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  • Conversely, I'm a big fan of backup cameras. They're a mandated safety feature on new cars for a reason.

    A fisheye lens on the very back of the car gives much better situational awareness while backing out of a parking spot while flanked by two huge pickups/SUVs/vans.

  • Getting older, with an established career makes spontaneity harder as it is. Add kids to the mix and it's pretty much impossible.

    I ... don't want that. I like making last minutes plans, 1-2 week long trips, etc. The most limiting factor for me is dropping off my cat at one of my many friends/family members that can watch it (and I reciprocate with their pets).

    If I'm going to date it's going to be with someone with a compatible lifestyle.

  • Dual income homeowners with healthy retirement funds. The fucked up thing is 1 million dollars isn't that impressive anymore -- you can easily spend that in retirement living a middle class lifestyle in the USA. Particularly when you factor in age related medical expenses and elder care.

    It's not like our retirement, healthcare, and elder care systems are catastrophically broken or anything.

  • Don't use bigoted slurs or marginalized groups as an insult, but absolutely use their other insults against them. In their minds those are the worst things you can call someone, and to hear them used against "their side" drives them wild.

    Call their favorite fascist a "degenerate", "freak", or "NPC" -- their reactions are hilarious.

  • What's even worse is they're doing it to ban anything they label porn, aka anything they label "obscene". Those penalties they list are to imprison their ideological enemies: anyone not straight or "Christian".

  • "Hey, there's a realistic possibility we're going to have to deal with Trump winning and increased tariffs. We obviously don't know if it will happen or not, but let's make sure we're prepared."

    Yeah, Trump could win the election ... so could Biden. That's less of a forecast and more "competent business leadership having a disaster plan."

  • On the other hand, have you ever people-watched at an REI?

    People that have absolutely no idea what they're doing buying thousands of dollars of top-end gear is par for the course. Panicking, inexperienced people do dumb things: like not push an SOS button or even realizing the inReach Messenger they bought to text in the back country has one under that clearly marked cover.

  • $5 says it was a Garmin inReach device.

  • ... you might want to re-read my comment because I'm definitely not saying that. The idea of "Shooting to wound" with any live round is moronic. Even .22lr can easily kill or cripple someone regardless of the shooter's intent.

    I take issue with downplaying how powerful .223/5.56 is. Sure, there are absolutely more powerful rifle rounds. That being said, here's a video of cheap surplus 5.56 FMJ punching through 1/4" steel plate at 200 yards.

  • I tried searching for "BSD memes" but all the results are for some cartoon by the same name.

  • The idea of shooting any round at someone and expecting to "just wound them" is absurd, but .223/5.56 is definitely in the range of "reliably fatal if applied to the chest or head" .

    It might not be a "big boy round" but it's still a rifle round -- if wasn't powerful enough to reliably "incapacitate" (i.e. kill) a human being at 100 yards the world's militaries wouldn't still be using after 40+ years.

  • We're cooked...

    Jump
  • Yes, there was.

    Crooks’ political leanings were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on Jan. 20, 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn into office.

    He was also wearing a "Demolition Ranch" t-shirt ... which take from that what you will.

  • They really aren't: it's just going to add a little thickness, weight, and cost to the phone. Screws and gaskets aren't exactly rocket science.

  • You're absolutely right. However, they were going to find a reason regardless, since violence was always their end goal.

    If it wasn't this idiot it would have been something else: Trump losing the election is any easy one. The "Boogaloo crowd" resorting to violence was inevitable -- the only thing that has changed is we can no longer pretend it's tomorrow's problem.

  • Ameruleica 🦀

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  • collapse

    Yeah ... it almost certainly won't. The world's largest economy and millitary will still be unmatched, except now they're under the control of mask-off christofascists. They're evil, but unfortunately they're not stupid.

    Everyone in the free world will be in for a bad time to varying degrees. I can promise you the new regime won't be isolationists.

  • Most of the calls I've seen to defederate haven't been because of an instance's content, but rather because of an instance's users being the problem.

    E.g. hexbear getting the boot during the period where some of its users thought it was hilarious to brigade other instances and spam giant emojis of a well endowed pig shitting on itself.

  • Furries do the back-end stuff, Femboys do anything client-facing.