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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • If this gets mistaken for a real gun, somebody will call the cops on you, and they’ll KILL you for real!

    That’s absolutely insane, that us Americans have to think this way. Getting murdered by law enforcement shouldn’t ever be a near-certainty.

    Active shooter

    You keep using that term, but I don’t think you understand it. Unless someone has started shooting people, there’s literally no active shooter. No one would call that in, and police officers arriving on scene would also determine there’s no active shooter, if they’re actually doing their job. People might call the cops on a child with a toy gun (don’t do that), but the police officer is responsible for discerning the true situation before using lethal force.

    And a kid with a gun is just as deadly as an adult with a gun.

    I’m no gun nut, but just having a gun doesn’t make someone a threat any more than having a knife, a vehicle, a frying pan, etc. It certainly doesn’t make them an imminent threat that has to be killed immediately. The US has way too many guns, but still: just the existence of a gun doesn’t make someone a danger worthy of killing.

    #But.

    With all that said, in this actual interaction, the police stopped the boys and one of them pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the officers. I’ve long since stopped giving cops the benefit of the doubt, but if it happened exactly like they said, legal force was absolutely justified in this case. It was later discovered that it was a replica GLOCK 17 Gen 5 handgun with a detachable magazine.






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    Did you know that you can move things between drives? No one plays their entire Steam library at the same time, but I can store much of it ready to play on large-capacity HDDs, which are dirt-cheap. If I suddenly got back into Skyrim again, I’d spend a few minutes moving it to one of my SSDs.











  • The poor girl allegedly lost her job as a preschool teacher over it, too.

    I genuinely don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that information. It was an outlandish thing to say and arguably funny. Plus, she knew she was being recorded and maybe even signed a release.

    Am I supposed to be angry at the person interviewing people on the street? Other people for sharing it? Her former employer? Myself for laughing?