[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 hours ago

Just because you're not wrong doesn't mean you're right. "Spray and pray" is the lowest form of divine intervention. - Laws of Murphy, 69:420

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 14 points 11 hours ago

How a gun "works" is that a thick-walled chamber houses the cartridge, so that as the powder ignited within rapidly expands (deflagration) there is nowhere for it to go besides violently propelling the projectile into the barrel. If there is no chamber, the thin walls of the cartidge are the path of least resistence, and the bullet likely stays put as the gases escape from cracks in the casing.

So no, while this wouldn't be "safe" (eye damage comes to mind), there would not be enough energy to significantly wound a human by striking a round's primer without a chamber.

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 hours ago

I'm just saying that unless unfurling it would rotate it horizontally, the "kick" will remain on the right and looks like it would be meant to be viewed by those up "there," behind the sign.

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 28 points 12 hours ago

No barrel makes the whole round detonate. The bullet is ineffective, the "gun" explode :(

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 5 points 12 hours ago

Also, unless the image is flipped, the text is meant for viewers on the opposite side from the camera.

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 hours ago

autististic

Repeating patterns, checks out

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago

"Did you think I was gonna mug you?" came from the girl, not 2A bro

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago

Not to mention her luxury room and board, the shopping sprees, and the jewelry gifts.

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago

I think you're about to cook them.

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 64 points 3 weeks ago

Or what's more, "middle class" has always been a concept in capitalism apologia wherein a social group which represents moderation prevents the establishment of a social consciousness of the true strata: rich and poor.

The statistic that the US "middle class" has shrunk 11% in 50 years is a milder one than saying that income inequality is the highest it's been since 1928.

Wealth inequality is much worse. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Thomas Piketty's book "A Brief History of Equality" made it clear to me that a mobilization of educated, class-conscious voters (or guerillas) is necessary, but is capable of making painless policy decisions which immediately ameliorate suffering.

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 months ago

Uh, you mean "IX"?

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 14 points 7 months ago

Good point well made. I think it's usually naive wishful thinking (for a "just world" that makes sense and is going to be OK, actually) that allows a liberal capitalist apologist to point to classical economics and say "see the companies are hurting," but the companies don't have feelings, and the owners and shareholders are feeling just fine.

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