"A man walks into a bar.

It hurt."

Gas stations also have sidewalks near them, most people have legs, and carrying an empty gas can gives you plausible deniability if questioned

I’d bring a good center punch to “play” with every nozzle at the pumps.

yes I’m aware we are not the literal greatest country on earth (despite frequent claims to the contrary) and are in fact far from it, I’ve had many frequent reminders and am aware, vaguely, of how other countries do things better than we do. But by all means don’t miss the chance to remind the ones in the back who don’t know this, though I struggle to think of how many of those people would be on Lemmy.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but “donald trump cannot [xyz] because [abc]” is not a phrase that has meaning anymore in this country, as far as I’m concerned. It’s worth less than “liberty and justice for all”, and those words are cheap here, nowadays.

Literally how many times does this have to play out before people recognize the pattern? I have lost fucking count.

>talking heads on TV: “donald trump cannot do the thing because it would not be allowed”

>donald trump: does the thing anyways

>everyone: surprised pikachu.jpg

Not to mention, trying to think like Donald Trump, I can think of several actual tangible “advantages” trying to do exactly this would confer: 1. He could recruit the freshly pardoned racist murderer into his personal goon squad of racist murderers, ICE. 2. It would cause needless pain and suffering to the family of Massey, and the cruelty is the point. 3. It would invoke a media shitstorm on the left, while the right would paint it as “owning the libs” and “supporting our brave officers”, the usual horseshit. And finally, it would be further unlawfully expanding the power of the executive branch, something he has been doing literally all year.

If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear how.

how much you want to bet he gets pardoned by the pedo cheeto before serving the lions share of that sentence?

I’m in Pennsylvania and I couldn’t agree more. Do not come here – not just because the personal risk to a foreigner is incredibly high right now, but also because tourism is money and money is the only language these shitstains in office speak.

Careful, if the Republicans get wind of this they’ll start calling snails a woke, radical trans plot.

Let’s see, I’ll be twenty nine in April, so… Tried for about ten years? 19 would’ve been about when I started feeling like I had my shit together enough that someone else might be interested. You know, the usual delusions of adequacy one has before life comes out of nowhere to suckerpunch you in the dick.

A decade of trying has gotten me one single “relationship” that was someone leading me on for a few months out of… Boredom, I guess? They wound up dumping me via text on Christmas morning, saying they didn’t actually feel anything for me, and pretty much everyone before or since has used me for what feels like entertainment. Turns out I’m interesting enough to be amusing for a week or two, sometimes a bit longer, but not enough to be actually wanted.

There’s one guy that was interested in me as their therapist and then wasn’t interested at all when he got on antidepressants, another that was intensely charming for weeks and then flipped off like a switch, and more I could remember and list off if I felt they were worth remembering, but they really aren’t.

I’ve just sort of accepted that not everyone gets to do everything they want in life. I’m either just not attractive, or I’m only attractive in the same way badly made gimmick Christmas toys are attractive to children; they look fun to play with for a bit, but not engaging in the long term and easily broken.

Good luck, people suck.

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.

I’ve found having a cotton t-shirt as a base to actually help when wearing layers, as the cotton wicks away any sweat from my skin and keeps me feeling generally drier and therefor warmer (and I don’t sweat enough to completely soak the shirt, YMMV if you sweat a lot). Also helps if you find wool or other outer layers itchy. You’re right to not wear additional layers of cotton fabric, though.

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.

LLMs: flawed tools with potential but unfortunately vastly overhyped confidence in their abilities.

Audiovisual AI – deepfakes, AI generated art and music, AI facial and whole-body recognition, etc: no. Just no. Nothing good has, will, or can come of this, I’m quite certain.

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.