This sex-worker/prostitution discussion is actually worth having but probably deserves its own thread, maybe? I think there is some interesting gray area that’s not being explored the way the conversation is going at the moment.
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Just spent 2 days getting mostly caught up on this thread and there were tons of replies I wanted to make but all I can remember is: @SirOsis what’s the pizza place and how many people can stay in the AirBnB?
Could be a very good reason for that, btw… Apparently a lot of palm trees that get planted in California and Nevada are imported from Arizona, and bring Arizona Bark Scorpions with them to non-native areas.
The basic argument which applies to a lot of issues is this: X people are capable of doing activity A without harm to society. Y people cause harm. To what degree should we restrict A?
Plenty of people are capable of engaging in prostitution so that it is a victimless crime. Some people are harmed by sex trafficking. Plenty of people are capable of owning a gun without being a problem. Some people engage in mass shootings. Plenty of people can smoke weed and function as members of society. Some people smoke weed irresponsibly.
Do we try to stop sex trafficking in a way that prevents some people from making a legitimate living as a prostitute? Do we try to stop mass shootings by restricting guns in a way that impinges on gun owners to gain utility from gun ownership? Do we try to stop drug abuse in a way that makes responsible recreational drug use harder?
Do we try to balance the concerns of X with protecting everyone else from Y? Is the harm caused by Y so bad that it overrides the concern of X? Or do we accept the harm caused by Y so long as the rules are fair?
Told ya I thought it would be bad for Mitch.
https://twitter.com/pkcapitol/status/1169598910836412416?s=19
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You hate to see it.
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Thanks, smacc. I go next week. I’m still preparing and packing and second guessing if it’s a good idea. Just changed my headlights and adjusted the aim so if I hit a deer at night at least I’ll get a good look at him. 
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Yeah… Make sure its what you can handle, I’ve done similar in the past for a few weeks when I was in a bad head space and needed a timeout.
It suited me being away from everything including Online stuff etc and in the end it all worked out.
I went to a place called Lesmahagow 
And chilled out for like 8 weeks to get myself sorted & I was so glad that a good friend put me up for that time & allowed me to be at peace. 
Stay safe & keep that head up. 
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- Disney, our price for the studio is:
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I posted this in the Feature Request thread and didn’t get any response, but someone should buy the rights to the Zorro franchise and reboot it as a Marvel-style superhero series. It’s like cowboy swashbuckling Batman, how fresh is that? Oscar Isaac is absolutely the man for the role of Don Diego and you could get Michael Pena as the hapless Sgt. Garcia. America is ready for a Hispanic superhero franchise, idk why no one is jumping on this idea.
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If they never made another superhero movie ever again, it would be too soon.
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Seems like a solid idea. Also, you don’t really need to buy the rights. There was a copyright case over the last film, which was derived from a play like 15 years earlier, and the court noted most of Zorro is in the public domain.
Its a pretty interesting situation. Will the “Mark” of Zorro Defeat Court’s Public Domain Ruling? - Office of Copyright
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OK, but what if someone did a gritty historical biopic of the man who inspired the Zorro (and afterward Batman) franchise? This is some striaght-up 19th century John Wick shit:
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta ) (1829 – July 25, 1853), also called The Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado , was a Sonoran forty-niner, a vaquero and a gold miner who became a famous outlaw in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. The popular legend of Joaquin Murrieta is that of a peace-loving man driven to seek revenge when he and his brother were falsely accused of stealing a mule. His brother was hanged and Joaquin horsewhipped. His young wife was gang raped and in one version she died in Joaquin’s arms. Swearing revenge, Joaquin hunted down all who had violated his sweetheart. He embarked on a short but violent career that brought death to his Anglo tormentors. The state of California then offered a reward of up to $5,000 for Joaquin “dead or alive.” He was reportedly killed in 1853, but the news of his death were disputed and myths later formed about him and his possible survival.[ citation needed ]
In 1919, Johnston McCulley supposedly received his inspiration for his fictional character Don Diego de la Vega—better known as Zorro—from the 1854 book entitled The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit by John Rollin Ridge. John heard about a Mexican miner who had turned to banditry and was intrigued by the story.[2][3]
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Pretty amazing developments in the Trump/Fox News relationship. Don’t know the full scope, but I’ve heard a bit of the noise, and this is pretty epic.
Iirc, the character of Murrieta appeared in an episode of The Big Valley, a 70s sort of cowboy soap opera tv show that I sometimes watched because there were only like 4 channels when I was a kid.
Didn’t they do this already, what jopke am I walking into?
Can we talk about the fact that Batman --one of America’s most iconic superheroes-- was loosely based on the real-life story of some Mexican vaquero that was later turned into a 1920s series of pulp adventure novels? This is the wildest Wikipedia journey I’ve ever been on. For real, someone needs to dig this stuff up and make a modern-day adaptation.
I’d forgotten about that movie. There must have been a shortage of Mexican actors at the time.
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