HelixDab2

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

AR-15 rifles also covers select fire variants. The original AR-15 made by Eugene Stoner was select fire only. The assault rifle/assault weapon distinction is functionally meaningless, and really only applies to the military. Oh, you'll get fudds that will claim otherwise, but they're also the ones claiming that a 1911 is the best gun ever because "TwO WorLD wARs!".

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Shooting plainclothes cops that execute a no-knock warrant on your home.

Seriously.

All states--ALL states--have a castle doctrine that allows you to use lethal defense to protect yourself inside your home. A no-knock warrant being executed by cops out of uniform means that you have a reasonable belief that your home is being invaded, and that your life is at immediate risk. Now, admittedly, you probably aren't going to survive that exchange of gunfire. But the state is going to have a really hard time charging you with shooting at/killing a cop if you do.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Samsung and Roku are bad for this.

You're buying the hardware; they provide the software as a service. Oh, sure, no agreeing to a unilateral change of conditions on the software means that your hardware is rendered worthless, but still... And yeah, that's pretty much the way that actually works.

IP law can start getting pretty strange.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

None of what I said is restricted to any specific form of multiamorous relationship, or any sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. Most of the people trying to engage in polyerotic relationships--by which I mean the overwhelming majority--are people that have signed up for an ultramarathon before they can successfully complete a 5k fun run.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was completed in 1937, not the 70s.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

They mostly don't. Poly people think they do, but you see far, far more relationship volatility in polyerotic relationships than you do in monogamous.

Edit: I see that I'm getting downvoted by the people that are in non-monogamous relationships. Fact is that when you talk to sex-positive sex and relationship counselors, they will almost universally say that functional polyerotic relationships are the equivalent of post-doctoral work, while most people have relationship abilities equivalent to a barely-literate middle school level. It's not that multiamorous relationships are bad or wrong, or that the people that engage in them are wretched examples of humans (...although there are certainly more than a few of those) or anything like that, but to be functional that type of relationship requires a far greater level of self-awareness and honesty than most people are capable of. Hence the reason that they tend to be so volatile; more moving parts, more chances to fuck up.

In my personal experience I have found that most multiamorous relationships are more casual and less emotionally intimate (e.g., more shallow) than monogamous relationships. The people I have personally observed, including my own partners, have had less time to spend with any single person, and were more likely to jettison relationships rather than putting in the hard work to fix problems.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Ha. Very true. The people that were clued in knew you couldn't trust the gov't, but the lack of easy information meant most people had no idea.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

To be honest, i don't know specifically, but that's very much in his prairie school of architecture.

If you ever get a chance, try walking around in Oak Park (a nice suburb of Chicago on the far west side); a lot of Wright's earlier architectural work is there. One of his earliest buildings is there, from before he developed his prairie school, and it's... A real change of pace.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Well of course they live there; that's one of Frank Lloyd Wright's worst designs. They're not going to live in one of his masterpieces, are they?

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Were you around in the heyday of bmezine when Shannon was still alive? And didn't i hear something a while back about Luna Cobra currently living somewhere in Australia?

I've known a few people that have also implanted RFID chips that they can then reprogram transdermally. They can do things like set them to have the same permissions as a security badge, for instance. Cool shit.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago
[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

You will get to a more profound and authentic understanding of yourself and of steps you can take to be the better person you want to become.

Simply understanding does not mean that you automatically change. Perhaps you have an anger problem because your father was a shitty person that lashed out every time something went wrong, and you unintentionally modeled his behavior. Great, now you know why you have explosive anger, but now you've also got 30-odd years of shitty habits to unlearn.

Understanding is only the first step, not the end.

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