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HelixDab2

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  • I feel like a lot of people forget just how wildly different the time Heinlein was raised in was. He may have been wrong-headed in our current view about a fair amount of things--particular his work prior to the mid-60s or so--but that's a cultural issue, rather than someone that was pig-headedly stupid. The quote you have--"[...] forbidding gambling, sale of liquor, sale of contraceptives, requiring definite closing hours, enforcing the Sabbath [...]--is especially ironic because AFAIK Heinlein appears to have had open/polyamorous marriages (...or multiamorous/polyerotic, if you're a linguistic pedant); that sort of inclination should be quite antithetical to laws enforcing religious doctrine or sexual morality.

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  • Well. He's not wrong. Admittedly, many people in the US are opposed to socialist policies largely because of propagandizing by corporate interests, but when they get really popular anyways, that's def. a sure sign that everything is going to shit.

  • I love this woman with all my heart and I know it'll never happen

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  • Dude, have you tried, I dunno, talking to her? Like, telling her exactly how you feel?

    I can't speak for anyone else since I'm probably older than a lot of people here, but I can honestly say that I've never gotten drunk with someone that was"just" a friend and fucked them.

  • What are some of your worst purchasing regrets?

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  • 2012 Indian Scout. The price was decent, the miles were low. It was my first motorcycle, and I was sure that I wanted a cruiser. It seemed perfect for me.

    It had some pretty major issues. The stator failed in the rain; it got fixed under warranty. Then a coil pack failed, stranding me two hours from home. That took about a month to get fixed under warranty. It wouldn't start in cold weather worth a damn; anything under 50F, and it was a bitch to start. To top it off, I live in the mountains, and once I got past my initial trepidation of riding without anything but skill and luck between myself and the pavement, I was out-riding the capabilities of a cruiser. It's really unpleasant to drop into a corner and get your foot knocked off the foot peg because it's dragging on the pavement...

    It turns out that the way I ride is much more suited to a sport bike.

    I did a title swap with someone that had a '12 CBR600RR that needed some work; I took about a $5000 bath on that trade, but I got a bike that I loved. I ended up putting 80,000 miles on it before I wore the engine out, and then bought a '16 Triumph Speed Triple that I rode to work today.

  • It's Mocha's first birthday today!

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  • Facial structure is very different between Devon and Cornish; Devons have very round faces. Cornish tend to have much sharper, more delicate features. I think that the term for Devon Rexes is 'cobby'.

  • Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too)

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  • If I could get a fully remote job and move to the middle of BFE... Well, I'm considering doing that without a remote job, and just accepting that any job I can get will take a longer commute and probably earn pay less. I lived in Chicago for more than a decade, lived in San Diego a few years. Currently I live in a rural part of my state, but the city keeps creeping nearer, and I'm seeing farms in my county get bulldozed to put in yet another housing development "..starting from the low, low $600s!" of identical, oversized, characterless houses with 1/4 acres plots of land and no trees.

    I don't want neighbors. I want trees, deer eating my hostas, raccoons trying to tear open my garbage bins, and bears being oversized raccoons. I want candles and laterns in every room because the power goes out every time there's a thunderstorm, a woodburning stove that I can feed with trees that get blown down, and enough land that I can raise goats, chickens, and do a little dirt farming, in addition to my job. I want to opt out of this goddamn rat race, and just have a quiet place where I can offer people refuge from the bullshit that's happening around us.

  • Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like?

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  • I think that the YPJ calls themselves something like democratic syndicalists? It's close enough to anarchism that it's the easiest way for most people to understand it. The way that they're organizing their communities is pretty special, and I hope that they're able to keep their regions autonomous and maintain their ideals.

  • Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE

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  • 1 point. I've never personally owned a physical encyclopedia. I've def. used them though.

  • Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages

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  • I have an earlier version of this (got it on sale from Costco, and it was the highest-rated model by Consumer Reports at the time); I love it. It's not great for carpets, but it's fast and easy for hardwood floors.

    Would I have bought it if it needed to connect to my cell phone? Absofuckinglutely not. Not in a million fucking years. It could have been the best goddamn vacuum in the world at sucking, powered by a miniature black hole, sucking dirt to the event horizon, and I still would have passed.

    I need LESS connectivity in my life, not more.

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  • Mine def. was not an impulse, mostly because I had to make an appointment several month in advance. Brian Decker travels, but it ended up being easier to go to NYC rather than wait for him to come near where I lived at the time.

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  • I have a Meta Quest 3 that i use every single day. I bought it specifically so I could use AceXR, which is a "game" that's a dry fire practice simulator. It's significantly improved my shooting ability, since I now get feedback, and I've saved tens of thousands in ammunition prices versus going to a shooting range every single day. No, it's not perfect--there's no recoil control in dry fire simulation--but it's very, very good for what it is.

    People saying that VR is stupid sound a lot like people that didn't see any reason to switch to LED from CRT.

  • Luigi Mangione lawyer says arrest flaws invalidate evidence – but will it work?

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  • I doubt that they would show their hand publicly; they don't want to poison a jury pool.

    On the other hand, if they had better video of the shooter, I'm sure they would have released it, because they were trying to get people to ID the killer. One shitty video of half of a face doesn't really help a lot.

  • Luigi Mangione lawyer says arrest flaws invalidate evidence – but will it work?

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  • Not really; without the items that were seized, they don't really have much of anything that would link him to the location, aside from some bad security camera footage that, IMO, doesn't really look like him. Insisting that he needs an alibi is reversing the burden of proof; it's saying that, unless he can prove he was elsewhere, then their claim must be correct. But they have so little without the evidence seized at the arrest that the case would be very thin.

    Look, if you asked me where I was when The Asshole Brian Thompson was shot, I'd have no fucking idea unless it was something that was a big enough deal that I noted it in my calendar. I don't even remember where I was when 11 Sept. happened.

  • Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?

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  • A lot of the prices have corrected, just not all the way down to pre-pandemic level. I remember that primers were flat-out unavailable for a long time, then they were breaking $.10/ea for really cheap SPPs. 9mm ammo was >50cpr for a while, too. Both are down now, but not down to the $.03 for primers, or 20cpr for 9mm. Some of it is inflation in general. Some of it is that there are more people buying guns and ammo now, and there's a pretty sharp lag between demand and production, since no one wants to build new factories for temporary demand spikes; increased demand is driving up prices. Also, fun fact, a lot of companies that make AR-15s are getting very close to insolvency right now. Each person only needs so many AR-15 variants, and the market is super-saturated. That's less of an issue with ammo, since it's a consumable, but it still worries the companies that would be building new plants.

    Yeah, I still wish ammo was a lot cheaper, but it is what it is. Instead of high-volume shooting, it means more time dry-firing.

  • Need a knife?

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  • Maybe skip Varusteleeka; IIRC, they invited a whole bunch of Christo-fascist guntoobers from the US to their Winter Brutality, and didn't understand why that was a problem.

  • "I Haven't Eaten It In Years": 49 Dishes That Were Once Everywhere In The '70s, '80s, And '90s But Have Completely Vanished

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  • Liver and onions and corned beef hash are delicious, and I love them. They're also absolutely awful for you. I have Cream of Wheat in the cupboard, but I prefer grits. Honestly, I mostly make steel-cut oatmeal now.

    "I have not seen mincemeat pie in ages, and you could get it à la mode."

    I've made real mincemeat pie before, and it's absolutely nothing like what you can get in cans. For starters, it actually has, yes, real meat in it. The recipe I used was from the late 1800s , and it took most of a day to prepare. And goddamn, it was so delicious, probably something like 2000kcal per slice. You can find the recipe here, on page 393.

    Corned beef on rye

    That's mostly a delicatessen thing. If you go to an authentic deli, you should still find it.

  • ARMADILL-NO

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  • One of mine doesn't watch, she jumps into my lap and curls up.

    :|

    I think my cat is a perv.

  • ARMADILL-NO

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  • Also, armadillos tend to carry leprosy. So, maybe don't touch them.

  • Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?

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  • If I was going to guess, the actual numbers killed are far, far lower than that. Especially since there are a lot of very large private hunting preserves that intentionally try to keep their feral pig population high so that they can attract paying hunters.