@torparskytt nice!
@freemo Suppressors are like the one firearms related thing that’s less regulated in most of Europe compared to the USA. I love shooting my .22LR pistol suppressed, you almost only hear the action working and a little “puff”. For my long range bolt gun I prefer a muzzle brake (and double hearing protection) to minimize recoil.
@skyblond that would be just as bad for me... I would likely silence them if I could get the members of the servers to agree... mass spamming is just not something I'd be ok with.
Honestly while there are plenty reasons to be concerned with what #Threads might do the biggest immediate concern for me personally is just if they are going to spam ads at me by having bot accounts that push spam to me in my mentions.... that would be a nightmare!
@Pat im sure, yea, hard to relate to
@Pat Since I never lost my sight I obviously cant comment. I just cant imagine it feeling satisfying in anyway, I dunno. To me the fun of firing a gun is int he skill of being able to aim, its hard for me to see how that is enjoyable... but like i said if a blind person is having fun doing it they will have nothing but encouragement from me as long as they stay safe.
While I dont expect you to beleive me, I think the difference may be something you never expected.
I've mentioned a few times on my feed that my family has a personal relationship with both Biden and Trump, both of whom have eaten dinner at and spent time at my parent's home. Seeing how extremely brain dead Trump was, and seeing the GOP ultimately vote and swoon around him, was a pretty damning moment in my eyes. At least from afar you can have some delusion of him being a mastermind in disguise. Likewise Biden was pretty intolerable too.
@Pat I cant imagine that is a normal thing... like im glad he is having fun, so go for it... but there has got to be all of like 2 people who do that right?
@Pat That is a joke right?
@Pantangelini Ahh a fellow philly native born.. I am in philly right now and was here when the mostly-democrat lead riots were going down... So i can see where you get the violent comments from, and it isnt wrong.
While we might not agree about republicans we do generally agree about the intolerable nature of many democrats.
@Pat I actually want someone to do a comedy skit where a blind man tries to buy a gun.
Its the exact same sort of criticism I get from democrats... but yea, I take no offense to it. But the predictable sort of responses that reflect similar pattern from democrats who are similarly "shocked" and argue much as you do in the opposite has only served to reinforce my stance.
For the record I grew up in a almost exclusively republican family. I have had far more exposure to republicans than democrats in that sense.
@Pantangelini when we talk about the 52 gender crowd on that we agree.
Thankfully there are some more moderate people who see gender as generally a binary spectrum (with a non-binary middle perhaps) rather than 52 genders, but at least recognize that ones linguistic gender does not need to correlate to their sex and that biological gender is a different concept... for those more moderate democrats they are right, compared to the complete ignorance of the republicans on that topic.
No I pointed out them and the repulicans are pretty idiotic about everything, and yes as I said their 52 genders thing is kinda silly cause its pointless as you state... but it still represents a better understanding of linguistic gender thant he republicans who are under some delusion it is identical to biological gender.
And to be clear, remember, as I pointed out the democrats arent **informed** about linguistic gender, neither them nor the republicans are informed about anything... its just one of the things they are kinda neutral on and have a better understanding about that republicans.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
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My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
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Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
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