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Cake day: January 25th, 2024

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  • I spent the first 2 years of my life with no electricity. But i dont remember that part, so it hardly counts.

    Since then, I camped often. Sometimes for weeks. Longest consecutive was about a month in the Uintas.

    Longest with no electricity at home was 10 days due to a winter storm taking down lines all over. We didnt have a generator at the time.

    Worst though, was no electricity at home with an infant, in the winter. That only went two days and one night, but it felt like eternity.











  • Nope. I’m not who you replied to, but you’re misunderstanding.

    When people talk about “80 percent” in this context, they mean the firearm. For an AR, it is the lower receiver. Whether it was 3D printed has no legal bearing, federally. I could carve one out of wood or styrofoam, or fashion one from modeling clay, it doesn’t change the law.

    Federally, and in most states, it is legal (for anyone who is otherwise allowed to own guns) to manufacture a firearm. Period. No paperwork, no serial number, no background check. Nada. This is how the law currently works.

    The media likes to refer to these as “ghost guns” because it sounds spooky.

    In California and Connecticut, it needs a serial number permanently marked on it even as an 80% lower. 13 other States also have laws which touch on this.

    It is my understanding that Mangione employed an 80% pistol, so it was likely a Glock-compatible copycat.


  • I’m in the same place. Avoiding politics is not only for my mental health.

    In my case, for personal as well as professional reasons, I particularly need to avoid communities where advocating for political violence is tolerated (and in some even condoned.)

    I blocked all the politics-specific or adjacent communities, but most of Lemmy seems to want everything to be about politics.

    That’s way too toxic for me so I have to detach from Lemmy. I deleted my main account and I’m going to come back in a few months to see if it has calmed down.