No… That’s spyware with less steps… Theres no cracking, hacking, Trojans etc. involved at all, it’s a direct and straightforward addition of the spyware under color of the states authority.

My father wasnt a great role model, so I got to see that movie on the big screen as a little kid.

The dog shit joint was one of the few parts I really comprehended completely, and the direct line to the sewer immediately made me think of it :)

Direct vent to sewer gasses…

“It’s mostly Maui Waui, but it’s got some Labrador in it”

Gotta be a couple folks in here old enough to catch that one, right? ;)

Socialism is left/liberal as a concept (and so is capitalism, in actual fact)… It’s not left/liberal when implemented at scale…

The arbiter of resources, whatever or whoever that may be, invariably becomes right/authoritarian. The simple nature of the arbitration causes it, and a truly left/liberal society would, by necessity, require a lack of said arbitration.

Such a society cannot exist at scale. History has proven that repeatedly. A left/liberal society could arguably only exist as anarchy, and frankly, capitalism is far closer to that than communism is. The “every man for himself” nature of capitalism is inherently more capable of providing individual liberty and equal opportunity than the “to each according to his needs”, very simply because of the inherent requirement of having an entity judge that need… Said judging entity is inherently authoritarian in nature…

Agree completely. Old school calculator is wrong, but why? Pemdas wasn’t really big in school curriculums until around the turn of the century, but the order of operations existed at the previous turn of the century, and should operate correctly on every digital calculator ever made…

It looks like either pushing in on the center section, or possibly rotating the center section, but there’s no practical means for either…

It looks like there’s the possibility of putting a small wire into the smaller hole on top of the barrel that forces the cam lobe looking deal inward to pull the sear out. I’m thinking that’s probably the most likely. Basically ends up being a small button above the barrel and pushing the button will fire it (or given the shape, pushing the whole thing against something would be more likely).

It also looks like a quarter turn of the upper section in relation to the bottom could possibly disable/enable it. I think that’s the purpose of that lobed section…

And they’re gonna go away because some wingnut convinced a bunch of people that their fins cause boners.

The reality of the conversation is actually worse than the headline… their whole point was that feminism is trying to do away with masculinity and ultimately the concept of family and evolve humanity into something else (with “part machine” being a weird spit balling attempt at not actually saying that all humans should become female, basically, because between them they had the one brain cell required to understand why that’s an absurd notion)

Stupid title is clickbait/propagandized, for no apparent reason… you don’t gotta church up the stupidity on that conversation at all…

Anyone else’s back yard ;)

Ya know… that’s not a bad point actually :)

Ill ponder that one. Definitely going to alter my perspective on Ukraine a little, but I’m not entirely sure how just off the cuff.

Yes… but I’m probably not going to last long, as there’s already a pretty huge bias here…

I have not received a wonderful welcome here with my lack of political affiliation, and your comment speaks directly to it.

I’m much less inclined to forums with a Republican bias though, so I’m here, and hopeful. If you want the wishy washy motherfuckers that flip flop their votes and basically decide elections these days to hear your side and not theirs, maybe you could be slightly less intolerant…

I don’t believe this is going to be the case currently… the trend towards conservative was a fiscal phenomenon, as young kids who didn’t have a lot of money and wanted a welfare state grew up and became financially independent, they wanted to keep what they were working to get. This would cause a self centric migration from trending democrat to trending republican.

That isn’t how the partisan tribes currently work… They’ve become more of a “morality” enterprise, on both sides.

The choice is now if you think it’s appropriate to ban huck finn and Tom Sawyer for the n word, or ban homosexual references. It’s a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.

I don’t think people will evolve from one side to the other the way boomers did. I think they’re evolving farther from center, on both sides.

I don’t like book bans period. I don’t like the budget growing exponentially period. I don’t like that 99% of the population increasingly wants the other half to be completely discounted… I’m essentially evolving towards not liking anybody at all.

I don’t think “liberals” are going to become more “conservative” as they age, because that scale is divorced from party politics. Liberal is no longer a democrat trait, and conservative isn’t purely republican. Both have adopted the entire con/lib scale in their own way. Democrats have conservative values, republicans have liberal values (the latter to a far greater degree, but I don’t think it matters tbh). Just depends on what issue you’re talking about.