So, I had to look this up, but the Oklahoma City bombing was in '95. In season 1 (I think?) of The X-Files, Agent Mulder is given a shit job for stepping on toes, and he has to double check people purchasing larger quantities of ammonium nitrate. That was filmed in '93.

It’s DEFINITELY controlled now. If my garden goes well this year, I’m probably going to try a much larger plot next year, and I’ll likely need fertilizer for it. And, well, I’m not sure how well that’s going to go.

Not exactly. It was a combination of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil (y’know, the stuff that you use to heat your house with in large swaths of New England; the deceased boiler in my basement ran on fuel oil). That combination is called ANFO. But, by itself, it’s quite stable; you need an explosive to set it off. Most of the time, that would be a detonator, but I don’t know what McVeigh and Nichols used as the detonator. I believe that whatever they used as a detonator was set off remotely, by radio.

Nazis should get a platform. A platform with a short drop and very sudden stop.

Yes, being forced to sell your own mind is infinitely worse. You no longer have your own thoughts; your mind belongs to your employers. That is absolutely, 1000% worse than selling physical labor.

No, you misunderstand: ALL labor under capitalism is exploitative. ‘Dangerous’ and ‘difficult’ has nothing to do with it. The system is set up so that your labor must be used for the benefit of someone else in order to obtain the bare necessities of survival, and you don’t get the full value of your labor. It doesn’t matter if that’s working in an office doing spreadsheets all day, or as a sex work; ALL labor is exploited under capitalism.

Work is work; sex workers are workers.

Given that a lot of guns turned in to buyback programs have been inoperable… No. Also, there was at least once case of a guy printing a lot of pistol frames–and for most pistols, the frame is legally the firearm–and then turning them in for cash. The filament for the printer cost far less than the cash he received for each one, so he made a pretty significant profit.

Having spoken with a few women that have done things adjacent to pornography, their regrets are mostly in regards to the way they were treated by people that were not in the industry. The escorts I’ve spoken with enjoy the work itself, although not necessarily all of the customers.

What you’re saying about the horrors of pornography and prostitution apply to ALL people that need to work for a living. The company I work for buys my time, the product of my labor–which they sell for many times what I’m paid–and even my dignity by forcing me to wear a uniform of their choice. I absolutely do not like the customers that ultimately purchase the products of my labor, but I have little choice if I want to have a place to live, and food to eat.