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I'm glad we were able to discuss this productively and that our comments were voted on based on their quality and not level of agreement.

Surely if we all continue to make brash emotional responses to the concerns around firearm safety instead of effective ones we'll get this menace solved any day now.

Not worried about saving face, my reply was more a rebuttal to yours re: "Lemmy when every minor detail isn't included" etc. I would think the perpetrator's name would be more important than the caliber and manufacturer of the firearm; e.g. "GOP Politician Don Wilson Leaves a Loaded Pistol in the Bathroom" imparts more key information than the one used - and even the fact is was loaded isn't surprising since it being left in the bathroom implies it is used for self-defense and would likely be loaded. There is the possibility that it was some prop used for demonstration that was accidentally left there which would (hopefully) be unloaded so it's not a strictly extraneous detail to include so that alone I don't take issue with.

My issue is just specifying it was Glock and 9mm in the headline was simply because of the public's familiarity with the words but not what they mean necessarily [the most popular handgun in the most popular caliber] and was intended to make the scenario sound even more scary. I used the three examples to point out that they would likely report the other scenarios as simply 'left vehicle parked illegally', omit the clothing and briefcase composition regarding the shoplifting, and not specify the brand of beer or its unsurprising temperature and form factor in the parking lot drinking.

Sure, get specific in the body to accurately describe the facts, but the headline isn't meaningfully changed by omitting those points so I don't think they were needed.

I just don't feel like the make and caliber of the pistol was more pertinent than the name of the politician to highlight in the headline.

Was it extra dangerous because it was a Glock pistol and not Sig Sauer? Would it have been less an issue if it was .380 Auto or .45 ACP instead of 9mm?

"Nothing to See Here, Just a GOP Politician...

• leaving their silver Toyota Corolla with gas in the tank parked illegally
• wearing a tailored business suit and carrying a leather briefcase while shoplifting
• drinking a cold Budweiser beer in an aluminum can in a school parking lot

Entitled kids, don't they already get enough lead in school from their peers‽

Sorry for doxxing but you're Brick Top, aren't you?

"In the 30s, the pessimists went to New York and the optimists went to Auschwitz."

Just seemed like a needlessly confusing specific detail to include as it is not a necessity to have any wifi connectivity at all and might mislead OP/readers into assuming it has some relevance to ports. It should be sufficient to just say router unless the question involves SSIDs or related components specific to that connection method.

Just to clarify, nothing about ports requires wifi to be involved at all. It doesn't need to be a wifi router, a network doesn't have to be connected via wifi.

I liked this YouTube video about Diffie-Hellman key exchange [start at 2:25] that explains the concept using color mixtures.

The Piped bot pisses me off because it doesn't seem to check if the triggering comment already includes the exact link it's about to post. I used to preemptively include Piped links with any YouTube ones but since it would trigger the bot anyway I just stopped bothering.

Aside from the clutter it adds, until I added the bot itself to my blocklist (instead of just relying on "Show bots" being unchecked in settings) it would also cause reply notifications that couldn't be cleared in the default Lemmy web UI.

I haven't looked into it but that code has to be a creative reference to the Genesis album/song "Abacab."

Not a response, please stop trolling.

Are you going out of your way to test the "no stupid questions" premise? You aren't even asking a question you're trying to make some kind of point in a roundabout way.

10 days ago, -34 points, "What horrible errors are people like you guilty of?"
10 days ago, -15 points, "When asked a question, what is your first reaction, to answer the question or to defend yourself?"
14 hours ago, -18 points, "In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is?"

In all those posts there's the common thread of you being vague and constantly alluding to some specific message you want to spread but won't just directly state.

Just clickbait posted by a user with same name as the author/site owner.

Pretty wild how most of that troupe had successful careers in entertainment even outside of stuff they did together. I'm glad at least a couple other people remember the show fondly :)

I think I last heard the words "monkey torture" in the 'Barry Lutz Show' sketch by The State in 1994. Can't find a copy of it on YouTube, ebaumsworld has a copy but it didn't want to load for me and the site itself is ad heavy - direct link to the .flv should work but might not play natively in browser. To be clear, the video link is a comedy bit about psychologically torturing monkeys and doesn't show or inflict any harm to any.

I don't have anything meaningful to add to the discussion about the IRL monkey abuse so I'm hoping to inject a little bit of levity to an otherwise terrible subject.

This wasn't an innocent request for interesting topics to follow, it was taking the stance that only serious topics get discussed here and it's boring:

I’d like to see the fedi let its hair down a bit. It’s okay to talk about stuff other than infosec, privacy guides, distros, and Gaza.

It wasn't a demand, but certainly requesting that we "let our hair down a bit" and that they "often get bored of the Fediverse."

This post could have been phrased as "What are some good non-political or news related communities?" And I'll gladly accept the label of being elitist if it's because I have minimal expectations that people explore for solutions before complaining and implying it's everyone else that needs to change. You can't browse all without easily bumping into the things I listed, and if you aren't aware there's different filtering options there's always a sidebar link instructing you how the platform works.

Do animals count as actors? Turner & Hooch could be interesting with Tom Hanks drooling and running on all fours and Beasley The Dog playing a detective.

I'm not the one complaining about being bored and requesting that everyone else amuse me. All those things I listed are things that are regularly posted so what's the issue?