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* Location: Pittsburgh, PA
* Web/Résumé: https://jake.achee.com
* Bio: Network-Engineer-turned-Linux-Admin-turned-SRE, Platform agnostic, not-quite-entrepreneurial. Also: I like python and awk.
* I literally grew up between a trailer park and the landfill. I know my privilege got me out. What's yours gotten you?
In your remote area hypothetical, a rifle would be the appropriate tool. I was very specifically talking about handguns, which are most frequently used to kill the person holding it[0][1], and it’s getting worse[2], hence the Red Flag laws that started this entire thread. And that’s the reason there’s a significant difference between a pile of cash and the equivalent value handgun should absolutely not be treated equally.
0: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/05/24/suicides-...
1: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...
2: https://www.cdc.gov/firearm-violence/php/data-trends/firearm...
What non killing-or-practicing-killing use do handguns have? Zero.
Surely there must be better ways of “ensuring equity” than threat of death.
Also, if you think a handgun is going to protect you “from a … violent government” you should see what happens (or really, doesn’t happen) when a handgun round hits modern tank plate.
Likewise, people getting hired to agency positions doesn’t mean they are not accountable, plus they usually come with domain-specific expertise, and it doesn’t take a literal act of congress to change them.
Like an appointed-for-life judge, perhaps?
EDIT - Oh, you’re talking about public IPv6… similarly, my router (a TP-Link Archer 1200) gets assigned a prefix by my ISP, which it then auto-assigns inside devices IPs from, again without any explicit configuration or intervention on my part. Super easy.
That’s all that’s required to be Neutral. What other kind of expensive “compliance” are you talking about?
edit - okay I admit I got Greenfield and Green Tree mixed up, but my point stands for the other two. :)
They won't, but hope springs eternal.
Lot of money to be made catering to the latter.
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