hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Almost every range has A Policy on ammo, and enforcement varies. Generally steel case ammunition is on the no no list, tracers are flat banned and will get you banned from that range, and some ranges don't like FMJ.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
In practice, this almost certainly looks like lots of mid-levels and generic drugs, so @throwaway05- what does that look like? More unnecessary tests, probably, but are generic drugs worse than name brand often enough to matter?
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
‘Bloody’ is supposedly the descendent of a minced oath for ‘by Our Lady’. I don’t know if it’s true or not.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Most Americans would be familiar with that use of ‘bugger’, although it sounds like an old person, or ‘to pull’ in that sense. Slag sounds like a British insult for a loose woman, but I didn’t already know it, and I’ve definitely heard ‘spunk’ used as a noun for the same term in American English, but not a verb.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
There is lots of immigration into Israël, and ‘who counts as Jewish’ is a thorny question that the left has taken W’s on in the past.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Ironically, the use of archery is itself assimilating- the aborigines didn’t have it until introduced by Europeans.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
This is the Israeli equivalent of a rural interest party, is my understanding- they’ll coalition with anyone as long as they get their way, but that don’t make em left wing- even when that coalition is with labour. They’re also not pacifist, they just don’t want to personally fight.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
The genus Canis is such a taxonomic mess that almost everything about its classification is almost certainly wrong, though.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I don’t see how British colonization made the aboriginals horrifically violent and rapey to eachother but Ireland remains fine despite centuries of colonization and harsh treatment
Aboriginals being the most savage primitives in the world may well be true(although they have some competition). But as our resident ‘some cultures just suck’ enthusiast, this may not be entirely generic- do aborigines adopted by white families have similar incarceration rates?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I assume ‘something’ means ‘any front page news story about your city/neighborhood/whatever’?
Do you know what those inspections are typically like? Is it a ‘ok, show me your safe, let me count the guns, I'm off for donuts’ or is it decidedly more unpleasant? Is a bribe normally involved?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But there is an article on ‘gun politics in…’ Germany, France, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Any European(or Australian, or Asian, etc) gun owners here? What's your experience of dealing with regulatory authorities- is it hostility, or general bureaucratic culture, or what?
To be clear, I am not asking for non-gun owning Europeans to post a link to wikipedia and explain how their system is superior, which is usually what clogs up such threads. I can read the wikipedia article on gun politics in the EU.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If you're interested, there's plenty of actual research on the supply chains for criminals to get their guns. The US could choose to crack down on these supply chains, and gun rights groups often support doing this, without affecting normie joe sixpack gun owner very much(the growth in concealed carry has drastically reduced the number of handguns left in cars; most guns used in crime are currently straw purchased, just like how teenagers get alcohol). This is never a popular proposition, because no one involved in the gun control debate in the US really cares about crime.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's worth noting that 'marry the nice guy your parents pick out when you're in your late teens in lieu of job and degree' is simply not an option for most western women.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
So it's an important point here- the book of Job is an absolutely terrible sales pitch. People want to do the right thing, but they want it less than they want to have things work out. But on the other hand, broader society really wants people to do the right thing, far more than it wants things to work out for anyone in particular. We call it moloch, I suppose. But the obvious solution is incentive alignment- make 'doing the right thing' work out more often, even if it's not perfectly efficient. The military does it all the time to regulate soldier's personal lives and it works.
The problem for our society is a fifth column- yes disproportionately Jews and women but that's more of a correlation, or perhaps causation in the other direction- which just disagrees on what the right thing is, which has immense amounts of influence and uses that influence to redirect government policy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
One of the interesting theories is that Hinkley was put up to it by the Bushes- he was a close associate of HW, that seems true. Insane, yes, but putting whackjobs up to insane things is not difficult.
Of course I don't really believe it. But the vice president killing the president is explicable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For context, most major western countries have between fifteen and twenty percent geocentrist. Extreme hardcore YEC's are a negligible percentage of this, so negligible that there's no correlation on the population level. Nothing under twenty percent is worth worrying about.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Kruschev did not threaten to destroy the west, that's a mistranslation of what he actually said. Yes, 'we will bury you' is the correct literal translation, but that's a Russian idiom for 'we will be present at your funeral'. That is, he said communism was a historical inevitability(which was Soviet dogma and not something that was new) and capitalists would disappear.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The pro-life movement is dominated by Catholics who apply just war theory to direct action. This is why the pro-life movement has little tolerance for pro-assassination rhetoric.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is how the SSPX wound up the target of a domestic spying operation- by reporting schizos they were banning from their chapels for advocating direct antisemitic activities. To say that this is a, uh, problematic incentive from a game theory perspective is probably correct.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You're describing Islam.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The progressive industrial complex does not depend on individual actors. These aren't genius visionaries. They aren't heavily centralized or cults of personality.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'by and large'
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Sure, this is an 'off the top of my head' memory from the last time the NRA offered a grand compromise.
Thanks, this is almost exactly what I’m looking for. There’s no shortage of information on ‘how to get a gun in Germany’ freely available on the internet- the experience of actually doing it is less represented.
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