@eigenrobot Sikhs get to carry otherwise illegal knives for religious reasons. How hard would it be to get pistols the same exemption? I've heard the way people talk about their Glocks; they wouldn't even have to lie.
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Jake
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up early and britains self-immolation my tl as usual
this reminds me of my foreign policy pet project, forcibly globalizing the second amendment
eigenrobot@eigenrobot
the World-Tree of Liberty will gorge itself on the blood of patriots and tyrants as a glorious new age of ungovernableness is ushered in on the wings of american steel
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@MattisRedacted Jesus was not omniscient! There are multiple times in the Bible where he says that he does not know things! Being wrong is not a sin!
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Literally not a single Christian I know has any idea what the “mustard seed dilemma” is outside of Twitter
Nor would any of them be stumped by it, considering it’s literally from a parable where identifying the smallest seed in the world is not actually the point of the story
Fawzy Dawah@fawzydawah
Christianity is FALLING APART because of this (Mustard seed dilemma) Jesus says in Mathew 13:31-32 the smallest of all seeds is the Mustard seed and that’s not scientifically true The smallest seed is orchid seeds, therefore Jesus got it wrong
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@imperialauditor I would have said a lot les before I heard of this guy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_M…
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@goblinodds I wonder if only women are comfortable talking about it.
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i've met or heard of four other people into ayn rand this week and all of them have been women
how is this possible
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@BryanONolan What's interesting about this is that in whatever sense Elon is a trillionaire he has been for months now. This is just making it legible. He controls the exact same resources.
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You see a trillion dollars.
Gavin sees 3/4 of a mile of high speed rail.
Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE. When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted. The system is rigged.
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@Aella_Girl Everyone said "extremely attractive" and "would not pay" right?
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@selentelechia Giving small children live insects is next level chaotic.
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@mills4grist @xwanyex This is definitely the perception, and the perception is bad enough, but every time someone tries to prove it with numbers they find the opposite.
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@xwanyex People aren't mad that boomers got wealthier as they aged. People are mad that they are significantly poorer at the same age as previous generations were, and the only response from these demons is "we worked harder than you and denied more pleasures" which is demonstrably false
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There’s obvious a lot of boomer hate, but I rarely see it articulated in exactly these terms. As society gets richer (and has remained rich for an extended period of time), one should expect there to be ever larger gaps between older people and younger people. If the society is poor, then everybody’s poor. But if the society is rich, then the people who have been enjoying its prosperity for decades are obviously going to, on average, have collected more of its fruits.
The fairer and more prosperous the economy, the greater this effect, so in one sense it’s exactly what you’d expect and desire.
But there are obviously ways in which this is undesirable, especially for family formation and access to housing.
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@KelseyTuoc @shlevy Seems manifestly unjust to send someone to prison for 25 minutes for prying open a door with the owner's consent. If he hadn't had the owner's consent, and broke in anyway knowing he had two strikes, then it seems reasonable.
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@shlevy It seems obviously and manifestly unjust to me to send someone to prison for 25 years for trying to pry open a door if the property owner says they were welcome, and it more broadly does not seem like he was a dangerous person guaranteed to keep offending.
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I’m a former 3 strikes skeptic myself, so I get where the hesitation comes from, but I would be curious to see a concrete case of someone who was or would’ve been subject to a realistic 3 strikes law where you think it would’ve been unjust.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
3 strike laws are probably bad 20 strike laws I think are a reasonable compromise
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May this guy's wife also find me soon, amen
critter@BecomingCritter
may my wife find me soon, amen
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@FreddyLA7 You're passing through my hometown. Not much to see but you can pet a baby alligator if you want. jeffdavis.org/gator-chateau/
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@JackDunc1 Wait, we have a team? I just assumed we were letting you guys borrow our stadiums and stuff.
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@CandideIII @eigenrobot All Portugal did was prevent possession from going on your criminal record. They still investigated possession and imposed fines or community service. And of course all distribution was still fully criminal. Basically worst of all worlds, which was my point.
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@Jake_Etcetera @eigenrobot Hasn't Portugal sort of tried it? Problem is, if you decriminalize you're going to get a very large number of people off themselves or burn their brains out with drugs in short order, and you have to have stomach for that and political capital to fend off inevitable do-gooders.
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i used to agree with this but after reviewing how drug decriminalization and homelessness decriminalization and gambling decriminalization have gone i no longer do
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@Ken67547214 Prostitution should just so obviously not be illegal that at some point everyone just stops pretending they care about the law, on both sides of the issue. This happens everywhere.
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@goblinodds Being around drunk people is much more fun than being drunk myself. Luckily this seems to be a minority opinion, otherwise we'd have to take turns or something.
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i always forget that people get drunk even when im at an event that serves drinks. like it doesnt occur to me that someone im chatting with might be sloshed. i love being around drunk people tbh
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@BecomingCritter Adequate sex isn't really any better than jorkin it. I can do that every day for free.
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@Hunter_Weiss Shame about the rocket but this is top tier VFX reference material.
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sorry it blew up, but for explosion fanatics, this is an all-time explosion caught on camera x.com/SawyerMerritt/…
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@ArtemisConsort That's not entirely fair, he also decided to just not pay a bunch of bills until next year.
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Mamdani “cleaned up” NYC’s budget by getting a bailout from the state government lmao
Winter@LeftyWinter
Mamdani: "Of the Margret Thatcher quote, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. If anything my friends, it seems you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."
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