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  • Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns

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  • carrying makes me extremely polite

    I saved this comment from u/jlbraun about 13 years ago (would link to the source comment but fuck that site):

    As a gun owner, you have to be cool-headed, moreso than the police ever have to be.

    You do not start shit, act aggressively, flip the bird, roll your eyes, talk shit, or even raise your voice. To anyone. Ever.

    A combat instructor (who happened to be Buddhist and a Marine) once said to me: "From now on, if no one's life is on the line, you will lose every argument. You are always wrong. You are sorry for impinging on their day. You will apologize and apologize again. You will back the fuck down. You will put your tail between your legs. You will let them talk shit about your ladyfriend. You will let them call your mother a bitch and a whore and your dad a bastard. You have no ego. "

    "You do all this because if you are the one to start a fight, by default that fight now has a gun in it, and if you start losing, you're going to pull it and kill him. And even if you don't go to jail because you could convince the jury that it was self-defense, you're going to have to live with the fact that you could have saved someone's life and yet you let your ego kill someone."

    "You are not the police, so don't act like them. Though all of you [civilians] are better shots than the police, you do not have the training, the continuum of force policy, or a union plus free lawyers protecting you if you screw up."

    ed: He also said: "but after backing down and trying to apologize, if at any time you then feel your life or that of a loved one is in danger, put three rounds into his [cardiothoracic] vault, call the police, give a statement, go home, and sleep like a baby. You did all you could for your attacker, and he was the one that made the final decision to kill himself."

  • Salary negotiations are going well 🙃

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  • There's probably a simple explanation for it, but it's weird to me that the bottom text has a fixed height* but the top has oversized Cs, Gs, Os, and Ss.

    *or whatever the proper font terminology equivalent might be

    I'm choosing to believe it's another element of the meme displaying the Joker's disregard for order or something.

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    Masked Christian Protesters in Texas Target Hindu Community with Anti-Diwali and Anti-Immigrant Slurs

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  • re: that "Who we are" blurb on their page- they care so much about Iryna they couldn't be bothered to spellcheck her last name [it's Zarutska] but also apparently hate immigrants even though she was a Ukrainian refugee that was killed by a good ol' American (as far as Wikipedia indicates).

  • Google Demanded My Drivers Lic Before Letting Me Read an Article

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  • I don't understand why this particular link needed to be posted at all, let alone to multiple privacy communities. A random internet user posted a vague comment claiming they were trying to read "some article" (but no idea specifically which one, or where it's hosted) and were "blocked by Google" and requested to provide age/ID proof to proceed. Unsure why they were being asked to provide this personal information, they decide to ask Google AI and paste its response to Hacker News.

    If the poster was some kind of heavyweight in the business or political world whose inconvenience might spur change this might be worth being aware of. Or, suppose they had lots of specific details demonstrating that this age gate was being intentionally triggered for some nefarious purpose, and maybe with this information users could sidestep the block or otherwise preserve their privacy.

    It isn't surprising or noteworthy when companies known for their ubiquitous digital presence and insatiable appetite for personal information attempt to collect as much as possible. Especially when people are using their software and services,

    "I was using Chrome as the browser at the time. I was also logged into my Chrome account".

    Yesterday I was going to go to a place, but I wasn't allowed to, and the king of Norway demanded I send him a fax of my hand to prove I'm not a horse. I asked my Magic 8-Ball why I was being asked to do this but it said I need to try again later.

    MAKE SURE YOU SHARE THIS WITH YOUR FRIENDS SO THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO THEM!

  • Pentagon Spokesman’s ‘Your Mom’ Mic Drop Stuns Press

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  • That website is loaded with ads (of course), has no information about itself/staff, and most of the links in the whole "digital chew" footer don't resolve to anything.

  • As 'No Kings' protests decry Trump, surveillance worries emerge

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  • FYI @AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works:

    news outlet Stateline reported, opens new tab in February.

    The Trump administration “sidelined or fired, opens new tab” Homeland Security staffers

    described the protesters as terrorists, opens new tab, Hamas supporters, opens new tab and far-left agitators.

    according to an alert obtained by Property of the People, opens new tab.

    referred Reuters to a 2011 federal document, opens new tab listing recommendations for law enforcement

  • Today I learned that dinosaur secondary brains are not actually a thing

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  • What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?

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  • Beyond Good & Evil

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    My first post ever – life in a tent

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  • This is the first post I’ve ever written on Lemmy – or anywhere, honestly.

    Search the modlog for "soliman" and check out recent creations & bans:https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22847652https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22854167https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22855565https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22865648https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=23092198https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22915144https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22843638https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22862594etc

    Anyone upvoting or engaging with this, be less gullible please. Even if this wasn't spam/scam posting what does it have to do with self-hosting?

  • Robocop: Rouge City

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  • Their faces must be red

  • Print refusing to stay flat in corners

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  • There's also a few plugins for Cura with variations on the name TabAntiWarping. I've had https://github.com/5axes/TabAntiWarping installed forever but I'm not sure if I've ever actually used it in a print. I just took a quick look and there's a couple others listed in the marketplace now too.

  • 17 September, 2020 - "Noah: Bad Animals"

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  • It's weird that this looks like an edited picture to bypass dupe detection yet it's from the actual Far Side website.

    The bottom-left boards of the ship and water touching it have clearly had changes made. Also the three portholes in the middle. And in the sky at the top there's some writing that's mostly been brushed out.

    I didn't spend a tremendous amount of time looking, but I found a copy posted to Pinterest that looks like the original and more closely matches Larson's usual style:

    I could imagine wanting to remove the water spray droplets in case they wouldn't be clearly printed in a black & white newspaper, but I don't know if the new stuff was ever intended for that and it's also odd that the cheetah in the porthole was also removed.

  • Tips for TPU?

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  • When I first got the printer and was learning I used glue sticks to help with adhesion and just got sick of dealing with the residue and reapplying it - so now I intend on never using them at all if possible. I have 2 of the printers, one just for PLA and has a smooth PEI sheet, the other for PETG/TPU and just the regular textured mat that came with it. I usually don't need to swap between filament types a bunch so when I've got some prints that need TPU it only takes a couple minutes to apply the tape and then I can just leave it on for as long as I want and not think about it. I also use the wide blue tape (can't remember if it's 2.5 or 3") so it's only a couple rows to put on.

  • Tips for TPU?

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  • Not sure if I've ever tried without it, but I cover the standard textured mat with blue painter tape for printing 95A TPU on an Ender 3 Pro. It sticks just fine for printing and haven't had any issues removing the print after.

  • Most American headline

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  • If you're just going to assign an arbitrary token amount to charge for the food then how will that teach the kids the value of money? And since the kids themselves wouldn't be the ones actually paying for the meal it's still a disconnected symbolic gesture unlikely to impart any lifelong lessons. You're going to be spending more effort and potentially money in tracking and enforcing payments for the meals than what you're going to recoup by (under)charging for them. How about, since everyone is already paying taxes toward education, we just allocate some of those funds to providing food for every student/child if they are actually intended to be the future productive members and leaders of society?

    I would think a better method to teach the value of money is to explain the economies of scale and couple that with showing how much planning and work goes into providing and preparing the "free" meals so they aren't taken for granted as just being manna from heaven.

  • 'My baby was 3': Woman sentenced for brutal killing of friend's nonverbal toddler

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  • That's one hell of a URL.

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • What policies does Steam have that warrant inclusion in this privacy list at all, let alone under the "brainwashed" category?

  • Democrats vote against gun control in surprise move

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  • What am I missing that indicates this belongs in this community? I don't see anything showing the purchaser supporting leopards that have now turned against them. Thinking maybe the username was a clue, top DDG results indicate "goucher" might refer to Goucher College in MD, a private liberal arts college.