GooseFinger @ GooseFinger @lemmy.world

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Well, CCW insurance really only covers legal costs associated with CCW use. Unfortunately in some states, it's entirely possible (and in some states likely!) that someone who uses their firearm in self defense can get charged with a crime or sued by their attackers, regardless of how justified their use of force was.

I'm aware of some policies that cover third party damages like hospital bills and property damage, but the victims in this case are never held liable anyway.

So am I missing something? Especially given that practically all gun violence and deaths come from suicide and organized crime, how does this bill help anyone? CCW holders are statistically much less likely to break laws than those who don't have a license, these people really shouldn't worry anyone. This reeks of political posturing to me.

Edit: Just read that the law requires bodily harm and property damage coverage, so nevermind. The only scenario where the CCW holder would be liable for those damages is if their use of force isn't justified, so I'm still not sure how this helps anyone.

The only sure thing is that insurance companies will try to make as much money off this as possible, especially if it becomes required by law to have.

Depending on which modern definition of "militia" you choose, the National Guard either is one or isn't one.

But remember that the Bill of Rights serves to restrict the government from passing laws that infringe on certain rights - so it doesn't grant you and I rights, it instead prevents the government from impeding on some the Founding Fathers felt The People (white dudes) had. It'd be ass backwards to argue that the government allows us freedom of expression, for example. That's a natural right.

Building on that, stating that the 2nd Amendment only applies to the National Guard is a shortened way of saying "the government may not infringe on the People's right to have a government sanctioned and controlled branch of the federal Armed Forces." Anyone with a cursory understanding of the American Revolution will know that this is not at all what the Founding Fathers intended the 2A to do.

GEDs are high school equivalency credentials. GED test scores are treated the same as high school credits by practically all institutions.

I'm not sure why this bill would exclude GED holders since there's no practical reason to, so I'd assume they are included until we know for sure.

The tiny subset of people who dropped from high school, never got their GED, and want to take community college seriously could just... get their GED first? Compared to the time and cost of completing a 2 year degree, obtaining a GED is very small barrier to entry.

You're not articulating very well what your issue is.

Ahhh yes, but you see, on page 176 §12.4.11 of the EULA it clearly states that by using our products you've given us your consent to rip you off.

Thanks for the answer, that makes sense. Sounds like there aren't security concerns with letting others connect to my server then.

This is the first I've heard of Gluetun. Why do you suggest it?

Not all his videos are privacy focused but Louis Rossmann is a good right to repair and privacy advocate. Very entertaining to watch when he gets irritated haha.

Why? Nuclear power is the most complex and expensive option of any clean energy source from what I know.

Yes, and I'm 100% sure you'd feel that way too if someone ever tried to kill you or someone you love. Just because you don't like thinking about it doesn't mean that bad things don't happen to good people.

I feel it needs to stay and I love my children, but you do you.

When our Bill of Rights was written, "well regulated" meant well functioning and well equipped.

I'd rather see our government spend their time, energy, and money on promoting safe firearm ownership than continue pushing their take on gun control. Tax breaks or stipends for purchasing gun safes, taking classes, and teaching basic firearm safety in school would take very little work on their part and would benefit literally everyone, gun owners and non gun owners alike.

It's fine if you disagree with the premise of our 2A, but realistically, any country's Constitution/equivalent document only holds water while the government agrees to let it. At any point, anyone or any party can legally take office, and then say "to hell with your rights."

How would you/your country's people guarantee your rights without a way to enforce them?

I'm not Russian so I have a limited perspective of this, but I remember people pointing out good indicators that the invasion was really going to happen during the weeks leading up to it, like how the Russian military was setting up field hospitals along the border. Obviously, hindsight makes reflecting on this difficult, and I'm not sure what information was available to Russian citizens at that time.

I understand where you're coming from, but a lot of violence that police encounter is spontaneous and unpredictable.

Say they pull someone over for speeding, but the driver has a warrant for their arrest or something like drugs in their car. The cop begins this encounter expecting to issue a ticket and nothing more, but the driver knows more is riding on the line than that. Violently attacking the cop to increase their chance of getting away might sound like a good option, otherwise they'll spend years in jail for the additional charges they're avoiding.

A lot of this behavior wouldn't exist if our prisons focused on rehabilitation instead of cruel punishment. A simple drug charge can ruin someone's finances and career, which almost everyone agrees is unjust. If they're already facing many years in jail for crimes a cop would arrest them for, what's risking some additional time in jail for a chance to avoid an arrest altogether?

Prison shouldn't be something that people want to avoid at all costs, and the conditions we live in shouldn't push people to commit crime to get by. Currently, our prisons are cruel and our living conditions are terrible, pushing people to steal, sell drugs, and avoid prison at all costs.

Edit: And just to clarify, I'm only highlighting that police encounter violence in situations where people wouldn't expect it. A simple speeding ticket can end with the cop getting stabbed or runned over. Our justice system motivates people to violently avoid arrest, and our living conditions push people to commit crime. So not only do our police need reform, but we need to fix the underlying issues that push people to commit crime and avoid prison to begin with. If that's done, then police encounters that begin non-violently would more frequently end that way too.

I have an S21 with Android. Sync runs in the background but it doesn't use much power. It looks like about an hour or so of use each day accounts for about 5% battery drain, including background activity, and not including power used by the screen or other services running in the background.

Just a thought though - maybe Sync is making tracking attempts in the background? I recently started using Duck Duck Go's free VPN which blocks tracking attempts made by apps. Some apps, like Messenger and Robinhood, make thousands of tracking attempts every day, even when the apps are closed and not in use. Google makes tracking attempts through Sync, but I've only seen these occur while I use the app. I figured the attempts are made each time an ad loads, but I could be wrong.

Not to distract from the content of this article, but why is journalism so poor now days? Almost every sentence/paragraph in this article says "she was a victim of childhood marriage," just worded in various ways. I appreciate the background info on the origin of these laws and the the discussion of how widespread this issue currently is, but this article could be reduced to 6 or so sentences without losing any information.

I'm in the same boat as you OP - a tongue tied adult who's considered treatment a few times before.

I'm not sure of all the benefits there are to getting it fixed though, other than being able to lick [icecream cones] with competence. I also can't roll my Rs which made high school Spanish miserable.

I've read that recovery is rough the first few days after surgery, and I'm sure we'd have to relearn how to talk to some degree. This tradeoff doesn't seem worth it to me, so I haven't gotten it fixed.

Besides, it's a fun conversation piece if I ever need it.

More games should use real skyboxes like this. Makes me wonder why they don't.

Tenant: "Hey landlord, my furnace isn't working anymore. Fix it please."

Landlord: Makes one phone call to a contractor and uses 10% of this month's rent to pay them

My landlord makes maybe two phone calls like that a year, and she will have "earned" $40,800 of my money. Somehow, people like her have convinced people like you that simply owning a home that and doing 1 hour of cumulative work once a year is worth 30% of an engineer's income.

Fuck off, leech.

Nah, it's the loud opinion in these threads that all gun owners hate children or something because they don't support "common sense gun control." Nuanced discussion isn't allowed, only name calling group hate against gun owners is.