remotelove

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

I don't remember them backing it publicly either. However, there are plenty of farmers in TX that absolutely love wind power and all the extra income.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

There is a large collection of poorly written articles/blogs on LinkedIn, actually. They are just bad enough to be good enough for Google.

Strangely enough, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft actually let Google use it as a data source, it was to sabotage Google's AI training.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago (18 children)

It's been around for a while. It's the fluff and the parlor tricks that need to die. AI has never been magic and it's still a long way off before it's actually intelligent.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago

I used to go there for school trips as a kid. It was always fun and not nearly as expensive as Disney was. Personally, I wouldn't compare it to Disney as it's just a completely different class of theme park and it was awesome in its own ways.

I guess the major caveat is that I haven't been there in over 20 years, but I seriously doubt the vibe has changed too much.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

At 500yds with an AR, shooting in the general direction at a wide area is all you are doing anyway, bump stock or not. With a single shot, you might get the expected 1.5-2 MOA if you are exceptionally good. (That is a ~10 inch circle at 500yds.) Multiple shots? Maybe 50ft^2 area after the second and then rest are probably double that. The problem is recoil. While a proper stock helps, it's not a magical solution for accuracy regardless of how the rifle is mounted. Even .223/5.56 is going to have recoil, especially during rapid fire.

For me to get a consistent .25 MOA with my 25lb benchrest rifle takes a fuck ton of practice, lots of time between shots and self-loaded, custom and expensive cartridges that are tuned specifically for my barrel. (That would translate to accuracy of 1.25in at 500 yards.)

Look. I didn't want to get into this mess in this thread, but your perception of how these things work is inaccurate. I am not getting all hurr-durr-'murica-2A here as that is not the point and not my cup of tea anyway.

If you are going to discuss these things, at least do it with the correct information.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think you missed the point of the thread in your excitement. We are saying a bump stock is not even a requirement.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yep. My brother had an AK with a super light trigger that I could bump fire, but it wasn't easy and still was a complete waste.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This was an old feature, before it could be disabled.

So, if my wife was in my contact list first and I was in hers, she would get notified when someone was added to mine.

It was something like, "X has joined Signal on Y's phone!!" or some bullshit like that.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish I had a bump stock when going against packs of feral hogs, actually. Bolt actions are pointless and normal semi-autos just barely cut it, for this particular use case.

There is no love in my heart for those creatures. They destroy and/or eat anything they touch.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (7 children)

That's not how it works. The trigger still resets after each shot with a bump stock, even if your finger doesn't move. The entire gun does, which allows the reset. While bump stocks make rapid fire easier, it still takes a bit of practice to get it to work. Still, by definition, it's not an automatic weapon.

While everyone here is allowed their own opinions on gun control, defining how a weapon works in a legal context is extremely important. The terminology needs to be very exact and definitions need to be consistent. The reason for this is because everyone has their own opinions and points of view. Those opinions need to be normalized somehow.

This comment is just about how the legal system works in general.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I was a huge Signal advocate at one time and would try to get everyone to install it and use it. Man, woman or child, I didn't care who it was. I was worse than a crypto-bro trying to jam BTC down everyone's throat.

I was chatting with a group of ladies at work and got a few of them to install it. When they did, Signal pushed notifications of them connecting to my wife's phone.

Needless to say, I got questioned fairly intensely about why there were other girls connecting with me on Signal.

I wasn't very keen on Signal after that.

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