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Grew up in Tennessee and I learned about them, but I was fortunate enough to go to one of the top public schools in the country that was pretty diverse. Fairly certain there's very few public schools of that caliber left in the southern US.

He's a delivery driver, so one might assume he has a car that he could get in, lock his doors, even drive away. So no, I don't believe he legitimately tried to remove himself from the situation.

This is the problem with permitless carry. You don't need any knowledge of firearm safety or the law, any idiot can freely walk around with a loaded gun in their pants. There are a lot of fucked up people just looking for an excuse to shoot someone. Way too many gun owners fantasize about being a hero, but the truth is, especially with owners that have no training or education around firearms, that you're exponentially more likely to be killed by your own firearm than you are to ever stop a crime.

I stopped carrying years ago and just keep my pistol in a gun safe by my bed now. But I've taken the course to get my permit, and it was terrifying how ignorant and even bloodthirsty a lot of the people in that course were. I love going to the range, and I like having a firearm in the home for defense, but we need better gun laws and better mental health care in the US. And while I'd prefer better laws, if the only option was the way it is now or a full ban on firearms, I'll take the full ban. I don't want to worry about my daughter being murdered at her school.

The number one cause of death in children in the US every year since 2020 has been firearms.

He's not a victim, he's a snowflake that responded to someone being an asshole with deadly force. His life was never in danger. If you believe this was justifiable self-defense, you're a fucking sociopath.

What the hell kind of 9mm ammo you using that would barely penetrate? There are so many types of deforming rounds made for 9mm because it's actually really good at penetrating humans, walls, cars, you name it. If this idiot loaded FMJs, a single round would easily go through multiple people before stopping.

If the report is accurate, there's absolutely no way a reasonable person could see that level of force as justifiable. You walk the fuck away, you go to security, or if none of that works, you call the cops. Imagine thinking that possibly taking someone's life is a reasonable response to them waving a phone in your face and making pretty soft insults.

In what fucking world does that level of harassment justify possibly taking a life? Yes, fuck these shitty YouTube/TikTok prank content creators, but if someone is harassing you like this you call security, or you call the cops. No reasonable human being should think that level of force is justified for that offense. I say this as a lifelong gun owner and someone who sat on a jury and voted to acquit someone who fatally shot another person in self-defense.

There's plenty of situations where deadly force is reasonable. This one isn't it, chief, and it's a real bad hill to die on for gun owners.

As a lifelong gun owner, you clearly have no understanding of how firearms work and should probably seek out a firearm safety course if you own guns. Please stop spreading dangerous misinformation about firearms. The shit that just came out of your mouth would never be said by a responsible gun owner.

A responsible gun owner always errs on the side of caution. They know that discharging their weapon is an absolute last resort. They also know how loud a 9mm is when fired in an enclosed space, and that even if miraculously in a shopping mall there was no one down range of his shot, it very likely damaged the hearing of nearby bystanders.

It absolutely does not justify that. You are not suddenly immune from the damage you cause because you were defending yourself. If you don't pay attention to what's down range and put a bullet through a kid's head, your negligence caused a death and you will absolutely be charged with manslaughter at the very least. Most people don't realize how loud firearms really are. Discharging a firearm inside an enclosed space without hearing protection can permanently damage hearing, so he could have easily permanently injured a lot of bystanders.

Yup, this is why you should always sign up using a credit card, never your debit card or bank. You can issue a chargeback online pretty easily with most credit card companies these days, it won't affect your credit, and the money never leaves your bank account.

They're ok with an entire subset of American kids being oppressed because "overall not that many people will be impacted." What a fucked up take. These shitheads have zero empathy until something affects them directly.

What part of buying a textbook for $250 then selling it back in like-new condition to the same retailer for $20 three months later is bad for the consumer?

It's really not. Run it in Docker on your home PC. You don't need to moderate any users because you don't need to have any users on your instance. It quite literally is "just set it up once," defederate instances you don't like, and occasionally upgrade the software like you do any other app.

That being said, a few Lemmy apps now support blocking entire instances, so that IS more simple than it was even a few weeks ago.

I'm a "best tool for the job" kinda person, and since only a few of the games I play work on Linux, my gaming PC will stay on Win10 til I'm forced to upgrade. We can all pretend that Linux comes anywhere close to the ease of use and compatibility of Windows or OS X, but it doesn't. I wouldn't be caught dead using anything Microsoft in a production capacity, or using Linux or OS X for gaming. Linux support for games has come a really long way, but I'm not going to hamstring myself just on principle, especially one as ridiculous as OS loyalty.

Druids have officially had access to Revivify for a while now in 5E as part of optional class features.

Typically, yes. In the US at least, cinder block houses are common particularly in Florida and coastal regions. The inside would still likely have a moisture barrier and insulation on modern homes, so you will typically have wood framing for interior walls to allow for wiring, plumbing, and insulation that is then drywalled over.

Yes, assuming we're talking about DND, the player is asking if his total attack roll with modifiers is equal to or greater than the enemies armor class, which only the DM knows. If so, the attack hits. If not, it misses. An AC of 19 or more is pretty high for low level player characters.

What a fucking nostalgia bomb. Haven't been a part of the scene for a very long time, so seeing RAZOR 1911 in the hex triggered a flashback. They were huge back when I was running a "warez" BBS as a kid in the 90s.

I'm a huge Linux supporter. I maintain an infrastructure of thousands of Linux servers, don't have a single Windows install. My work laptop runs Linux, the only one in the company not on Windows or OS X. I have a mini-PC proxmox setup running a bunch of VMs for different services like pihole, FoundryVTT, NVR, etc. I use Linux for everything except my gaming PC.

And even I find the Linux fanboys absolutely intolerable. Go ask a question in @tech and any possibility of an actual helpful answer is drowned by hundreds of "Install Linux" comments that are all up voted to the top. The entirety of some of the most popular communities are completely worthless because of zealots like them.

Start up your own private instance and defederate hexbear.