brognak

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[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Not militias by any actual definition in the US.

Organized militias = National Guard/Air National Guard

Unorganized militia = every able-bodied man of at least 17 and under 45 years of age, who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia. These are militia that are under control of the State Governors.

In all cases a militia is under the auspices of government, it's not random jerkoffs playing milsim shooting targets with turbans on them on the woods. Those are armed paramilitary groups at very, best, domestic terrorists at worst.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ok, it's 100% true, and everyone acknowledges it. What existing mechanism would you suggest we use to overturn the election?

IIRC this is the biggest issue with any "stolen election", we have zero legal remedy for the situation. Once the electors votes have been recorded in Congress, kinda a done deal until the swearing in and then it's concrete. It would take impeachment and conviction to remove the president, then the VP would take over, so they would also have to be impeached, then on down the line. There is no lever labeled "Pull In Case of Fuckery", which maybe should be at/near the top of the list should we ever escape MrToads Wild Ride.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

You may want to go back and reread about the whole tar and feather thing, it's actually way more fucked up than you may know.

Even if the tar was only like ~140F like an asphalt road can hit pretty easily in the summer, it's covering your body and sticking to your skin. But this was in a time where they didn't have fine control of heat, and was likely just warmed over a fire. Very likely aren't surviving that experience, especially when it was practiced...

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Literally why The Satanic Temple has the Sober Faction. Secular support groups for recovery as opposed to first step put your faith in sky daddy.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Remember, when in doubt pull pin and throw at nearest officers tent.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

You just made the joke work better in Massachusetts 😂

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is with people and doors?!

The final thing that almost always occurs as I am leaving is (again usually older, but definitely not exclusively) is that someone will stop dead ass in the middle of the sliding door and start fishing out their keys/sunglasses/whatever leading to me almost running them over.

It's enraging. I am six foot tall, built like a fuckin linebacker, and have been since I was like 15. I have spent my entire adult life being highly aware of the space I occupy so I don't encroach or inhibit others needlessly and yet I could apparently just stop caring (I would have to be dead and buried and perhaps then my brain would stop caring).

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

These can returns are self serve, we have them in MA as well. They are completely automated, all you have to do it can in hole, it spins it for you to find the barcode doesn't matter the orientation of the can. You can perch the next can on the lip of the hole and it will suck that one in after it scans the next, and you can get a satisfying little rythem going.

Now the feeling OP is referring to is the same one I feel when I go to the self checkout at Aldi and all the lanes are being used by someone with 4 kids running around, olds who scan one thing, stare at it, look around, then maybe put it down in the bagging area or go back to staring at it, or someone hunting around in a bag/purse looking for payment like they were standing in line earlier and could have been PREPARED FOR THIS LITERAL INEVITABILITY.

It's like people haven't been going to grocery stores for years, and witnessed the whole thing being done tens to hundreds to thousands of times and the entire process is an arcane ritual to them.

I just want a fast lane for people who have qualified in some way that they are there for one purpose, to leave as quickly as possible and have demonstrated at least a passing competence in doing so. I don't care how ridiculous this idea is, I want it.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Weirdly Wolfenstein and Doom were pretty often puzzle games past the first few levels. Finding the exit was not trivial, and I spent hours on some levels hunting down the one fucking keycard I needed to get through a door, to end up needing another keycard.

Or maybe I was a dumb kid?

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Banzai Buddy!

My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I've been using Faugus and it just works. Every time I try Lutris I get upset.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Ok, but hear me out: We drop the bombs all along this line instead! Iirc Alaska was planning (or did?) this with nukes 💀

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