ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on hot dog 4 days ago:
Thelonius Chipmonks
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Here’s an audio copy of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State. Murray is basically the father of “right wing” libertarianism (insofar as right v left is individualism v collectivism, not “right=racism is good,”) he seems to fit the description you seek. Not saying you’ll agree or love him, but he isn’t some “lets kill the gays” nonsense.
Also try Milton Friedman, and Lysander Spooner. They’re more “anarchism” or “libertarianism” as well, from that same individualist, rather than collectivist, standpoint.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 1 week ago:
Actually this tree is in Georgia, so it can’t get abortions either.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 2 weeks ago:
They do punk songs about Linux.
- Comment on Old advice, but good advice. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the advice Duncan Trussel visiting us from the future.
- Comment on Has anybody played music on their disc-based systems? 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah that’s possible, I no longer have a 360 to test due to RROD, womp womp.
- Comment on Has anybody played music on their disc-based systems? 4 weeks ago:
Naw, og xbox can do it. Iirc 360 can too.
- Comment on Play GB games 4 weeks ago:
I bought a GB on eBay but the screen was barely visible. I’m comfortable partially building/
Say less. Replacement screens are plentiful since many (usually with the Color not the grayboy, but still) are doing the IPS screen mods. I’d replace it with an OG screen unless your problem is backlight.
I usually don’t recommend reddit but since a total of 0 of them migrated here, check out r/gameboy if you did want to mod it. It’s unfortunately a great collection of resources regarding modding GB, GBC, and GBA. Common mods include but are not limited to those backlit IPS screens.
The screen replacement is easy as hell iirc too, I think it’s just some clips on a ribbon cable, iirc no soldering required.
- Comment on Quite a talent 5 weeks ago:
One Jump, One Whistle, One Fart
Didn’t George Thorogood cover that song?
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Sure so they’re strapped, but that doesn’t count as restrained even though they are restrained. What happens after the ambulance, where the surgeon is? Does the cop accompany them into the hospital, where they continue to be
restrainedstrapped and accompanied by police, either in or just outside the OR? There many surgeries taking place in the back of your ambulance?I have similar experience with firearms, though my expertise is new not antique. One thing I do know is how absolutely easy it is to clear one. Frankly it sounds like to do that you’d have to wrestle it away from them with your black eyes and stabbings, so in your case it may be a bad idea. However, in the context of the original post where the gun is found and presumed to be picked up by a surgeon, where it doesn’t have to be fought for, it is quite simple to clear them by dropping the mag and racking the slide while pointing it in a safe direction. Safer than throwing a chambered gun in a lock box, tbh, unless your box is bulletproof I guess. You find a lot of benellis or enfeild 1853s stuffed down gang members pants or are they mostly hi-point c9s and taurus g2cs? Do you have experience with modern semi auto firearms at all, or are you one of those elite gun club british types who has never touched a semi auto or a detachable box magazine? You should know how easy it is if you have as much experience as you say, but you don’t seem to. Like sure if you’ve never even seen a gun before it may be a bad idea, but that was why I said “learn.” See, “learning” a thing beforehand means that you’ll be familiar with it when you have to do it, sort of like how they “learned” to do the “surgery,” it’s just not as hard to learn how to press a button and pull a slide back (or cylinder out, button either way.) Ain’t no damn tube feds, belt feds, etc, in a hospital, not even a charging handle in sight (pun intended), it’s easy whether you want to accept that or not. Hell it’s usually why you brits think they should be banned “they’re too easy,” yeah well are they so easy a kid can use em to shoot up a school or so difficult a surgeon can’t wrap their head around the maddening complexities? Which one? Are our kids just that bright and using all their talents on the wrong thing?
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’d rather leave than kill a guy, perhaps I’ll one day find a place that practices medicine safely.
Also, still not a fan of this idea as a customer. I’d rather not die because my doctor is tired or tweaking.
Regardless of guns or no guns, having doctors too tired to reliably not kill people is itself an unsafe practice, at this point “the guns” aren’t the issue, “exhaustion” is. Protocol is focusing on the wrong thing.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
I miss full-power circuit city, when it was dying a slow death it was kinda hard to watch.
That said, nothing I miss more than radioshack.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
“Hey boss I’m tired as shit, on hour 9 of my shift. I gotta take off, before I cost us a shitload of money in a malpractice suit because I fell asleep in Mr. Wallace’s chest cavity.”
All about how you frame it.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Fine, “strapped” not “cuffed,” and cops have their own cars, they’d ride those probably in close proximity to your ambulance, thus arriving at a similar enough time to constitute use of the word “accompanied,” which was originally used in the context of “after you drop them off at the hospital where the surgeon from OP’s question works.” So, are they strapped to the gurney, followed by police in the ambulance, then the police accompany them into the building and hospital room? If yes: “Close enough, sorry I used the wrong word for the restraints.”
They aren’t just gonna hand you a fresh murder suspect and say “can you drop him at our place on Tuesday,” he’s restrained somehow and accompanied by someone, unless your area’s emergency services works differently than my area, and every area I’m aware of, from the ground up.
So anyway, you’re a medical professional of sorts, you ever fire a gun? Do you have any idea how easy it is to learn how to handle them properly?
(Btw they’ve rolled out the vests, my buddy is a paramedic and he has em. Only good up to .357 and not stab proof afaik, but it’s something!)
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
If you’re too exhausted to clear a gun, you’re too exhausted to surgery me. Let the doc go home.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
If they have one, but it’s still safer to put an unloaded gun in an anything.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Well medical accidents kill more people per year in the US than guns, including suicide and accidents. Oddly enough.
(Frankly though if a gang member is shot, he was probably brought in by paramedics, and therefore before they were able to administer care the police secured the scene, so he was probably cuffed to the stretcher, already searched, and accompanied by two or more cops, and this question is frankly silly to begin with.)
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Idk man I can’t sit here and claim to be so ridiculously intelligent I can learn how to cycle a firearm faster than a literal surgeon. I mean, when I learned I was a pizza delivery man. I may have a different job now, but if a pizza man can learn it I’d hope a surgeon could pick it up pretty quick, “it isn’t brain surgery.”
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
I’ve literally seen children learn, have more faith in your surgeons, I guess.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Sure there’s 1000s of diff types but he doesn’t have a vickers or an mg-42 stuffed down his joggers, he has one of the many revolvers or semi autos that all function the same way. Probably could narrow it down even further, it’s likely either a glock (26, 43, 45, 19, 19x, or 17), a sig (p320 or p365), a S&W (m&p or sd9ve), a Ruger (mkIII or IV, lcp9), a taurus (lol gross), or a hi-point (also lol) or any crappy .22lr revolver. For 99.9% of guns you encounter (unless your friend is a collector,) they’re all going to function similarly enough to at least get it cleared.
As to broken or badly modified, typically it can still be cleared, I’ve never seen a gun so badly broken that dropping the mag or racking the slide fires it. In theory, sure, but that’s why you’re following all the rules of gun safety and pointing it in a safe direction (at something that’ll catch the bullet if all goes wrong.)
I’ve seen literal children learn how, if they can I hope a surgeon can.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
While true, I’d rather the gun actually be made safe, didn’t wear my plate carrier to work today lol.
“Sorry cops, my life is more important to me, if you need prints get them off the guy’s fingers who’s pants I just pulled this out of, it isn’t really a question of who had it, it was him.”
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
(Though tbf, while pointing a safe direction is always imperative, I’ve yet to see a gun fire from having the mag dropped or the slide racked, or the cylinder swung out, and I’m very experienced with firearms.)
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Tbf if nobody in the room has experience handling them, it’d be better to tell a nurse to grab the security guard or something than to handle it at all.
That said, if there’s a possibility one may be in this situation they should take the 5 whole minutes to learn one day, as the actual safest option is to A) know what you’re doing and clear it or B) don’t even touch it until someone does clear it, though this could impact medical care or the speed with which it is delivered.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
I’m confident that, maybe with 5min instructional time from a gun guy (or gal, women are the fastest growing group of gun owners today), anyone with a phd could be taught “push button, remove mag, rack slide” and “push button, swing cylinder, push ejector rod out.”
They really aren’t as hard to learn to use safely as Alec Baldwin would have you believe. Shooting accurately is another matter but simply being safe is as easy as learning 4 rules and a basic knowledge of how common firearms function.
- Comment on fossils 1 month ago:
I’ve also heard some contention over the ground up evolutionary theory for birds. Mainly that you don’t evolve flight from jumping up, but rather from jumping tree to tree and gliding. I’m certainly not an expert in this but as a layman it does make sense to me, if you jump to escape a predator on the ground you inevitably come back down, but if you can make it to the next tree and your predator can’t, that would indeed be a significant enough advantage to be passed down to your children. Seems easier to convert lizardy gliders like on the yi qi to wings too, rather than lizardy arms to wings.
- Comment on wigglin 1 month ago:
- Comment on Every semi-natural group of considerable size has rotten apples. 1 month ago:
Nuh uh not the ones I like, only the ones that do things I don’t like are bad!
- Comment on No tip 1 month ago:
Wait profit share counts as employee owned? Huh, TIL I work for an employee owned business.
- Comment on Always bet on Duke unless it was the 1996 presidential election. 1 month ago:
Shit I’ll donate a pallet of gum to the campaign.
- Comment on No tip 2 months ago:
No, you’ll just subsidize the people exploiting them instead because it’s convenient and you can’t be bothered to heat up your own nuggies, all the while feeling holier than thou about not “subsidizing” the actual worker.
Sounds cool bro.