With a knife (or other manual weapon) you have to be trained, lucky or prepared to kill even a single person, with a gun any person can shoot a whole school. It’s too much power for some people. Plus you add range to weapons, making it even more deadly and unpredictable (collateral damage, crossfire, etc).
If you set those cons against the pros of “it’s fun to sometimes target practice” then it’s clear the better option is to ban them, like most countries do. Most people aren’t against the actual mechanical contraption known as guns, they’re against the fear a shooting can happen to them, their loved ones, or other innocents.
And in terms of protecting yourself from people who do have guns: guess what, in countries where guns are banned 99% of the bad guys also don’t have them.
Seriously, I image a digger can dig one of those halve moons every few seconds or so if it is equiped with a custom shovel. And maybe sprinkle in some fertilizer to kickstart the growth.
I’ll probably do things like ransack my local library for book like the SAS handbook, plant identification, etc to bring with me, hijack a truck that’s already ready to go, load all useful stuff including a small backup car/motorbike and head for the sub-tropics somewhere to a forest next to a city.
Not really fallen for, but at some point you don’t really have a choice. So in Bali near the waterfalls you sometimes have these people who claim to work for some official company asking for the entrance fee, but of course they don’t. But are you gonna just say no and keep on driving to save like 2,50 bucks when 2 burly guys are telling you to stop?
Value wise it’s not very good: you could have made the sauces yourself, slice your own cheese, cut your own broccoli, make your own muffins if you really want to save, make your own mac and cheese, etc. Would save you probably 50%.
That’s the whole point of the poster, how can people not understand that?
Also, this is not cringe. It provides a much needed counterview from the increasing amount of religious hate groups in the US, which is something tha US desperately needs if they don’t want to end up like Afghanistan.
Have you ever tried a recipe that turned out to go horribly wrong, or maybe the end product, despite being good, just wasn’t worth the effort? What was that recipe, and what about it made you say “NEVER AGAIN”?...
EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see...
Sorry to tell you, but all your Lemmy information is already in all kinds of data broker databases. Data on Lemmy isn’t private, like, at all. It’s the whole philosophy of the federated ecosystem.
adding that the new regulation would have no impact on tourism
Uhu, uhu sure. So either he’s lying, or tourists will be allowed to buy weed while locals cannot.
I think they’re seriously shooting themselves in the foot here. As the only (?) country in Asia where it is legal they could have a huge tourism boom. Maybe not really the type of tourists they want, but after covid decimating the sector they need all the help they can.
Hello, I’m currently using GPT4All on Debian, I was wondering, how do you get the AI to do whatever you want? I’m using the Nous Hermes 2 Mistral DPO model.
Officials in the South Asian nation, where Russians and Ukrainians have fled the war in Ukraine, said they were canceling long-term tourist visa extensions amid public fury over the event....
Footage from the Belgian capital shows smoke bellowing across the city, after farmers set fire to tyres, resulting in police firing water cannons to put out the flames....
Ah but who do you think pays for the protests and meetings and such? In the Netherlands they had build a stage at a demonstration which was literally sponsored by a big agro company. Its all just a way to get their foot more into politics.
You’re better off going to Colorado or something for your weed. Probably cheaper and actually legal (and thus less shady people running the place). And the shrooms are also nerved (only truffels allowed, not caps) ever since tourists misused them. Those are the only real ‘legal’ (not actually legal) drugs.
Can you imagine being in the cavalry, wearing a nice helmet your relatively rich parents bought you and then you see someone come in wearing this fucking thing…
Lemmy and the fediverse is the opposite of privacy. Everything you do (as in: post, comment, like, follow, subscribe, block) is being recorded and shared with everyone. There is no need to sell data, because it is already public domain.
In this way Lemmy is waaay worse for the users privacy than Reddit.
degree in bamf (mander.xyz)
Why are people against gun rights? (besides shootings)
I hope this isn’t out of context, also I don’t want to “own the libs” or something here, I’m actually interested.
How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert (youtube.com)
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What's the worst scam you've fallen for (or gotten close to falling for)?
Imagine being afraid of immodest women in the gym (midwest.social)
This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases (lemmy.world)
how is the value proposition here? was this an adequate use of money?...
When all other messaging fails so you appeal to people’s foot fetish (midwest.social)
What's a recipe that you will NEVER make again?
Have you ever tried a recipe that turned out to go horribly wrong, or maybe the end product, despite being good, just wasn’t worth the effort? What was that recipe, and what about it made you say “NEVER AGAIN”?...
[RMA] What is this lump on my friend's CPU? (lemmy.ml)
EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see...
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Thailand to ban recreational cannabis use by year-end, says health minister | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Draft heads to cabinet for approval next month, minister says...
Why don't ships onboard sensors detect medical emergencies
It’s something that has bothered me since I realised...
How do you remove the restraints from LLMs?
Hello, I’m currently using GPT4All on Debian, I was wondering, how do you get the AI to do whatever you want? I’m using the Nous Hermes 2 Mistral DPO model.
You wouldn't download more RAM (media.infosec.exchange)
The party’s over for Russians in Sri Lanka after ‘whites only’ event fuels outrage (www.nbcnews.com)
Officials in the South Asian nation, where Russians and Ukrainians have fled the war in Ukraine, said they were canceling long-term tourist visa extensions amid public fury over the event....
How is decentralized social media more private if all the data is public and shared?
Brussels: Farmers protest leaves streets in chaos (www.bbc.com)
Footage from the Belgian capital shows smoke bellowing across the city, after farmers set fire to tyres, resulting in police firing water cannons to put out the flames....
How many people actually use the salt shaker?
Like there is so much salt in processed food I never felt the need to actually use the salt shaker (until I cut out processed food)....
I've lived in the Netherlands for 14 years—why we're always ranked one of the world's happiest countries (www.cnbc.com)
I was born in Poland and grew up in Germany, but my family and I have been living in the Netherlands for the last 14 years....
Well-preserved Roman cavalry helmet, found in modern Bulgaria, 1st century AD?
Has my mom gone mad?
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Why the far right and far left support Russia, China, and Palestine (youtu.be)
New York AG says she’ll seize Donald Trump’s property if he can’t pay $454 million civil fraud debt (www.denverpost.com)
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