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HelixDab2

@ HelixDab2 @lemm.ee

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  • Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?

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  • I don't think that's correct. Most raptors are, I believe, regulated due to their conservation status. E.g., AFAIK, the only people that can legally kill raptors are people that belong to certain Native American tribes; simple possession of things like hawk feathers that you picked up from roadkill can be a felony.

    Pigeons in general aren't really at any kind of conservation risk

  • What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?

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  • I tore the fuck out of my shoulder and had to have extensive repair surgery done. When I was talking to my physical therapist about a specific aspect of the repair, he said that they tended to do that with "older" people.

    Ouch.

    Also, I guess that my goal of looking like 2016 Rich Piana has now morphed to looking like 2018 Rich Piana. :(

  • Bill Burr calls on 'billionaires to be put down like rabid dogs' in podcast

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  • What makes you believe that there aren't other people out there right now trying to figure out what the movements are of a particular CEO or billionaire are, so they can be near them with a gun or a bomb?

    In unrelated news...

  • State, Baltimore sue Glock for rise in modified guns that function like ‘illegal machine guns’.

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  • The thing is, the root causes of this kind of violence are well known, and have been for a long time. But it's radioactive to say, hey, maybe we should work to eliminate poverty and the economic gulf separating the poorest and the wealthiest in society. All the measure that we might take--improving education, socialized medicine, eliminating systemic racism, criminal justice reform that focuses on reform instead of punishment, drug decriminalization--touch on the root cause, but aren't themselves the root cause.

  • State, Baltimore sue Glock for rise in modified guns that function like ‘illegal machine guns’.

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  • Cool, MD is wasting taxpayer money with a suit that goes nowhere. This is like suing car manufacturers because people are illegally modifying the cars to evade emissions controls.

    I could readily modify my 1911 pistol to do much the same by modifying the sear. (I wouldn't because machine pistols are almost impossible to control; there's a reason that the Beretta 93R has a forward grip for your support hand.) The only difference here is that someone figured out how to do this with Glock pistols using a part that can be 3D printed easily.

  • Jill Stein’s campaign manager: “Yeah, we are the bad guys, actually”

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  • Yes, BUT that's not where we are yet. And until that's where we are, and until the electoral college is also some kind of ranked-choice, it's profoundly immoral to influence people to vote in a way that will cause more harm and suffering.

  • Jill Stein’s campaign manager: “Yeah, we are the bad guys, actually”

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  • Essentially they think the citizenry are too stupid and/or lazy to decide how things should be governed.

    Well... Yes. This is more or less true. But that's an argument to increase education and engagement, not to discard the whole system.

  • TrumpsTruth, Conservatism, TheNewDonald, what's happening on this instance? Is this a thing?

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  • Yes. Claimed that he was a socialist, not a republican, etc.

    And here we are.

    Just another liar.

    Block the instance, move on.

  • Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the trump administration?

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  • I need to get:

    An M40 gas mask and spectacle insert

    A bullet-resistant helmet

    A burner phone

    That's about it, really.

  • Just a tad too tender

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  • FWIW, you can do this fairly easily with sous vide and still ensure that it's perfectly safe.

    I had a steak like this, something like 20-odd years ago (i'm nowhere near wealthy enough to go to nice steakhouses now); it was amazing. I don't intentionally eat any steak cooked more than medium rare at this point.

  • ‘Read the Constitution’: Vance schooled on rule of law

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  • I think that you might find that SCOTUS has conflicting interests here. Yes, the conservatives (Thomas, Alito, Goresuch, Kavanaugh, Barret, and mostly Roberts) are generally supportive of Trump. But we're now seeing Trump flout judicial rulings, and that cuts into SCOTUS' power; the justices are likely going to want to preserve that in the rulings that they make.

    I don't hold a lot of hope though.

  • ‘Read the Constitution’: Vance schooled on rule of law

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  • Yeah, now THAT is a problem. The executive branch is in charge of enforcement of laws and court rulings; if Trump's administration flatly refuses to enforce court orders, then no, nothing is going to happen. At that point, Congress gets to make a choice as to whether or not they wish to exercise their authority to impeach and remove a president. If Congress fails to act, then it's time for the people to exercise their second amendment rights, or hope that there will actually be elections again. But such a hope seems vain, if Trump's administration refuses to follow court rulings, wouldn't you say?

  • ‘Read the Constitution’: Vance schooled on rule of law

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  • Other than courts?

    The president doesn't get to determine what's an official act and what isn't, any more than Michael Scott saying, "I declare bankruptcy!" makes it so.

  • ‘Read the Constitution’: Vance schooled on rule of law

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  • That's... Not how that decision was worded. Although that was the conclusion that was drawn by certain pundits. The president has absolute immunity for official acts in areas that Congress has no authority over, e.g., commanding the military, issuing pardons, etc. So if the President committed a crime in an area that Congress has direct control over--such as criminal actions related to trying to shut down the Dept. of Education--he would explicitly not have immunity from criminal prosecution.

  • ‘Read the Constitution’: Vance schooled on rule of law

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  • Vance is, strictly speaking, correct. The key word there is legitimate. The problem is that he's trying to confuse the issue; he's implying that everything Trump is doing is a legitimate exercise of executive power, when it's very clear from law and precedent that the power being exercised is supposed to be held by Congress.

  • it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior

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  • Based on the top level comments here - yeah, they still think that Harris is exactly the same as Trump, and have zero regrets.

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • True enough. And Trump could very well accelerate that with his economic temper tantrums. Still, I don't know what currency BRICS would settle on; certainly not the ruble, not after Putin cratered the whole country's economy. The yuan?

  • Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?

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  • I'm very grateful that my parents have never lived in the Utah bubble; they saw right through Trump in 2016, and, for the first time in their lives, voted for someone other than a Republican.

    Keep in mind that Benson was hard right; he would have thought that John Birchers were leftists. He and his faction may not have led the church for very long, but they had a profound influence on it.

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • So, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that also change the way that the arrow is accelerated by the bow? Like, it starts a little slower, and then has increased acceleration until the string returns the the starting position? Whereas a long or recurve bow is going to have the hardest acceleration at the very start, since that's where the most energy is stored?

    And if that's true, how does that affect the flight of the arrow? I know that with stick bows, the arrow bows as it's being accelerated, and then wobbles slightly before stabilizing a few feet in front of the bow. Some of that is likely because the arrow has to bend around the bow stave. But do you see less of that with a compound bow?