chiliedogg @ chiliedogg @lemmy.world

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It's been illegal to sell a handgun to anyone under 21 everywhere in the US for decades. The Governor of Florida can't change that.

Yeah, they can say it isn't against Florida law, but the ATF super duper doesn't care about Florida's little make-believe firearm deregulation.

We don't have any F-350s in my household....

We have 2 F-150s, a Nissan NV200 Cargo van, an RV built off an E-450, and a Ford C-Max plug in hybrid.

Yeah - I sold zero augers, and ended up calling a location in Minnesota land they were sold out, so we transferred them along with some rifles some of their customers had ordered from our used gun department that had to go through their store for the background check.

Gun ownership age has been 18 since there was a gun ownership age.

21 only applies to handguns and certain specific other weapons like NFA items and unlassified "firearms" (guns that aren't classified as pistols, rifles or shotguns - mostly firearm receivers or a few weird stockless "shotguns" that don't actually fit the shotgun definition).

And the counter can be "legislative action" that changes the beaurocrat's authority in future moves at the cost of a pawn.

I'm an American worker. Bitching is pretty much the only benefit we get.

A few years ago my local Home Depot was clearancing out Haloween stuff to make room for Christmas stuff the last week of September.

I also used to work for a large destination outdoors retail chain. They held their big sales events at the same time nationwide whether or not it made sense regionally. I was in Texas, and we had a big flannel sales event for the clothing department in August when it was 110 degrees outside.

I ran the marine electronics department, and in 2018 they sent me 3 dozen ice augers for a sale. When I bitched to corporate they said Texas people vacation up North, and didn't answer when I asked how many people they'd seen pack a 30-pound gas motor and 3-ft drill bit in their carry-on.

That's the beauty of AI. It can look everywhere without requiring additional manpower.

State Universities lovee failing a student in an entry- level course, because the state will subsidize tuition twice for a given class per student.

They don't like doing it a second time because the student has to pay full tuition, and when classes triple in price they're more likely to drop.

What makes thela5 work so well is that the twist works because of the format.

It wasn't mind control of the main character. It was mind control on the person holding the controller, and it WORKED.

A judge issued a retraining order preventing Trump from deploying the Guard to Portland while the legal fight over it continues.

The Trump admin appealed that order. Their argument was that the administration couldn't otherwise enforce federal law. Their evidence they needed manpower from the guard was that they'd had to deploy 115 federal protection service officers (25% of the entire country's manpower) from other posts around the country to try and maintain order. The 9th circuit panel agreed that was compelling and put a stay on the restraining order.

But the 9th circuit since learned that they hadn't actually deployed those 115 officers.

Since that was the basis of the decision, the stay was lifted, and the restraining order is back in effect.

My favoriteturret quote:

"Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man. He was cast into the bowels of the Earth and pecked by birds."

Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.

I do like Inkscape a lot, but GIMP simply isn't a viable alternative for photoshop for most users. The interface is horrid and the capabilities are limited. Adobe knew what they were doing with their strategic buyouts of developers.

Don't forget he was talking about public shootings when it happened.

I've always found the elimination of my stuff to be incredibly expensive.

I wouldn't sign that. I work in government, and with new generative AI tools some of the emails are getting very good.

We had one sent to an applicant pretending to be me thay appeared to have scraped data from staff reports and minutes for public meetings for vatiances and SUPs. It was very detailed.

It had also scraped our fee schedule, so it had convincing fee amounts with links to the relevant codes and everything. It's just that the payment site was not actually us, but a site made to look just like us with a 1-letter change.

It's the 2 weeks or so in which your insurance company allows you to adjust your coverage. To facilitate this, they give you brochures designed to be confusing to try and trick you into paying maximum premiums alwith minimal coverage.

I had an employer that bragged about bringing employee down costs with the new provider by 20% per payckeck as the reason for the drastic reduction in coverage and higher copays. They glossed over the fact that we were changing from bi-weekly to weekly paychecks, so the 20 percent reduction per paycheck was actually a 60 percent increase overall.

It's more about letting someone know they're breaking the law if they buy it. It's also something that can be added onto charges if they commit a crime with the gun. Lying on the 4473 is a crime.

I did once have someone try to buy a gun using a medical Marijuana card as ID because their driver's license was expired.

We'd pretend to be oblivious to them stealing it while making it obvious they're being actively observed.