HelixDab2 @ HelixDab2 @lemm.ee

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Industrial-metal classic.

Satanist.

Raised Mormon, was a Mormon missionary. Had a nervous breakdown, and religious leaders said that I must be sinning, and needed to pray more, read my scriptures more, and repent. But... What sin? And how was I supposed to pray/study more when I had already dedicated two years of my life to preaching? E.g., there's 24 hours in the day, and I'm already spending multiple hours doing that stuff, so where am I supposed to fit that in?

That was the first crack in the foundation. Took a while, but once you realize that religious leaders are just men (and yes, it's always men in the Mormon church), and that despite their claims they don't have any prophetic powers, then you start questioning a lit of things, like how you can even know truth. (Spoiler: you can't know truth without some kind of objective evidence, and all religions' truth claims are based on subjective evidence and "see?, it says so, right here in my book!")

Atheist is a label that says what you don't believe. Satanist is a label that says what I do believe. So I eventually settled on Satanist.

10,000 acres of land in the northern mountains, with all associated rights (mineral, water, etc.).

I really, really, really don't want to have neighbors. I already live in a rural area, and I still have neighbors 1/4 mile away that blast their music at 11pm loud enough to make out the lyrics. I want to be able to see the stars at night with no light pollution, and see wildlife that's barely seen people.

Yeah, DO NOT have spent casings in any of your luggage, the people running the x-ray machines really really really don't like that.

Yes, but we're willing to share them.

Seriously.

Go to a range, talk to someone about their guns, and most of the time they're more than happy to let you try them.

Possibly. They're not supposed to by their own claims, but possibly. I suppose that if I lived in the EU, I could sue them over it.

They seemed to be upset that I was advocating for an effective and permanent solution. :)

I regret nothing.

That distribution chart is fucky. It says that the IQ is 86, and that's 15th percentile, but the line at the bottom clearly shows that the number is a little under 70. So something is not right here, and I suspect it's because this is a shitpost.

I suggested that the most appropriate way to deal with Nazis moving into your neighborhood was the traditional Scandinavian practice of hús-brenna. Apparently the admins dislike effective solutions.

It took me a few days to overwrite all of my comments from the prior 15 years or so, but I did it. Because fuck 'em, they don't get to train their AI on my data.

Facial structure is very different between Devon and Cornish; Devons have very round faces. Cornish tend to have much sharper, more delicate features. I think that the term for Devon Rexes is 'cobby'.

If I could get a fully remote job and move to the middle of BFE... Well, I'm considering doing that without a remote job, and just accepting that any job I can get will take a longer commute and probably earn pay less. I lived in Chicago for more than a decade, lived in San Diego a few years. Currently I live in a rural part of my state, but the city keeps creeping nearer, and I'm seeing farms in my county get bulldozed to put in yet another housing development "..starting from the low, low $600s!" of identical, oversized, characterless houses with 1/4 acres plots of land and no trees.

I don't want neighbors. I want trees, deer eating my hostas, raccoons trying to tear open my garbage bins, and bears being oversized raccoons. I want candles and laterns in every room because the power goes out every time there's a thunderstorm, a woodburning stove that I can feed with trees that get blown down, and enough land that I can raise goats, chickens, and do a little dirt farming, in addition to my job. I want to opt out of this goddamn rat race, and just have a quiet place where I can offer people refuge from the bullshit that's happening around us.

To me it tastes more like dry-rotting lawn clippings.

But in a good way.

I think that the YPJ calls themselves something like democratic syndicalists? It's close enough to anarchism that it's the easiest way for most people to understand it. The way that they're organizing their communities is pretty special, and I hope that they're able to keep their regions autonomous and maintain their ideals.

1 point. I've never personally owned a physical encyclopedia. I've def. used them though.

I have an earlier version of this (got it on sale from Costco, and it was the highest-rated model by Consumer Reports at the time); I love it. It's not great for carpets, but it's fast and easy for hardwood floors.

Would I have bought it if it needed to connect to my cell phone? Absofuckinglutely not. Not in a million fucking years. It could have been the best goddamn vacuum in the world at sucking, powered by a miniature black hole, sucking dirt to the event horizon, and I still would have passed.

I need LESS connectivity in my life, not more.

Mine def. was not an impulse, mostly because I had to make an appointment several month in advance. Brian Decker travels, but it ended up being easier to go to NYC rather than wait for him to come near where I lived at the time.

I have a Meta Quest 3 that i use every single day. I bought it specifically so I could use AceXR, which is a "game" that's a dry fire practice simulator. It's significantly improved my shooting ability, since I now get feedback, and I've saved tens of thousands in ammunition prices versus going to a shooting range every single day. No, it's not perfect--there's no recoil control in dry fire simulation--but it's very, very good for what it is.

People saying that VR is stupid sound a lot like people that didn't see any reason to switch to LED from CRT.

Does anyone actually oppose foreign military interventionism?

...Why would you? That's the right thing to do sometimes. We could have totally stayed on the sidelines in WWII in Europe, and only gone to war in the Pacific, because that shit was absolutely not our problem, right?

We should, for instance, be intervening in Myanmar, and in Rojava. We should be protecting the Kurds--esp. since we said we would--from Syria and Turkiye. We should be helping the rebels in Myanmar, since they're just trying to get basic human rights from a dictatorial military regime.

Does that mean that the US is perfect? Absofuckinglutely no. Not even close. Is capitalism great? Nope. Is authoritarian communism better? LOL, no.

...And yet again, Gen X has been forgotten.

Cool cool.

I doubt that they would show their hand publicly; they don't want to poison a jury pool.

On the other hand, if they had better video of the shooter, I'm sure they would have released it, because they were trying to get people to ID the killer. One shitty video of half of a face doesn't really help a lot.