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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Yeah, sane kind of issues for me. It's dang near impossible to go back and correct a word that autocorrect changed and clicking on links or other buttons takes several tries before it finally works. No issues on any other sites.
  2. .22 long rifle is .223 diameter, so a Ruger 10/22 is illegal for those under 21 according to this bill. It's a poorly written bill designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. If they wanted to do it proper, they would specify centerfire rifles. It also means that several classic hunting rifles such as the Remington 7400 or Browning BAR are illegal for those under 21, despite not being at all practical for Nefarious means. So my inheriting my great grandfather's hunting rifle at the age of six would have been illegal under it. If they wanted to do it proper, they could, but they instead chose to be lazy.
  3. Just so you know, the study that claimed that the number one cause of death for "children" in the US is firearms included 18 and 19 year olds in in their definition of children. Why? Because they accounted for 47% of the deaths they cited. 75% of the deaths were ages 16-19. When somebody says that the leading cause of death for kids in the US is guns, the majority of people are not thinking of those age ranges. But it is an effective disinformation strategy designed to elicit an emotional response based not on facts, but what people imagine those facts to be based on a quick reading of the headline. Oh, and they also excluded children under 1, because they aren't really people yet and including them would muck up their disinformation campaign.
  4. It's funny how you think that they were all functionally idiots and couldn't look at the rapidly developing industrial revolution and think maybe that it would affect arms as well.
  5. Since we are talking sensible regulations, let's go ahead and name a politician who advocates for them so that the folks here can vote for them. To me, the list looks like a lot of nothing. So my ballot will be cast with a lot of nothing. Unless you can name a politician or party that actually supports sensible regulations, you are doing nothing but pissing in the wind. But I agree with Bozo to an extent, and it is almost enough to push me to run for office just to try to add some sensibility to things.
  6. In the Ass: Passion of the Christ I'm not catholic, but I'm going to confession now.
  7. Sally makes a pretty hot trashy brunette waitress. The kind that may require a doctor's visit later, but you take what you can get out in flat land territory.
  8. Aliens is more of a horror movie to me, but it is enough of a crossover that I'll allow it. You're opinion is still wrong, unless you misspelled Die Hard, but I'll allow it.
  9. But the point of the story is that God gives you exactly what you need. And don't whine
  10. We don't have cheater pipes. Only leverage extension devices.
  11. Here's an example of something I consider misguided. There was an incident several years ago where a loader stepped off one of the platforms to access the top of a railcar while doing something else and fell between two cars that another person happened to be moving down at the time. He luckily rolled out of the way of the moving rail cars in time to avoid becoming an amputee or worse. One of the solutions that management thought up was to disallow stepping between two railcars while on top of them, despite the fact that there is a special platform made for that very thing and the incident in question had nothing to do with that. So now loaders have to instead go down a set of stairs to the base of the rail car they were on and then up another set of stairs to the one right next to it instead of simply stepping across the platforms made for that very thing. On the surface, this seems like a reasonable regulation, but consider that slips, trips, and falls are usually one of the top causes of industrial accidents. There has never been an incident of someone missing that step between cars, yet every year there are incidents involving someone having a slip trip or fall while traversing elevation changes, often involving stairs. And a fall down a catwalk stair is not going to be a pretty one. Then you add to the fact that there are often times when everything is happening at once just due to the chance of when cars fill up, etc. and the loader is scrambling and basically having to run up and down these stairs to avoid a loss of primary containment and you really amplify the chance of an incident. Is stepping across the platform on top of two rail cars risk free? Of course not. But is causing the loader to have to run up and down a bunch of stairs to avoid casually stepping across two cars safer? Probably not.
  12. Yeah, as a big second amendment proponent myself I read those and thought they all sounded perfectly reasonable at face value, so there must have been some sort of poison pill language in them to cause them to be shot down. Then I remembered this is the modern republican party we are dealing with... It is odd how many folks here want so desperately to disarm poor people (the practical outcome of the policy positions the propose), yet somehow hope that there will be some sort of populist uprising when the pubs toss out the Harris County election results.
  13. My usual response is to tell her that Nelly had a solution for that. She is usually* not amused. *actually never
  14. We aren't union, and there won't be any real repercussions other than engineers and managers complaining about having to do extra work and the extra down time because of it. That in and of itself is enough of a deterrent for a lot of folks to let small things slide. But as they say, if the holes in the Swiss cheese all happen to align, then even a small thing could be what allows or prevents a big incident. That said, we get a lot of safety protocols to follow that were clearly thought up by someone just trying to look like they are doing something, and many of them actually make things less safe when you think them fully through.
  15. That would be my guess. Sometimes about the only way to get things fixed is to write it up as a safety and health concern.
  16. Not to mention the risk that he unknowingly goes ahead and uses it as a poop knife since it is sitting their all conveniently and then she comes around and starts chopping away at pills with it.
  17. Or get the brown sugar cinnamon version only to later realize that the Great Value imitation is actually better?
  18. Also, remember the dude that was supposed to get blown up in a car bomb, but it got his daughter instead? Didn't it later come out that Ukraine was behind that attack and Washington wasn't very happy about it? Well, if you are helping out a rogue Russian partisan group, sometimes they may do things you don't "agree" with and there is "nothing" you can do about it.
  19. I'd like to imagine that Ukraine has contact with resistance groups in Russia and helps them obtain supplies and stuff, but doesn't really have complete control of what they do. Also, plausible deniability.
  20. I would think it would be a bit of work to retrofit an oil tanker to carry arms and not be obvious about it. It would be pretty obvious they weren't filling it with oil at dock since they can't exactly stack a bunch of containers on it.
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