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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
> - Semi-automatic and automatic weapons weren't available to the public They were fully available to the public. Automatic weapons were tax-gated, but still were (and are!) available, after 1934. Semi-automatic weapons have bee
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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
Hah, my work-issued laptop has that one as well. Power button should never be inline with normal keys, IMO.
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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
The Das keyboard commits the sin of having a sleep button (why is it even on the keyboard??) right next to the media controls. I've accidentally hit that multiple times when trying to change my music.
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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
There are clubs[1][2] of owners, and they'll generally rent them out to people. We looked into doing it for my bachelor party. Unfortunately, the cost is akin to renting a yacht for the same amount of time (On the order of thousands
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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
> one of the rare shooters with a female protagonist No, this isn't a Perfect Dark game
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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
GNSS is just the catch-all term. It stands for "Global Navigation Satellite System". The Chinese system is called BeiDou.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_navigation#BeiDou_(2...
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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
> This solves the problem of trying to use this as a curriculum back door for climate denial and Islamophobia (or whatever the red states are pushing). Well, my red state public school taught me calculus, algebra, and evolution without
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by dabluecaboose 4mo ago
It's a shame that some consider "we shouldn't celebrate the biggest mass murderer in the modern age" to be "a pretty political take"
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by dabluecaboose 5mo ago
Fine, there's currently no feasible way to do that
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by dabluecaboose 5mo ago
You can believe a guy who wrote a pissy dissent over a case he was on the losing side of, or... How about the people who made it happen in the first place? "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson,
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by dabluecaboose 5mo ago
Unjustified cynicism aside, the same technical reasons that a ban on printing gun parts is infeasible apply to printing iphone cases. There's no feasible way to detect what a printer is printing.
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by dabluecaboose 5mo ago
That's true, but the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy (And by extension, arguably the entire Revolution) were literally started by the Brits trying to confiscate their materiel. This was long before the French became involv
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by dabluecaboose 6mo ago
> Any form of this bill will 100% fail to attain its stated objective, while having horrendous not-quite-unintended consequences. California gun laws in a nutshell.
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by dabluecaboose 6mo ago
That was tried in Lexington and Concord circa 1775, it didn't end well for the guys trying to seize the powder. Happy Patriot's Day this weekend (April 19th)!
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by dabluecaboose 6mo ago
> Look: there are better canyons. There are better canyons just as accessible as the Grand Canyon, just as nice to look at, and much more interesting to actually exist in. Go to Bryce Canyon. Ironically, Bryce Canyon isn't actually
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by dabluecaboose 6mo ago
I'm not surprised more people don't know about the X-37, but it's in effect the distillation of the Shuttle program to a very effective vehicle: Crewless, reusable, cheap, and effective. Bureaucratic requirements and institu
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by dabluecaboose 6mo ago
I am actually floored that they called the one for Indigenous people "Feather Alert"
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by dabluecaboose 7mo ago
After it was changed from DoW the first time (in 1947), it was called the National Military Establishment (NME). They renamed it in 1949, potentially because "NME" said aloud sounds like "Enemy"
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by dabluecaboose 8mo ago
At this point in his life, Michaelangelo was probably apprenticed to Ghirlandaio. This wasn't a freeform doodle, but likely something of a homework assignment. It was common for young artists to be given famous works to copy, or comm
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
Well, clearly I should have just said Democrats, although my thinking at the time was that the comment would appear too partisan and trigger reflexive negative reactions. Clearly that happened regardless.
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
Likewise, I apologize for getting a bit snippy.
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
> The post I responded to basically said the left alienated people by restricting 2a, Incorrect, but judging by the responses here I conveyed my point poorly. I wasn't trying to say that the Left alienated existing gun owners. I w
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
I specifically used the phrase "American Left" to try and head off this trite quip. I was referring, in general terms, to the left wing of mainstream American political discourse without narrowing it down to just "Democrats&q
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
> All you’re saying is that our liberties only matter to them as regards people who agree with them politically. Which is absolutely true. What I'm saying is that "Gun owner" shouldn't be a political statement, and we
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
> We are a minority, sure, but not a small one. So you are actually supporting my point. Conscientious, civically-minded people who own guns are unfortunately a minority on the (American) Left. > And I still believe this - more than
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
Just so we're clear, you're arguing that ICE is already murdering people on the street with impunity, but people shouldn't defend themselves or they'll just get murdered harder ?
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
> I would imagine your idea of "attacking" the second amendment is just common sense laws. I would imagine your idea of "Common Sense laws" is actually just petty attacks on law-abiding citizens that do nothing to sto
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
> there's no depths to which this regime, which is openly hostile to its own population, won't go to assert power, as well as to maintain it. Sounds like a regime worth fighting if that's what you believe, but it seems you
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
The irony of the romanticizing of the "Lone Wolf" is that, in reality, the lone wolf dies alone. Coordinating with your neighbors and compatriots is essential from the soap box, to the ballot box, to the jury box, and to the cartr
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by dabluecaboose 9mo ago
At this point, unfortunately, that appears to be where the Overton window is resting. I didn't intend any sideswipes or sarcasm in my comment, I was just trying to characterize the opposition to the 2nd Amendment in broad terms.

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