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  • YSK the four rules of firearm safety

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  • Definitely use a safety when present, but some guns intended for everyday carry do not have traditional safety switches. They rely on trigger and/or grip safeties to reduce the chance of negligent discharge.

    Don't be discouraged if you look for a safety and can't find it. Just obey the other rules of firearm safety to minimize (because you'll never truly eliminate) the risk of injury.

  • we're a nation of middlemen

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  • An insurance organization operated for the benefit of the insured gives value. An insurance organization run for the benefit of investors gives the barest minimum (or less) to the insured and takes lives in the name of profits.

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • I let my Prime expire three days ago, yet they still upgraded me last night. I've already downgraded. We'll see if it continues to badger me to upgrade like it has the past couple months.

  • Because they are better than people

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  • I've been dog sitting for my parents lately and I feel bad for their old lab. She is so snuggle deprived that she wedged herself precariously between my girlfriend and me on my loveseat and just stayed with her head buried in the cushions and back legs on the floor for thirty minutes.

    My parents love their dogs, but they don't let them on the furniture and they are too old to get down on the floor and snuggle with them.

  • Here we go again

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  • I don't think the "don't change horse mid-stream" argument would help much with Trump. Pretty sure only his base believes he has a spine enough to lead through a significant conflict.

  • How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering?

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  • You're right to hesitate. I've seen it in older novels (70s and 80s) as a euphemism for sex or a woman's genitalia (woman -> cunt -> cunny).

  • go happy or go home

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  • It's not DNS

    There's no way it's DNS

    It was DNS

  • GOP coalescing behind Vance as Trump privately dismisses third-term run

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  • I dunno... Anyone else?

  • Five Senate seats most likely to flip from Republicans to Democrats in 2026

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  • Former NC Governor Roy Cooper is running for Thillis' seat. He was pretty well respected for getting us through Covid and being a reasonable voice against a hostile state legislature. I hope his popularity and general public sentiment against this administration are enough to win the seat

  • GOP coalescing behind Vance as Trump privately dismisses third-term run

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  • ...Him?

  • Removed

    Unless you're too scared?

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  • A shot every couple hours? I'm getting dehydrated just reading that

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

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  • For me, the value add of Plex is their maintenance and support of the apps on various platforms and the authentication and connection management. I do have my server port forwarded, so there's no reason for them to handle my media streams. Being able to tell a new user that all they need to do is download an app from a trusted app repository and create a free account so I can invite them to my libraries is a super simple experience for most skill levels and well worth the $60 or so I spent on a lifetime Plex pass over a decade ago.

    I get that there are use cases where it makes more sense to go with a completely free solution like JellyFin, but many critics of Plex act like ALL they are doing is serving user-supplied media on a web server, and that's a gross misrepresentation of their offering.

    I don't love the IPTV stuff that they do, but it's not that difficult to tweak the current app so that only my libraries are shown. Compared to an experience like my smart TV which is shoving ads down my throat and adding steps to get to the apps I want, it's an experience I can live with if it keeps Plex in the black.

  • just because its true doesnt mean you have to say it

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  • I think the text is cut from a longer form document. The author may have been declaring the abbreviation for use in the rest of the text.

  • Rule

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  • Life in a neighborhood surrounded by construction. Fiber cuts once per month.

  • Gotta draw the line somewhere.

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  • There is an email from Epstein's brother asking Epstein if Putin has pictures of "Trump blowing Bubba".

    Bubba is a nickname of Bill Clinton, who many believe was also involved with Epstein. Epstein's brother denies that Bubba referred to Clinton in that message. His spokesperson also assured reporters that it did not refer to Ghislaine Maxwell's horse, also named Bubba.

  • Dungeoneering with a purpose

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  • Man, I remember loving this comic. Unfortunately, it looks like the yesthievescan domain has been purchased by scammers. Don't go there.

  • ‘It’s risky business emotionally’: the social shift towards open relationships

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  • Because when they stretch past the multiple year mark and households blend, why pretend they are a hookup?

  • The AI hype

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  • I'm a system administrator and went to a conference a couple weeks ago. The first day was a Tech Track day meant only for the people who would be managing the application. We heard a lot of, "We're not replacing the human being, we're making their job easier!"

    The next two days were more for the C-levels who were shopping for new XaaS applications and the tune immediately changed to, "Why have a 1000 agents when you could have 50?" There was some token line about how you could pay those 50 more and they could feel more like valued employees, but I knew the ears around the room had turned off by that point.

  • Major AWS Outage Happening

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  • Damn, I left my "There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer" shirt at home today

  • Games @lemmy.world
    scops @reddthat.com

    When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps