jordanlund

jordanlund , 12 days ago

Bring weed to Oregon.

jordanlund , 12 days ago

Electric wheelchair.

Pretty much been housebound since 2018. I can walk short distances, but large stores like a grocery store or a Home Depot were out of reach unless they had their own scooters available, which were often broken, or un-charged.

Malls were out entirely. City centers? Not a chance.

The wheelchair opened all that back up to me!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/85142504-0b5d-4122-8c88-0c0cba2e0d0d.jpeg

jordanlund , 12 days ago

Calico boys are a rarity! Honor him!

jordanlund , 12 days ago

Fun fact: The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that cops do have the right to lie to you.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_v._Cupp

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Counter offer: Pass a law barring people facing felony charges from running for President.

If it would keep you from owning a gun:

ATF form 4473, line 21c and d:

“c. Are you under indictment or information in any court for a felony, or any other crime for which the judge could imprison you for more than one year, or are you a current member of the military who has been charged with violation(s) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and whose charge(s) have been referred to a general court-martial?

d. Have you ever been convicted in any court, including a military court, of a felony, or any other crime for which the judge could have imprisoned you for more than one year, even if you received a shorter sentence including probation?”

Why should you be allowed the button? 🤔

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Assuming a corrupt system, yes. But in our current system? Not so much. Trump deserves each of his felony indictments and if it would keep him from buying a gun, which it does, it should block him from being Commander in Chief.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Place in Line, Chris Smither

youtu.be/MztnxPiiDbI

Loosen your shoes
Don’t listen to news
That keeps you up at night

Don’t try to explain
Try not to complain
No one really cares

And don’t try to find
Your place in line
'Cause it’s everywhere

You don’t need to find your place in line
'Cause it’s everywhere

jordanlund , 12 days ago

Removed, supporting genocide.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Removed, civility.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

The parts of Oregon wanting this are rabidly anti-tax. The instant they find out Idaho has a 6% sales tax they’ll cry and come crawling right back.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

I describe it like this… the places where people actually live are blue.

The places where there are more square miles than people are red.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Like she was coming within a 1/4 mile of tribal lands…

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Not even that… W. had been planning to attack Iraq on day 1 because of the failed assassination plot against his dad.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Mine does this, but it’s a user configurable speed limit.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Flat number. I set it for 65 and it beeps at me if I go over.

jordanlund , 14 days ago

Someday, and I hope to live to see it, overt religious beliefs will be classified as a mental illness.

jordanlund , 13 days ago

Recovery is a process! Good for you!

jordanlund , 14 days ago

Ugh. My hands and back hurt just looking at that.

jordanlund , 14 days ago

“Texan Craig Adlong. He pleaded guilty in 2020 for lying on firearm transaction forms, saying the guns were for his personal use. He purchased 95 semi-automatic rifles at Guns Unlimited in Katy, Texas, making seven visits over two months.

Sixty-six of those firearms were recovered in Mexico, according to the leak.”

How many is too many “for personal use”?

95 guns of the same type is CLEARLY not for personal use. 13 guns per visit x 7 visits? No questions?

I can see buying multiple guns in different form factors, because they’re a tool like anything else, and you need the right size tool for the job.

But if you’re out buying 95 #0 Phillips screwdrivers, that’s not “for personal use”.

jordanlund , 14 days ago

Well, rifles are rifles and pistols are pistols. The skill set downgrades pretty easy, upgrading not so much.

After shooting my .45-70 Government, a .22 pea shooter is no big deal, going the OTHER way though…

jordanlund , 14 days ago

Hey, TIL! But I’ve never bought more than one semi-automatic rifle at a time so that tracks!

Have you seen the way gun makers are getting around that restriction now?

The new hotness is LEVER ACTION AR-15s:

offgridweb.com/…/new-bond-arms-lever-action-ar-15…

fightlite.com/hlr-556bpm

jordanlund , 14 days ago

Nah, never shot anything more threatening than an old school metal coffee can. Just being a gun owner doesn’t make you dangerous.

I own several hammers too, doesn’t make me a carpenter. ;)

jordanlund , 13 days ago

I mean… I had a raccoon problem, right? Mom, dad, three babies. Babies were cute, but were tearing up the place and screaming, OMG, like 1,000 cat fights every night.

But the problem was dad was getting aggressive, hanging out on the roof, and showing ZERO fear of people.

Now I COULD have picked up my grandfathers .30-06, but then the problem then would have been scraping raccoon parts off the roof and nobody has time for that.

So I went the other direction. Took my dad’s 1000fps pellet rifle and shot him in the ass. Not only did he set off running, he took mom and babies with him.

So, yeah, right tool for the job. ;)

jordanlund , 13 days ago

I could see that. Multiples of the same gun so you could, I dunno, test one in a salt water environment, freshwater rainforest, desert, arctic, and control.

But 95? Yeah, no.

jordanlund , 14 days ago

They’re denying the degrees ENTIRELY or simply not granting them at commencement?

Because after 4 years and who knows how many thousands of dollars, there’s likely a contractual obligation to supply the degree.

jordanlund , 15 days ago

Gabe used to work for Microsoft, I can’t imagine he’s eager to repeat.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Newell

“He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system. He and another employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, and funded the development of their first game, Half-Life (1998). Harrington left in 2000.”

jordanlund , 15 days ago

The only surprise here is that the pier hasn’t already been “accidentally” targeted by Israel.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Open it up to hunting.
Advertise in Texas and Louisiana.

You won’t have enough giant invasive snakes.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

That ANYTHING would eat an alligator. Well, other than people. People are crazy!

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Our jobs have always been at risk from outsourcing.

Fortunately, they don’t (currently) appear to be good at it.

bbc.com/…/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformat…

As long as there’s risk and liability, firable employees will be better.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

In the end, it doesn’t matter how he defines it. We are signatories to the UN and the UN definition in Article II of the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” is:

www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

a) Killing members of the group;

b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Note the language: “ANY of the following acts”.

Israel is now 5/5 with the relocation of children from Gaza to the West Bank.

npr.org/…/orphans-gaza-rafah-israel-west-bank-sos…

jordanlund , 16 days ago

“intent to destroy in whole or in part”.

middleeasteye.net/…/israel-mp-no-innocents-gaza-s…

“I don’t think there are any innocents there now, not now and not when I said those things,” Vaturi said.

“I urge you to do everything and use Doomsday weapons fearlessly against our enemies,” Gotliv wrote on social media platform X, calling upon Israel to use “everything in its arsenal”.

In November, Galit Distel Atbaryan, Israel’s former public diplomacy minister, called for Gaza to be “erased from the face of the Earth”, stating that the besieged enclave should be “wiped out” by a “vengeful and vicious” Israeli army.

Last week, lawmaker Moshe Saada said that widespread calls he had heard from the Israeli public to “destroy all Gazans” had proven that the “right-wing was right about the Palestinian issue”.

jordanlund , 14 days ago

Taking genocidal actions without intending to commit genocide… is that better or worse? I mean, I don’t see how Israel could do what they’re doing without intent…

jordanlund , 16 days ago

In the end, it doesn’t matter how he defines it. We are signatories to the UN and the UN definition in Article II of the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” is:

www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

a) Killing members of the group;

b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Note the language: “ANY of the following acts”.

Israel is now 5/5 with the relocation of children from Gaza to the West Bank.

npr.org/…/orphans-gaza-rafah-israel-west-bank-sos…

jordanlund , 16 days ago

In the end, it doesn’t matter how Biden defines it. We are signatories to the UN and the UN definition in Article II of the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” is:

www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

a) Killing members of the group;

b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Note the language: “ANY of the following acts”.

Israel is now 5/5 with the relocation of children from Gaza to the West Bank.

npr.org/…/orphans-gaza-rafah-israel-west-bank-sos…

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Removed, self promotion/blog site.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Smoking.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Driving stick, still haven’t figured it out and now that I lost sensation in my feet, seems like I’ll never get it.

I understand how it’s supposed to work, I just can’t do it without stalling.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Being reported as sketchy information, but the basic premise of plastics being a synthetic estrogen is sound, at least as far as BPA is concerned:

breastcancer.org/…/exposure-to-chemicals-in-plast…

“BPA is a weak synthetic estrogen found in many rigid plastic products, food and formula can linings, dental sealants, and on the shiny side of paper cashier receipts (to stabilize the ink). Its estrogen-like activity makes it a hormone disruptor, like many other chemicals in plastics. Hormone disruptors can affect how estrogen and other hormones act in the body, by blocking them or mimicking them, which throws off the body’s hormonal balance. Because estrogen can make hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer develop and grow, many women choose to limit their exposure to these chemicals that can act like estrogen.

BPA also seems to affect brain development in the womb. In 2011, a study found that pregnant women with high levels of BPA in their urine were more likely to have daughters who showed signs of hyperactivity, anxiety, and depression. The symptoms were seen in girls as young as 3. It’s not clear why boys aren’t affected in the same way.”

jordanlund , 17 days ago

“You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I ruttin’ beat you with until you learn who’s in command around here!”

jordanlund , 17 days ago

Missing:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2c140268-d943-4779-b942-a023146328bf.webp

Not Photoshopped.

…hubpages.com/…/RESPONSE-TO-A-PSEUDO-HUB-ATTACKIN…

jordanlund OP , 15 days ago

Rocket is the oldest at 12.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ebd41d88-f01e-4cdf-a300-2d203b0db749.jpeg

Keanu is 10.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6789dafa-4fcc-40cc-a467-30a1e7097513.jpeg

Lorelei is 2.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/61244a12-5ab9-4b3d-b4aa-9ca98555ca89.jpeg

Willow is 2 months.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Removed, civility.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Amazing how every religion believes they are the chosen ones, eh?

jordanlund , 17 days ago

In 2001 I was a teacher and I had my TV set to automatically turn on as my alarm clock set to the local news/traffic/weather.

So the TV turns on and it’s a plane crashing into the tower, and I’m like WTF? Why are they showing a movie? Where’s my news and traffic?

Then the 2nd plane hits and OMFG. That’s when it sinks in.

They closed Manhattan. There’s talk of a dirty bomb. Nobody knows what’s going on and Bush is flying all around like a scared bunny rabbit.

That first night, we knew we were going to war. We didn’t know with who yet, but it was clear we were going to war, and if we were super unlucky, Bush might just nuke somebody.

I didn’t sleep for a week.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

If Israel were ONLY attacking Hamas, you’d be correct.

The problem is they are insistant on attacking, bombing, killing, and displacing all of the innocent Palestinians in Gaza as well, because they have been at war with Palestine, not Hamas, for generations now.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Palestine didn’t attack them, Hamas did.

jordanlund , 16 days ago

Tell that to the millions of Palestinians homeless and starving thanks to Israel.