This is why I said I wouldn’t debate the issue. Nothing new can be said about it. There’s no fresh ideas to bring up, and it all eventually comes down to it being a fundamental right or not. I’ve never seen anyone convinced to switch their opinion based on a debate. I strongly suspect I never will because nobody that’s willing to debate it in the first place lacks a strong opinion.

Edit: I will say that there’s a difference in terminology here. A fundamental right is one that all people have, whether or not it is enumerated. An enumerated right may or may not be fundamental as well.

That may or may not be word usages formalized for discussion of rights, but it’s the terminology I use to point to why debate is never going to amount to anything. Once something is considered a fundamental right, laws cease to matter because even if those laws abrogate or suppress a right, it remains a right that is being suppressed. And, again, doing so should always require the highest possible standards to occur, and should only be done on an individual basis, not writ large

Whew. Careful with all that straw, don’t drop any matches

Need?

Who cares about need.

When it comes right down to it, nobody needs more than one of most things.

But in reality, there is a limit to how much “you” (as in someone that is trying to limit someone else’s access to something) should be allowed to limit said thing without both due process and significant cause. When something is a fundamental right (and anyone with multiple firearms is definitely of the mind that firearms are a natural extension of fundamental rights, so long as they exist at all), you, me, the government simply shouldn’t be able to declare that anyone has to show need to exercise that right.

To the contrary, suppression of rights has to be done only under extreme and unusual circumstances.

Now, from your comment, I doubt you consider the right to defense as extending to firearms. That’s fine, I’m not debating that by this comment (and won’t, it bores the fuck out of me because nobody ever has anything new to bring to the debate). I’m just saying that if something is a right, placing your idea of need on it simply isn’t acceptable.

A dozen, a hundred, a thousand, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that the right exists. And, in the US it is a specifically enumerated right. There’s wiggle room on when rights can be curtailed, suppressed. We do it all the time. But it can’t be done lightly, and shouldn’t be based on some arbitrary, ill defined standard of need.

That being said, the role of a handgun vs a shotgun vs a rifle at least points to three use cases that can’t be met by the others. Since different calibers of ammunition have discrete properties, it can also be said that significantly different rounds would fulfill different roles (you shoot a squirrel with a .50 cal, you ain’t scraping up enough to roast). Just based on that concept, it would be easy to point to at least six different firearms being “needed” to fulfill roles.

If you have multiple people using the firearms, you can need different ones for each person.

So twelve? It really isn’t that many. I’ve seen hunters that will regularly use at least twelve different rifles in a year, sometimes more, depending on how often they can find time to hunt. Ignoring any debate about hunting being something you or I support, it is a use case that is common enough to merit the term need when it comes to the tools used to do it.

Now me? I don’t need that many. Not a hunter, don’t compete in shooting sports, don’t even target shoot as a regular hobby. But you sure as hell don’t get to decide what I do and don’t need. Nor does anyone else without the application of due process and just cause.

Thanks!

gods damn, that’s a damn powerful haiku

Totally get it. But, being real, budget is always a relative term. I wouldn’t have been able to afford the cheapest version before, period. Mine was gifted to me. Items like this are only “budget” if you actually have a budget for a one off gaming device in the first place.

I’m in the same boat as you if mine dies. No way in hell could I swing even the prices on the LCD version if they still offered them, much less the oled. It’s what? 750+ USD for the lower tier version? That’s almost my fucking mortgage. The LCD would still sit at the 600+ range most likely.

And the deck is technically a full PC if you get a dock and set it up, but that’s still a damn big outlay for a low tier PC.

So, yeah, fuck Altman and every other dipshit pushing hopped up llms like they’re the second coming.

Not if everyone else goes up too

Well, I am charming as fuck lol. Maybe.

Bad joke aside, from what I’ve seen it’s more about how they disagree more than the fact of. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a fundamental personality issue going on there, and he can be difficult. I just haven’t seen much in the way of arbitrary bans just for holding different beliefs. There is a lower threshold for, shall we say, aggressive disagreements though.

Mind you, I don’t haunt the mod logs and track down every occurrence. Just taking a general sense of things over the years.

I dunno, I had a few slap fights with dessalines, but no bans. So, even that tiny margin is different at least

I mean, obviously fake and extremely gay, but there’s some minor mental gymnastics that could make it work.

First, we know that anon is one of those assholes that thinks paying big tips to wage slaves means that the kind of fuckery he’s doing is okay. We also know he’s the sort to brag about it, since the post exists.

Which also means that he would be the sort to brag about it to coworkers.

Now the gymnastics. If said coworkers didn’t hear that kind of stupidity and reject the moron based on that, and if he also said where he was ordering from, there’s a chance one or more coworkers might think that ordering his favorite pizza would not only be a good idea, but order it from the same place he does, and be fool enough to think the workers there would not be throwing a party that the dick was out of their hair for a while.

Now, since coworkers were aware of the room number, we also have to assume that there was a reason for that. The obvious one is that any asshole pulling that crap likely had nobody in their life close enough to either tell them they were being a prick, or serve as emergency contact, so he listed his employer or coworkers.

There could have been a card for the business he works at in his wallet, and the hospital reached out to see if theyhad an emergency contact for him. Or, a well meaning family member called his employer and notified them.

Mind you, all of this is just as fake as anon.

However, the one realistic part is a bunch of folks hearing that a regular had trouble sending a nice card. I’ve seen that happen a lot over the years

Indirectly. It helps keep all the associated muscles in good shape. Kind of like not skipping leg day, or not skipping core day. Doesn’t matter how buff your biceps are if that’s all that’s built.

That being said, you may well already be doing a superb set of wrist and hand exercises, the explanation isn’t directed at what you are or aren’t doing, just talking about the usefulness of grip strength improvement. 9/10, if you’re already doing specific exercises, you’re also likely doing stuff that fills the same role.

Nah, not all monastic orders are the same at all

I’m gonna go on a tangent here.

While that is obviously what’s called compliant demonstrations, there is a degree of misconception about what a training partner is going to be doing during active sparring, or non compliant training.

See, grappling arts in general, as well as arts that feature throws and joint manipulations, include training in how to either counter or mitigate the effectiveness of the techniques being used. For one, if you run into it ina competition or real fight, knowing how to counter is always a plus. But training itself is risky. Even a really chill, friendly dojo means that at some point, you’ll be hitting the ground, or having your body twisted.

So, you learn not just how to fall safely, but to roll, flip, or otherwise use your body to reduce the effectiveness of a throw or joint manipulation. And when you’re doing that, it kinda looks similar to what the performers are doing in that video, just a good bit more energetic.

Those aikidoka throwing themselves around aren’t just faking it to make segal look competent. They’re using good techniques to counter the moves being performed, if it were all real, active sparring.

Tbh, when it comes down to the techniques being performed, he’s not even that bad. They’re being applied correctly, if with less than ideal footwork and mechanics. The problem isn’t that segal doesn’t so aikido well, it’s that he’s a fake in other ways, and aikido has never been a combat system. To phrase it the way some folks active in martial arts say it, it’s a do, not a jutsu. And that’s true. Aikido is less about fight training than it is self development. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. It just isn’t the same thing as something like jujitsu where there is fight focused training and methodology.

It could be. Aikijutsu exists. And some aikido is taught/trained with active resistance and cross training with other arts. When done that way, it’s not as bad as people make it out to be, though I’d still argue there’s better ways to reach a given degree of self defense or sport combat effectiveness.

But, yeah, that video is essentially an ego stroking demo, not even an actual demo of aikido techniques.

Yeah, if this wasn’t an abuse of power, or otherwise using his position, it’s just sex.

Yeah, fucking in the office is pretty stupid, but I don’t think anyone should be fired just for that. Demoted, maybe. Given a stern warning, absolutely (and eventually shit canned for repeats, but only because sex is messy and that’s shared space). But being punished for having sex? Fuck that, it’s stupid, and the idea can fuck right off

In “fairness”, all it takes to be an ice agent is two legs, a trigger finger and the ability to goose step with one hand raised. It takes a small amount of actual brain power to do real investigations

I dunno, it’s not perfect, but I tend to enjoy the experience of moonreader, librera, or other really solid apps on android better than the experience on kindles, or the others I’ve tried that aren’t android based.

That’s even on eink options; I have a boox, and a kobo that are eink, with the boox running Android, and kobo whatever they used. I tend to find less hassles on the boox, despite it being their cheapest model.

I don’t think any of them have really perfected the overall form and function, but I find the apps on android give better immersion and less hassle.

This fucking quote

Everything seems absolute, and any opinion I respect is way more nuanced than these binary choices they keep putting in front of us. I don’t see the world in red or blue.”

He just doesn’t get it

Yeah, that’s how I got my first racoon baculum. Fox too.

There’s even a fairly brisk if low cost trade in them, and is generally going to come from either winter deaths after spring thaws, or road kill.

My dick; I fuck Linux so hard

It’s his dick, obviously