Germany is not high in the rankings for shootings at all. You first have to go through the USA, the entirety of South America and most countries in Africa before any EU country even gets mentioned and then even within the EU Germany is very average.
@SuperDicq @snacks for fun compare homicides per 100k in european countries against just white americans. still not even close to germany, but lower than hungary.
@dcc @SuperDicq @snacks @sun should be about homicide numbers in general anyway. in germany or wherever with restrictive laws people just use knives, cars, hammers, axes, etc.
only difference is that people attacked can't defend properly.
@taylan @sun @SuperDicq @snacks @dcc criminals will have guns anyway, so having these restrictive gun laws is letting a tiny percentage of people, criminals, dictate what others can do.
i won't dig out statistics right now, but knive wounds tend to bleed much more as the hole is bigger.
What if you only have a legal gun and the other guy illegally possesses army-grade weaponry?
The obvious response to this is "why the fuck is that even a thing?" You don't wanna get into an arms race with criminals; you want such criminals to simply not exist. Gun control laws are one very crude and superficial element of that, but of course don't solve the real problems. If I remember correctly, Norwegian civilians are armed to the teeth but they have low rates of violent crime.
On to a more serious subject. Who can recommend a good indoor TV antenna. I've tried the Channel Master flat antenna and it was crap. So if there is a better one out there to try I'm all rabbit ears
It also helps to do a channel scan on clear still days. You can also lookup where the towers are and use an app to find them. You may find it's better to put the attena at the back window.
@Invictus My apt is where signals go to die. I have a Tmobile tower 5 miles away and I can get a whopping 2.7Mbps down using their data. Mountainous area, window faces the opposite direction of where the towers are, and first floor, make it difficult. Big difference from living on the top floor of an apt building with line of sight from Westchester all the way down to Staten Island
My 2024 in tech (so far): - same old Jan-May - in mid-June I started the blog #TheFutureIsFederated to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it - in July I started interoperability tests between Fediverse projects - in August I federated my Wordpress site, joined Friendica and 3 content aggregators. More interoperability tests - in October I joined Sharkey - yesterday I found out about "eternal September" (thanks @nimi) & went down a Usenet rabbit hole - now I wanna learn Linux!
I too am interested in Linux because of being on the fediverse. Thanks for documenting your journey. The fediverse is fascinating. There's always something new to discover that serves a relatively small & passionate community. Lately I'm curious about trom.tf which looks like a one stop shop for all things federated, yet I've seen no one ever talk about it. They have an ideology that might turn off some; it makes sense to me. Do you know them?
My 2024 in tech – UPDATED - Jan-May: same old same old - mid-Jun: I started the blog #TheFutureIsFederated - Jul: I started doing interoperability tests between #Fediverse projects - Aug: I federated my Wordpress site, joined Friendica and 3 content aggregators. More tests - Sep: I federated 2 more WP sites - Oct: I joined #Sharkey - Nov: I got a #RaspberryPi5 and installed Ubuntu on it; started learning #Linux - Dec: I joined #Misskey & am researching VPSs
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Wenn der Küchentisch zum Sender wird, Propaganda fröhlich die Ohren füllt, wenn Fragen fehlen, doch Lob regiert, und Kritik am #Habeck Kuschelkurs verliert, dann bleibt vom freien Wort nur Schein, neue Medien müssen her – und zwar rein! #HabeckMussWeg
🙂 Man kann auch in Kisten, wo man nicht viel erwartet, ganz nette Sachen entdecken wie diesen Brief hier: 5 er Streifen auf Brief mit Rollennummer! Also Augen immer offen halten! Überall gibt es kleine und größere Schätze zu entdecken!
#Sozialismus macht die Menschen klein, verarmt sie still in ihrem Sein. Die Mauer stand, damit sie blieben, im Elend, das sie nie betrieben. Und wer nun glaubt, man macht’s mal recht, der irrt, denn Mist bleibt stets nur schlecht.
#Hape, der Held, der sich traut, laut zu sein, als wär er der Einzige im Lichterschein. Doch gegen die #AfD mit Mut zu stehn, ist heut so riskant wie ein Strandspaziergeh’n. Ein Applaus für den Mann, der’s grad noch wagt, was längst schon jeder gesagt hat, der fragt.
„Die #Impfung wirkt, zu 100 Prozent!“ Das Märchen, das jeder Virologe kennt. „Geimpfte stecken niemanden mehr an!“ Doch die Zahlen lachten und zeigten’s dann. Druck auf Kinder, bevor man’s erlaubt, und wundert sich, wenn Vertrauen verschaubt.
Today I learned the term “aceflux” and I’m already confused by it. According to Wikipedia, it’s a sexual orientation on the asexual spectrum that may fluctuate between asexuality, greysexuality, and allosexuality.
Now, as an allosexual myself I know from experience that sexual attraction comes and goes. Greysexuality is also apparently defined as sexual attraction coming and going. And asexuality is the absence of sexual attraction.
So far it sounds to me like aceflux is equivalent to both greysexuality and allosexuality, but I’m probably missing something that Wikipedia isn’t helping with.
An alternative is asexual people making wrong assumptions about allosexuals, which is also possible.
We don't have good information on what's "normal" sexuality in the first place. So people define themselves relative to whatever norm they observe in their community, and in a lot of places, people are expected to have a fair amount of sexuality going on all the time. Aceflux makes sense as an identity in those communities.
@clayote Thank you for your helpful reply, so either I was right about the wrong assumption hypothesis, or I myself am on the asexuality spectrum, which doesn’t feel very likely to me.
And the wrong assumptions could be sparked/amplified by the hyper-sexualization of Western media, if one doesn’t feel represented by it.
Frankly, trying to define oneself against the average human out of seven billion seems pretty useless to me. I think it likely that people with similar experiences of sexuality tend to find each other, resulting in communities in which the average person actually is like this.
@clayote I agree with you, but this de facto insularity apparently lead to the creation of a jargon that doesn't seem to stand to general scrutiny. In particular, I'm surprised "aceflux" and "greysexuality" made it to Wikipedia when they seem to make sense only in specific communities.
More simply put, how wide the "asexuality spectrum" is described on Wikipedia makes allosexuality into a meaningless term nobody can ever identify with. It probably makes sense in communities to have such a vague term you can safely define against (like "normie" in other circles), but I've never seen one of them uncritically make it to Wikipedia before.
@Brian Ó I don't find it without merits in general, when the terms are specific enough to be distinct from each other. In this case it feels egregious to me that there are several terms that seem to mean the same using the postulates available on Wikipedia.
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@Invictus “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”
I don't like the ESV translation because it says the way is hard or difficult. But if you think of it this way, that Christ is that narrow gate, its not that its hard, its just that very few will choose to go through that gate.
Matthew 7:14 “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
This official account sounds fishy. I suspect US Intel operated USS Liberty fired on the Israelis and that's why Israel destroyed it. Lone wolf Jew haters inside OG-NSA.
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@Invictus I took a long needed break from all the crazy of the world and havent been online much lately. All is well. Thanks for the concern though. That's very appreciated.
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Als Antwort auf ✙ dcc • • •@dcc @SuperDicq @snacks @sun should be about homicide numbers in general anyway. in germany or wherever with restrictive laws people just use knives, cars, hammers, axes, etc.
only difference is that people attacked can't defend properly.
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> only difference is that people attacked can't defend properly
How is it worse having to defend yourself with a knife against a knife vs. having to defend yourself with a gun against a gun.
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Als Antwort auf Taylan (Feminist Reply Guy) • • •@taylan @sun @SuperDicq @snacks @dcc easy, with a gun you don't need to get in close.
additionally knive wounds are frequently more deadly than bullets.
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> with a gun you don't need to get in close
Neither does the criminal, lol.
> knive wounds are frequently more deadly than bullets
[statistics needed]
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Als Antwort auf Taylan (Feminist Reply Guy) • • •@taylan @sun @SuperDicq @snacks @dcc criminals will have guns anyway, so having these restrictive gun laws is letting a tiny percentage of people, criminals, dictate what others can do.
i won't dig out statistics right now, but knive wounds tend to bleed much more as the hole is bigger.
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What if you only have a legal gun and the other guy illegally possesses army-grade weaponry?
The obvious response to this is "why the fuck is that even a thing?" You don't wanna get into an arms race with criminals; you want such criminals to simply not exist. Gun control laws are one very crude and superficial element of that, but of course don't solve the real problems. If I remember correctly, Norwegian civilians are armed to the teeth but they have low rates of violent crime.
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Als Antwort auf Taylan (Feminist Reply Guy) • • •@taylan @sun @SuperDicq @snacks @dcc what is army grade weaponry? a bazooka? ;)
almost all civilian calibers have been military ones at some point.
swiss isn't murder land and reservists have military grade weapons at home.
it's 100% a social problem, not a problem of allowing people to own guns.