Notices by 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 8

@bibliolater We would need to look into it. Not sure off hand.

@bibliolater So they basically arent getting deleted after 2 weeks?

@bibliolater

Not familiar with that feature, whats it do?

A video of my "new" pocket watch from 1902 ticking away.

@soulexpress

Not in the least no.. but I do expect 2,024 to be over with and im happy for that much.

just a fewe more days until 2,025.. im ready to be done with 2,024

@NanoRaptor

A poll where everyone is wrong.. thats my favorite kind of poll!

@m @anubis2814 @obtener

> But this is another, often willing, misconception the gun-people (for lack of better word) toss around. -“They want to take your guns away!” or -“They really hate guns and doesn’t understand criminals will have them anyways!” . Neither is correct.

Huh, when did I claim anyone wanted to take my guns away? I am talking about easy access to guns, no one said anything about taking them away. When your life is threatened people want to ensure they have access to guns and that someone isnt going to get in the way of that. When my life was threatened I needed a gun **now**, that means no chance a background check can find an idiotic reasont o stop me or waiting periods or any other barriers in the way, my life is in danger now, and if yours was you wouldnt want barriers either.

Already currently in the USA simply having an outstanding parking ticket is enough to prevent you from passing background check. How are the already stringent rules where a parking ticket from yesterday in any way reasonably should prevent me from owning a gun? The issue we have is that gun restrictions are rarely if ever sane and the ones that have already been passed have already shown how harmful and nonsensical they can be. In NJ just having an adjustable backstop (the piece that rests against your shoulder) is illegal. In fact most restrictions we have make guns more dangerous, THATS the problem.

> I’m not “anti-guns” (and you’d laugh at saying that if you knew where I was working). I’m anti-no background checks or sanity checks or criminal records checks.

In the overwhelming majority of situations int he USA we already have background checks. Yes there are a few rarely used loopholes like gun shows that represent a very small portion of the problem. As it stands right now almost everyone getting a gun is already background checked.

> I’m not saying “take the guns”. I’m not saying “no one can have guns” or “guns don’t have valid uses”.

No one in this conversation even hinted at the fact that you or anyone was saying take the guns. Sure that is a long-term concern, and a valid one, but not at all the immediate issue being discussed. As for valid issues, sure, again no one is saying legitimate concerns cant be addressed, but we already saw what happens when the people who want to control guns are allowed to.. they make them more dangerous for everyone and put lives at risk. So if you want to propose gun problems you need to understand the concerns on both sides, something virtually no one (or the proposals) do.

> Most of my friends have guns. Most have hunting rifles and shotguns.

We are talking about guns for protection here, largely hand guns.. not rifles. A rifle doesnt help you when someone is trying to kill you most of the time unless maybe in your home, but even then they arent well suited.

> We (Sweden) however have rigorous laws for who gets to have a gun license, which includes actual tests, and which has to be renewed, and for how guns can be carried and stored, but being surrounded by rural lands/farm lands, pretty much half of all I know own guns.

I have lived throughout most of europe, I am well aware of Sweden's gun laws. Since police in most of europe will generally try to help rather than murder me I have far less concern about easy access to guns. There is an actual working system of police there that make it far less neccesary. Of course if I had my way I'd still make them easy to access, but the stakes arent nearly as high.

> We’re not “anti-guns”. Most of us, including the gun owners over here, think owning/carrying a gun comes with lots of rules and regulations on how to handle the guns safely, both for their own sake and for the sake of everyone around them. We see this as a good thing, not a bad thing.

Most american gun owners thing the same. The rules just work different, here we believe in innocence until proven guilty, in other words, you loose yoru right to own a gun if you break the rules, rather than needing to prove you wont break the rules to get the gun. As it should be.

@m

By the way I didnt start carrying a gun until the mob made legitimate threats (and tried to execute on them with at least one assault) on both me and my family. This didnt even take place in the USA originally but i did have to flee back to the USA where I started carrying (as this mob had global reach).

Willing to guarantee the day people threaten to kill you and your entire family and the police tell you "sorry we cant help" is the day you arm yourself too. Most people are anti-gun right up until they need one.

@anubis2814 @obtener

@anubis2814

Still confused on how to block me I see...

@obtener @m

@m @anubis2814 @obtener

> is really lax guns laws and nigh on no restrictions the correct route to take?

Absolutely, when you are surrounded with psychotic people trying to kill eachother and even the police force, if you call them, are more likely to shoot you or your dog than to fix any problems, then absolutely guns are needed, they are the only thing we have left for the mentally healthy people to protect themselves. Meanwhile with 3d printed guns being available to virtually anyone with a few extra bucks its not like making them illegal will keep them out of the hands of the bad people.

> It’s like saying “I know you are mentally ill, it isn’t really your fault. Here, would you like a gun?”

Its more like saying "I know these mentally ill people will disregard the laws no matter what, but we wont tie the hands of the few responsibile people to be able to protect themselves"..

> I mean, I don’t see how handing out guns to whoever wants one, including mentally ill people, isn’t part of the issue

Because mentally ill people have access to weaponry regardless, anyone can make a pipe bomb, people have made fully automatic guns on youtube out of a bed frame with just a welder... so you arent helping anything by restricting the law abiding people when the non-lawabiding people will have access (and the ability to make weaponry) regardless.

@anubis2814 @obtener

The reason and ts almost at zero end n the USA and at 0 in other countries is because America is riddled with massive mental health problems. It has nothing to do with guns.

That's why when you see in other countries they ban or restrict guns in almost every case homicide and violent crime rates skyrocket for decades (and rarely fully recover), because the issue was never the guns, violence is the issue and there is more of it in the USA than many places.

@anubis2814

Right, which is just a lot of words to say it is a very very rare event. Just like being struck by lightening which happens to people every day but only because there are 8 billion of them.

@obtener

@obtener

You have a 2x greater chance of being struck by lightening in your lifetime than to be killed in a school shooting... So all we have to do is wait around for lightening to do the job then ::rolls eyes::.

@raymondlesley

It is a bit confusing because scrooge through it took place over the course of three nights when in fact it all took place in one night. Scrooge even explaims "The Spirits have done it all in one night!" to his surprise when he wakes on christmas day (which he thought he had missed).

@raymondlesley Hehehe, there is always a trick, thus why its called a riddle :)

@randahl Oh I can garuntee you it will be worse.. gar-un-fucking-tee!

@raymondlesley Ohhh, Yes there were, but only 2 of them arrived before midnight. The ghost of Christmas future arrived after midnight. Thus there were only 2 ghosts that visited before midnight.

@raymondlesley What about it? If i had said "the object is on a very tall shelf, it cant be reached".. would you argue "He never said it was high up! he never even used the word high!".

The fact that he used different words to mean "ghost" is fairly irrelevant. Also they are explicitly called "The ghost of **" when they show up, further proving that "spirit" and "ghost" are used interchangably in the story (as those words often are).

@raymondlesley how so?