rant, guns, uspol
Can I just say as a gun owner: 95% of gun owners are utterly insane. I just read a piece arguing that a laser on a handgun works as an "effective deterrent" because "would-be attackers... will notice a red or green dot on their body and will probably think twice before coming any closer."
In order to do this you need to train a handgun on somebody without firing it for long enough for them to notice that their body has a laser on it and make the conscious decision to call off the "attack." If that's going to happen, it's going to happen when you pull a gun on them (spoilers: most people do not call off their "attack" when a deadly weapon gets brandished at them, they go into fight-or-flight mode and come at you harder). This advice is going to get people killed. Laser sights are for you to see where you're aiming, as a supplement to irons or a red-dot. Using them as a threat is a good way to turn a potential robber (that seems to be the most common justification for these "self-defense situations") into a cornered animal fighting for their life in a split second. If you pull a gun on someone, fucking shoot them. This John Wayne bullshit is for cowboys and neo-Nazis - and that's who *I'm* thinking of when I say " attacker." It's unsurprising that the author of this piece of terrible advice cut his teeth doing war crimes to unarmed Iraqi and Afghani civilians.
uspol, ilpol, palestine
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meta subtoot, corporations on fedi
And so the arguing over "is this corporation behaving badly enough to ban or should we let them continue posting noise?" begins...
This is *precisely* why you ban corporations on sight, because this is how it goes every time, and the outcome is also the same every time: a dishonest wasteland of corporations trying to emulate human connection
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"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."
the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."
with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.
22, end of a european colonizer bloodline on stolen Wichita land.
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