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Semester3383

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  • Reddit lets you hide your post history yet Google search shows it all.(+ Extra methods to reveal users posts and comments)

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  • Possibly, yes. But the page would have needed to have been archived, and not everything has been. For a random subreddit that isn't massively popular? I dunno.

  • Is it possible for us with ADHD to date an avoidant?

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  • People that have an avoidant attachment style are likely to have a difficult time communicating effectively when things aren't going well.

  • How Lemmy users feel when they delete their Reddit account

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  • Nice! I got permabanned for saying that hus-brenna was the proper way to deal with neighbors flying Nazi flags.

  • [Discussion] Have you stopped playing a soulslike mid-playthrough? What was the reason?

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  • I honestly don't know. I don't know if I would try them again, but a new game that was similar concepts and story, but had difficulty levels that allowed me to progress--despite generally sucking--might keep me playing it.

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • TBH, many of the people that buy his products at this time are leftists. Or at least anti-authoritarian, and deeply suspicious of gov't control over individual liberties. His position that civil rights are for EVERYONE has meant that many people on the political right have no interest in doing business with him. And he's absolutely right; if rights aren't for everyone, then they aren't rights.

    It shouldn't be a radical position to say that all people in the US should have the rights that they are promised by the US Constitution, and yet we currently have a gov't that is doing their best to wipe their ass with the constitution and flush it down the toilet.

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • Who is responsible for the death? The person that intentionally drives a van into a crowd of peaceful protestors, the rental company that didn't do a full psychological screening and criminal background check before they rented a van to the person that committed the murders, or Ford for making the Econoline van with steel body panels instead of covered in 5' of closed-cell foam?

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • What it was designed for, and what it's used for, are two different things, as you already agreed. Even if you truly, absolutely believe that the only purpose of a handgun or removable-magazine-fed semi-automatic rifle is to kill other people, then you would also have to admit that the overwhelming majority of them never are used to fulfill their purpose; the number that do are, compared to the number that exist, practically a rounding error. There are literally more guns in non-police/non-military hands in the US than there are people. There are far, far more defensive gun uses annually--regardless of who measures it and how--than there are gun homicides.

    And bluntly, I absolutely DO NOT trust the gov't to be the only ones with access to firearms. If you can look at Trump, ICE, Hegseth's DoD, cops in general, and say, oh, yeah, I shouldn't be armed, but those guys are cool, well, I don't know what to tell you. And I don't trust ANY gov't to not harm the people, because there's no way to prevent fascists from taking control without also becoming authoritarian.

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • His response, as is mine, is that what people use his guns for simply isn't his business. If people used Stanley hammers to beat people to death, would it mean that Stanley was an immoral company? Or would it mean that people used the product in an unlawful and immoral way?

    I happen to very, very strongly believe in 2A, and I think that the US is in the shitstorm it is currently in in no small part because liberals--but not leftists--have been working their asses off to disarm themselves. And I will note that the person in question has consistently employed furries--he loves their work ethic--and strongly supports the rights of LGBTQ+ people to arm themselves.

  • [Discussion] Have you stopped playing a soulslike mid-playthrough? What was the reason?

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  • Dark Souls 2,3, and Bloodborne.

    I'm just not good enough.

    I had 20-30 hours into each one, and just wasn't making progress. Even if you're enjoying the story, not being able to progress just kinda sucks.

  • What entertainer consistently performs drunk or otherwise intoxicated?

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  • Thing is, he might be a mostly-functional alcoholic, but he pulls it off. Is he drunk during his routine? Maybe, probably. But goddamn, is he on point the whole show. I've had the chance to see him a few times, and would absolutely do it again if he ever came anywhere within a four hour drive of me.

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • I desperately wanted to get a degree in mechanical engineering so I could go to work for an arms company (like Heckler & Kock, FN Herstal, etc.). Never happened, got an art degree instead. Then I met a guy that owns a very small firearms company, and, well, yeesh. It's a brutally hard business. He makes a good product, he has good morals and ethics, but the market is so saturated that anyone smaller than the largest arms companies are hemorrhaging money. Glad I didn't try to live my dream now.

    I may not like what governments do with arms, but good goddamn, the arms themselves are neat.

  • How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?

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  • Dermatologists are worried about cancers, buuuuuuuuuuuut the cancers have very low mortality rates, and the effects of not getting sun tend to be pretty drastic. I've got a lot of tattoos, so I keep them pretty well covered, but I am usually vit. D deficient as a result.

  • We can combat Toxic Masculinity with Healthy Masculinity

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  • Certain radical feminists. I can't even begin to count the number of women that I knew at art school that took nearly any sterotypically masculine activity and labelled it as toxic. I've known women that insisted that any man that wanted a monogamous relationship was controlling, abusive, and infected with 'toxic monogamy'.

    Similarly, there are certain radical feminists that will claim that ALL sex with a man is rape, because women occupy a lesser position within a patriarchal society, and, because they can never be truly equals of men in the eyes of society, that women aren't capable of freely consenting to sex, that it's always coercive, and that means that it's rape. (The same people would likely say that a woman can never rape a man.)

  • Uhhh... It's a work phone

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  • "It's a burner, kid. So that when cops arrest me at a protest they don't get shit from my phone."

  • I think he's got something

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  • That has a lot to do with their origins. The fae also can't enter your home without being invited, but they're really, really good at getting people to invite them in.

    Interestingly, the part about mirrors is also linked to the fae. The fae were believed to be harmed by silver, and silver had a lot of 'magical' powers. Since mirrors were made with silver, it kinda made sense that vampires couldn't see themselves in a mirror. But modern mirrors have aluminum backs (IIRC), so a vampire should be able to see their own reflection, no?

    Also, garlic seems to depend on the origin on the vampire. Eastern European vampires were believed to be incredibly OCD; if you dumped out a handful of mustard seeds in front of them, they would feel compelled to count all of them.

  • What would yours be?

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  • Eh, I'm fine. I'm just cynical, autistic, and guns are a life-long special interest. I'm no Russel Phagan, but he's def. one of my heroes.

  • Gun nuts of the fediverse. Do any guns use two magazines at once?

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  • It's not my Walther; it's my partner's, and they got the F version specifically because the reduced spring power on the slide makes cycling it easier. But the reduced spring power also makes it less likely to go fully into battery without a very firm grip. In general, the Walther PDPs are very nice guns, but the F versions have to make some trade-offs to work for smaller/weaker hands.

    Me, I've got a CZ Shadow II Compact (I would have gotten the Carry, but that came out a month or two after I got the Compact). Love it. I went from using an inexpensive steel boat-anchor of a double-stack .40S&W/10mm 1911 in matches to the CZ.

    For anyone that reads this, with the time for a gunfight that ArcaneSlime notes, .8 seconds for a draw from concealment and a single shot on target in the A zone is 'competitive'. You should practice to get to that point. I'm not there, and I need to practice to get there myself.

    ...'Cuz carrying a gun isn't like a magic talisman. It doesn't make you safer to carry a gun unless you practice, and practice a lot. No one wants to get in a gun fight unless they're either psychotic, suicidally stupid, or both.

  • Gun nuts of the fediverse. Do any guns use two magazines at once?

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  • Stovepipes are pretty common if you limp-wrist your pistol. Similarly, some pistols don't go back into battery if you don't keep a rock-solid grip on the gun (I know for certain that this is an issue with the Walther PDP-F). Hang fires are something I wouldn't worry about in a gun fight; if it doesn't go bang, immediately cycle the slide and drop the round. Squibs on the other hand... If you get one of those, well, you aren't shooting with that gun any more, not until you can clear it. If it goes pop instead of BANG, then you definitely should not try a second time.

    Honestly, if you, as a non-cop/non-military person are in a gunfight, the odds that you will need to reload are incredibly low. The biggest reason to carry a spare magazine along with your carry gun is so that you can drop your mag and swap out if you have some kind of failure. But even that is highly unlikely, assuming that you have bought a reputable firearm in the first place (e.g., not KelTec, Taurus, or a Sig P320), and have kept it maintained. Keep in mind that gun fights outside of police standoffs and military engagements are almost always very, very fast; like, less than five seconds most of the time.

  • The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming

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  • Technically accurate, but not accurate in any meaningful way in this context.

    The planet would be unlivable LONG before CO2 levels got high enough to directly risk the health and safety of humans through inhalation.