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Carmakazi ,

With something like 2/3 of American military-age men being too overweight or obese to serve, these drugs would likely be considered strategically essential in any [hopefully] theoretical throwdown.

Carmakazi ,

Suing the Church of Scientology for wrongful death? Yeah, good luck with that.

‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age (www.theguardian.com)

Claire*, 42, was always told: “Follow your dreams and the money will follow.” So that’s what she did. At 24, she opened a retail store with a friend in downtown Ottawa, Canada. She’d managed to save enough from a part-time government job during university to start the business without taking out a loan....

Carmakazi ,

This is kind of where I’m at. I don’t imagine any amount of cash in a bank account is going to prepare us for what’s to come. Even if you could put money aside, the money you typically put towards retirement might just be better off towards becoming a doomsday prepper. Probably wouldn’t save you either way, but it may buy you a little time that you wouldn’t have otherwise.

Like others have said, I imagine my “retirement” as bearing witness to the collapse of modern society and ultimately dying in some lousy brawl with other desperate refugees, or by some untreated bacterial infection.

Carmakazi ,

This country will break before anything meaningful happens, just like with chattel slavery.

Carmakazi ,

They wanted to impede the soft power of China in the region. It does make sense in a realpolitik kind of way, but someone with a fucking conscience in the command chain should have stopped this.

Carmakazi ,
  1. That’s why they reference the Insurrection Act. Whether the current situation meets the criteria laid out does not matter to them.
  2. It should be obvious by now that words on the books do not stop fascists. They intend to stack public institution far and deep with party loyalists so that nobody can say “no” to their will…legally, anyway.
Carmakazi ,

The only thing Bethesda is motivated to do, frothing, absolutely chomping at the bit, is figure out a way to successfully monetize modded content.

Carmakazi ,

The US used the same weapons in Fallujah and likely elsewhere. They called it “shake and bake” when they first fired WP artillery to draw enemy fighters out, then followed up with conventional artillery to kill them.

Nobody can hold the US accountable, so they’re not going to hold their rabid dog accountable either.

Carmakazi ,

No, they absolutely used it as a ground-attack incendiary and have admitted as such. They were not flushed out by being illuminated, they were flushed out with choking smoke and burning shit raining down on their positions.

Even if they did only use illumination flares, there are considerations against using them in civilian areas in ways that can start fires or otherwise cause injury to civilians.

The legal issue is moot because the US was not an adherent to these laws until 2009.

Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun (www.usatoday.com)

Myers, who says he’s a licensed security guard, was sitting in his car Wednesday to conduct “overwatch” while his son trains because “he has seen numerous crimes occur” in the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement....

Carmakazi ,

I could be considered a gun nut myself but I will not pretend that this behavior is some abnormal outlier. There are plenty, plenty of American gun owners who think like this man does, they just haven’t had the opportunity for their malformed amygdala to get someone killed.

You mention Rittenhouse but he’s a gun culture hero. Zimmerman and the like, all heroes. People who get to use their gun to lay down the law like the Earp posse are generally seen as heroes when they don’t completely fuck up like this guy, they’re not shunned as short-sighted and reckless.

Carmakazi ,

In the conservative household children do not have agency. They are simply the father’s progeny, and are expected to carry on their ideals and generally act in ways that please them.

Carmakazi ,

I feel like this should have been released closer to tax season? Now the big filers will have 10 months to strategize and try to sabotage the use of this service before it hits their bottom line.

Carmakazi ,

And naturally it’s a reverse-engineered BD Spot, likely even down to the software. Why put money into R&D when your adversaries do it for you?

Carmakazi ,

Backwoods small town yee-yee crap.

I’ve often wondered how many bodies are buried out in the sticks that never get found because the locals, including the local sheriff’s office, all cover for each other.

Carmakazi ,

This is hardly the only sketch thing AK Guy has done, and certainly not the worst.

I think that honor goes to inviting Kyle Rittenhouse on for a video.

Carmakazi ,

The product doesn’t need to be viable, just needs enough plausibility to be able to sell it to your desperate rube customers.

Reminds me of those companies who sold literal divining rods to the government as high-tech explosive detectors post-9/11.

Carmakazi ,

I’d settle for it being widely seen as the ignorant anachronism that it is and their power over secular government being completely wrested.

If an elected leader from my country said that we need to curry favor with Neptune to stop a dry season I’d want them thrown out as would many others probably. But every day we have leaders around the world making decisions based on their Iron Age faith and that’s seen as okay…because they’re part of the same club? Out of the spirit of acceptance? Personally my acceptance is wearing thin watching these nutjobs break whatever they can. They belong in communes in the woods, not leading nuclear-armed countries.

Carmakazi ,

A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn’t want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.

Carmakazi ,

What are you going to do? Shoot at cops executing a lawful search warrant?

Carmakazi ,

He’s celebrating the murder of a “liberal” dissident, which cancels out any and all positive qualities in the MAGA fascist mind.

Moreover, he wants far right murderers and those who aspire to be far right murderers to know that he has their back, “when the time is right.”

The GOP is both a criminal enterprise and a seditious terrorist organization, and they intend to seize the levers of power by force very soon.

Carmakazi ,

To me, the wording of the Israeli statement implies it was them, though of course it’s not 100% certain. If they had even the flimsiest proof to pin it on Hamas they would go public with it immediately.

Carmakazi ,

A solar storm of that scale wouldn’t just take down Facebook and Twitter for a while, it could destroy critical power infrastructure around the globe that would take months to repair. People would die.

Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles (www.psypost.org)

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes...

Carmakazi ,

In 1986 someone used the bottom to basically single-handedly kill 2 FBI agents and wound 4 others in an active gunfight. In most other countries, both weapons are heavily regulated if not prohibited for civilian ownership.

Assault weapon bans are both a product of ignorant perception and the lack of political will to ban all self-loading firearms or subgroups thereof.

Carmakazi ,

I put that there to emphasize that it was a fairly even two-way exchange, “active,” as opposed to something like him setting an ambush where the FBI got little or no shots off. Probably didn’t serve that purpose but I tried.

Carmakazi ,

Having mingled with the gun community for some time, there are a lot of level-headed people among gun owners but there are also a worrying amount of terminally fearful people with violent ideation. Many are likely one bad life event, one half-cocked response to an uncertain situation from being a mugshot on a news story like this prick.

Carmakazi ,

It should be noted that, for better or worse, importing “parts kits” of firearms, even machine guns, is not illegal in and of itself. Once the receiver and barrel is torch-cut into pieces per ATF guidelines, it ceases to be a firearm in the eyes of the law and it can be sold like any generic hardware in the US, with some state exceptions.

This is usually done by a proper import-export outfit who is careful to follow the laws, though. It sounds more like this guy was on Telegram with Vadim trying to skirt sanctions and make a quick buck, and the kits were likely not properly demilled, given the machine gun possession charges.

Carmakazi ,

Last I knew they called the Russia-Ukraine war the “NATO War in Ukraine” and claimed Russia killed over 10,000 “NATO mercenaries” mostly from Germany.

Carmakazi ,

My take is that it’s a joke of “what anarchists think they do” as the top comic vs “what anarchists actually do” as the dilapidated trap house.

I’m not an anarchist but something tells me that going to Lemmy to shit on anarchists wouldn’t be well-received.

Carmakazi ,

Didn’t the Serbian legislative body fucking gas themselves with CS a few years back?

Carmakazi ,

They need to get people to believe that the security theater is working to protect them (it doesn’t), otherwise they might start to question why it’s there in the first place. Hint: it’s not to protect the public from terrorists.

Carmakazi ,

That specifically is a valid concern for training ammunition where massive quantities end up being fired into relatively small firing ranges over the years, making the land more or less permanently contaminated with heavy metals and toxic residues from explosives. I doubt ammo for the “real world” will have the same requirements.

Carmakazi ,

It’s illegal, but because firearms are so hilariously ubiquitous, there is effectively no standard of ownership or storage, and law enforcement has inadequate tools to tackle gun tracing by design, there is ample opportunity for a prohibited person to unlawfully obtain a gun in the US. Made even more laugable by the open, legal marketing of products like the P80, which are ending up in police evidence lockups across the country.

The gun culture in America is inherently anti-social and anti-establishment, so rules and laws cannot just be lightly suggested and expected that they be followed. People need to consistently go to prison and permanently lose their gun rights for their fuckups to start changing things.

Carmakazi ,

I didn’t, because I live in a state that licenses gun owners, tracks all pistol purchases and actually throws people in jail for being criminally negligent with their guns. I can guess where they stand on gun control and gun law enforcement.

I assume you didn’t either, because you don’t actually care about any of this and just took the chance to info-dump and misdirect people who want to regulate your toys.

Carmakazi ,

Then it becomes an issue of intent, and how someone looking into you might interpret your intent. You might end up legally in the right but still end up harassed, jailed, and/or put on trial with all the costs that entails in the meantime.

If you’re underwater financially or you’re clearing out an estate sale, its a legal avenue, but I wouldn’t make a habit of selling self-made guns.

Carmakazi ,

Nobody today is selling a 9 year old car for $900 or the inflation equivalent unless it was turned into a cube at the scrap yard.

Cars are on average more expensive today, new or used. Gas is more expensive, and it’s likely more expensive to insure a young driver, which has always been expensive.

If they choose “don’t drive” over “pour much of what little money I have into propping up a falling apart beater,” that’s still a choice. Why rag on them for it?

Carmakazi ,

Fuming that they aren’t getting enough trained and radicalized militants for the second coup attempt they have planned?

Carmakazi ,

He really fell into the alt-right “manosphere” crowd after Covid restrictions started rolling out I think. Those really put a damper on his two business and personal interests outside of his podcast: stand up comedy, and MMA. It was so much he moved his studio from LA to somewhere in Texas where they obviously didn’t give a shit about Covid.

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