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ArcaneSlime

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Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.

  • Oklahoma school principal takes down gunman

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  • I remember that video, yes, always be wary of trailing accomplice(s). Amongst many other things, really, it isn't always as simple as "have gun."

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  • I mean you can disagree with the accredited crime researcher and the NCVS data he used (it is a move I guess) all you want, but I've posted the source where I got my claims, so "unsourced" is verifiably false, it's right there.

    More water = more people drown, it's not any more difficult than that, ban water.

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  • My mistake, it wasn't Harvard, it was Phillip Cook using the NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) Data. It's only been 8yr since I read the article, please forgive my indiscretions. In my defense Harvard is also mentioned.

    https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602143823/how-often-do-people-use-guns-in-self-defense

    Needless to say I disagree with the disqualification of defensive display categorically, but understand why it would be done for official estimates (though that would mean the official would be purposefully low, by the nature if many of them not having police reports or being one's word against another even if they exist there's no real reliable way to collect those statistics, so I think it's best to leave them out.) Mostly I think it should just be kept in mind that the official estimate is based off of incomplete data and is low, lest we end up with ridiculous estimates like 3,000,000.

    And yet still, Harvard the NCVS data* (whoops lol) estimates defensive gun use as 40k higher than gun deaths, and that's with less than 20% of Americans carrying daily. To say it's so rare it's a myth is to say all gun death (60k), gun homicide (12k), accidental gun injuries (1,500) and deaths (500), are also myths due to rarity. And also the OG Black Lotus card at 1,100 printed.

    The rate is far lower than the rate of gun accidents, or even gun homicides though.

    Is still indeed not true, regardless of if I misremembered just who said that one detail from 8y ago.

  • Charlie Kirk alleged killer had already been in custody two hours before Discord ‘confession’

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  • Robinson was then supposedly arrested in the woods with the gun.

    No no, he was supposedly able to ditch the gun in the woods where they found it fully assembled and placed in a box??!!? Yet in the roof footage you can see no such gun nor would it fit in a backpack assembled, we're expected to believe that he climbed to the roof with it disassembled in his bag, assembled it on the roof, shot Kirk, disassembled it and stashed it in his bag in the seconds after the shot and before he runs, (reportedly left the screwdriver needed for this on the roof), then we get the roof footage, he gets to the woods and reassembles the rifle with the screwdriver he left on the roof, leaves it in the woods in a box, and dips, all within like 30sec. Then they arrested him a bit later.

    And also a 30-06 bullet got caught in soft tissue at ~150yd because "Charlie Kirk is Superman actually." Mmhmm.

  • A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

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  • To your update, from the article:

    Uploaded by sound restorer Nick Dellow, it was originally made in 1940 straight from the metal master by Columbia Records producer George Avakian, who would go on to work with everyone from Miles Davis to Edith Piaf to John Cage.

    Just thought that was an interesting note, pretty cool imo!

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  • That's actually incorrect, the lowest estimate for defensive gun use (by Harvard Phillip Cook using NCVS data, whoops), only counting verifiable police reports and completely discounting defensive display, the most common form of DGU) is 100,000/yr, while gun deaths including accidents, homicides, and suicides, are ~60,000/ yr. That's still a difference of 40,000.

    Also good to keep in mind, only 45% of Americans even own a gun, and only somewhere around 20% carry it ever, and even less carry everywhere every day. Combine that with many mass shootings taking place in schools which federally ban firearms or businesses which often have "no weapons" signs on the door (which depending on the state can actually be legally binding), with all of that the chances of there being a "good guy with a gun" in the first place are still pretty slim. If he's a "good guy" even if he brought it he likely left it in the car in accordance with the law and posted signage on the mall (or whatever), and it can't do any good there.

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  • Not just once, it's happened multiple times. There was also the one at the mall where the good guy was then mistakenly shot by the police, that one time 4 store patrons all pulled guns on an armed robber, those are just the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.

    Actually Defensive Gun Use (hereafter DGU) estimates vary wildly, from the CDC (self) reported numbers by John Lott and Gary Kleck (500,000-3,000,000), to the more realistic estimate (based on verifiable police reports, and completely discounting the concept of defensive display) by Harvard Phillip Cook using the National Crime Victimization Survey data of 100,000 DGU/yr.

    But in any case, by the lowest estimate we have, DGU still happens at least 100,000 "once"s per year, and more if we count defensive display (though that's hard to get numbers on so I leave it out of the "official" count, it does still happen, and likely more often than bullets actually get fired.)

  • The Water Fountain [Shadowrun]

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  • Broke your "n" key on "sufficiently" huh?

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    She only wanted the ring bros

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  • I wish I could be that picky lol, if I had to feel safe, understood, and appreciated I'd still be a virgin lmao. If I ever told a woman "no I want to feel safe, understood, and appreciated" I'd be called an incel. At best she'd get the ick and ghost me, at the most generous interpretation because "if I need that from her how am I going to provide it to her" (but I honestly think it's because desiring "safety and understanding" isn't "manly" and "appreciation" "what do you mean..patriarchy..women are the ones who aren't appreciated..yadda yadda." Sort of the same deal as the classic "I want a sensitive man who cries" and then the second you do she loses any semblance of respect for you as a person.)

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    She only wanted the ring bros

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  • But that's impossible because men bad and women perfect and always the victim.

  • State of Kdenlive

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  • It for sure does!

    • Guy who just "edited" his first video and still has no fucking clue how to use kdenlive yet.

    (I muted the audio and added a song track to a :42sec video of my cat lol)

  • Do you wash your hands after going pee?

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  • Don't waste water like that, just use the pee.

  • Do you wash your hands after going pee?

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  • Yeah, probably. Unless you're Howie Mandel or something, and honestly even then.

  • Do you wash your hands after going pee?

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  • At work my hands are dirtier than my dick, I have to wash them before I pee. Come to think of it my hands are probably always dirtier than my dick because despite my best efforts I still can't use it to open doors and not many people want to shake hands with it.

  • cetacean

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  • Yes, "go back the water!"

  • Litterbox.catbox.moe alternative?

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  • Oh lol ok good to know, thanks!

  • Litterbox.catbox.moe alternative?

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  • Lol well soulseek if anything, but I can't get them to disable wifi, and you think I can get them to download nic+, configure port forwarding, etc? Fat chance lol.

  • New 3D printing regulations: "Additive in America: Regulating 3D Printing" by 3D Printing Nerd

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  • I mean the idea "prevent people from 3D printing guns" is good.

    I mean nah, it's legal (in most states/US). Fuck a company deciding what I can and can't do with a product I own, my phone gonna start detecting pirated MP3s next? My Cannon gonna refuse to print porn pics? It's not their damn problem what people print and doubly so if it's legal.

  • New 3D printing regulations: "Additive in America: Regulating 3D Printing" by 3D Printing Nerd

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  • Tbf "mentally ill" means a lot more than "a danger to themselves or others." We already do block those who have proven themselves a danger (or we can if the cops do their goddamn jobs which is often the point of failure for cases like Cruz from Parkland), it's one of the rules we "don't" have that if you have been involuntarily committed or convicted of a particular crime(s) you're barred from ownership, but should we ban someone from a right simply for having ADHD, autism, bipolar, gender dysphoria, etc? All that'd do is discourage therapy and be discriminatory, and it's wrong.