Good that more and more countries are making this decision, there's no point in limiting where Ukraine can use the weapons they have

a killamajig.

Nice word you have there. Would be a shame if someone stole it

Yep, definitely cursed

I'd much rather be killed with a doohickey than just a regular boring 'ol gun

The heck does this one do? "RAW" is generic enough that it turned out to be hard to search for, heh

Huh, yeah that's actually a neat design. The fact that the back blast now goes in two directions must make that fun ("fun") to use; at least with a regular shoulder-launched recoilless anything, you only need to make sure there's nothing or nobody behind you that you don't mind turning into dogfood and regrets

Oh yes, the Goblin is an excellent doohickey

Can a removed have a crumb of context

for legal purposes this meme is a joke

as far as bads go, that ain't too bad

I went digging and found this fairly detailed article on it https://armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-firearm-used-to-assassinate-shinzo-abe/

The dude had more doohickeys too! This picture of a cop holding one looks cyberpunk as fuck:

Big Hobart's Funnies energy

But if you're far away and things go wrong, you won't get that sweet release of death?

Seriously speaking though, that up close and personal version does look pretty fuckin cursed. I assume the call of the void is strong with EOD folks

You tried, that's what matters ❤️

Is James the famous Man-Spider?

… what am I looking at here?

I mean, yes, rocket wrench, but ????

Well that's downright demonic

Don't disagree at all on the sentiment, but this was NewsThump and not everybody's favorite Allium

I'll allow it

This is slander and I will not stand for it: I bet Jadzia would be down for a nice fash bash

Maybe you mean the peace treaty thing? I mentioned it in a couple of earlier comments, here's a copy-paste:

Here's a blog post on this, and a relevant quote:

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

You're still missing the point here. I never said I keep tabs on everyone at all times just so I can pull the eject handle if they turn Nazi, just that if it does turn out somehow that someone is a Nazi, that is when I pull the eject handle.

In any case, my argument absolutely is that I'm going to sort my friends by political ideology – and no, I don't give people forms to fill out or install cameras in their homes. Doesn't mean everyone has to think exactly like me, but "no Nazis" doesn't feel like it should be a high bar. Sure, maybe this does nothing to help solve the situation but I have no interest in having to be buddies with them, let alone loving them – better people are welcome to it, but I'm done, I'd jump off a cliff if I had to listen to yet another "rational" fascist wannabe explain why my whole gender is inferior to his and then dismiss me when I get ANGY. Call it purity testing all you want, but for me and I suspect a lot of people this is self care

Touché, it's not like this is anything new

Yeah like how is this a disappointment? I get what he means of course, but it's like being disappointed in Stalin if he hugged Hitler. Disappointment sounds like he was expecting something better of Modi

Moderate conservatives pretty much no longer exist.

The "moderates" are more than happy to collaborate with actual fascists; it's not like the leopards will eat their faces, after all

Yeah no kidding. He's an absolute fuckstick but this is a bit ridiculous

I have a suggestion for who you can release first.

Is it tax dodgers? I bet it's tax dodgers

Does the paradox of tolerance even exist?

If you tolerate a group that hates a group of people, there are people that hate a group of people, meaning the society is intolerant to that group of people until those people are gone

Exactly: there is no paradox there if you don't think of tolerance as an absolute. This blog post put it pretty well:

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

A take on the paradox of tolerance that I really like is that tolerance is not a moral absolute: tolerance is a peace treaty and not a suicide pact, so its "protection" is only afforded to those who abide by the treaty and it doesn't mean tolerating everyone no matter what. Here's a blog post on this, and a relevant quote:

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

I appreciate the thought but it really wasn't 😅

There's more?! 😍

No but honestly though, I don't know what it is about these but I think they're awesome. Surrealistic but so mundane that it makes them a bit funny: "it's just a cougar person with terrible posture hanging out on their porch having a ciggy, what's the big deal?" They don't give immediate gen AI vibes either

What the – and I simply can't emphasize this enough – fuck does it have to do with PuRiTy TeStInG if I don't want to associate or spend time with people whose political ideologies would fucking literally have me stripped of human rights if not outright murdered because of my gender and/or gender identity? What sort of an obligation do I have to keep those people in my life if they have publicly stated opinions that make it clear that I may not actually be physically safe in their presence?

And no, I don't have a way to "check the percentage of people I've known in my life that are now brainwashed" either you utter cabbage, I just don't knowingly associate with extremists conservatives let alone literal Nazis. If somebody I know turns out to have fallen off the deep end, I just don't keep associating with them. See, no magical PuRiTy TeStEr required?

So yes, great, good on you for being so accepting of people, I unironically commend you for that, but even though I have no idea who you are or what your background is, this comment – like a lot of the hugbox let's defeat the nazis with love bullshit I've seen earlier – definitely feels like it's coming from someone who's got no experience with being on the receiving end of bigotry or misogyny. Easy to be a bit more understanding and accepting of Nazis when you wouldn't be one of the first people they'd shove in a camp.

Edit: and I'm saying this as an avowed lover of hugboxes of various kinds. "Cute but will fight"

Oh I absolutely love her, she's a real character even when she's out of character

Doctor of Computer Science

stringly-typed "100%"

yeah that tracks.

You're moving the goal posts. How do those prove "conservatives have been co-opted by foreign agents" and not just that conservatives are happy to take funding from other shitty people? You seriously think conservatives wouldn't be fascist-adjacent if Russia wasn't paying them?

Yeah sure, you can tell yourself whatever you need to to keep believing that evil foreigners are the reason conservatives are like this

I liberated her