jimbo

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jimbo ,

I'm pretty much the same. Cats are terrible creatures and I would never intentionally own one. But I'm not going to hold it against my partner's two cats that they are cats, so they get scritches and nap times with me.

jimbo ,

Much ado about fucking nothing. He was like "I'm protecting your right to carry, blah blah, I'm even carrying right now". Whatever, this is basically an article and thread for pearl clutchers.

jimbo , (edited )

In Indiana, this would fall under intimidation. Which is threats to modify or coerce behavior (without justification, I suppose,).

No it wouldn't and you know it. You seem intelligent enough to have posted the specific statute that he violated, and you very tellingly left it out. Don't lose your mind just because some asshat Republican showed that he had a gun.

Depending on the state, brandishing may have more specific meanings, but generally, any attempt to call attention to the weapon (like exposing it on your hip,) is a use of force.

This is also untrue. Why are you just making stuff up?

jimbo ,

My mind cannot fathom how you managed to read that law and somehow connect any of the provisions to anything that this guy did.

jimbo ,

You need to go re-read the link you posted, because you either didn't understand it or you're being highly dishonest about it.

jimbo ,

You're going to have a hard time even finding a statute to charge someone under for "brandishing" that would include merely showing someone that you're carrying a weapon.

jimbo ,

Sorry? I left it out? You replied three times to me tilling me im wrong. You saw the link.

Hey, you can't just post a link to a law and hope that nobody actually looks at it. There's nothing in the Indiana law that you linked to that supports what you claimed.

Verbally threatening some one is use of force. Threatening with a gesture is use of force. In every state I’m aware of- which is about twenty, specifically- all treat a threat to use a fire arm as the same as using a fire arm

Threatening requires...an actual threat. Just showing someone a gun is not a threat. I would challenge you to show me a law that says "showing someone a gun is a threat". The laws I looked up said that threatening someone with a gun is a threat.

I have always been trained to never (intentionally) expose a concealed fire arm (unless a cop is asking you to.) precisely because the gesture is easily misunderstood as a threat.

The police are not a great standard for what should be considered a threat, nor are there any laws out there that say, "it's a threat if a police officer would consider it a threat".

jimbo ,

No, that's not how it works. Merely showing someone a gun is not "brandishing". A very simple example demonstrates how silly your claim is. Gun stores exist and involve the employee handling and showing people many guns. No one would call that "brandishing".

jimbo ,

What could the other possible intent be?

Did you see the video of the interaction? He said something along the lines of "I want you to be able to defend yourself", then a student asks "Do you mean by carrying a gun?" and he says, "Yes, I'm carrying right now." If you did watch that video and came away saying it must have been a threat, you're not have a good faith discussion.

jimbo ,

I'm entirely failing to see the "wrong" in demonstrating that he himself carries a weapon when asked about carrying a weapon. There are no doubt plenty of reasons to dislike this guy, but this example is little more than people like you trying really, really hard to make something out of nothing.

jimbo ,

That's not a particularly relevant example. If you and I were having a discussion about one's right to self-defense, and I ask you "like by carrying a knife", and you say "yes, in fact I'm carrying a knife right now" and you show me, I'm not going to feel threatened. (Which is actually exactly what happened in this instance.)

jimbo , (edited )

I'm pretty sure you're missing the point. Like your link says, simply showing someone a weapon is not brandishing. There has to be an intent to intimidate. The video of this interaction makes it plainly obvious that there was no intention on the part of this politician to intimidate anyone.

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All that said, your link isn't relevant to this situation anyway. The definition of brandishing is mentioned specifically in the context of someone who possesses a weapon "during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime". (see 18 USC 924(c)(1) and (c)(4)). This guy was not in the middle of committing a crime of violence or drug trafficking, thus the brandishing definition does not apply.

jimbo ,

care to explain how calling attention to being armed, isn’t on some level intended to shock or scare school kids?

Yes, ffs, just go watch the video. I shouldn't even have to explain this. He said something about self-defense, some kid goes "like carrying a gun"? He says "yes, in fact I'm carrying right now" and briefly revealed the gun on his side. A reasonable person would interpret that as him demonstrating that he does the thing that he himself advocates for. Nobody felt threatened by that. This group of kids didn't gasp at seeing the gun and run away. They didn't even take a step back. They stood there and kept arguing with him.

Simply opening his jacket was “using” in that sense. “I’m armed right now!! [SEE?]” there was absolutely zero reason, as far as legitimate policy arguments go, that flashing that pistol bolstered… and a reasonable belief, by members of this group, that he was indeed threatening them

lol, just stop. You're embarrassing yourself. I already explained the reason why he showed it and covered why it's obvious that no one standing there felt threatened.

Will this guy get off because “i didn’t mean it that way?” Absolutely. because he’s rich(ish), white, and in a conservative stronghold that likes this sort bullshit.

He'll get off because he didn't do anything that anyone could even make a plausible argument is illegal. (Sorry, but your arguments here are all implausible at best.)

jimbo ,

I assume to emphasize the point about having a weapon to defend oneself. You don't have to agree with that point, but you don't get to automatically jump to it being some kind of threat.

jimbo ,

Why? What does it do to further his argument? What does he gain? Consider the reasons why someone would choose to unconceal their firearm. It shouldn’t be a fashion piece to just show off.

For any number of reasons, the most obvious and likely of which is that he was simply emphasizing his point about carrying a weapon for self-defense. The least likely and most ridiculous reason, the one you seem stuck on, is that he was threatening a group of kids.

Why? What does it do to further his argument? What does he gain?

Why don't you spend some time applying some of that critical thinking to why he would threaten a group of kids?

DeSantis orders Florida National, State Guard members to Texas border ( www.orlandosentinel.com )

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he is sending National and Florida State Guard troops to Texas to help that state put up razor wire fences on the southern border, a move in apparent defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the contentious immigration issue....

jimbo ,

The right move is for the GOP clowns in Congress to actually agree to do something about it. That said, the idea that nothing is being does is just plain idiotic. There are around 20,000 border patrol agents. What exactly is it you think they spend their time doing?

jimbo ,

Is the text of that bill even available yet?

Man Displays Father’s Severed Head in Horrific Video Railing Against Biden, Immigration, ‘Far-Left Woke Mobs’ ( www.mediaite.com )

Justin Mohn, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man, is in police custody after allegedly murdering and decapitating his father, claiming the latter was a "federal employee" and a "traitor." Before his arrest, Mohn posted a 14-minute video to YouTube in which he displayed his father's severed head, proclaiming: "This is the head of Mike...

jimbo ,

Jesus Christ, fucking minding your own business when your own son murders you and decapitates you because he was radicalized by the extremist rhetoric used constantly by the Right.

jimbo ,

Let's concede that the people organizing protests are receiving money from Russia. Is that actually a criminal matter? Apparently Trump's campaign working with Russia wasn't.

jimbo ,

Enough with the Hamas sideshow bullshit. You don't have to be a Hamas supporter to be upset that Israel is indiscriminately killing Palestinians. At this point, anything Hamas did on 10/7 pales in comparison to Israel's response.

Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance.

I did a search from shitjustworks for "reddit die" and did not find https://lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a "ping" sent out to notify all other federated instances....

jimbo ,

I'm not understanding what the conflict is between being able to locate a thing and that thing being available for use.

jimbo ,

Oh well. I don't care enough about it to let Google suck up my messages. Back to sms for anyone on my contact list who doesn't want to use Signal.

jimbo ,

In the developers defense, there are some bugs that don't appear until a a certain workload threshold is crossed. It's entirely possible for code to pass all tests and yet break when under heavy load in the real world (which can be difficult to simulate).

jimbo ,

The takeaway:

Bendlin urged caution in interpreting the relationship between inflammation and Alzheimer’s, as additional research is needed to understand whether there is a cause-and-effect link.

“We can’t infer causality from this study; for that, we need to do animal studies,” she said.

jimbo ,

It is good UX though. I remember the switch to the ribbon UI in 2007. It was a huge improvement over the toolbar in Office 2003 once you overcame the muscle memory inertia.

jimbo ,

Don't give this twat attention.

jimbo , (edited )

The median was about $1200, or about $26,000 today.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-families/41272167ch7.pdf

jimbo ,

This is fucking stupid. Donald Trump appears to run out of breath while saying "and everything else". Surely this will convince the MAGA turds to abandon him. Surely it won't just undermine legitimate criticism.

jimbo ,

God damn this shit is so fucking annoying. I paid something like $100 last year for the Roku Ultra because it was better than the built-in software on my TV and now I have to see ads? Fuck em, I'll repurpose a mini PC I have and replace the Roku.

jimbo ,

None if you block them.

jimbo ,

Bruh, it sounds like your Roku TV is just broken in general.

Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve ( www.omgubuntu.co.uk )

Timothée Besset, a software engineer who works on the Steam client for Valve, took to Mastodon this week to reveal: “Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical’s repackaging of the Steam client through snap”....

jimbo ,

Yeah, it's trash. I switched to the .deb awhile ago because of how bad the snap was.

jimbo ,

I think the US is about done with Netanyahu. The media is already starting to talk about the fractures between him and Biden.

Biden "running out" of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days ( www.axios.com )

President Biden and other senior U.S. officials are becoming increasingly frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rejection of most of the administration's recent requests related to the war in Gaza, four U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the issue told Axios....

jimbo ,

I want to say you're wrong, but the left is dumb enough to pull off getting Trump elected.

jimbo ,

I don't understand what you think is ignorant about this tweet.

jimbo ,

Buying bananas to help people in developing countries is like shopping at Walmart to help the employees. The vast majority of that money isn’t going to them.

This is true, but at the end of the day, that's where those people get the money they need to survive. Refusing to buy a banana isn't going to magic them up another industry.

jimbo ,

Principles go right out the window when you dislike someone, eh?

jimbo ,

Being intent on remaining outraged is idiotic. Spending a few hours doing a handful of minor tasks at a fast food restaurant for fun is worlds apart from being required to labor for day after day for a pay check.

jimbo ,

Unrelated to what? You don't know how old the kid is in the picture, how long they work, nor what time of year it is.

jimbo ,

What's the difference? You look down on fast food work more?

jimbo ,

"Looks 10“ and “is 10“ are not the same. We don't actually know how old the kid is, nor do we know the context of why they are there.

jimbo ,

Why shouldn't a 15yo be allowed to work? Connect that dot with sex, drinking, and gambling please.

jimbo ,

Everyone else in this thread is making conclusions based on their imaginations, so why not?

jimbo ,

There's hardly anything to defend because there's nothing here other than a photo with zero confirmed information about what appears in the photo. People are just making baseless assumptions.

jimbo ,

Shame them for what? You don't know what's going on in that picture.

jimbo ,

NO ONE HERE ACTUALLY KNOWS.

jimbo ,

Kids routinely get hurt (and sometimes killed) just playing. As long as they're not getting more seriously hurt more often at a job than regular activities, I don't see what the issue is, at all.

jimbo ,

It's already normal and kids want to buy things as much as anyone else. This is incredibly easy to understand.

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