jkf
5hr ago
No dude -- guns are loud, when one goes off unexpectedly in your hand you do not look elsewhere first. Looking back is in fact much more consistent with the shot coming from some other gun in the area.
jkf
5hr ago
You are actually advocating for violence as a response to mean words?
Fascinating -- I do agree that men tend to be politer to each other because violence is always on the table -- but historically the accepted response to unacceptable speech is a challenge to violence, not skipping straight to the party.
If the dude had challenged Kirk to pistols at dawn in defence of his boygirl-friend's honour that would be fine with me -- but sneaking around to get yourself a sucker-punch opportunity is not in fact a masculine activity.
jkf
6hr ago
I saw a video where it visibly jumped in the guy's hand,
That's not what I'm talking about though -- I've never had a gun go 'bang' when I was expecting a 'click' (or worse yet, nothing) but even an unexpected 'click' really get's your attention.
If the guy had just accidentally shot the ground next to his feet we wouldn't be doing a frame-by-frame analysis to see if the slide moved; he would have stopped what he was doing, looked at the gun in horror, etc. As it stands he just keeps running across the street; it's completely implausible that he would be this cool having just plucked somebody else's gun from it's holster and having it AD in his hand.
jkf
6hr ago
100 billion here and there, pretty soon you're talking about real money though -- if it saved more than it cost I wouldn't say it's a failure per se?
jkf
6hr ago
Kirk is analogous those middle-school mean girls who go spread rumors
Even if this were true, "sticks and stones" is much more typical advice on dealing with meangirls than "it's OK if you want to shoot them in the neck"?
jkf
6hr ago
The detainee's gun goes off in the agents hands. One of the infamous Uncommanded Discharges from a Sig.
It's highly highly questionable whether this actually happened -- certainly it's an appealing narrative in some kind of Chekhov's (unreliable) Gun way, but the guy carrying it away just does not act remotely like a gun just went off in his hand.
jkf
1d ago
I don't see any AR18/180 on their list -- granted they consider an SKS with detachable mag to be an 'AK-type', so this is definitely not legal advice -- but if you sawed the pistol grip off one of those and glued some compliant palm-grip abomination on there it might pass? (unless that's an "AR type" for having "AR" in the name -- totally different action from an AR15 tho...)
jkf
1d ago
As I recall it wasn't actually the case that he "crossed state lines" with the rifle -- it was stored by his buddy in Wisconsin or something?
Maybe this is why, it was a pretty normal basic-bitch AR IIRC.
jkf
6d ago
jkf
7d ago
Take out Toronto and Ottawa, make a separate peace with Quebec, and annex the rest. The US could survive the losses of part of NY and DC.
OK, but what's the downside?
jkf
12d ago
I've always written like this.
Dude, I've been on here... I don't remember actually, but a long time before I saw you show up. Taking your word that you aren't just feeding questions into the machine for whatever reasons -- your writing has become super ugly over the past six months or so. Your bluster only confirms that you've lost the plot as to what good writing even looks like.
(and you might want to read better if you think it's the bullet points)
jkf
12d ago
I am aware -- the ones I know well are quite a lot younger though, being the [early] kids of my GenX friends.
One guy who just turned 30 is kind of pressuring me to start a compound and supply weapons in case Trump invades [somewhere pretty near to the butthole of] Canada -- it's strikingly similar to the Facebook-addled Boomers in my life, except he's actually got a lot to live for (decent job, good girlfriend, etc) and no excuse around senility.
jkf
12d ago
jkf
13d ago
In short?
a physical checkup is mandatory
Unfortunately, you haven't given me enough information to make an informed choice.
Like I said, it's entirely plausible that he's just picked up the tics through hours of reading the output of these things (and thinking that it's good) -- which in a way is even more horrifying than the idea that he'd use one for a pretty simple question about a topic upon which he's somewhere in the ballpark of an SME.
It's not (only) about the lists tho...
jkf
13d ago
Cov19 the disease was eminently predictable -- we have novel seasonal respiratory virus outbreaks all the time, something like a 10%/a prediction would be not too bad.
The Cov19 response (which is the risk that bit cafe buyers' collective ass) would be pretty hard to predict, given that it was completely unimaginable in 2019 -- maybe a generalized "massive four horseman-related social disruption in my area" @ 1%/a would work, but this doesn't exactly seem like what we are after when talking about forecasting skillz.
jkf
13d ago
Man you are either an irredeemable slopmonger or spending so much time immersed in slop that your own writing is becoming indistinguishable.
jkf
16d ago
The point being that even when your focus is on blocking other people in cars, there will also be pedestrians around who might wander into the hazard zone of your antics -- it's quite a lot like waving a knife or gun around in public. Even if you aren't planning to shoot anybody, you are being reckless with a (potential) weapon.
jkf
16d ago
When you are repeatedly blocking/unblocking a street by moving your car back and forth across it, you are continually running the risk of somebody getting in your way -- for most values of 'somebody', the consequences of this risk will rest more on them than on you due to the physics of the matter; this can change quickly if they have brought their own weapons though. That's kind of the whole thing about weapons and self-defense -- it's all fun and games when you are the only one with a weapon.
jkf
17d ago
She was actually kind of using it as a weapon though -- more of a defensive weapon, but still.
If after you dropped your kids off at the school parking lot, you parked in front of the entrance and didn't let anyone but your friends through, I think it would be fair to say that you were using the car as something like a weapon? Certainly it's a tool of physical force.
jkf
20d ago
Much the same as someone pointing a gun at you though -- just because deadly force may not always prevent deadly force doesn't mean that you can't try it.
jkf
20d ago
I think rare earths are basically strip-mined? The environment in Greenland does not... seem conducive to this kind of extraction. I don't think even the wildest projections for AGW are thinking that it won't remain covered by an ice sheet with a thickness measured in kilometers for the forseeable future, just to pick the most obvious issue.
When is the last time you just got punched? Even in a barfight something like "you want a piece of me?" is usually de rigueur IME, and "stepping outside" is a real thing...
Notably this... actually is still pretty legal in most jurisdictions; "mutual combat" is also a real thing, and even in places where the courts would technically not accept it, a fight in which both participants were on board is highly likely to be ignored by authorities so long as it doesn't get too far out of hand.
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