Weird that in one photo the stop marking is in negative, and the next photo the stop marking is white?

The first photo is of the stencil, the second is from after it’s been painted.

As they should be. They’re investing more in it and have a larger population to work with.

Yeah, I totally use my training hammer to be prepared to use my real hammer when the time is right. I also have a set of training screw drivers to be prepared when I need to take my computer apart for cleaning. And to be proficient with the air canister I have a training canister.

I have hammers for driving nails, 12 shaped hammers for doing body work, rubber hammers (mallets) for banging on softer materials, and 4 different sledge hammers weighing between 3lbs and 50lbs. I also have screw drivers in sizes from itty bitty eyeglass / watch to computer to jumbo. I also have air canisters, a 3 gallon pancake air compressor, and 50 gallon shop sized air compressor. You use the correct tool in the correct way to accomplish the job. Your attempt at making a false equivalence is rejected.

Your individual experience may be sensible for your specific scenario, but it’s not sensible for the vast majority of gun owners.

So in the first half of that sentence you admit your own argument is false, or at least not universally true. It IS sensible for at least some gun owners to have different firearms for different purposes. As for the 2nd half you do realize that there are between 15 and 16 million hunters in the United States, right? This is not a small number of people.

It might be sensible for a BSDM practitioner to build a sex dungeon, it doesn’t mean a sex dungeon is sensible for everyone having sex.

Okay first off, false equivalence again and second…what’s wrong with sex dungeon? They’re pretty easy to build if you have the right tools. :)

Edit: In case it’s not clear I’m approaching this as a semi-friendly conversation.

Close, but the best estimates are there are 470 million guns in US civilian hands.

That’s the the lower boundary. The real number is probably closer to a billion.

You have to remember that untold millions of firearms were sold before anyone really started keeping track, no federal authority was keeping track before 1968ish, and that firearms will easily last a century if they are not fired too often and given even a minimum amount of care.

I myself inherited several pre-'68 firearms that would never have been counted. My 90 year old father in law has a dozen or more that he inherited or bought (western ranching family) that are still functional despite being manufactured over a century ago!

To put a fine point on the issue; into the 1970’s you could buy firearms off the shelf at hardware stores or even CoD via mail order. 470 million is a low number.

You don’t need a shotgun, a handgun, a concealed carry gun and a whole other set of guns for hunting and whole other set of guns for the shooting range etc. That is not sensible, that is just someone wanting a whole lot of guns.

What you described in the first sentence is entirely reasonable, you just don’t understand it.

Here’s an evaluation based strictly on cost.

My hunting rifles cost something like $2 per round or more to fire. If I want to go to the range and practice technique firing 50 to 100 times is normal. This is a cost of $100 to $200 dollars.

My plinking, or training, rifles on the other have a cost of about 4 cents per round to fire. So now a practice day at the range is below $5.

However I cannot hunt with a training rifle, it’s caliber is far too small.

It’s the same with shotguns and handguns. The heavier ones are necessary for real activities but they cost a lot to train with. The smaller caliber ones are much less expensive to train with but aren’t useful for real work.

What you are missing, IMO, is that firearms are tools and people who use their tools tend to own more than one of each.

I say this as strong 2nd Amendment advocate; firearms aren’t the cause of our violence they are a symptom. The truth is that the United States is a violent country and it always has been.

Still, if you start tearing the Gun Homicide rate apart you’ll quickly run into some problematic details.

You may not but many others DO.

Maybe we can get more people on the Fediverse

Once there’s enough people on the Fediverse it will get noticed by the Authorities and when that happens you’ll see instances start shutting down as they are unwilling, or unable, to comply with the Age Verification and Social Media laws that are being passed all over the globe.

I’m somewhat surprised that the NSFW instances haven’t already been hit by the Age Verification laws that many US States have but as soon as a single state, say Utah, notices the rest of them will pile on and the Fediverse will start to unravel.

This isn’t just a US problem either, there’s Age Verification and Social Media laws being proposed or already in effect in many Western Nations. Hell the two Australian instances are already afoul of the laws in their country so as soon as their Government notices they are going to have some difficult decisions to make.

If they said that about Lemmy i would tell them to fuck off

Lemmy will eventually be targeted by the various Age Verification and Social Media laws popping up all over the globe. More of them are being proposed and passed every week and the confusion and risk just grow higher.

As an example my home instance, lemmy.today, is run out of Washington State and they have proposed legislation that could impact us. HB2112 and HB1834 are just two examples.

Even if none of them pass in WA, and one of them surely will, it won’t too be much longer before the NSFW instances in the lemmiverse start getting targeted by the wide range of States who already have such laws. Instance operators do not have the money to challenge these laws in court so their options will be: comply, shut down, or get fined into oblivion / risk jail time.

I’m not happy about it but in IMO Lemmy is living on borrowed time.

Content like this is why I come here.

4 US states; California, New York, Colorado, and Illinois.

Yep, like 5 years ago.

Huh? ICE is incompatible with Libertarianism! Fucking AnCap MAGAtarians…

Nope.

Gallium is found anywhere you find bauxite. So, who leads in bauxite production?

As an American I’m rolling my eyes so hard at your comment that they are about to fly out of my skull.

Jokes on him,I’m already in at least a dozen.

This was first done nearly 60 years ago. Here’s the paper from 1967.

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article-abstract/46/9/3437/82569/Hexagonal-Diamond-A-New-Form-of-Carbon?redirectedFrom=fulltext

This isn’t about user permissions, its about the operating mode of the CPU.

Nah, the attitude WAY predates Ol’ Rupert.