Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Well, I have heard some from like comedians or whatever, and maybe back when I was in school some dickhead I don’t talk to would make some joke, but those are a far cry from “friends,” who I do talk to. Now working in a corporate environment, no, I definitely don’t hear HR bait like that ever, most people are a tad smarter than that it seems.

    It could be that I’m “friends” with my “friends” because “none of us are the type to rape people” and stuff, of course. Maybe you’re just hanging out with rapists and I’m not?

    And when did I say I was worried about being killed? Statistically if I am, it probably was my partner, since that’s how that works, but I’m simply speaking on the logistics of educating my friends about rape, it’s just not something that’s gonna come up like that, we’re just trying to play spades and sip some whiskey we’re not interrogating each other over our sexual history.


  • I gotta ask, do you think guys just sit around saying shit like “bro I was raping this girl just the other day…” or something? Or should I just go “Now Tommy, it’s important for you to learn about consent. Yes I know you’re 10yr older than I am, but I was told by internet people I have to educate my friends” instead, just make the conversation happen?

    Idk about you guys but me and my friends barely even talk about sex much less details that would be criminal, which people usually try to hide. Usually the farthest it goes is “What up dude you trying to chill tonight?” “Nah sorry man I’m trying to get laid tonight, wyd tomorrow?” And then tomorrow… “So how’d it go, get laid?” “Ye.” “Nice. Yo check out this album I downloaded last night…”

    And when you find out your friend has raped someone which always is found out through the girl, not the friend, because again these people know they’re committing literal crime, you don’t sit him down and explain what he did wrong as if he didn’t know, you call the cops or you cut contact, maybe some violence thrown in. It’s like that meme “nobody is recommending OSes to their friends” (of course haha linux, but that’s where the parallel falls apart.)




  • But the thing is full autos have been banned since 1986 (38yr ago), “prebans” were all manufactured before then and even those are subject to the NFA (you can only have"postbans" with an SOT, which basically means “gun manufacturer or federally licensed salesman”), so no currently “to be added” gun control regulates full auto since it is already tantamount to illegal. They are trying to ban semi autos that happen to look like they maybe could be full autos but don’t function the same, which is what people take umbrage with. (Semi auto being “how you normally think guns function” probably, one bullet per pull of trigger, auto being “pull trigger, gun go bang until not pull trigger”). Also btw “weapons of war” all pretty much do the “full auto” thing, (thus the difference between ar15 and m16/m4,) all those “weapons of war” as you say are actually those aforementioned pre- or post-ban machine guns that civilians basically can’t get already (unless they were manufactured before 86 and their form 4(iirc) gets approved by the ATF, or they have their FFL and SOT.)

    Furthermore anyone with felony convictions (basically all violent crime), or even misdemeanor DV convictions (aside from VT of all places, for some fucking reason) are already federally barred from firearms ownership.

    Furtherfurtherrmore “stores” (FFL dealers, as they’re known) are legally required to run an FBI background check (NICs, ATF Form 4473) on ALL gun sales they do. Private sellers don’t, but they’ve been asking for access to NICs for YEARS and the state won’t give it to them, and there are more restrictions on private sellers (mostly, the ATF comes knocking with “sufficient quantity…” which they can make up on a whim, “within a year.”)

    I may or may not work in the industry, there’s a lot more that goes into it than you’d think.


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    Hey it’s not nice to call Flo an animal!

    Also I’ve never heard anyone say that, cottonelle, puffs, charmin, coke, WWF, Camel, 9lives, and those are just off the top of my head, we have plenty.

    Edit: OH, “Anime” lol I can’t read. Not sure Flo counts as anime though, and tbf we don’t have many anime (if we’re talking about Japanese style animation) mascots, but the Brawny lumberjack and Mr. Clean are animated as are many other things.