SilentCal
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- Comment on IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024 1 year ago:
Oh no they’ve always collected it themselves, you just have to wade through ~4K pages of tax code that has averaged one change a day for the last decade.
But if you get it wrong, they’ll happily mail you a correction if you erred low. Plus penalties and interest of course.
The middle men like Intuit are a symptom of the legislature trying to use taxes to incentivize or disincentivize every little thing and still get pork for their districts. There’s a good 20 pages of code and case law on the depreciably of race horses that I’m sure the Senators from Kentucky had a hand in.
- Comment on IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024 1 year ago:
IRS is great at sending letters but not so great at naming or publicizing things (see IRS Free File, or paper forms being available at post offices and libraries) or maintaining technology from this century (they send faxes regularly and still run COBOL)
- Comment on The True Victims of Our Newest Conflict 1 year ago:
real article, I’ve just taken it of context because it amused me: apnews.com/…/israel-palestinians-hamas-wnba-russi…
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- Comment on Agenda Post 1 year ago:
Good stuff, white nail polish is a much cheaper version of the gold beads the old timers used. If you feel out of control with magnum rounds, try 2 3/4" #4 buck. It tends to pattern tighter as well.
You might be a lefty but swapping shoulders when maneuvering same handed corners is standard practice. Food for thought, and the reload might be faster.
50 feet isn’t really proper rifle distance, for some more fun try working your way out to 300 meters in increments, as your range allows.
I tend to avoid Florida, too hot and I’m scared of Florida-man.
- Comment on Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson 1 year ago:
While I am, of course, the most based person in existence and all others must bask in my greatness, I was using lemming as a demonym for users of Lemmy, the fediverse platform you are using.
- Comment on Agenda Post 1 year ago:
I applaud your spirit but hesitate at your armory. Some recomendations: -Mount a light to your shotgun for positive target identification. -Swap your shell card to the receiver of your shotgun. Currently you can’t get a right handed cheek weld, which would prevent entering a room to the left. -Sig, Vortex, and Holosun make affordable lines of optics if you’d like to upgrade from generic ones which are unlikely to withstand higher round counts.
- Comment on Agenda Post 1 year ago:
As a forever based lib right yellowboi I disavow any actions of Reagan, may he burn in hell. In addition to the Mulford Act in Cali, he spearheaded the largest tax increase in CA history, signed the Hughes amendment banning civilian machine guns, and called MLK a communist.
I’m all for arming minorities.
- Comment on Agenda Post 1 year ago:
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary
-beard man
- Comment on Agenda Post 1 year ago:
While they have holes, I would not recommend putting your dick in either. It’s unsafe and ill advised.
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- Comment on Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson 1 year ago:
Terrible minds think alike across the pond. The Cooper Davis Act, STOP CSAM Act, and EARN IT Act are similar proposals in US Congress regarding restrictions on messaging and encryption.
- Comment on Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson 1 year ago:
For more biased (but probably agreeable to Lemmings) coverage, see the EFF’s article: eff.org/…/colorado-supreme-court-upholds-keyword-…
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- Comment on Gripping, climbing and amphibious travel in insect-like robots 1 year ago:
CIA and China’s Ministry of State Security are going to love this
- Comment on 3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper 1 year ago:
Wake me up when I can try Orgiatic Omniflave
- Comment on Should men pay on dates as reparations for the gender wage gap? 1 year ago:
IDPol at its finest, like a blindfold on a moonless night
- Comment on New EU climate chief: 'The sooner fossil fuels become history, the better' 1 year ago:
What’s next? Commissioner for Justice saying crime is bad? Commissioner for Fisheries saying fish are neat?
Blow it out your ass until you do something substantive Hoekstra!
- Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns 1 year ago:
Provide forensic evidence? Idk, it’s one of those feel good “at least we’re doing something” laws.
If CA Dems had any balls and actually wanted to solve gun violence, they’d lobby congress to amend the 2nd to ban handguns entirely. Then they’d set up a working social safety net for at risk youths and poverty stricken families. Rifles despite being scary and in CoD are something like 1-2% of murder weapons. The leading cause of homicides is gang violence driven by desperation but no one wants to talk about that.
But instead they’ll try to ban something that will get them a good sound bite: “ghost guns” “bump stocks” “binary triggers”
- Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns 1 year ago:
Theoretically there would have to be a printing mechanism either on:
- the firing pin
- the bolt face
- the chamber
- the extractor
- the ejector
Those are the only direct contact surfaces between the gun and the cartridge I am aware of. It would be better on the firing pin so that unfired but loaded cases don’t get double stamped and obscure the print.
The problem is that all of these parts are smaller than your pinky finger and must withstand ~2500 bar of pressure, extreme temperature, and mechanical stresses. The print also must be uniquely identifiable on a thin piece of brass, hopefully for an equivalent duty cycle as the part it’s replacing (assume 5-15k cycles).
I’m not sure if anyone has actually made a device to do this in the 10 years this law has been around. But I’d be impressed just for the engineering of the thing.
- Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns 1 year ago:
I believe the OPs point was that because one of the features they required is not possible, and the law required all the features to be implemented, the intent of the lawmakers was not safety.
But let’s assume that the feature is possible and that politicians always have the best of intents. Microstamping itself does not prevent malicious or accidental use. It provides a detective value for after the fact review, rather than a preventative value. So in the most technical of ways, the OP has a valid position in my opinion.
- Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns 1 year ago:
Loaded chamber indicators and magazine disconnects are fine to call safety devices. They are comparable to cars with tire pressure lights and automatic braking. Some people will still debate them…
However microstamping is a feature that has never been economically or technologically feasible. It’d be like passing a law that in CA only cars that leave unique tire prints everywhere they go could be sold. And then Californians could only buy cars models from before the law was passed.
- Comment on An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station 1 year ago:
Imagine paying a robot’s company $9 an hour for it to get HitchBot-Ed or mugged like a food delivery bot by anyone who owns a facemask
- Comment on Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’ 1 year ago:
Fair enough, it seems like we’re starting to see smaller performance gains per generation especially in battery devices. Makes sense to not force an update until real iterative performance is available. Asus’s ROG Ally was 1.5-2 years after Steamdeck and seems mostly on par.
