megabat

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[–] megabat@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been looking into getting a heat pump in the northern US and for heating it doesn't seem to be worth it quite yet. The problem where I'm at is that it gets very cold and natural gas is pretty cheap but electricity is expensive. I hope this changes soon. It would be a no brainer if I were replacing a resistive heater though.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Hmm. Maybe systemctl enable rc-local because I was too lazy to get the service order correct and I just wanted something to happen last and be done with it.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Tree style tabs is my enabler 😖

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No I get the point. That point would have been better made with a construction worker or miner or any number of jobs that breaks your body while buying your labor, but they made it with one that's done in service of others, their country, their neighbors, strangers in another country. Only at a cursery glance are they doing the same thing.

Edit and after finding this I'm going to go ahead and say fuck Krime. They do know what they are saying here.

https://nitter.poast.org/krime_1/status/1770922254949306529

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This post / art is extremely disrespectful to the people that lost so much doing what their country has asked of them.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not interested in discussing the first paragraph but for the second; as I understand it you have to define something before you can regulate it. The pedantry is over the definition of a machine gun in that a bump stock doesn't really apply because each bump is a separate action by the operator, and the court apparently agreed. The definition of a machine gun can be changed perhaps to define a maximum rate of fire instead of number of rounds fired per trigger pull or something.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

FWIW you can bump fire without a bump stock, It just requires a little bit of manual dexterity

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can see why that kind of libertarianism is unpopular. Thanks for the explanation. I'm coming from the "every person has freedom to do all that they will, provided they infringe not the equal freedom of any other person" school of thought where slavery is absolutely not allowed and there's government to protect people's liberty and freedom.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I see. It sounds like "liberty for me, not for thee". Not cool.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

What no I'm not saying that, of course they did. I'm saying slavery was allowed under the authority of the government and backed by state sanctioned violence. Corporations don't have that same authority over our lives the way governments do. Under an actual libertarian system it's impossible to to have slavery without violating a persons liberty.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't agree with the assessment on slavery because in that system nobody would have the authority to sell another person in the first place. Although I suppose you could sell yourself and have indentured servitude.

Edit and I guess I'm going to get all "no true scottsman" over here and say a libertarian that doesn't believe in liberty and freedom isn't a libertarian at all. But thanks for explaining it a bit.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

I've never understood the hate for libertarians. It seems to me some of the biggest injustices in the world never could have happened if governments weren't allowed to have the authority to control those aspects of individuals lives. Such as the legalization of slavery, manifest destiny and illegalization of drug use, gay marriage, gender affirming care, birth control, abortion were all aspects of government controll in our lives that they had no business dictating IMHO. Edit - missed a word

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