LrdThndr @ LrdThndr @lemmy.world

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And in rural areas, it'll be called "skeet shooting with prizes". I know exactly what my redneck neighbors are like...

Brewster's Millions gets more and more realistic by the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCFzYcLVNk0

Jesus Christ.

As a Tennessean… fuck Bill Lee. I’m so sick of this shit.

My wife damn near died a few years ago when an ectopic pregnancy ruptured. It would have been a wanted child. If this happened today, I’d lose a wife and our two kids would lose a mother.

Fuck the Republican Party. Fuck anybody who associates with them. Fuck any loser who spouts “both sides” or “genocide Joe” bullshit.

FWIW, I've used privacy.com a few times. Works pretty well.

Oh. Yeah. If it's a manual valve turn system, not a central hvac, then a Nest or ecobee won't work for you.

You're forgetting one thing - the constitution is just paper. It's not gonna storm out of the archives and hunt down people who violate it. If the republican party decides to ignore it (which they have MANY times), then they're gonna ignore it. Sure, you can piss and moan about it being illegal during the entire flight to wherever they're sending you, but that doesn't change the fact that you're still on that flight.

Fight against it NOW, before you're stuffed on a plane to somewhere else.

Eh, I mean, clearly I'm not OKAY with what happened. It was a goddamned tragedy. But apart from initial shock and disbelief, it didn't really affect me psychologically at all. It had been 4+ years since I had last spoken to him, and I wasn't actually involved in any way apart from getting updates from my mom when she'd talk to his mom. So it didn't leave any lasting effect. Not on me at least. I feel terrible for Maddie's family and completely understand why they'd want him to rot in prison forever.

I've got two kids now, and if somebody did that to one of them... there's a good chance I'D be the one in prison forever once I got ahold of the guy who did it.

Link works for me. I think the parens in the link target are borking it for some people.

As for what it’s like…. It’s weird. I knew him when we were both like 10 or so. My mom and his mom were pretty good friends, so I’d go over to his house any time they wanted to hang out.

He was a normal kid. He liked Nintendo and was trying to learn to play guitar.

His dad though… his dad was a raving psychopath. He used to beat the shit out of both him and his mom. I damn near caught a beating from him once until mom declared that if he was there, we wouldn’t be.

Eventually, I moved to another state, and his family moved to Florida.

A few years later, I was in freshman English class in high school (year 9 for the Brits), and an office runner came and told me I had a phone call.

It was my mom. “Josh killed a girl.” I’m not sure why she thought it was necessary to tell me at school since there was nothing to be done about it, but I guess she wanted to break the news to me before I saw it online or something.

The story on Wiki is pretty accurate from there. His mom was cleaning his room while he was at school because it was starting to smell when she noticed a wet spot under his bed, investigated, and found the body of a missing neighbor girl.

She had been missing for a week or so, I think; it’s been a while. While she was missing, he had even participated in the neighborhood searches for her.

I remember following the story as it developed. It was weird af to be reading about the kid I used to play Mario with on cnn. There was a whole media circus about him. We weren’t involved in any way since we had been moved apart for years.

In hindsight, knowing what I know now, there’s still ZERO indication that he would do something like that. He wasn’t a problem kid, he never let on about any weird sexual things (even hints of budding weirdness), if anything, I was a bad influence on him - he was a well behaved kid and I was the friend that was always like “hey, let’s go throw rocks at cars” or something because I was a little shithead.

I 100% believe the “scared dumbass kid” story the defense put out. I don’t for a second believe any of the “sexually motivated” shit. Every 14 year old had porn hidden in their room in those days. That doesn’t make him a crazed sex killer.

He was a scared kid with a terrifying abusive father that panicked and did something horrifying that can never be taken back.

Did he murder a child? Yes. Is he to blame? 100%.

I do not condone, approve of, or support what he did in any way whatsoever. But knowing his dad, I understand WHY it happened.

Good point. Edited. Thanks for the lookout homie.

I knew two that have their own pages, and know one mentioned in a Wikipedia page but doesn’t actually have his own dedicated page.

I knew:

Lee Vincent, my best friend’s dad when I was a kid.

And

Josh Phillips, another childhood friend, who, later on after we both moved away, murdered an eight year old girl and hid the body under his bed for several days. His mom found the body when it started to smell.

Currently:

My wife is a second cousin of the lead guitarist for a major international rock/metal band I guarantee you’ve heard of. We’ve hung out with him a few times. Really nice guy. I’m not putting the name because some of y’all creepy and might be able to identify us based on info in this post.

(Edited to remove potentially identifying familial relation)

Some of the newer cheaper nest models don’t spin. They have a touch sensor on the right side.

But this looks like a spinny model.

It’s the us. Fahrenheit, bruh.

Even if you’re using wireless devices, you almost certainly have a master device that DOES connect via a wire. Wireless thermostats are a recent invention, so if you have a non-newly-constructed home, it’s almost certain that at least one of your thermostats has a hardwire connection.

Pull each off the wall and look behind it. The wires are small, not like household power lines. They only carry 24v, so they look closer to phone wires than anything else, though not exactly.

When you find the wired thermostat, you can replace that one with a nest or ecobee. They come with directions on how to wire them up. The downside is that the other thermostats without a wire will become decorative and not function anymore without the master.

It’s coming. Slowly. But it’s coming.

https://dragon863.github.io/blog/echoroot.html

And I was making a joke about the D&D spider goddess.

But the word is "loath," which has an accepted alternate spelling of "loth". "Lolth" is the Dungeons and Dragons spider goddess, commonly worshiped by Drow.

What? This is system programming, not web development.

Automatic safeties are a thing and pretty common.

In some cases, the safety is built into the trigger or the grip or both. With a grip safety, if you grip the gun properly, the safety turns off. Likewise a trigger may be split, with one piece further forward than the rest. You have to pull the trigger properly to disengage the safety as you shoot it.

In this case you have to pull the trigger properly while also gripping the gun properly. No manual safety, but it still won’t fire if you drop it or a pen works it’s way into the trigger guard in a purse or something.

"Firearm" is a legal definition. It's not that they're considered something else, it's just that they don't fit the legal definition of a "firearm".

Don't look at me. Look at the ATF and their weird-ass arbitrary rules and definitions.

I thought for sure this was gonna be “Everywhere at the End of Time”.

If you’re not familiar, it’s a 6 hour audio piece that simulates the descent into dementia ending in the complete loss of oneself and eventually death.

Knowing what it is going in, it’s terrifying to listen to.

The whole thing is on YouTube, posted by the creator without ads, but I’m too lazy to go find it and don’t want the piped link bot to kill me in my sleep.