Contrary to what many people may believe, while I’m sure the government has an idea of who has guns and who doesn’t, I doubt that idea accurately reflects reality. There are lots of ways in the US to get or make a gun that don’t involve anything beyond cash changing hands.

It’s only a matter of time.

Sounds like a fine way to end up eating a buckshot sandwich, but I’m not one to interrupt my enemy while they’re making a mistake.

it’s just the usual “hurr durr anything smaller than .45 is for girls” bullshit. Usually espoused by the sort of ancient old farts who remember carrying one in WWII, Korea, or Vietnam; and who dislike the general shift to smaller bullets going faster because they don’t understand terminal ballistics.

Precisely what I mean. If it were a high enough dose to notice, we’d all be tripping balls. If it weren’t, I would assume everyone to just be mildly more pleasant. And uh… that is absolutely not what is happening. Nobody in the news is pleasant right now. At all. I’m certainly not having a great time, are you?

I’m like 50% certain (as someone who has not partaken in the substances which I’m about to talk out my ass regarding) that OOP must’ve simply meant something less… kosher, shall we say – PCP? Bath salts? Cocaine? Some other drug that would actually account for the insanity? As far as I know LSD is a vastly more pleasant experience than whatever the fuck is going on in the world right now, unless you’re taking really massive doses, in which case… I think things would be arguably less coherent, though you’ve absolutely got me stumped as to how the current news cycle could be more insane than it already is.

Like, I know MKULTRA isn’t that obscure, but I also think it’s possible they just don’t know their drugs.

the tl;dr I got from this: he’s extra fucked in the long term (aka: anything beyond midterms and especially after january 19th 2028, not that I think he’ll even live that long) but he can still screw us all very hard in the short term (anything from now til midterms), even if we completely dispense with the possibility of martial law and the attempted meddling in/cancellation of elections around midterms or in 2028 (which is not a bet I’d make).

To the shock and surprise of absolutely, positively, not one single human being with a brain.

I’d like to think I’d notice if the world suddenly went all kaleidoscope on me, actually.

I’ll never get over how some people whiteknight for soulless corporations that not only don’t give a fuck about them but actively hold them in contempt, yes, the internet is a silly place.

no, you don’t understand, as Take Two and R* quite happily also take down free mods.

for the umpteenth time, quit making mods for games that are developed by asshats. Take Two/R* very clearly don’t want a healthy community surrounding and supporting their games as evidenced by virtually every decision they make regarding community modding efforts, stop trying to give them one; spend your time making mods for better games. Or better still, go from modding games to creating them and you could develop your vision without the constraints of someone else’s IP. But for the love of fuck stop giving time and effort to these people who will deliberately squander it.

Yo dawg…

No no, you’ll need slugs if you want to hole-punch any body armor.

Not that I would know what you aim on using your wireless hole-punch for.

Mental acrobatics. Mental Cirque du Soleil, if you will.

If you have a swiss army knife with one, use the awl to punch a new hole in the belt. Worked great for me.

Well, if you have an awl handy you could always just make new notches. That’s what I did when I had a belt that didn’t have a hole at the right spacing for me.

Counter-counterpoint: if you, on the other hand, wrap your lips around the spigot while drinking – you have exactly ten seconds to get the fuck out of my sight you absolute gremlin.

the best part is, some of us drivers have largely already figured out they do this and have to pay for a second app, Maxymo, to automatically do math and see if a ride is worth a certain $/hr, and accept/decline based on this.

Every now and then, Lyft will try to goad me into accepting offers that would pay, over time, about half as much as what I normally get (Uber, unsurprisingly, always offers me less, so I don’t drive for them), and I can’t focus on driving and do mental math at the same time. This wouldn’t be necessary if they just paid fixed rates based on distance and demand, or gave drivers control over what they want to charge for a ride like an actual contractor, but that doesn’t make shareholders happy.

edit: on a saturday night, the second I go online, Lyft just took me for a $20 ride into the middle of the city (where I thought I was gonna get good rides thereafter) only to immediately sit and think about life for 30 minutes. Tons of pickups happened around me, with zero rides being assigned to me, before I just decided to go back home.

And Lyft is the better of the two rideshare platforms for this.

JUST DIE ALREADY GOD DAMNIT.