But somehow along the way it turned into a echo chamber and began to mutate
Always had a right lean to it, guns and opposed to various gun control because, built on gun stuffs
But they were never the NRA or fudds or maga chest beaters etcā¦
Many legal beavers who took the time to read laws and understand exactly what they mean, and advocated for a higher standard of personal responsibility
Recently it took sharp dive off a cliff with people spreading misinformation about the brace rule change, I tried to point out how lies being spread in the group were lies and fear mongering, and instantly I was the bad guy
Ah, fair call, I missed that in the tone of your post, It sounds like you still have some affinity for the groupā¦
Surely you are not the only one that feels like you do, Maybe you should start your own militia , sorry I meant cult oops, gang damn it, I mean Groupā¦
It could even start off with you on your own, put out some invites to the likeminded individuals or new people and if they show up they show up if they donāt, you just do your own thing until they do
The problem is that group is highly unusual and a niche of a niche of a niche
And Im probably radically right leaning by this groups standards, Iām radically left leaning by their standards
And itās not just THAT group, but rather that subcultureā¦ the culture itself is becoming more right and less tolerant of anything leftā¦ so I canāt just find people, but Im the unicorn contradiction
And Iām now too left to fit with the right anymore, and Iāve always been too right to fit with the left,
And Iām stubborn enough to refuse to tow lines I donāt agree with
Itās a wonderfully isolating existence
Fudd is a very derogatory term for someone in one of the lowest sub levels of gun culture, good ol boy kind of a trope, very cringe to those that know better
Typically a old fart, who believes some myth and constantly regurgitates the same crapā¦ doesnāt use logicā¦ emotionally invested in old gear or training methodologies and refuses to learn new, or anything to begin with
Often claims to be hot shit, but has never trained in ANYway whatsoever, or willing to struggle at anything
CommonFudd lines
ā1911 is the best gun, it won 2 world warsā
āJust rack a shotgunā
āBirdshot is the best for home defenseā
ā22 bounces around in your body, super deadlyā
āInsert a number of jokes that would easily be used by a prosecutor as evidenceā
āWasp spray is better, because it permanently blinds themā
This wasnāt supposed to be this much of a detail
Was just supposed to be a āhaha I almost took some spool training for lulz, but didnāt want to actually pay to get the shit beat out of meā
Elmer Fudd from old bugs bunny cartoons?! Hilarious itās actually used like that.
As for the radicalization of your bygone peer groupā¦ sorry to hear that man. Rough when youāve put so much time into getting to know them and sharing exciting parts of life with them. In some ways itās akin to losing a family member Iād imagine.
Ultimately thoughā¦ good on you for āsticking to you gunsā and always being a āstraight shooterāā¦ man we have a lot of gun analogies haha
More akin to loosing an entire family,
It was common place to loan expensive gear or even blasters to people youād never even met personally, only on the knowledge they were alumni and X vouched for them
(Maybe even a minor felony or 2 )
But you know what doesnāt kill you makes you stronger,
ā¦or mains you physically or gives you unhealthy coping mechanisms
make it sharp enough so you can use it as the very own knife!!
Jokes aside, Iām seeing a lot of focus on āusing it to bribe a kidnapper wonāt workā, butā¦ doubt thatās even close to the use caseā¦
afaik, the original stories are from spooks who might need to raise a large-ish sum of untraceable cash for an emergency operation where the government agency would be unable to fund them without risking exposure.
So at that point the spook would be safe at home, able to do a controlled incision with a scalpel to recover the diamonds, bandage up, go trade the diamond for cash, then use that cash to fund an operation or extractionā¦ etcā¦
On another note:
I usually call that, or itās reversed form, as: āable to think for yourselfā.
It is a lonely place to be when youāre part of a herd animal species such as humansā¦ but itās worth it!
Ok, Iāve come to a funny yet horrifying realization
I was driving home trying to put into words my complete political hodgepodge-ness
When this gif pops into my head
Haha,
Then I remember how much guns are part of his identity
Then I start thinking how much of a troll he hisā¦
(Awkward laughing)
Then thereās his macguyver building shit out of stuff around himā¦
( I shit you not I built a terrifying qtip quasi rail gun out of a glue dispenser at work, from simple boredom, in about 5 minutes, 10 to polish it and make it proper terrifying
ā¦I remain afraid of my creation which is saying somethingā¦It dented dry wall 30 feet away and PUNCHED through drop ceiling tiles and insulation blanket 20 something feet up in the warehouseā¦ if anyone asks I have no idea how those holes got there)
And then thereās the the fact raccoons are violently nocturnalā¦
Which leads me to concludeā¦
Iām a god dam raccoonā¦
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ā¦.I miss having R around to yell at me for using gifs as a substitute for coherent thought
āClearā, as in the absence of EM radiation, is not a color because a color denotes either a specific wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum or a combinations of specific wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum, and so far as I know, quantum froth and spacetime at absolute zero is not technically part of or āonā the EM spectrum.
āClearā, as in the absence of EM radiation which is detectable to the human eye, is not a color because even though EM radiation does exist in almost every area of the known universe as the ever pervasive ācosmic microwave backgroundā, and this radiation is is passing through the human eye organ, the term ācolorā denotes only those wavelengths of the spectrum that are detectable by the human eye. This means infrared of sufficient wavelength such that it is undetectable by the ānormalā human eyes is also not a ācolorā. Further more, ācolor blindā people are denoted as such because they lack the ability to detect certain ānormally perceivableā wavelengths along the EM spectrum deemed the āvisual spectrumā. This bolsters my point that ācolorā as a term that defines the range of ānormal human perceptionā along the visible spectrum of light on the overall EM spectrum.
There is no scenario I can see (pun!) in which āclearā would ever be considered a ācolorā. You might as well be asking if cheese sandwich is a quantum particle or not.
There are animals out there that can see colors (or EM wavelengths, if you prefer) which humans cannot, itās awfully anthropic to say that just because we donāt perceive it as such it isnāt a color, in my opinion
And what about robots? More related to the cyborg part of this site, cameras can see just about any wavelength you design them to, if a human had an eye replaced with a camera in a hypothetical future, they may be able to see ānewā ācolorsā, but ānormalā humans would likely not be considered color blind comparatively to them either
Though, I do agree that lack of EM entirely couldnāt be considered a color
The physical difference between a visible wavelength of photon and non-visible wavelength of photon is essentially negligible without the frame of reference of a biological eye to base your interpretation on
Well, color is a human term applied to human experience. We have no way to know how animals label their ability to see various wavelengths. To cast such human assumptions on the experiences of animals is the token definition of anthropic
Sure, but we donāt call those ācolorsāā¦ the images radio-telescopes give us are translated into human perceptible colors, but we donāt describe the native data as ācolorsā, we call it data because it is imperceptible to humans without translation into ācolorsā.
The root of my argument is the definition of color. Websters defines color as;
noun
a phenomenon of light (such as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects.
āthe lights flickered and changed colorā
I would argue here that āoneā means a human person doing the perceiving. Sorry robots and animals.
I think my mind subscribes more to Oxfordās definition:
āThe appearance that things have that results from the way in which they reflect light. Red, orange and green are colors.ā
If a substance doesnāt reflect or absorb light at all, our eyes and brain interpret it as āclearā, itās as much an āappearanceā as any opaque substance, itās just easier to ignore
Even following āvisual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects.ā, you can differentiate between a glass full of air and a glass full of water despite air being clear, itās a āvisual perceptionā in itās own way.
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