Serving 20 years ago is nothing like “defending a pedophile”, but you’re otherwise correct that I got mine and have a very mercenary outlook on military service. Way to miss my real point though: I’m trained, not just cos-playing. More than that, I was trained as Military Police, and have worked for years in the security field.

That said, Kyle Rittenhouse himself showed better de-escalation skills than you Blue-MAGAs here. He ran from a crowd that was chasing him down for putting-out their (literal)gas-station-parking-lot-dumpster-fire, until he could run no more and found a pistol in his face.

Right, *I’m the one going places looking to start shit that gets innocent people or the just-ignorant killed.

Next to ANY of you geniuses that keep coming after me here, that’s a garbage outlook. The crowd doesn’t make you safe; The crowd isn’t even on your side the moment your survival becomes even mildly inconvenient to their desire act without personal accoutability. Any of you are safer next to me, or Kyle, than with eachother, and that’s a fact. Hell, most of you centrists are so bad at this as to be safer with cops than eachother, and I am very much in the ACAB-stance when I say that.

Oh shit, I missed your PS on first read. You genuinely think I won’t leave my gun locked-up to go have lunch with my kids, or would let a cordon of cops that haven’t made-entry in half-an-hour stop me in an active shooter situation? I would make it safer for them to go in than stay in front of me by that point, assuming they were competent enough to keep me from just sneaking past them.

Must be how I made it back from Iraq without killing anyone. I guess I could always see the Lemmy light, and learn to gather 5 upvotes for making up shit about people I’ve never met.

Most good distributors are going to have existing clients, commitments and contracts. Sometimes the price to you or I will be based on making it worthwhile to deplete their stock-pile and potentially have to source replacements in a pinch later, because those contracts will include things like “will supply x board-feet in x shape in x timeframe at x price”, with penalties for non-compliance.

If you have the time to shop-around, by all means do so, but otherwise … yours is the pinch they were trying to avoid for themselves by quoting that price. It could also just be that they don’t stock below a certain quality/price-point, that you or I would find acceptable, but not their regular clients.

Did you check their pricing for other cuts?

My personal solutions regardless of the law or regulations are besides the point.

Unlike many here, I stay off-campus because I stay armed, not because I’m otherwise legally prohibited. Talk to me when you’ve actually punched a Nazi, not just gathered in a large group far-away from the seats of power to hope-and-pray mean words at them.

Where’s the mirror, or a fourth person with real integrity? Seriously, why not all three? I see not-one Left-of-Center, non-child-rapist-enabler portrayed here…

Oh wait, a shit-lib made this, didn’t they.

Amazing how this topic/narrative surges whenever the chances of leftists and minorities arming themselves and/or actually doing something peak.

So what happened this time? Recent Performative Resistance/“No-Kings Protest” turn-out lower than expected? Higher? Someone show up armed and people talked to them instead of assuming they were a counter-protestor? Police and other local morons particularly brutal in a way the press couldn’t gloss?

FCC and Executive Branch unilaterally try to**

That said, I don’t have the money to try to import an unapproved router for personal use and then find/hire lawyers sue when its seized in customs, and am uncertain what arguments could be used in-court to affect this issue beyond for, maybe, myself ending up with a product I honestly don’t plan to use, but there has to be a way beyond begging Congress-Critters for some basic crumbs of Illusion-of-Choice-masquerading-as-Consumer-Rights … right?

Inevitability implies the ability to see it coming, and take appropriate actions towards mitigation. Its the opposite of an excuse to do fuck-all, let-alone facilitation.

“Arrest”, or actions? Between the actual headline, byline, and first paragraph I can see before hitting the paywall, the fact the idiot got himself arrested before he could do any real harm does not seem a mater to regret on its own.

Not sure I recall a story about a kingdom wanting more educated adventurers…

That would be why this isn’t portraying adventurers …

“Adventurer” is a modern invention, sure, but there are also reasons adventurers would be an exception to the norms of their own worlds. Literacy would be one of many such reasons for many of them, but there are plenty of portrayals of what happens when only one member of a party can read or write as well.

Low as the ammo-count on the GAU-22 is, its almost a hundred times the potential missile load-out. A pocket-portable net launcher is approaching as useful as any of this shit, but please, continue with how out of touch I am versus USAF procurement methodology. Spinning the AirForce off from the Army was a mistake, although I guess having not-quite-as many Generals as F35s is better than having an excess of Admirals versus ships.

I just can’t believe what a shit-job they’ve done getting the GAU-22 firing straight on the F35, with no other options besides missiles or rockets for AA. At least the F4 Phantom was committed to its bit, and didn’t magically fuck-up previously-solved problems.

… so is the Gerald R Ford, but both, okay one of them, and not the Aircraft Carrier, are fucking shit up near the Straight of Hormuz this week.

I was surprised to see the A10 was being used as well, but don’t care enough to look-into why. I’m sure it boils-down to the fact they have nothing to replace it with for CAS yet, not in sufficient quantities with properly trained pilots anyways.

Super-Tuscano was the best fit(or closest to acceptance?) last I heard, and the Air Force brass hates it for a lot of the reasons it hates the A10, namely, its not a digital drone-with-a-captive-baby-sitter set to cost untold billions, drag-on-un-finished-for-decades, and get Senators/Generals tonnes of juicy kickbacks.

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Not here, not now. That’s another thread.

Demonstrates their point by raging-out unintelligibly. Never mentions gender. Commenters say its about hating women. Sure.

Emotional Intelligence at a singular level amounts to taking the appropriate time to compose oneself, but at the same time, just because one shows emotion doesn’t mean they don’t have a point.

I agree OP was likely rejected by someone, but I’ve seen gay men and lesbians use these phrases to try to manipulate their SO or counteract their SO’s bullshit, more often the “calm” one overtly attempting manipulation and gaslighting. People have this delusion/conceit, that so long as they haven’t been forced to say what they really think or feel, they are in-control, when in reality they are no more in-control of themselves than anyone-else.

Bringing gender or “misogyny” into it is laughably besides-the-point to me. I saw a meme page try to say the 90%-of-prisoners-are-men statistic means its men who are overly-emotional, like the people who say women are too emotional have a point re:emotions, and only got the “women” part wrong. My fellow bitches, the “calm” ones are not on your side.

I don’t think school districts have any business renting-out years-old Chromebooks full of spyware for amounts that could buy a newer laptop, but here we are.

Couple of weeks-ago, I had to basically trick my daughter’s Chromebook into caching a lesson at a resolution high enough for her to tell that her snow-day packet’s math problems actually were part of the lesson. There was no option to download the video or watch it on another device(also tried, even casting it to a TV wasn’t available).

… but yeah, what the district and Google are cool with is super-important. They don’t even use books.

Edit: to clarify, when I say they don’t use books, I mean not even PDF’s, ePub, Mobi, or even DRM-ed-to-hell-and-back-but-at-least-readable-off-line-with-the-right-app Books … NO, it’s all one page or chapter-at-most at a time, baby-spooned through a browser, and God help you if your internet connection isn’t perfect or you don’t click/refresh often-enough.

I’m saying how the tech is handled, and by whom, is extremely relavent.

I don’t care about or for wide-spread adoption any more than you do, but having only those who self-select out of enthusiasm or are coerced-into it to keep their jobs at the riegns of the mechanical-turk(or Deep Thought, whatever the case remains or becomes) doesn’t seem like the smart play to me.

You honestly trust these idiots to keep themselves or smarter people between the AI crap and themselves? Au Contraire.

Our only hope without intervention from the smarter-and-less-inclined lies in three possibilities
The AI gets smart enough to decide we aren’t worth killing.
The dumb AI’s you expect to continue indeffinitely prove incapable of killing us all when handed the means and the order, intentionally or otherwise, by their handlers. Or lastly, luck, shear damn luck, that it doesn’t mistake a coffee-request for “launch the nukes”, or follow the request of a random credentialled/authorized moron/psychopath, or “decide on its own”™ to do so.

Personally, I trust a smart or just too-lazy-to-risk-its-own-data-centers AI over the people you seem to believe are its even-slightly-qualified handlers rather than the overt enablers of its worst potential.

It doesn’t have to actually-develop consciousness to get both the means and the garbled-non-sense that leads to using them to end-up killing-us-all, friend. Try to keep up.