ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
22hr ago
They're near impossible to actually outlaw (harder than guns, certainly) since a drone is basically just 4 electric motors, a frame (which can be 3d printed, or made from gluing popsicle sticks together, etc.), a battery, and a control board (a cheap Arduino or other microcontroller etc.).
https://www.instructables.com/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Building-a-Quadcopter-From-S/
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
He argues that pistols are a bigger source of gun violence
This has been known for as long as stats on weapons used in murders has been tracked. The Brady Campaign was originally called the National Council to Control Handguns (founded in 1974). One of the main reasons Democrats have shied away from trying to pass gun control bills that specifically target handguns is because it turns out it is incredibly electorally unpopular. The average retard voter can understand the connection between a handgun and self defense intuitively in a way that isn't as obvious for scary black AR-15s.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Leaks are not necessarily true (see #2), and dedicated actors see to it that false leaks are common enough to shield real ones.
One of my favorite episodes of the X-Files was one where Mulder got mind-swapped with a guy whose entire job was creating fake conspiracies, selectively leaking to the press, etc. all to distract from the real secret stuff that the feds were doing.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
FWIW I've heard black women called "sheboons" on 4chan for years now and my dumb brain didn't piece together thst it was derived from baboon until reading your post.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
I used to get tons of text messages about Kamala Harris' purported sexual conquests with a "you go girl don't let the republicans keep you down" vibe.
I'm glad I don't have to constantly hear about Willie Brown's willy anymore.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
They would never do that, it'd be completely counter to their ideological vector
You would be wrong then: https://i.redd.it/q66buh21tlyg1.png
Doesn't want women in a war game != Gets angry at any game that isn't 100% white men.
Similarly I'd bet good money that the chuds in that Steam group wouldn't like it if most of the characters in recent indie hit game Dressmaker were male.
And they'd be some of the first to complain if Capcom decided to do a remake of Resident Evil 5 and made Sheva (a black woman) ugly and/or made all of the zombies white (the game takes place in Africa). They likely would have made a similar stink if the Resident Evil 4 remake had made the rural Spaniard villager zombies into a racially diverse group of zombies (they already complained about them changing some of the lines, like Luis's line about Ashley's "ballistics").
There's some actual nuance and reasoning behind chud opposition to this stuff, not just kneejerk "anything not white or not male bad". I'm sure you could find a very small number of chuds that outright hate anything not white and male motivated by pure racism and sexism, but they are few and far between.
Simplistic dismissals like yours basically just come across as the whole "leftist discourse is pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible" meme.
If we're going to argue about bad faith then the chuds on xitter who are angry that a game isn't 100% white males by volume are just as guilty.
I think you'll be hard-pressed to find any number of chuds arguing for that
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
There is a huge gap in writing skills and other signifiers of ability of 4-year grads, even for humanities degrees, vs high school grads.
This gap has been rapidly closing in the last two decades thanks to lowering standards at universities. Frankly the only reason the gap hasn't disappeared completely is because of similarly lowering standards at high schools.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
Oh it's funny, and it's sending me to the funny farm thinking about it
I think having any sort of "credentials" about comedy should be counted as severe negative points of credibility for any judgements made about comedy. Taking comedy seriously enough to get a degree in it utterly defeats the purpose. Also the fact that such a degree exists in the first place and that my tax dollars likely funded the program and likely subsidized the girl's loans to pay for it too makes me want to burn everything down.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
It was a mass email (sent to about 400 ARPANET users) advertising some computers from DEC: https://abusix.com/blog/the-birth-of-email-spam-gary-thuerks-1978-green-card-incident/
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
On the other hand, the first ever spam campaign happened in the 70's on ARPANET
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
Prior to the civil rights era new understanding of the first amendment and freedom of speech, when a foreigner was found agitating on behalf of another country (who wasn't a diplomat of some sort), deportation was the least extreme form of punishment.
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
SCUD Manifesto
Saddam Hussein's inspiration!
For those unfamiliar with Solanas, it's the SCUM Manifesto, with SCUM standing for "Society for Cutting Up Men".
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
Even though neither of us think it was rape, my wife and I have been quoting the Norm MacDonald meme at each other for a week: "Now this may strike some viewers as harsh, but I think everyone involved in this story should die".
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
Oh I know, it's just another funny USAID conspiracy theory
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
Also allegedly why Nike (and hoodwear generally) is in decline
At least for the "killed people in Africa" claim, the numbers most cited about how many people cutting it would kill were beyond bogus to the point of what I would consider blatant academic malpractice: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-4eQZdxlPCU
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
I mean, it's marginally better that the Talmudic POV that Jesus is suffering in hell by being boiled in feces.
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
The apocrypha are probably another matter. They get wild.
FWIW the Apocrypha usually refers to a specific set of Old Testament books that are accepted by the Catholics as canon but rejected by most Protestants. Books like the Gospel of Thomas etc. tend to be called "Pseudepigrapha".
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
The bigger deal would be Matthew (of Matthew Mark Luke and John fame) being a tax collector for the Romans. But modern society usually doesn't quite comprehend why that was such a big deal in Christ's time.
I've been politically homeless for years, you get used to it. I've been an open source freetard for a long time, while also being rabidly anti-communist. And while I am not anti-AI, I do believe the tech is overhyped. And my overall political worldview is decently chuddy, but I'm not anti-Israel, which has led to plenty of awkward assumptions and interactions.
Most people don't neatly fit into one political camp or another. Find the one that fits you best, and then try to be a voice of reason within it (without being a saboteur or infiltrator or spoiler to the overall goals of whatever movement(s) you join).
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
No, I simply see it as the latest thing in a series of shifts in the tech world
Sure, in the same way that most people aren't going to use electrochemical machining to rifle their own barrels, but the option is still there and makes truly outlawing them impossible.
I'm just saying that building a drone from off the shelf parts is quite a bit easier than making your own gun, even with the massive advances that the DIY gun community has made in recent years.
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