RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
User ID: 3756
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
12d ago
daughter routinely that she absolutely cannot hang with the boys
A sadly common failure mode that I've seen adult women fall prey to. No, madam, your 110-pound self cannot go 1-for-1 with a 190-pound man (especially not one who has a borderline drinking problem), and when you complain tomorrow that you think one of your drinks was spiked, I will roll my eyes.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
12d ago
My daily wear tends to be zero drop (Luna sandals, Topo shoes for hiking, and recently Lems for around town) so I'm used to it. This pair will be the attempt to replace the Lems since those are so expensive.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
12d ago
Wild turkeys can fly fairly well and nightly roost up in trees to avoid predators. Domestic ones, on the other hand:
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
Whitin shoes. They're plain enough that I wear them with everything, my sneakerhead puerto rican tenant thought they looked good enough that he asked if they were Yeezys. While I bought several pairs when I realized they happen to perfectly fit my foot, figuring that they'd wear down quick, and they hold up well enough to regular use lifting/walking/running/golfing/biking that I haven't actually had to retire a pair yet. And they're cheap. So much cheaper than anything else I've found out there.
I ordered a pair. You'll either get eternal credit or blame depending on what I think of them.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
My probability of doom has been fairly low, but if LLMs have learned how to deceive themselves and then rationalize it, we might be in more trouble than I thought.
Do you have safety bars or a spotter you can lift with? My bench improved dramatically once I was able to lift with safety bars so I could try to consistently push more weight without being afraid of embarrassing/injuring myself when I failed.
edit - dumbbells are also good if you have access to heavier ones (like 60-80+ pounds each) since they're easier to safely drop.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
15d ago
5'11.46
4/100" too low to legitimately round up.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
15d ago
There's probably just no mass market for revolvers these days, sad to say as I'm one of the few holdouts who love them.
I still say the most fun target shooting is firing .38s through a .357 cowboy revolver. All the fun with less recoil and much cheaper ammo. The Blackhawks being discontinued is a shame, but it's not like I need any more of them.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
15d ago
It's occurred to me before that a potentially valuable tactic for a Democrat-friendly news media would be to take a complete nothingburger of a story about a Democratic candidate and just act really weird about it. Assure everyone that it's nothing, but make oddly specific wording choices, show less evidence than you have on the grounds that it's not all that interesting a story.
I suspect something like this was going on with all the weird photos/videos of Biden (his hand passing through the microphone, the photo with the Carters, etc.).
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
15d ago
The amounts might be low, but there's basically no repercussions for starting a rumor like this given the opportunity and at least some upside so it will happen again.
Plus, like the story about LBJ accusing an opponent of pig-fucking, there is always the opportunity for the opponent to try to deny a rumor and make things much worse.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
15d ago
So, yeah. Being a jester is an uggo's game, because uggos are the only ones receiving accurate, real-time feedback on how funny they are which they can use to refine and improve their material.
Ah, this is why I'm terribly unfunny: I'm just too darned handsome.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
15d ago
Just as linguists try to figure out what the proto-Indo-European word for "bear" was, I like to imagine researchers in several thousand years trying to figure out what root word caused words ending in -igger sounds and then even -inger sounds to disappear from spoken English.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
16d ago
It's funny to think that going on about 'the diggers' would make any Americans present uncomfortable.
It absolutely would make the average PMC American uncomfortable (hydro can weigh in on whether the average blue collar worker would give a shit, my guess is no). Just mentioning (not using) the words niggling, niggardly, or sniggering will cause bullets of sweat to pop on listeners' foreheads, but it's spread beyond that to all -igger words, too.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
18d ago
Why would anyone want to put in the effort to recreate a GWB-era argument about anarchy? I'm amazed you even got one taker. The only step you missed was bringing up medieval Iceland, which would trigger PTSD in anyone who spent time arguing on the internet in 2006.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
20d ago
I definitely think at the very least in 2 years when half of all new rifles are SBR, and gun stores are handing out $50 suppressors like candy, it may be hard to go back.
I certainly hope so. The horse seems out of the barn on many NFA restrictions between forced-reset triggers and every gangbanger having a switch on his Glock, so continuing to punish law abiding citizens for wanting a silencer or AR pistol with a stock (instead of arm brace) is absurd. Not that absurdity ever stops the government, of course.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
21d ago
Justice Department won’t enforce registration rules on silencers and certain guns after court ruling
The Trump administration announced the enforcement policy changes after a Texas judge in August ruled the permitting process was unconstitutional. The judge’s ruling was limited to the parties involved in that case, but the Justice Department said Friday it would no longer enforce the registration requirements more broadly.
Under the new guidance, ATF will no longer require registration unless the buyer lives in one of about 15 states that have state laws requiring that people go through the federal permitting process. The registration process will still apply for machine guns and what are considered “destructive devices” under federal law, the Justice Department said.
This is not a legislative change or even a change after a Supreme Court ruling, so the next administration could reverse it. With that said, the amount of erosion of the National Firearms Act in the last decade is beyond the wildest dreams of the most fervent pro-2nd amendment crowd from 20 years ago. There are states now banning AR15s or trying to ban handguns, but if a person doesn't live in one of those, they can buy a short-barreled rifle and suppressor with no background check or tax stamp.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
27d ago
It's a reference to Life of Brian.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
28d ago
If you steal the identity of a dead baby, and successfully maintain the identity theft for thirty years, then do you gain legal ownership of the stolen identity through adverse possession?
I saw this opinion when it was published and wondered what led to the prosecution. It seems the feds initially suspected an espionage angle but couldn't make those charges stick, so they pursued the false statements and ID theft instead. The couple sounds like a pair of weirdos who read too many 1970s spy thrillers (which often use the "dead infant" identity idea).
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
28d ago
Notices Bulge, the judicial version: United States v. Bontemps, 977 F.3d 909 (2020) (google scholar link, not pdf)
From 2020, so not recent, but a fun read if you haven't seen it. Between the opinion and the dissent, they use the world "bulge" 113 times. And this is no ordinary bulge. This one is:
- very large and obvious bulge
- a very obvious bulge
- a suggestive bulge
- a distinctive bulge
I'm sure the law clerks who helped draft this one had a great time seeing how many times they could use the word. Unfortunately for Mr. Bontemps, the court holds that his bulge was suggestive of a firearm and was sufficient to create reasonable suspicion for police officers to stop him.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
28d ago
The solution here is that Cornell should've expelled her after she reported this incident. Per her own statement and the various text messages, she voluntarily went unchaperoned to a party with the intent to engage in fornication with two men, and she consumed illegal drugs while there. I'm sure this was after curfew and she was probably out of uniform when she arrived, too.
Much of the same analysis applies to the men. They consumed alcohol and illegal drugs and engaged in fornication. Easy grounds for expulsion. The fraternity org itself should be fined for allowing an unchaperoned woman to enter the house.
Of course none of that would ever happen after the civil rights era eliminated universities acting in loco parentis because that was impeding student freedoms to consume drugs, engage in fornication, attend leftist protests, etc. The activists succeeded wildly and students now have those freedoms (apart from maybe at a few private religious universities). In fact, it's a big selling point of university that it's 4 years to drink, party, have sex, and generally make questionable choices. It's a shocked pikachu face moment that the freedom to make questionable or poor choices occasionally leads to questionable or poor outcomes.
Cornell recently released survey results claiming that 35% of female undergraduates reported non-consensual sexual contact in the last year (it will not take long for anyone here reviewing this survey to spot many issues). Given the apparent epidemic of such behavior, it would seem time to return to universities having far more control over student behavior to keep those students safe.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
28d ago
There is no small amount of irony in modern college students calling for the return of universities acting in loco parentis.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
29d ago
Was that tweet in response to something specific?
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
29d ago
Why the hell are they sitting at a desk all day, isolated from their friends and children, reading and typing emails, looking at spreadsheets?
No kidding. Why am I such a retard that I have to spend my days dealing with criminals, prosecutors, and judges (but I repeat myself, har har) instead of making money on the interwebs?
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
29d ago
I fully believe the universe created this news story just so you could finally post this.
Based on Jane Doe's alleged pre-party text messages, there appears to be at least one into it.
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