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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

'30 years ago fat kids didn't exist'. The Goonies came out 40 years ago.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

I was -on- Ritalin in 1994, in school.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

Ah, that wonderful time of year when it doesn't matter what the weather's doing, we *will* have fog every early morning because the corn says so.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 04:16 UTC

Seems like a good way to be charged with theft. Cops are petty motherfuckers, and will make you pay for making them do work.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:38 UTC

Also removed the restrictions keeping under 16's out of working hazardous machinery or in unsafe environments like freezers and meat coolers.

www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/p...

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:35 UTC

That's the point of this legislation. Kim Reynolds' GOP shitfest pushed a bunch of labor laws that outright violate federal standards. Extended daily max hours for 14-15yo kids to 6 per day, to 9pm on school days or 11pm in summer, no restriction for 16 and up. Let kids serve alcohol at 16, too.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:30 UTC

Yep.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

Pfft, not this year. My local Dems didn't even have their oh-so-important early caucus because they didn't want anyone other than Biden seeing support, converting into a mail-in primary set months later.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:27 UTC

How's that hard work turning out for you, since the DNC has spent the last decade making sure there isn't a bench of potential candidates to make their bad choices seem more palatable?

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 04:11 UTC

He pulled 13 million votes in the 2016 primaries vs 16 million for Clinton, who went on to lose to Trump.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

Clinton's campaign might have worked in 2008. But ignoring the changes in the voterbase since and assuming being the 'adults in the room' would carry the day cost them.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:47 UTC

Yeah. That sort of background, and a candidate who was much more of a policy writer than campaigner suppressed turnout. The Dem leadership not acting to try and turn the groundswell behind Sanders into turnout, but trying to peel off 'centrist' Repubs instead hurt them as well.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

Worth reading the article, the screenshotted click bait tite is built to cause outrage. To quote it: "So I think musicians should be thinking more about feel, dynamics and emotion, if you’re thinking about anything at all." It's a pretty milquetoast 'speed isn't everything' opinion.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

That's exactly who Kravitz is talking about. Actual article here:

guitar.com/news/music-n...

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

I just refuse to engage those people. I am unlikely to find common ground with someone in a fury because I'm not getting out the pitchforks and torches fast enough, and arguing with them is just exhausting.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:55 UTC

Operating on that Megatokyo pace, is it?

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:28 UTC

As above, even if his response is a categorical denial, he is best served to talk with his lawyer first about defamation prior to responding.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

1. Because wise people don't make rash responses to serious allegations or bother to take crackpots seriously. 2. Because the state of modern journalism is terrible, and everyone wants click bait.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:17 UTC

But they can 'always tell'! Some people are just a waste of perfectly good carbon atoms.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

www.them.us/story/indya-....

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Especially the TERF crowd involved with this podcast. They are absolutely notorious for making shit up out of whole cloth, or based on a misattributed partial quote if it suits their narrative.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

The source is not reliable either. BoJo's sister, with arch-TERF Bindel involved, making noise about this out of the blue on the heels of announcing the casting for Wanda, a transfemme character in the Sandman adaption? Doesn't take much to think a four hour speculative podcast has an angle.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:33 UTC

Yeah, I played through the whole thing when Shadowbringers came out and it was good but I absolutely ran out of steam at the post story stuff.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

Amusingly this is why I still haven't done the Endwalkers MSQ. The sheer amount of cutscenes/dialogue and running between them in the transition from Shadowbringers is just draining so I keep finding better things to do.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

Yeah, it's something I run into as I read history. Modern research is better about being upfront with 'gender roles in this period do not conform to modern expectations', but you get Victorians writing about ancient gender roles as seen through their own which are very different from the modern.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

Hard to argue with the chaos god/dess of sex, drugs, and rock & roll.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:47 UTC

You really have no idea how bump firing works, do you. If you held down the trigger it would refuse to cycle. The whole point of them is providing an index point built into the stock that the shooter rests their finger on to reliably catch the trigger as the gun returns to battery.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:43 UTC

Yeah, it's not the original, IIRC it's a cheeky response to the ruling where a gunsmith made and tax-stamped on as a machine gun. Hence the attached serial number plate, since NFA controlled items have to be serialized.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

See attached BATFE letters on this with their reasoning.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

(A thing which the BATFE has also previously administratively ruled to be a machine gun.)

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

Physically pulling the trigger *very quickly*, while producing a similar effect, is still operating a semi-automatic weapon as a semi-automatic. This is the important difference between a bump stock and a shoelace tied to an M1 Garand such that it pulls the trigger every time the gun cycles.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

Common sense would in this case be factually incorrect. The legal definition of a machine gun is 'Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger'

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 10:39 UTC

Yep. That was a pretty clear cut one. Congress defined a machine gun in plain language, and bump stocks don't fit the definition. Doesn't mean they're good, or useful, but that the law as written doesn't cover them.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 10:27 UTC

Sorry, the right loves how they support the christofascist agenda, and the notional left is terrified of progressives and busy triangulating to the center to try to peel of voters comfortable with supporting christofascists.

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 10:21 UTC

How many fingers did this 'expert' have left?

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Winter (Summer Edition) @wintersky.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

Reading is not the Way. Monk DPS was always a rhythm game to me, build the muscle memory so you can hit everything in order on cool down, and move enough not to stand in the paint.

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