliest of all boondoggles.

Boru

It's what, half of one percent of the US federal budget? I'm sure there's something more boondoggly than that in there.