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BaldProphet

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2 Kings 2:23-24: A story about what happens when you make fun of bald dudes

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This is what I thought of when I saw oneko.

BaldProphet,
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The 2nd Amendment doesn't specify any limitation on which arms it covers. Any weapon of any kind technically cannot be restricted because of the 2nd Amendment.

BaldProphet,
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Show me where the Second Amendment states that it only applies to weapons available at its ratification. By that logic, the First Amendment only applies to forms of speech and communication that existed in 1791.

BaldProphet,
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The Second Amendment doesn't say that it only applies to guns with 3-round magazines or muskets. It applies to all arms.

BaldProphet,
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But yeah sorry we don’t know the intricacies of your little trinkets.

If you actually cared as much as you act like you do, you would educate yourself about these "little trinkets".

BaldProphet,
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I don't agree with the premise that the government can be better armed than me in peacetime. Disarm the cops.

BaldProphet,
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Ah yes, let's just arbitrarily throw out the Bill of Rights and make it so that only rich people can access tools with which to protect themselves.

BaldProphet,
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Abolish the ATF.

BaldProphet,
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Real child pornography should only be illegal because of the harms it represents. The text of the First Amendment would clearly protect victimless obscenity.

BaldProphet,
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The Second Amendment is even clearer than the First: "the right of the people, to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Any law that even borders on restricting the right of the people to own and use weapons is clearly a violation of the Second Amendment.

BaldProphet,
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The National Guard is a component of the United States Army. A militia is a civilian force and would never be deployed to fight in other countries outside of wartime.

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I mean... perhaps you aren't a native English speaker? The text of the law is literally unlimited. Any weapon restriction is an infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.

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The Second Amendment is a legal document. The only legal way to change it's meaning (that the right of the people to keep arms shall not be infringed) is to amend it to limit the definition of "arms". As written, the Second Amendment covers all weapons, and at the time of its ratification that included modern naval warships and artillery pieces.

BaldProphet,
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As long as the government has them, I need them. Disarm the government and I'll be marginally more open to compromise.

BaldProphet,
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Perhaps you’re not an American? Perhaps you don’t know the history of your own country?

Ok, we have now established that I am debating with someone from a different country. You obviously care way too much about the freedoms enjoyed by Americans, considering that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to or affect you at all.

From Jefferson and Madison banning guns on campus to gun control being commonplace in the old west to the 1934 NFA that outlawed sawed off shotguns to the 1986 NFA that banned full-autos, it has never been unlimited.

  1. That ban is illegal per the Second Amendment. It doesn't matter what Jefferson and Madison intended, because the text of the amendment, a legal document, prohibits the government from infringing on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Period. You can't change your mind without amending the document, just like you can't arbitrarily go and change a contract agreement after you've signed it.
  2. Same thing. Just because it happened doesn't mean it was legal. Source: 2nd Amendment, U.S. Constitution
  3. The NFA is so illegal. The ATF needs to be abolished and the NFA should be overturned or repealed. There is no way to reconcile the NFA with the 2nd Amendment.

Man, I hate it when Europeans chime in about the Second Amendment. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

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Wrong. American and from the south, no less. 0 points for you ad hominem attack.

Had me fooled.

It was widely understood to be a collective right to provide for the national defense.

"the people" refers to an individual right everywhere else it is mentioned in the Bill of Rights. And regardless, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" doesn't mention national defense.

Just because you say something is illegal doesn’t make it so.

It's not illegal because I say it is, it's illegal because it infringes upon an enumerated right that the Bill of Rights explicitly states may not be infringed upon. This is pretty basic English comprehension.

You need to read more.

Hehe, nice try. Educate yourself and then try again with more compelling arguments.

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We'll see. I've got a degree of my own, so that won't be much of a pwn though.

Bookshelf speakers sound worse on linux

I have a budget PC and edifier r1280t bookshelf speakers. From day 1 of building my PC about 6 months ago, I was using fedora. I also have a MacBook pro and soon I realised that the speakers sound much better when connected to MacBook pro. I always thought maybe my motherboard dac is not good enough to drive these speakers. But...

BaldProphet,
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What you mean is the DAC in the MacBook sounds better than the DAC in your PC. Try using a different DAC and see if things get better.

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You're right, I missed that. OP needs better Linux drivers for their Edifiers.

BaldProphet,
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A whole lot of misinformation about biofuel here. Manufacturing biofuels does not require significant changes to current agriculture practices. Most biofuel is made from byproducts that would be burned as waste otherwise.

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Two things: We're already talking apples and oranges because I'm talking about biofuel production in the United States (the world's largest producer of biofuel) and you're talking about Europe.

Secondly, I'm talking about increasing the production of second-generation biofuels (cellulosic biofuel) which can be made from byproducts and green waste.

I am in favor of electrifying transportation networks in ways that do not require battery energy storage. However, no discussion about reducing reliance on fossil fuels, in particular when it comes to personal transportation, is honest if it does not account for the incredible environmental damage caused by the extraction of materials for and manufacturing and disposal of lithium batteries. Hydrogen power isn't a direct burning of hydrogen as a clean fuel, it works by generating electricity to charge lithium batteries, which are then discharged to power electric motors.

Additionally, there is not enough lithium in the earth to sustainably replace carbon fuels for transportation. Renewable biofuels, combined with a reduction or cessation of the use of fossil fuels and an increase in clean nuclear energy are a much more likely and rational solution for the transportation energy problem.

BaldProphet,
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Consider me serviced. Servicing successful.

BaldProphet,
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Too bad for all the Russian hackers that were looking forward to a bunch of back-doors to exploit.

BaldProphet,
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Ironically, the best lesson about evolution I ever had was the subject of a course I took at Brigham Young University-Idaho. I highly recommend "From Atoms to Humans" for any students there.

BaldProphet,
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No, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began implementing tithing in 1838.

BaldProphet,
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And yet kids are given gender-affirming care without parental consent, meaning only the medical practitioner is giving consent for the treatment. How do we square that with the wider discussion of the ethics of childhood consent and labor?

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No, I'm being 100% serious. Why can't we, as a society, be consistent around the concept of childhood consent? Either they're adults capable of consent, or they're children who require a parent or guardian to give consent for them. I don't understand how anything can be a gray area.

BaldProphet,
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Chicken cousins.

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Was either required or encouraged in my programming classes.

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One of my favorite fantasy series. It's not an easy read, but the end of each book generally feels very gratifying, despite the overwhelming nihilism that permeates Erikson's writing.

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I've been having this problem for nearly a month. I assume a fix is in the works, because this error breaks the entire software. Without notifications, how are you supposed to have discussions on kbin?

BaldProphet,
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It's possible, I can't recall. I also had to manually go through my comments to find your reply.

BaldProphet,
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I think we need to make an issue in Codeberg for this.

BaldProphet,
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I can do it, no worries.

Btw nice username

BaldProphet,
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I submitted the issue in Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1044

BaldProphet,
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Update: Ernest AnonymousLlama made a change to the error message for an upcoming release of Kbin. Error 500 messages indicate that the bug is already known about and a fix is actively being worked on. See https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/commit/39072db72716b8996f627dd7715804064a9e781c

BaldProphet,
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My new tent has tons of ventilation, so I got no condensation when I tested it. If you completely batten down the hatches and have no ventilation, you are guaranteed to get some condensation.

BaldProphet,
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California central coast.

BaldProphet,
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Notifications are completely broken for me. I get a "50x" error whenever I try to view them. This has been going on for nearly a month, now.

BaldProphet,
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This question seems to be asked at least once a week. I think the answer is "no".

Part of the problem is that Kbin itself is only a few months old, and isn't full-featured yet. I expect mechanisms for handling inactive accounts, moderators, and magazines will eventually be implemented.

In the meantime, if there is a need for moderation in a particular magazine and the moderator is inactive, consider reaching out to Ernest or starting a new magazine that you can more actively moderate.

BaldProphet,
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I'm comfortable with the idea that humanity still has some things to observe that we haven't yet. Science being an ongoing process is one of the most exciting things about it.

BaldProphet,
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I've always been fascinated by brown dwarfs. Sometimes in video games I see star systems with multiple stars orbiting quite close together; I always thought that was kind of ridiculous, but not it seems to be entirely possible.

BaldProphet,
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Even if Android and ChromeOS count as Linux, it's a stretch to say they're Linux desktop distributions. ChromeOS is closer to it than Android.

BaldProphet,
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Moderation isn't federated, afaik. I don't think it's federated on any type of Fediverse software.

BaldProphet,
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All accounts are relatively young. Kbin has only been live for a few months.

BaldProphet,
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The default installation option for Windows Server is without a desktop environment.

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Is anyone else unable to view notifications anymore? https://kbin.social/settings/notifications leads to an "Error 50x" message.

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Kbin seems to be breaking down lately. I haven't been able to read notifications for over a week.

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