even if it theoretically meant they'd be killing their own brothers in blue if Obama finally sent someone for the guns.
This far into the thought process doesn't seem to have occurred to these "bloody armed revolution" 2AF types. While they think the government is going to hand out SS-style uniforms with red armbands so the Evil Empire is a clear target, they're actually going to be taking up arms against local law enforcement, other citizens unironically defending their lives and freedoms, and in a genuine disaster the National Guard. Like the always-awful retail shoppers that like to quote "The customer is always right" while leaving off the "...in what they want", these TactiCool Ballistic Barbies skip right over the "A well regulated militia" part that actually involves the work of training, organizing, involvement, and community outreach that makes a militia a supportive force everyday citizens can fall back on in times of crisis (ie of any use to anyone rather than a gun fetishist conspiracy club). Their lack of trigger or any other discipline makes it harder for sane gun owners who may need one for protection or just enjoy one for sport to be taken seriously.
Couldn't they accomplish crowd-sourcing a ton of data by setting up a speed test, like Speedtest.net / Ookla / Speakeasy, the same tools we use? Combine that with voluntary zipcode info and tying speed data to each ISP's netblock, you could get a real picture of speed and availability, even digging down to primetime network congestion (that 100Mbit doesn't matter if it doesn't deliver when you're actually home).
Oh no, the snowflake globe that is Parler turns out to be yet another tool of conservative misinformation and control? Well, fool me 6,783 times, shame on you, fool me 6,784 times...I can't get fooled again.
But at the end of the day, with our creativity, adaptivity, and millennia of technological advancement, all we use the pinnacle of human ingenuity for is to tell each other stories and share pictures of our naughty bits. Give a shaved ape a new way to communicate, whether it's a high-end smartphone or a cave wall, and we do the same things we always have.
Their numbers are even further skewed by the nature of many vinyl purchases. They're like the collector's edition Blu-Ray boxed set of the music world: much more expensive per unit, purchased almost exclusively by the most dedicated and wealthiest fans (often as a second purchase of the content), and meant more for collection than consumption. They're also scarce (large, fragile) physical goods, which are always going to come at a huge premium compared to the fraction-of-a-fraction-of-a-penny cost of sending out a stream, but they're comparing apples and kale.
This is the equivalent of Toyota complaining that people who fly in their helicopters aren't spending enough on Camrys. Sure, in a reductio ad absurdum way they're the same thing (music/transport), but they're trying to conflate two tangentially related segments of a market that are used in very different ways by different people.
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This far into the thought process doesn't seem to have occurred to these "bloody armed revolution" 2AF types. While they think the government is going to hand out SS-style uniforms with red armbands so the Evil Empire is a clear target, they're actually going to be taking up arms against local law enforcement, other citizens unironically defending their lives and freedoms, and in a genuine disaster the National Guard. Like the always-awful retail shoppers that like to quote "The customer is always right" while leaving off the "...in what they want", these TactiCool Ballistic Barbies skip right over the "A well regulated militia" part that actually involves the work of training, organizing, involvement, and community outreach that makes a militia a supportive force everyday citizens can fall back on in times of crisis (ie of any use to anyone rather than a gun fetishist conspiracy club). Their lack of trigger or any other discipline makes it harder for sane gun owners who may need one for protection or just enjoy one for sport to be taken seriously.
Re: Re: clawback...
Give him a sentence equal to the time he took from his victims, and a civil suit over lost wages for that time. Then make that a standard.
Speed Test?
Couldn't they accomplish crowd-sourcing a ton of data by setting up a speed test, like Speedtest.net / Ookla / Speakeasy, the same tools we use? Combine that with voluntary zipcode info and tying speed data to each ISP's netblock, you could get a real picture of speed and availability, even digging down to primetime network congestion (that 100Mbit doesn't matter if it doesn't deliver when you're actually home).
Re: In other words:
Hold on just one second...grabs a napkin, hastily scribbles '7G!!'...yes, 7G will do all that and walk the dog, too!
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Oh no, the snowflake globe that is Parler turns out to be yet another tool of conservative misinformation and control? Well, fool me 6,783 times, shame on you, fool me 6,784 times...I can't get fooled again.
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This is the equivalent of Toyota complaining that people who fly in their helicopters aren't spending enough on Camrys. Sure, in a reductio ad absurdum way they're the same thing (music/transport), but they're trying to conflate two tangentially related segments of a market that are used in very different ways by different people.
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