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  • Maybe even gasp a Dr. Pepper?

    The non-caffeine Mormons are crazy as fuck. I worked with one a long time ago. He was always super chipper and overall a "nice guy." But there's something so unsettling about them. Every practicing Mormon I've ever met there's just something off.

    I saw that same guy at the gym one time at one of the bench presses. He didn't have headphones on or anything. Still in his work clothes (blue collar stuff. Covered in oil and dirt). He just loads three plates on the bar, slides under, reps that shit, then sits there resting and does it again. No music. No phone between sets. Just like nodding to himself. Wild shit.

  • The funny thing is the second "attempted" shooter (who didn't even shoot as far as I remember) was a lib! He's super pro-Ukrainian and pissed that Trump rhetorically wasn't supporting them. Something like that. I don't remember all the shit.

    But yeah. I just don't trust any of these guys. It being a far right wing state overall plus the current FBI leadership plus Trump and all the frothing hogs demanding blood. They have every incentive to make shit up and zero to tell inconvenient truths after they spent like two days jacking off to all the mass executions of libs they want to do next week

  • Every minute that they keep the name secret (apparently arrested last night per some reports) is a minute the FBI is sweeping all his right wing ties right under the rug

    If it's not a groyper or an ambiguously right wing guy with indescribable politics (average American basically) then I don't believe

  • I mean kinda. For practical reasons "yes." I would think (speculation alert) that prosecutors are tasked with providing actual evidence that the defendant had access to, did access, etc. the files. If they're on your harddrive or something that's pretty easy to do. "It's their phone. Obviously they had access." Maybe they even provide receipts proving when and how many times they did access the files (although possession is all that's required. But just for a more damning case.)

    If it's a random ass usb drive, especially in a weird place like a roof, a yard, any other exterior locations, I would like to think and believe that the court must prove you actually are the owner of that drive. It seems a bit insane otherwise. It is possible for digital forensic people to prove it, so it's not like it's a 100% "out" for anyone to claim "I dunno, man. Not mine."

    Like if someone tossed a murder weapon in your bushes three months ago and you never saw it. One day while you're at work a neighbor is walking by, sees the shiny object, gets nosy and sees it's a gun, calls the cops suspecting something weird. What happens there? I dunno. I really don't. And I sure as shit ain't typing any of that into a search engine. I need a libertarian lawyer. A free man on the land to explain it to me. Admiralty court style.

  • Yeah when I heard 30-06 rifle I instantly thought "Oh, that's a right winger all right."

    It's Utah, that rifle, and the target wasn't really someone the left gives a shit about. That does leave open the chance that it was a liberal of some flavor. Where I grew up it was fairly mixed as far as how they identified between lib and conservative. They all hunted deer though. And they all owned similar rifles except of course those who got weird with it and took up bow hunting. Pretty sure most of them still owned rifles.

    I got my first shooting lessons from such redneck types. The type of family to pay for a huge mountain of sand to be dumped on a portion of their property so they can have a shooting range at home. (No, that's not a joke for non-Americans. People love their fucking guns.)

  • Everyone should consider storing all their electronics just strewn across their roof. Time for bed? Toss your phone and laptop up there for the night. Instant plausible deniability. Judges hate this one weird trick

  • I think people use jugular because it's a more familiar term in pop culture or just everyday usage. "Go for the jugular" is often used as "Go for the kill" when describing dog attacks and such.

    But yeah it doesn't take a doctor or anything to see the incredible spraying of the blood and recognize arterial bleeding. From there just a bit of first aid knowledge tells you "bro's dead." Can't tourniquet off the head... he'd need a prepared surgeon next to him. Even under those perfect circumstances my understanding is such a wound is more than likely fatal.

    Although I will say on a really morbid note or whatever. I found this video not all that disturbing in comparison to the perhaps hundreds of videos I've seen of Palestinians being murdered in every possible way. I'm not even going to detail further but people that have seen them probably know what I mean. It's like Kirk was still a human even as he was sitting there bleeding out. A whole body. Still a recognizable figure.

  • I didn't really watch that much. After I saw the video of Kirk's entire life force dumping on that stage I was like "oh. He's dead immediately. So anyway."

    In what ways was he crashing out? Yelling at his chat for "celebrating"?

  • That guy is a Nazi

    He knows and he likes it

  • My first reaction when I heard he was shot was looking at stuff online. Then I remembered I need to stay in shape, so I went back to lifting.

    More than likely nothing special comes of this. Kirk was a nobody in the grand scheme. Still, bad and worse days are always ahead.

  • He can't say shit or he'll get lasered from orbit. He has to at least let it sit for a few days. When I say lasered from orbit I mean in a figurative sense and literal. A ton of crazies out there would love to have images of Hasan looking like Kirk. Many of them are in the US government

  • Nah. You can see in the video (which is obviously incredibly graphic and I wouldn't recommend anyone watch) he immediately passes out. The shot effectively ripped open his carotid artery causing his head to dump blood and his heart to pump out all of his blood. He was passed out within one or two seconds. I'd suspect dead in under a minute due to no oxygen to the brain.

  • If it makes you feel.... neither better nor worse... they were already planning anything that comes from this. It may speed things up a bit, but they always planned on further and more violent crackdowns.

  • They might be holding back for whatever reasons (notify the family first or something) but if you watch the video, and obviously I do not encourage anyone to do so, it's pretty clear he died instantly. He got shot in the carotid artery. I'll spare people further graphic details, but yeah. You do not survive that sort of wound. He'd need a surgeon literally next to him ready to go to even have a chance.

  • Slave markets in Libya... hmm I wonder which country killed the previous multi decade leader throwing it into destabilization

    Kinda hilariously ironic to bring that up when trying to deflect blame from Europeans for slavery

  • In the specific example of Zionism and young Jewish people, it is directly in their material interests to fully "buy in" on Zionism. Free land, free homes, subsidies... the price for admission is only your soul.

    For liberals in walls: This applies to American colonists all the way back and, in a different sense, still applies today. All the "free land" is claimed now, but the descendants of those who stole land have profited greatly in a personal way. Thus it directly against the material interests of a large portion of white Americans to ever question much less oppose the status quo in the USA. This is not yet the case fully in Israel, but as they steal more Palestinian land (Gaza annexation seems fairly imminent. Not being a pessimist, just... I mean, look what Israel is doing and saying) they will also grow a population that moves from material interests being conquering land (early USA colonies and America broadly equivalent) to defending and demanding a never changing status quo where ever ceding "Israeli" land (or, likely, it'll be framed cynically as "Jewish land") is fully off the table- as it is now in the USA, Canada, etc.

    I don't think blame has anything to do with it, basically. If that's the word you want to apply, then ok. But Zionists in Israel or with family there are acting primarily on material interests backed up secondarily with ideology that proclaims them to be righteously stealing land and wealth. (Same as other colonial societies)

  • Crazy that the "Ukraine" country account would even take the time to give this a thought considering their ongoing situation.

    Like, just being real, they are currently in "there are massively bigger things to deal with right now" territory as a nationstate. If I ran that account and was physically in Ukraine I'd be spending my "shitposting" time shitposting my way out of there to literally anywhere else. Just filling out visa applications to random countries everyday.

  • Is AMD woke because their CEO is (or was) a woman?

    Anyway, reddit is reactionary as fuck, but it does kinda seem like the "OMG YOURE SO WOKE" shit is dying off finally.

    When the far right wasn't literally holding all the power they could make some believable attempt at whining that the "wokies" were making everything bad.

    Now even the dumbest of the dumdums has to contend with the reality that "Well, Trump pretty effectively "unwokified" the fed government." All the "woke" social media companies dropped their pro-LGBTQ+ and pro-inclusion stuff too.

    Yet eggs are still like $8/dozen. Housing is still unaffordable for millions of people, mostly "young" people (under like 40). The price of, I dunno, commodities like consumer GPUs has still not returned to a pre-covid normal (and never will- due to policy from their favorite God Emperor)

    Perhaps eventually they'll shift from petty manufactured grievances to "real shit." I'm not holding much hope of that happening any time soon. It'll probably take them not having a house for stuff to kick in. Since Americans are just that selfish. "If it doesn't directly affect me or my family then, meh 🤷‍♂️" pretty much explains the actions and thoughts of 99% of hoglets. Trump seems to be trying his hardest to force the material conditions upon the hoggery to cause change. I don't think that change will be positive... but he's definitely doing something their porcine minds.

  • You should pursue university if you have any aspirations at all of working within science, tech, etc. The undergraduate degree is basically just "high school 2.0" at this point (in the US). Almost meaningless as far as education goes, but required to move on to master's and PhD programs.

    No matter how shitty things get (and they will absolutely continue to get shittier for as long as Americans remain as reactionary as "we" are) education should always be emphasized above all else for young people. For everyone really, but especially the young.

    All leftist movements of note have had academics, thinkers, educated people in their core who went on to be leaders. This education doesn't have to formal, although speaking anecdotally, I find it far easier to learn "tough" subjects (science, maths) within the confines of a university-type system. Other things can be learned on my own by reading and interacting with others who have read the same material.

    The people for which it becomes a "question" in my mind would be those unsure of their vocational desires. If everything was free, I would 100% say "send everyone to get undergrad degrees!" However, reality being what it is, I think there should be hesitancy considering the lifelong consequences of massive debt. Unfortunately these are both individual decisions and, in my opinion, decisions impossible for a 16-18 year old to make. Yet our society forces them to make them regardless and holds them personally responsible... for the rest of their lives.

    Even with the massive debt issue looming, I always lean towards "Fuck it! Education is always good!" Even just a generic liberal arts education or pursuing something like philosophy. You do gain a lot of experience and perspective you'd otherwise be denied just by being in a university with other students from all over. Even if you try to remain a recluse or focus on only studies, you will be forced almost by accident to learn something new about other people (which is of course a big reason conservatives have always hated universities. Not for "being liberal or leftist." They hate people connecting on a human level and learning that we're all the same.)

    There is always the option of learning a trade skill. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, etc. Not glamorous jobs, but absolutely necessary for the existence of society as we know it, and often well-paid once you get some experience. Impossible to automate or just "delete" away as well. They're also traditionally unionized more heavily (well, not HVAC). Who knows, maybe you could help unionize a non-unionized company.

    I can say as someone who has chosen both paths (well "chosen" isn't the word... "lack of making a choice" leading to "well, guess this is what I'll do then...") that I wish I had known what I wanted in HS and had pursued university right away. But that also just isn't who I was or am. While it's easy to think "that's the most efficient path to "success"" (meaning highest compensation) it also wasn't realistic for me. I've always loved learning new stuff, anything from hands-on to book learning. I enjoyed learning how compressors work, and I enjoyed repairing/replacing them (among many other things, of course). I enjoyed learning electrical theory and then working on troubleshooting and repairing circuits all the way from small devices up to industrial sized cooling systems. I loved calculus, biology, chemistry (I majored in biology for my undergrad... much later in life than most students). I love learning but get incredibly bored once it goes from learning to working (terrible combo for most jobs).

    I don't know what to tell young people who are like I was. People with the capacity to go on and learn anything pretty much but ultimately lacking any real motivation or "reason" to do... anything at all. I want to say "it'll work out." "Just do whatever makes you happy at the time." I don't know if that's true though... it did "work out" for me. Yet I know a solid dozen people not too much unlike myself for whom it did not work out. I think that's why I lean towards "just go to university if you can." It's the least risky of the gambles. Unless you know for a fact that you want to work in something like plumbing, which of course I encourage all young people to learn all the trade skills that you can, just get a taste of it and see what you think. But if you don't want to do that, and you want the best chance at a decent paying job later down the line, university, getting a degree, getting more degrees on your degrees, is the path as things stand currently.