This sounds like the dream day of almost every older guy (like 50+) I know.

Pure. Peace. And. Quiet.

Hiring manager here, private security industry.

I can honestly say, as M/33/straight, I’ve never been attracted to a coworker OR applicant. It’s just not how my brain is wired, I guess.

I have, however, given certain people further consideration based on looks. I look for intimidating. I’m a rocker type guy with long hair, beard, I try and have as much leather and metal draped over me as possible. It creates a certain sense of unease dealing with people; when you can articulate without saying a word, “I don’t exactly play by the rules,” you get an upper hand in some situations.

We had this one guy, he was close to 7’ tall, fat, big gauges in his ears and covered in tattoos. He also sang in a local metal band. THAT is my kinda guy. A hiring nightmare anywhere else, but he had what I look for; in a tense situation, are you gonna be able to give yourself an upper hand?

It certainly makes for an eclectic crew. I have two ex gangbangers. The other management were mortified that I hired them, but they’re two of my best employees.

Meh, I’m rambling, but yeah, you get the point. Pretty hasn’t ever been a consideration for me, at least not yet.

Significant portions of the world are at actual war. It sure feels like it isn’t getting talked about much outside of fairly obscure corners of the web.

Unless there are some miracle worker surgeons nearby, yeah…whew buddy.

I work in security, have dealt with people ODing, people with gnarly injuries; that’s definitely a gnarly injury.

You’re not wrong; this is a tough one to comment sensibly on.

The crowd thing, it’s Utah; I would anticipate a crowd at an Utah university for something like this being full of homeschooled kids who haven’t broken away from parroting their parents’ views yet. Kirk is probably a hero in many of those households.

I was thinking the same thing about the angle. The tent would’ve theoretically meant the shooter would’ve had to be at a similar level/grade to make that shot.

I was only able to find censored versions of the video, but it sounds like he was hit in the neck. It will be a genuine miracle if he survives.

You know what’s sort of depressingly funny? The country would be better off if he were jailed for speech inciting violence. Not this.

I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.

This is the place a segment of America wants us to be more like. Funny enough, many of them don’t even realize they’re pushing us full-steam towards a China-esque police state. (We’ve gotten damn close on our own, but it’s still not the absolute totality of China’s system…yet.)

I seriously think this is the reason why everyone got so mean post-Covid. They realized it can always get worse; there is no rock bottom. Everyone was forced to accept that things can always suck WAY more tomorrow than they do today, and they/we can’t handle knowing that.

It broke a social contract.

This; look at how short-term they’re already thinking.

They will see the writing on the wall long before they actually have any genuine fear for business. And they’ll take the money and run, just like they already do now.