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HelixDab2

@ HelixDab2 @lemm.ee

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  • Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

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  • Yes. Trump is not actually friendly to gun rights.

    If he was, he'd be pushing to get the Hearing Protection Act (HR 404) and the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (HR 2395) out of committee and to the floor for a vote.

    Biden wasn't friendly to gun rights either. I don't think most politicians are friendly to gun rights, since if they actually managed to expand them to what they should be, they wouldn't have any major issue remaining to campaign on.

  • Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

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  • But it doesn't.

    An automatic firearm shoots multiple bullets each time you pull the trigger, until you release the trigger; the trigger does not reset.

    With most semi-automatic guns, you have a light spring that resets the trigger once you release your finger. A forced reset trigger (FRT) forces the trigger to reset. The FRT pushes the trigger forward, even if you're trying to keep the trigger pulled back. If you keep tension on your finger, as soon as it's reset, you're pulling it again. So, legally, you are pulling the trigger multiple times, because the trigger is resetting each time a bullet is fired.

    Based on the way that a machine gun is defined in the National Firearms Act of 1934, an FRT is not a machine gun. The ATF can't re-write the law to say what they want it to say; that requires an act on congress.

    The is compounded by the fact that Rare Breed ran the idea by the ATF before they went into production, and they have/had a memorandum from the ATF saying that an FRT was not a machine gun, and not subject to the NFA. After they had approved it, and *after Rare Breed had produced and sold a few hundred/thousand, the ATF raided Rare Breed, and also showed up at customer's homes demanding items that the customers had legally purchased (e.g., unreasonable search and seizure, a 4A violation).

    Machine guns have been illegal in the United States since 1986, a notion that even gun rights groups have come to accept.

    This is... Not true. The Firearm Owners Protection Act--among other things--made it illegal to transfer automatic firearms manufactured after '86 (i.e., "post ban") to non-police/military people. Machine guns produced prior to '86 that were already in the hands of non-police/military people can still legally be own and bought/sold. A pre-ban select-fire AR-15 will run about $30k+ these days.

    Secondly, there are a number of groups and people still actively fighting to overturn the NFA as being a violation of 1A. There was a case out of the 5th circuit (?) not that long ago that points out the circular logic of the gov't in re: machine guns. E.g., per Heller, guns in common use can't be banned, and machine guns aren't in common use, so they can be banned. But they aren't in common use because they were largely banned by the gov't. The gov't created the condition of them not being in common use by banning them, and then used the lack of common use--due to the ban--as justification for the legality of the ban.

  • Which patreons do you support financially?

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  • InRangeTV and A Better Way 2A.

    I've met other supporters of both groups, and they've all been pretty cool people.

    I'm strongly considering supporting Galen Druke's GD Politics now that FiveThirtyEight has been shuttered.

  • What are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?

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  • Hmmmm.

    So what does it mean if I enjoy practicing hojojutsu on my consensually non-consenting partner...?

  • What feels illegal but isn't?

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  • Even better: you have a specific legal right to resist police attempting to illegally enter your home. :D IIRC, the law was passed after the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that under then state law you had no right to resist even blatantly illegal actions by police.

  • What feels illegal but isn't?

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  • I believe that most other countries call them provinces rather than states. But yes, if you live in a country that has a normal police force, and you don't have to worry about out-of-uniform cops using no-knock warrants to kick your front door in, then this is definitely not going to apply to you.

  • What feels illegal but isn't?

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  • No, castle doctrine exists in all states. You do not have a duty to retreat when it's inside your own home in almost all cases.

  • What feels illegal but isn't?

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  • Shooting plainclothes cops that execute a no-knock warrant on your home.

    Seriously.

    All states--ALL states--have a castle doctrine that allows you to use lethal defense to protect yourself inside your home. A no-knock warrant being executed by cops out of uniform means that you have a reasonable belief that your home is being invaded, and that your life is at immediate risk. Now, admittedly, you probably aren't going to survive that exchange of gunfire. But the state is going to have a really hard time charging you with shooting at/killing a cop if you do.

  • What feels illegal but isn't?

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  • Samsung and Roku are bad for this.

    You're buying the hardware; they provide the software as a service. Oh, sure, no agreeing to a unilateral change of conditions on the software means that your hardware is rendered worthless, but still... And yeah, that's pretty much the way that actually works.

    IP law can start getting pretty strange.

  • What’s a thing you miss that you’re 90% sure was objectively awful?

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  • Ha. Very true. The people that were clued in knew you couldn't trust the gov't, but the lack of easy information meant most people had no idea.

  • Those ears

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  • Oriental shorthair. They sound very unusual too.

  • I cheated. Wife forgave me. How to reearn trust?

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  • You will get to a more profound and authentic understanding of yourself and of steps you can take to be the better person you want to become.

    Simply understanding does not mean that you automatically change. Perhaps you have an anger problem because your father was a shitty person that lashed out every time something went wrong, and you unintentionally modeled his behavior. Great, now you know why you have explosive anger, but now you've also got 30-odd years of shitty habits to unlearn.

    Understanding is only the first step, not the end.

  • Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20k

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  • Unfortunately most commercial farms aren't putting in what they're taking out, even with the industrial fertilizers. Most of the industrial fertilizers are just nitrogen, potassium, and phosphates, often as a liquid. You are absolutely right that you can't take and never return; that's why in pre-industrial revolution times, people would rotate fields between crops, and lying fallow/being used for grazing (where sheep, cattle, etc. were leaving free fertilizer) You also ended up with fewer years where all your crops got wiped out by a single pest, because you weren't farming just one thing. Efficiency in farming--esp. monoculture--is great for profits, not so great for the land itself.

    Good news is that good water treatment plants will pull phosphate out of the waste water.

    Eh. High levels of phosphates end up running off fields into waterways, and then you get things like algae blooms. Waste water treatment plants will clean up runoff that goes into the sewers and storm drains, but it's not really cleaning up entire rivers. IIRC, that used to be a much more significant problem; I remember water in rivers near where I grew up--which was all surrounded by farms--often had white, sludgy scum anywhere that the current was forming eddies. If I remember correctly the high levels of that white shit was due to worse regulations governing agricultural run-off.

  • No issues here

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  • Under that criteria, there are a grand total of zero areas that can accommodate them. Same goes for dogs.

    But that's a stupid criteria, because cats are tamed, and thrive indoors.

    Hope that helps.

  • No issues here

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  • If someone intentionally caused harm to any of my cats, I live near a large national forest, and once you get a few hundred yards off a trail, no one is going to find a body.

  • No issues here

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  • Who tf gets a pet cat and doesn’t let it outside?

    People that love their cats and don't want them to die young. Outdoor cats live an average of 2-5 years, indoor-only cats live an average of 10-15 years. By allowing cats outside, they're exposed to pathogens, parasites, and dangers that they wouldn't otherwise experience. In my area, there are coyotes, bobcats, rattlesnakes, hawks, and owls, all of which will quite happily make a meal of a cat. There are also cars; they don't tend to be able to stop on a dime.

  • Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20k

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  • Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20k

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  • Use some Rokset on all your fasteners; the only way to break the threadlocker is with heat, and heat would also destroy the bodywork. So you could still replace damaged panels, but you couldn't steal them.

  • What are your favorite unconventional decor items?

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  • I used to have a fairly large collection of skulls that I'd found while walking around in the woods.

    Not sure what ever happened to them... Probably lost them in one of my many moves.