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I_lurk_u_long_time 2 points ago +2 / -0

Two NFA tax stamps, and a piece of chain, and you can go into battle with a pair of gunchucks.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

This may be surprising, but often you can find made in USA items on eBay, because they don't require sellers not to talk about where things are from the way Amazon does.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

Pepsi is a little too sweet for this. The store brand cola from Food Lion is pretty nice with Jack. I haven't tried RC or other store brands.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 7 points ago +7 / -0

$1200 over 240 days is $5 per day. They only think they're 95 times better than you.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 2 points ago +2 / -0

No firearms regulation is absolute.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

Fair enough. There's valid reasons to treat things like internet transit lines, reversible heat pumps, electric vehicle charging spots, and even home insulation as infrastructure in a way that past bills really haven't addressed. We can also offer money to Texas to weatherize their electric grid, and...

Wait, they're talking about WHAT?

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

She is infallible. Even if you knock her over, she'd just roll instead of falling.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 2 points ago +2 / -0

The extremely high cost of a cannon at the time was likely the biggest factor. None of the normal inflation measures work over that kind of time frame, but no one today runs around with transferable machine guns committing crimes for largely the same reason.

If you can afford to put $15,000 into a gun, you're almost certainly planning long term, and making semi reasonable decisions with your life.

It's also worth considering that more people (as a portion of the population) died of homicide at the time, so the founding fathers may have simply thought the deaths from cannon wielding maniacs was worth it in order to have freedom.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 4 points ago +4 / -0

I honestly don't know what Nike was thinking when they became the official sponsor of police violence. Even becoming the official sponsor of justified police violence is a little risque, but specifically calling out how giving money to Nike increases the rate of unjustified police violence was frankly stupid.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

What does that even mean? Is that one in ten thousand surfaces touched by a contagious person is itself contagious? Or if you touch a surface a contagious person has touched there's a one in ten thousand chance you get infected?

Or is it saying that one in ten thousand sick people became sick as a result of touching contaminated surfaces? Or... Any of two dozen other possible meanings I can think of for that statement

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

I imagine he doesn't have the mental prowess to realize what lesson there was here for him. Pillows are too complicated for most people to make or understand. That's because the filling, the casing, the thread, the labeling, the stitching, the machines, and people, and trucks, and bags, and marketing in order to make and sell a pillow are part of the real world, and have legal restrictions, quality control issues, sourcing problems, and time/money commitments even to try.

We've made this problem worse with rules, but even the apparently simple items in our homes often have people that dedicated entire lifetimes of hard, productive work to making and improving them. Until you understand the implications of that, you are ill suited to make any regulation of anything, and even worse suited to productively manufacture any good.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

It is impossible to evaluate a VPN service from outside, and because in line tap devices are a thing, even people inside the company could be deceived into believing the technology is working when it really isn't.

TOR when kept up to date is pretty good. Any VPN is probably still better than none.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

Is this Joe Biden attempting to tell the truth about how semiautomatic pistols (in cities, used by gangs) are the major cause of interpersonal gun violence?

In the alternative, is he attempting to obscure the truth, and accidentally said something approaching true?

And... Where can I buy a 2 round magazine for my glock? Now that I've heard straight from Honest Uncle Joe Biden that they definitely exist, I need one to complete my collection.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 3 points ago +3 / -0

Allow fully automatic weapons.

Impeach SCOTUS justices that make up shitty laws (the new ones will eventually learn the lesson).

Beat qualified immunity back to a good faith belief, AND an objective reasonableness test that an action was in line with both policy and law.

End absolute immunity for malicious acts.

End sovereign immunity. My government was by and for the people, God didn't approve any of it, so it shouldn't have common law protection based on the idea that the infallible author of everything said it was good.

Teach the history of the second amendment in school. The militia was all fighting age males (roughly 12-14, until infirmity) of sound moral character. Well regulated is about being able to respond to things quickly. In other words, keep your guns handy, and we'll all be safer for it.

Allow cannons. When the civil war kicked off, Congress begged and pleaded to borrow a navy from the citizens, complete with heavy guns and armor. There was no epidemic of cannon based violence in inner cities at the time.

Back the interstate commerce clause way the fuck up. Make it taxes on goods, and bans on imports into the country, only.

Add a new amendment to require federal money offered to states to have only requirements relevant to how that money is to be spent. In other words, the US Congress should not be threatening the highway funding of any state that lowers the drinking age below 21.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

Everyone's saying it's dementia, but for all I know it could be a brain tumor, microstroke, or late stage cancer. Brain-no-worky is a symptom of a lot of different things.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

81 is the life expectancy at birth, but if a female survives until 80, her life expectancy goes up to 89. You'd need to look at an actuarial life table, and you'd see there's a 4.2% chance someone Pelosi's age and sex dies at 80 years old.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 2 points ago +2 / -0

Roughly 60% of old people, and 40% of non-old but eligible people get the flu vaccine each year, so deaths could be expected to be 60-150% higher if it was just that more people are getting vaccinated. I happen to notice that this is 900% higher, and not everyone is vaccinated yet, which means one (or multiple) of the vaccines are far more dangerous than the flu vaccine.

TBH, if these reactions are all especially old people dying when the RNA vaccine kicks their immune system into high gear, it may still be beneficial in a cold blooded "I'm only looking at the numbers" way, because those are the same people most likely to die from the CCP virus.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 2 points ago +2 / -0

Schools should be more liable, because there are legal uses for a gun, but there is no legal use for a failed education.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

Late 2024 at the earliest, early 2025 is possible.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 3 points ago +4 / -1

My mother in law insists she can just put on her seatbelt before the cops get to her car, but also complains about how manyb tickets she's gotten for not wearing a seat belt. Cops generally have eyes and reasonable intelligence.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sort of. You can buy some steppers, a hot end, some linear rails and ball screws, an extruder, and a controller board, then 3D print all the connecting parts.

Look at Reprap for the most popular example.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 2 points ago +2 / -0

You can compile slic3r yourself, or run it on a disconnected system.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 3 points ago +3 / -0

A buddy of mine that died in a tragic boating accident and has no family members told me glocks and M&P Shields are the easiest ones to get parts kits for now, err... Well, some unspecified number of days ago before he tragically passed.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 3 points ago +3 / -0

Lack of fungibility, inappropriate sizing of the minimum size token (even a highpoint will get you a lot more than my typical grocery store trip), and the difficulty of wallet design in the post guns-are-money world.

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I_lurk_u_long_time 3 points ago +3 / -0

Fake news! You'd have to average 21000 mph to go that distance in 7 minutes. Humans can tolerate (mostly) acceleration around 3 times gravity, or 65 mph per second, so you could accelerate up to speed (6.5 minutes), fly at cruising speed for 30 seconds, then slow back down (6.5 minutes again). Everyone with a heart condition would be passed out, and some elderly/infirm passengers wouldn't make it, but the plane would have arrived, in 13 and a half minutes.

Alternatively, you could just strap the passengers to a hypersonic missile, and... Nope, those are way too slow to keep up with regular commercial flights. Nevermind.

Side note: if you accidentally don't point the engines almost straight into the ground at cruising speed, you'll leave the atmosphere, but eventually fall back in, because you're still marginally below escape velocity.

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