BurnSquirrel

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'm so exhausted... This is madness. As a Linux user I've busy all day telling people with bricked PCs that Linux is better but there are just so many. It never ends. I think this is outage is going to keep me busy all weekend.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Remember the middle east? Remember vietnam? A bunch of poverty stricken farmers ~~kicked our asses~~ ground themselves against superior firepower, eeking out enough casualties to make an apathetic American public demand an end to the conflicts

Just want to set the record straight because the idea of "Kicking the ass" of the US army with a whole lot of of the smallest weapon they issue is disillusional. The vast majority of casualties in the GWOT were IEDs

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

grimes left him and started dating chelsea manning

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago

"We have to move a rocket company because of trans highschool kids" wtf

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the 2nd most valuable company in the world? Hardly.

No they're just switching business models, from paying for an OS outright to OS as a service

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

lol he really did

here in /c/politicalmemes, we all have a quirky way to close out our arguments,

That's all from me, I'm off to shit the bed fools.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think he meant anything by it. Just a way of saying "I'm done writing on the internet" with a certain style

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't speak to curling, but in chess the womens' leagues are there to get women involved. There are no biological advantages at play. This is a 2000 year old game they were excluded from playing until 100 years ago. So someone could put forth a good argument that it's more about gender than physical sex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't say terrible but mid possibly. It just took something that already worked well and added a little extra to it.

If "thing2: the sequel" attaches a something kinda neato to the revolutionary, gaming landscape changing "thing1:the thingining" that doesn't mean thing2 is really better than something that significantly moved the bar.

This is why Fallout 3 is better than Fallout New Vegas and I will fight you all over it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I think all sports aren't equal in this. The rules for MMA would surely be different than the rules for curling or chess. The people who control sports organizations usually have a life dedicated to their sport, and are in a much better place to make a call about it than congress or randos on the internet. This matter should be handled by them. The fact that anyone without skin in the game cares about this at all is a losing battle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Here's one I get a lot of flack for that I don't bring up much

I think people trying to cook up gun control laws are targeting the wrong guns, in going after semi auto or military rifles, when they should be going after cheap handguns that have been available forever. The majority of gun deaths are suicides, and that's almost always done with a hand gun, but even if you control for that the majority of homicides with guns are done with hand guns.

Hand guns are usually relatively cheap. They are very easy to conceal. Its very common for people to walk into a bar with a holstered hand gun and make a series of bad decisions. Its too common for people to get in road rage incidents that escalate into something tragic because of a handgun in the glove box. People leave them around their house and treat them as toys that kids end up finding.

AND I would argue that handguns are not in the spirit of the 2nd amendment. They are not fighting weapons. They are for fun, personal protection, or making people feel tough without having to do any real work. They have little range and lesser power. There are are no troops in the world that deploy with handguns as a primary weapon. US military officers get them but that's more about tradition.

Yes, I'm aware that shooting incidents done with rifles would be more deadly, but the fact there would be much fewer of them at all would be a net benefit in a society that banned or severely restricted hand guns.

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