nagaram

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[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

Enough that there's a serious spike in VPN sales during the porn age restriction wave.

I doubt NordVPN and friends would see that if EVERY single lemmy instance got banned.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Texas wants what the EU and California have so bad.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The best punishment is undoing their damage and teaching their sins to future generations as a warning.

And using their Graves as a gender neutral bathroom when we wanna scratch the sadistic justice itch

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a book I read that takes place in Faerun where a cleric is getting tortured by ogre clerics by having his limbs broken and then they use heal spells to heal his limbs at odd angles. After he's freed, they break his limbs again, heal them in braces, but he had a permanent limp

DnD healing can only do so much before its just some high power reality changing magic.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I prefer

"Do no harm. Take no shit."

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 7 points 3 weeks ago

Beautiful redundancy. My one true love

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago

Me too, comrade.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is something I also struggle with. So much of the lefty philosophy is around acknowledging and respecting everyone as intrinsically human with a life worth preserving. Often I have a hard time hating the average Trump supporter or fascist shill because I know there's a million factors out of their control that got them there.

I have to remind myself constantly that my life is worth more than someone's who's chosen to harm another.

Guns aren't for everyone and I understand that. I don't think I could ever become a partisan in a revolution but I don't intend to be a statistic. If you do choose to have a weapon for self defense please at least train with it. Even pepper spray you can get refillable water squirting versions.

If you do want to try guns one day, I'd suggest a Pistol Caliber Carbine like the Ruger PCC. It shoots pistol rounds out of a carbine/rifle so it's much easier to control. The rifle in this picture is a KP-9.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did I mess something up? I've never posted to lemmy before.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Point taken. I agree with you. I've always agreed with those facts.

But there's an armed an increasingly well trained and organized movement of would be brown shirts. They've repeatedly shown their willingness to escalate violence at protests and threaten violence towards LGBT events. They've demonstrated a willingness to act on the federal government with violence. And huge swathsof that population are police.

They have guns. I'm in a queer relationship. I'm a target. I have guns.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

$1000-$1100 is still a lot to ask of me specifically, but that is closer to market IMHO

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's insane. I really want one for that reason, but ThinkPad with a ugreen 145 Watt battery bank gives me 16 hours of use. That's all waking hours.

It's hard to justify spending 3x as much on a single laptop just for that kind of battery life.

 

Hello comrades! Friendly reminder that American leftists continue to be threatened by gun loving conservatives. You should know how to defend yourself and you should probably own a gun. Find an active SRA, John Brown Gun Club, or (if things are dire) pink pistols or other "apolitical" gun club.

I've been in the SRA for 4 years, it's not great, but I met comrades local to me. I've learned a lot from them and fash who post good firearms advice and I love to share that when I can.

Open for questions and I'll post more getting started stuff if this doesn't get banned.

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