HelixDab2 @ HelixDab2 @lemm.ee

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An M134 shoots up to 6000 rounds per minute, and it shoots 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Win). 12 seconds would be a maximum of 1200 rounds. If I'm buying some of the very best match-grade ammunition I can get (Hornady 168gr ELD-M) at $2.15/round, that works out to a maximum of $2580. Which ain't chump change, but is still about $397,420 short of $400,000.

Keep it up, Canada! If you guys can crash the economy in Florida, and kill the GOP's stranglehold there, that would be fantastic!

I would love to see a complete remake of Daggerfall with the same randomly generated dungeons; I'm not sure that the random landscape and dungeon generation would work with the way games are programmed now though.

Come to think of it, re-doing Morrowind, Arena, Battlespire, and Redquard would be neat, too.

I believe that most other countries call them provinces rather than states. But yes, if you live in a country that has a normal police force, and you don't have to worry about out-of-uniform cops using no-knock warrants to kick your front door in, then this is definitely not going to apply to you.

Your side hobby isn’t a PhD program

And yet, none of the people writing laws can understand these things. Nor do cops, most people in the military, or--in all likelihood--you. But by golly, they're going to write laws about them, even if they have no idea what the laws they're writing will actually do!

And I notice a conspicuous lack of “patriots” reacting at all.

Yeah, it's almost like what passes for a "political left" in the USA is a completely watered down, neutered version of the left, and is more interested in circular firing squads than actually doing something, huh?

Lots of cops and ex-military in favor of gun control.

Cops and ex-mil are not usually people I'd say know guns. When I say "know guns", I don't mean just that they know how to shoot--which most cops and mil people can't do for shit----I mean know how they work, and why they're designed the way that they are. I mean, how many cops or military people can tell you exactly what the difference is between, say, a direct impingement and a piston system? Or what the different kind of delayed blowback mechanisms are? Or what the technical differences are between and AR-15 that's capable of being select fire, and one that isn't?

And, even more than that, when you look at history, it's clear that the second amendment was intended to ensure that the people had access to militarily-suitable arms. We're right at the point of gov't tyranny right NOW, and Dems want to disarm people? So, what?, we can have a King Trump I?

I would not ever call a 1911 "reliable". You need to keep up with the spring replacement (500-2000 rounds for the recoil spring), and you need to make sure that you're keeping them very clean. I've had the slide stop walk out on mine in the middle of a stage, which created a stoppage that couldn't be fixed on the clock.

It would not be my first recommendation for a carry gun.

For reliable, I'd go with a major-name striker-fired polymer framed pistol. And by "reliable" I mean a gun that you can forget to clean for 2000+ rounds, and it still works well.

That said, my carry gun is a CZ Shadow 2 Compact. It's also not 'reliable'; it's going to take a lot more work than a Glock 19. I'm okay with that. And I knew that going in.

My opinion is strictly anecdotal; I'm not a professional, I can only speak to what I've personally seen, and that may or may not be representative.

OTOH, if sex and relationship counselors are saying that the overwhelming majority of people are doing multiamory badly, then their opinions have a lot more weight. Are they necessarily correct? No, of course not, any more than the opinion of any one doctor could be full of shit (see also: any doctor that thinks trans-ideology is a woke-mind virus, or whatever they're saying now). But it has a lot more weight than opinions of non-professionals.

No, castle doctrine exists in all states. You do not have a duty to retreat when it's inside your own home in almost all cases.

You will get zero people that have real knowledge and understanding of weapon systems advising legislators on ways to ban them.

AR-15 rifles also covers select fire variants. The original AR-15 made by Eugene Stoner was select fire only. The assault rifle/assault weapon distinction is functionally meaningless, and really only applies to the military. Oh, you'll get fudds that will claim otherwise, but they're also the ones claiming that a 1911 is the best gun ever because "TwO WorLD wARs!".

Shooting plainclothes cops that execute a no-knock warrant on your home.

Seriously.

All states--ALL states--have a castle doctrine that allows you to use lethal defense to protect yourself inside your home. A no-knock warrant being executed by cops out of uniform means that you have a reasonable belief that your home is being invaded, and that your life is at immediate risk. Now, admittedly, you probably aren't going to survive that exchange of gunfire. But the state is going to have a really hard time charging you with shooting at/killing a cop if you do.

Samsung and Roku are bad for this.

You're buying the hardware; they provide the software as a service. Oh, sure, no agreeing to a unilateral change of conditions on the software means that your hardware is rendered worthless, but still... And yeah, that's pretty much the way that actually works.

IP law can start getting pretty strange.

None of what I said is restricted to any specific form of multiamorous relationship, or any sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. Most of the people trying to engage in polyerotic relationships--by which I mean the overwhelming majority--are people that have signed up for an ultramarathon before they can successfully complete a 5k fun run.

It was completed in 1937, not the 70s.

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Edit: I see that I'm getting downvoted by the people that are in non-monogamous relationships. Fact is that when you talk to sex-positive sex and relationship counselors, they will almost universally say that functional polyerotic relationships are the equivalent of post-doctoral work, while most people have relationship abilities equivalent to a barely-literate middle school level. It's not that multiamorous relationships are bad or wrong, or that the people that engage in them are wretched examples of humans (...although there are certainly more than a few of those) or anything like that, but to be functional that type of relationship requires a far greater level of self-awareness and honesty than most people are capable of. Hence the reason that they tend to be so volatile; more moving parts, more chances to fuck up.

In my personal experience I have found that most multiamorous relationships are more casual and less emotionally intimate (e.g., more shallow) than monogamous relationships. The people I have personally observed, including my own partners, have had less time to spend with any single person, and were more likely to jettison relationships rather than putting in the hard work to fix problems.

Oriental shorthair. They sound very unusual too.

To be honest, i don't know specifically, but that's very much in his prairie school of architecture.

If you ever get a chance, try walking around in Oak Park (a nice suburb of Chicago on the far west side); a lot of Wright's earlier architectural work is there. One of his earliest buildings is there, from before he developed his prairie school, and it's... A real change of pace.

Well of course they live there; that's one of Frank Lloyd Wright's worst designs. They're not going to live in one of his masterpieces, are they?

You will get to a more profound and authentic understanding of yourself and of steps you can take to be the better person you want to become.

Simply understanding does not mean that you automatically change. Perhaps you have an anger problem because your father was a shitty person that lashed out every time something went wrong, and you unintentionally modeled his behavior. Great, now you know why you have explosive anger, but now you've also got 30-odd years of shitty habits to unlearn.

Understanding is only the first step, not the end.