Definitely thought the one on the right was wearing a plug, at first.
Oh dang, nice find. I wasn't even thinking about Reddit.
If this were implemented on Lemmy:
- Post disinfo
- Block all users that attempt to fact-check your post, preventing them from seeing any other posts you make
- Repeat steps 1 and 2 until banned
- Create new account and pre-populate your blocklist with previously blocked users
- Repeat steps 1-4 forever
.22lr is a common, low-powered round that can be lethal, but is not quickly or reliably so. For self defense, you want something that will incapacitate your assailant as quickly and reliably as possible. 9mm is usually considered the "sweet spot" for using a handgun to defend against human assailants.
It's bad when a gun doesn't fire when you pull the trigger, but it's FAR WORSE when a gun does fire when you don't pull the trigger. Taurus semi-automatic handguns sometimes fall into the latter category.
The worst I've heard about Hi-Point guns is that they're unergonomic. They're probably the "best of bad options", but I don't have any direct experience with them.
You're not entirely wrong, since in theory these guns can fire and can kill.
However, it should be noted that it's very dangerous to carry a gun that you can't or won't fire, for the purpose of brandishing it. If you encounter someone else that has a gun, brandishing a gun yourself is likely to prompt them to shoot you (and gives them legal cover), when they might not have otherwise done so.
I'm with you in sentiment, but is this advice based on experience, or conjecture?
If the former, can you elaborate on your experience with open carrying at protests?
The cat can have a little mouse pointer. As a treat.
I can't agree. It's the lower authorities submitting to the higher authority. That happens.
Nah. The US hasn't been able to force Russia to stop their invasion of Ukraine, nor stop them from playing fuck-fuck games all over the rest of the world. And China is almost certainly stronger than Russia is. They both joined the internet because they wanted to, not because they were forced.
A small group of authorities is close to one. In fact none are monolithic.
Oh, they'll just choose to cooperate and act like a single central authority? Without a preexisting central authority forcing them to? 🤔
Yep. They want to enjoy the benefits of the collaborative effort. They are capable of maintaining their own separate network, but instead they chose to connect and put a ton of resources into managing the internet activities of their citizens. Knowledge of how to bypass those restrictions is apparently pretty widespread though.
Interestingly, North Korea does maintain it's own separate, fake internet. They manually copy approved sites over from the real internet, and heavily monitor usage.
Ah, looks like it's some weirdness between lemmy and piefed. When viewing the post on lemmy, clicking the thumbnail shows the full-resolution image in the body, just scaled down by the browser. Clicking on that or doing right click->view image shows the original full-size image.
On piefed, there's an image preview in the body instead of a thumbnail, and a link to the full-resolution image. Clicking on the preview or doing view image normally shows the whole thing, but on this post it gets you this image, which is larger than the lemmy thumbnail but smaller than the full-resolution image.
You say that like we wouldn't see similar results if lemmy.world went down.
This community would still be up to meme about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Internet is not an example of anarchy, of course. It's nothing without its backbone cables built with participation of governments and enormous corporations and treated as strategic assets. It's no more anarchist than sea ports. There was a sprinkle of anarchy there in its transient years from an elitarian scientific thing to a common medium. That was not stable. Nothing anarchist can be stable in a system of dominating hierarchy.
I admit it was easy to buy into this fairy tale when I was a kid. In 2006 it seemed that the humanity is one step from becoming free and, well, humane.
You're missing the point of the example. I'm not pushing techno-libertarian utopianism here. I'm not even talking about what the internet does, I'm talking about what it is: A globe-spanning megaproject that connects (nearly?) every country, and is used by a full 2/3rds of existing humans. And it was made without a supreme central authority forcing everyone to cooperate in its creation and maintenance. ARPANET was created by the US, but no one forced the Russians or the Chinese to adopt the IP protocol on their computers and connect to their neighbors.
This is important because a super common anti-anarchist talking point is that people won't cooperate (at least not at scale) unless an overarching authority forces them to. The existence of the internet demolishes that argument. It would be fundamentally impossible if that talking point were true.
Well now I'm immensely curious about the specs of your machine. A circa-2011 smartphone has more pixels than that in both directions.
This is an "Am I the Asshole?" style community, though. When an asshole posts, you're not supposed to downvote them, because they're specifically being invited to post and receive criticism. Downvotes just bury their posts and defeat the purpose of the community.
I'm gonna go against the grain here and say that YDI retroactively for posting such a low-resolution screenshot. -_-
But also y'all, isn't it kinda weird to downvote YDI posts? It's not like they don't belong in this community.
The instance lemmy.dbzer0.com is dedicated to the interests of its admin, db0, who happens to be an anarchist. So it's not devoted to a particular ideology per se, but they're going to run it according to their values.
26-year-old Rhyker Earl killed by Indiana Sheriffs during medical call, please share as this story has not reached any major outlets yet
From r/acab:
FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
September 16, 2024
On September 8, 2024, 26-year-old Rhyker Earl experienced a medical emergency around 8:30 PM. He underwent a severe seizure at home in Demotte, Indiana. His grandmother called 911 for emergency assistance. EMTs from Keener Township Emergency Medical Services and officers from the Jasper County Sheriff's Office responded. While they were on scene, Rhyker was in a postictal state, trying to recover from his seizure. He was confused and agitated, typical symptoms for someone who had just suffered a severe seizure. As Rhyker was trying to put on shorts to go to the hospital for medical attention, he lost his balance and fell into an officer. At that time officers became aggressive, yelling, "you don't treat law enforcement that way." Officers took Rhyker to the ground and handcuffed him face down on the floor. Multiple officers then remained on top of Rhyker while EMTs administered three separate doses of sedatives. Some of the EMTs on scene had responded earlier in the day to a different location when Rhyker had another, less severe seizure. They knew he was undergoing a medical emergency, and they also knew he had asthma. Officers stayed on top of Rhyker for more than 15 minutes, with his face in a pillow. During this time, Rhyker begged for his life and screamed that he couldn't breathe. His pleas, and those of his aunt and grandmother, were ignored. After more than 15 minutes, Rhyker went limp. His aunt noticed that Rhyker was blue in the face and pleaded with EMTs to do something. After an agonizing few minutes, they finally took Rhyker's pulse and realized he was not breathing. Rhyker was taken to the hospital, but it was too late. After tests confirmed Rhyker had no brain activity, life support measures were terminated on September 10th.
National civil rights attorney Ben Crump, along with Indiana attorney Stephen Wagner, have been retained by Rhyker's family to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. At this early stage there are still many unanswered questions. Why was Rhyker treated like a criminal, not a patient? Why did officers ignore the obvious risks of prone restraint? Why did they ignore his pleas that he could not breathe? The family's attorneys intend to fully investigate this matter and hold all those responsible for Rhyker's needless death accountable.
During this difficult time, Rhyker's family would like to thank all those who have expressed their condolences on the tragic loss of a young father who was loved by many, especially those who attended the candlelight vigil for Rhyker last evening.
Until their investigation is complete, the family and their attorneys will have no further comment.
Stephen M. Wagner WAGNER REESE, LLP 11939 North Meridian Street Carmel, IN 46032 Email: SWagner@WagnerReese.com Mobile: (317) 431-6966 One of the Attorneys for the Family of Rhyker Brian Earl
The Alt-Right Playbook: The Cost of Doing Business
I've been slowly working my way through the "The Alt-Right Playbook" series since one of the videos was posted here a while back. I thought this one was particularly good and worth sharing.