PsychicPsquirrel

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[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Limiting the number of firearms won’t improve safety. The same people who currently own firearms will still own them. Just less of them. And they can only use one at a time when they go hunting or target shooting. So whether they have 5, 10, or whatever number in safe storage, they are all locked away where they can do no harm. Reducing the numbers is more about PR than improving safety.

I’m all for more detailed background checks and more frequent inspections. There needs to be a process to red flag firearm owners with mental health issues, or any sort of violent offence so that access to firearms can be taken away from them either temporarily or permanently. Making firearms harder to obtain and to keep in a way that doesn’t punish the majority that do the right thing will make a difference. Not a PR stunt like reducing numbers.

As to the limit of 5 firearms for hunters. I think that’s a little low. It might be just enough to have one hunting rifle in each calibre suitable for the range of animals being hunted. But a lightweight hunting rifle isn’t suitable for much practice at a rifle range. They can be punishing to shoot on a bench for practice. Target rifles are much heavier and more comfortable to shoot for longer when practicing, but that makes them too heavy to hunt with. Practice makes you more accurate, which means much less chance of wounding an animal. It might surprise people how important it is to hunters to be able to make a quick kill. Anyway, a limit of 5 for hunters will be too low for many.

These aren’t drivers licenses we’re talking about that are relatively easily to get, and where a mistake will get you a fine and the loss of some points. They take effort to get and keep, and the consequences of making even a minor mistake are much more serious. You might not understand why we own them, but we take safety and not breaking any laws way more seriously than the average driver.

Apologies if I rambled on a bit. Also, I’m not from WA, so these changes don’t affect me personally.

[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Borderlands 2 has a lot of replay potential without getting boring. It never plays the same way twice. The weapon drops are very different each time through. Don’t forget the DLC. The rest of the games in the series are fun too, but BL2 seems to be where it peaked for me.

[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Republican men can’t attract Republican women. So….

[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

That could be the one I was thinking of when I posted. I tried to find an image before posting because I was sure I’d seen a similar looking ship in Star Wars, but my image search skills are lacking.

[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

Or you could choose one with wings.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/461b576f-37a8-4f7f-a040-29f6ed891414.jpeg

This one does have beam forming antennas. I don’t know if that feature helped, but this router works in my long narrow apartment in a congested area where other routers failed.

[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

It’s the name of a fictional pub mentioned in a book called ‘The Ascent Of Rumdoodle’. It’s a sendup of early mountaineering expeditions.

It also has a very high rewatch value. Each time through you notice something you missed the previous times.

I find myself rewatching occasionally it when I introduce someone new to the series.

[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Weezer’s video for Pork and Beans is a great snapshot of viral videos around that time, including this one.

https://youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E

Same thing happened to me. The link didn’t appear on mobile. After a password reset on a desktop browser, the 2fa link appeared.

[–] PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Australia. Maybe not completely harmless, but far less dangerous than non-Australians make it out to be.

+1 for Metal Arms Glitch in the System. It had some great characters and gameplay. It’s a shame that they never competed the sequel.

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