I had been dual booting bazzite for about a year, up until last weekend when it borked and I wound up just reinstalling. I just deleted everything and went pure linux. Still bazzite, still a little scared of the terminal, but windows is completely gone from my computer.

I’ve been of the opinion that if we can’t tell the difference between an AI that mimics consciousness and an AI that is conscious, then we should treat them both as if they were. I don’t believe that we will create a conscious AI, (not that I’d be willing to die on this hill) but even if we create is something that mimics it, we should not deny it the rights of a conscious being.

I think it’s important that we start the conversation now, while AI is still largely unconvincing, well before we cross any threshold towards consciousness or convincing mimicry.

if I could make a recommendation or two

https://ruger.com/products/mini14RanchRifle/models.html

or if you’re feeling industrious and have access to the tools and space

https://www.80-lower.com/products/forged-fire-safe-marked-80-lower-assembly/ https://www.80-lower.com/products/5-56-ar-15-rifle-kit-16-parkerized-barrel-1-8-twist-15-mlok-handguard/

both are chambered in 5.56, which is a very common round, so they’re cheap and easy to source, and plenty of power without having much in the way of recoil. It will penetrate most soft body armors, but level 4 kevlar, ceramic, or steel plate armors will stop it. The rounds are also boat tail, which according to some people makes it unstable once it hits a soft target meaning it won’t over penetrate, I can’t say if that’s true or not, but there’s plenty of high speed videos of 5.56 hitting ballistics gel that does show this.

A rifle in chambered in .308 would also be also be a good choice for a lot of scenarios for the same reasons as above, but most .308 rifles will be significantly heavier than 5.56 due to the size of the round, requiring everything to be larger. The larger overall size also means more powder which means more power, which means less things will stop it, but it will kick significantly harder.

Don’t count out a 12ga though, shotguns very versatile weapons with a huge variety of ammo types from birdshot to dragons breath to a slug for every situation, from less lethal to penetrators. You can even take a round of two of birdshot and some crayons and make something that can put a hole in a whole of things that birdshot shouldn’t be able to.

Look for a gun store/range that’s affiliated with https://www.pinkpistols.org/ or https://www.blazingsword.org/

Rifles and shotguns. Better penetration and stopping power. Most rifle rounds can penetrate common body armors, and a 12ga shotgun with slugs can make someone wearing kevlar wish they hadn’t been. The minor amount of maneuverability you lose from carrying a ‘long gun’ is more than made for by their power and efficiency.

Got stuck at PHL for 18 hours, first plane was broken, when we finally were deplaned the crew had been on duty too long for the second flight, we waited for the second crew, and were about to take and the second plane was broken. They flew in a new plane for us and by the time it got there, the second crew had to leave, so we had to wait for a third crew. I wound up sleeping on some benches in a closed restaurant next to some guy who had a connecting flight out of houston to beaumont.

I’m not sure I like the implication here, given the context. It makes me deeply uncomfortable.

I can’t read or write, everything I’ve ever written has been purely forehead keysmashing

Get job inspecting deluge systems I guarantee you you’ll be getting wet at least once a week

I know several of my friends phones passwords. I even have face unlock set up for myself on one friends phone so when he’s drunk he can just point his phone at my face

I think that may be a part of the problem. He knows the bible and doesn’t give a fuck about what it actually says.

wut

how tho

They’ll circle back to this question later

Dressing room?

Is this a joke im too plebe to understand?

Im not entirely convinced this isn’t a 4d chess maneuver. The guys a ultra right wing conspiracist shitbird, and unveils a hitlerstache? What if it’s all been a bit to make ultra wing shitbirds look like shitbirds all along?

I like to do this for my wife to find. She really loves that she’s married to a 40yr old child.

i think this makes me like it even less

why is 50cents face so high def and the rest of him so blurry, its weird and disconcerting.

chilies, followed very closely by garlic

I can think of a few possible but highly unlikely scenarios for a typical bolt action rifle to do this, but nothing that would be easy to duplicate. Generally the bolt handle will be at least passively ‘locked’ in place by the geometry of the bolt and rifle, and sometimes actively locked in place. If the bolt handle isn’t fully seated, there really shouldn’t be a way for the firing pin to release. Wear and lack of maintenance could cause an issue like this, but I would expect the incident would be repeatable.

I think I know what you’re driving at, but first let me address what you actually said real quick. A bolt action rifle does absolutely have a chamber, the chamber is the rearmost part of the barrel where the round sits and is held in place before firing. Its fitted to the specific round that the gun is designed to use to create a gas seal to ensure the projectile can be propelled down the barrel.

What I believe you were driving at is that, due to the chambering mechanism on a bolt action rifle being manually operated, as opposed to relying on the recoil action/gas discharge of the firearm to drive the bolt back and a spring to drive it forward, means that it less likely to jam or fail to seat. This is true, for a variety of reasons, but a bolt action rifle can jam, especially if you go futzing around with the casing or the projectile. You’re less likely to see a stovepipe, I’ve only seen it when the case managed to fall back into the action instead of being ejected off to the side, but a complete failure to eject, a failure to seat or even a double feed are all possible ‘jams’ with a bolt action rifle.