ArgentRaven @ ArgentRaven @lemmy.world

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At the beginning of the revolutionary war, militias, minutemen, and even the Continental army relied on soldiers to bring their own weapons from home. They would never have held off British troops long enough to have a revolution at all otherwise. This was an 8 year war, and only after 1776 did they begin to supply the Continental army with arms from France on the regular. Spain as well.

It was absolutely their intention to have regular citizens armed. With nuclear weapons? No. Be serious. With small arms able to be used by one person. To my knowledge, private citizens didn't have access to cannons at a reliable quantity to count on them in battle.

This is what our flawed founding fathers experienced first hand and amended the Constitution with.

That will never fly as a "middle ground" because the second amendment was never written as a hunter's law. It's a Revolutionary, shooting-at-people law that didn't take into account advances in technology because they didn't matter.

What they had different were people upset with a government across the ocean and soldiers in their homes, and the only people upset with the colonists were slaves that weren't allowed guns, education, or freedom. So that made the problem we face way less likely.

Any middle ground like you suggest would take a constitutional amendment and mass adoption, and the ones with the guns that aren't likely to shoot up the place (Jan 6th excluded) are not keen on either.

Even if it's only one life saved, that's great. But can't we want to fix the systemic problems that lead to gun violence as well? It also fixes a lot of other bad things that don't lead to gun violence, like homelessness, depression, preventable deaths, inadequate health care, etc.

What I'm saying is that guns aren't the problem. They make the problem worse. I'd like to see us try to fix both instead of a half measure of different gun laws.

I have a great business idea - sell a roku-like device for half the price and a .99 cent subscription fee. Then when I've captured the market I force them to accept draconian new terms that cost way more or I brick the device. By then it's too late and I can suck all the money out of it from the people that can't switch.

And if they don't like it? Too bad; they signed away their rights to sue.

It's a foolproof plan! As long as I don't get shot in the street but justifiably angry customers.

Oops, I corrected it. I must've been confusing the name with Michael Dorn.

Yeah you might want to look up Michael Dorner. When he didn't want to go along with the rest of the force, they hunted and killed him. You have to either conform with the gang or be expelled.

I'm not so sure that's a viable reason. Trump could literally kill someone in public and I don't see him going to jail over it. Rape, misappropriation of campaign funds, selling national secrets, Insurrection, etc haven't done anything to him yet.

I think what Putin really has is money and the promise of more money. That's what gets Trump's attention.

Which someone like Musk can dangle in front of him, too. Though Trump also likes having his ego stroked, but he's not going to pay for that.

Maybe, but I imagine connected people knew something was up with that island. I remember hearing about the "Lolita Express" plane in maybe the early 2000s on the Internet. At the time I probably thought it was a conspiracy theory, but that it reached common people like me indicates that if you're actually going there, you'd have some questions.

There's no way he'd know that he'd be outed posthumously as an Epstein Island visitor, and thus no one in the future would want to go meet him in the past.

I'd say that means time travel is still possible!

Why would a TV need an update? What's changed that would require updating to continue to display the signal it's getting?

I have a Vizio that isn't connected to the Internet and it's essentially a computer monitor for my htpc that I control.

If it ever forces me to update I'm getting rid of it.

My real concern is that in 10 years, my htpc loophole will be closed and they'll datamine me anyway and force me into subscriptions regardless.

I wonder as well. My filter is made of plastic, and my water lines are plastic. Sometimes my cup is plastic. Do I get more micro plastics after the filtration process?

I don't see mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, ants (ants especially on the vines on the house) spiders, roaches, centipedes, or a dozen other specialized bugs that eat your vegetable garden.

My yard looks like a mix of 1 and 2, but there's a lot of negatives to your daily life with any of the 3 options and this biased graphic clearly wants you to pick 1 or at least 2 over 3.

It's pretty decent at stopping mosquitoes from getting to your skin, sun burn is lessened, but our technology definitely can overcome that. It just takes a little more effort than existing, like hair does.

Exactly, I hold grudges against food places for years. Conversely, I'll frequent good places for just as long.

It never has to go long for non-chain places. They always go out of business so we can't be the only ones. I bet this is really common.

It might be easier to just buy off the existing legislature in the state. That way you aren't fighting gerrymandering.

They don't give out Nobel awards for ATTEMPTED chemistry, do they?

https://media.tenor.com/_imDn5e_v4cAAAAM/sideshow-bob-attempted-murder.gif

I would watch for a Cuman ambush.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance if you haven't played it. It's like a historically accurate, hard mode Skyrim set in 1409 Bohemia. Fantastic game if you haven't tried it.

Well hold on. About a week later I sent 1 dollar to Sorry Dude. So it may not be over yet.

This could be a case of them cutting multiple covers at once.

I had the same problem with jeans. I order the exact same style and size, but they don't all fit the same. When I spoke to a Levi customer service person, they said they have multiple layers of fabric piled on top. Then the cutting blade presses down, and the fabric bends. As the top one is to short on measurements, the bottom most one is to long. So you want one in the middle.

I know paper isn't fabric, but it could be something similar. It's speed and efficiency over accuracy.

It's considered standard to pull wall-to-wall in dungeons, though. There's an exception for earlier dungeons when your kit is nerfed and most people don't have AoE, but if you aren't doing it by level 50 content, people are going to get impatient.

But I think the key is that it doesn't matter if you wipe or not, unlike WoW. People are a lot more forgiving in FFXIV. I've been playing it for close to 3 years, and played WoW from classic to WotLK, however long that is. I 100% enjoy FFXIV's story and the community more.