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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
7m ago
Have you heard of three branches of government:
I did, that's my point.
Some parts of the government exist to exert checks and balances on the others.
That strikes me as nothing more than fiction. The idea relies on there being some objective standard the judiciary judges the other branches of the government on, without it, it's still government just wanting to do something. Look no further than no right to euthanasia existing for the majority of the existence of Canada, only to magically appear now.
gattsuru
7m ago
It's a bit of a distraction and cjet79's willing to accept the standard story, but I'll caveat that the evidence is a lot weaker than common knowledge suggests. There's been a sizable number of countries that have either brought about new firearms regulation, or clamped down significantly harder, in the post-1980 range where we have pretty good statistics. That's part of why the Australia example always bugs me: the decrease in total suicides didn't actually stay and there were increases in non-firearms suicide.
((Is this in contradiction to the one case of gas ovens? Sure! ... but exactly how sure are we that pre-1970s 'suicides' were all intentional suicide?))
Rov_Scam
12m ago
I'll play, but only on the condition that we gat at least ten people, including the following:
- The guy who drafts Patrick Mahomes way too early
- The guy who loads up on tight ends
- The guy who drafts big names from five years ago way too early, and acts like he can't believe they're still on the board
- The guy who drafts the Ravens defense in the 9th round
- The guy who drafts the consensus best kicker in the 10th round (used to be Janikowski, more recently Justin Tucker, who knows this year)
- The guy who drafts an inordinate number of Steelers (or whoever the hometown team is)
- The guy who drafts someone who will be bagging groceries two years from now because he had a 79 yard run in the preseason
- The guy who takes fantasy football way too seriously but nonetheless ends up drafting an awful team
- The guy who fucks up his entire draft because he thinks it's a PPR league when it isn't, or vice versa
This last one happened in a league I played in a few years back and the results were hilarious. He had drafted a bunch of wideouts and practically no RBs and didn't realize we were in a standard league until the 7th or 8th round. He then started frantically drafting every questionable RB available to make up lost ground, and was offering desperate trades the week afterwards to correct his error. He ended up almost making the playoffs, but the full-blown meltdown was unforgettable.
Glassnoser
14m ago
I haven't had a haircut since October and have had lots of compliments. It looks fine, so I don't get the salad bowl comment. If I've recently showered with shampoo, it gets in my face, but by the end of the day, it accumulates enough grease to stay out of my eyes after repeatedly brushing it back.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
15m ago
But where's the defeat though?
You might be able to say this once they've successfully occupied the area and destroyed Hamas. That hasn't happened yet.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
18m ago
Yeah I'm totally lost when people talk about inner cities as anarchic wastelands... They're mostly just poor and dirty at worst.
Glassnoser
20m ago
Is there a word for that emotion you feel when you're aware of someone who is naive about a situation and you feel sympathy or concern towards them?
Tree
24m ago
Good point. All the hyped anti-aging drugs haven’t panned out either. Because things very very rarely do, and it’s good to always keep in mind that nothing ever happens. I hadn’t really considered it here, because like most rats/transhumanists I tend to pattern-match every criticism of ozempic, or of a hypothetical anti-aging drug, with a kind of moralising, small-minded complaint - ‘it’s the easy way out’ , ‘it’s unauthentic thinness’, ‘aging/dying is a part of life’ etc – I immediately dismiss.
anti_dan
26m ago
I heard of it. What is the bad governmental outcome that derived from literacy tests?
oats_son
26m ago
Damn, how horrifying. I always thought that I would prefer not to be hanged if I had to be executed, glad I was right. Guillotine is far more humane, though my real preference is for the firing squad.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
27m ago
That's just not true. There's many examples of gun legalization lobbies in Europe with variable degrees of success.
And what about Brazil, or any of the other countries where people straight up run on gun legalization so you can shoot back at the criminals and win elections?
Policy waxes and wanes, but to say personal ownership of arms is directionally unpopular is patently untrue.
oats_son
29m ago
The bullet itself might not do anything, but the explosion would be enough to do something. I saw a photo of some guy's finger that got mangled after he struck a .50 cal bullet with a hammer. That should work on any part of body...
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
33m ago
No, but coming up with a way to direct a bullet that will work for a shot to the head isn't rocket science.
Actually, come to think of it, it pretty much is rocket science. But very simple rocket science.
WandererintheWilderness
37m ago
If you want to achieve this in the real world, you need to lock some people up for the rest of their lives on those grounds alone, and I think letting them kill themselves might well kinder in some cases.
Holding out for a miracle cure is a gambit at the best of times, but still - I think "how likely is it that we'll have unprecedentedly effective antidepressants by, say, 2050" has to be considered. There is a difference between locking people up for life as the stated goal, and locking them up indefinitely until we help them better. If you think there's a decent chance of a cure being developed within the patient's lifespan, I think it's worth the chance.
TIRM
38m ago
Appeal to popularity. America is outlier in many ways. That is not evidence that we are wrong and would benefit by emulating other countries.
Won't work, you'd just get peppered with brass shrapnel and suffer horribly, but you won't die because the energy isn't concentrated enough to pierce your skull. The polymer coated buckshot would do even less.
Maybe you'll get lucky and hit an artery and bleed out, but at that point it's a lot cleaner to just use a blade.
You need pressure for a good powder burn. That's why we have the brass in the first place: it seals up the breech and allows the pressure to build up during combustion so the energy has nowhere to go but heat and increasing the velocity of the projectile. Blowing up cartridges without a breech lets the energy tear the cartridge and vent gas in all directions instead of speeding up the brass.
Youtube is full of videos of rednecks blowing up .50 BMG on its own and they're always amazed how underwhelming the performance is.
aeqno
41m ago
Could you elaborate on the difference? The armed forces personnel back then were more virulently racist and reflexively anti-Washington than probably most people alive today. And yet they didn't hesitate in turning their guns on their fellow Southerners in the name of racial equality.
You think some infantryman with a Lebron jersey in his barracks room is going to counter this trend?
TIRM
41m ago
Without the barrel directing it, bullets don't go anywhere. The case will split open and the bullet will not shoot out. There's no viable path to suicide based on holding a hot frying pan to the backs of rounds held against your head.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
43m ago
Heh.
I always just thought of it as the Napoleon diagram.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
49m ago
You said that getting a concealed-carry permit is trivially easy, and in support of that first statement you said that sheriffs aren't allowed to contact the references provided by an applicant for that permit. My point is that your second statement appears to be incorrect, so your first statement is weaker. (Though a different lawyer says that your second statement is correct and Columbia County is violating the law.)
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
56m ago
I think eventually that these kinds of drugs will be shown to have extremely negative consequences for anyone who’s not extremely morbidly obese (or at least in bad enough shape that the side effects are less serious than the obesity). Of particular concern is the number of people who are using this product for aesthetic reasons rather than as medically necessary treatment. Women have used this stuff to fit in their wedding dresses as an example.
Long term, given that this substance acts like a hormone, I think that homeostasis will eventually strike leading to the body becoming less sensitive to semiglutide and therefore the person cannot feel full. And there have been some reports of things like stomach and intestinal issues, so I’m not sure about that either.
There have been lots of these pills in the past starting with fenfen in the 1990s. Most of them overhyped or have serious side effects (fenfen worked, but since it was basically an amphetamine, it caused a lot of heart problems and was withdrawn). The thing I keep coming back to is that people are so desperate for something like a skinny pill to be true that the public and doctors pounce on it without thinking about the long term effects. So that’s why I’m shorting it. I’m expecting wrongful death or serious injury lawsuits to kill it in all but the most serious cases and thus limit the profit from it.
There is a very well-known robust cellphone case manufacturer. There is also a gay furry porn website. One is known as Otterbox. One is known as Otterlocker. I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened, here. And boy was my face red.
I've also had to consider very carefully what image edit tools to recommend, because I have a go to, and it's pretty robust if not the best GUI. But I also can't tell randos to install GIMP on their home computers without ending up on a list.
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