Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

@packetcat but like, a break-action rifle is fine. get rid of magazines, get rid of handhelds, nobody needs that shit. you want to take a classic break-action or lever-action rifle or shotgun out to the range, good for you. that’s closer to a bow and arrow than it is the shit cops are walking around with these days

@packetcat i sympathize but the issue with this is that people kill themselves a lot more and a lot easier when guns are in the picture. it shouldn’t be that easy to take your own life. and a lot of the people who need self-defence the most are also ones dealing with a lot of shit and trauma that makes mental illness that much worse. (and guns are really not that useful in close quarters anyway…)

the bigger issue is we need to demilitarize the police. cops shouldn’t have guns either. until we have that nobody is going to feel safe

@packetcat honesty i’m only on fedi to reply to folks; if i have a take, i just put it on my blog

if that means people clicking on my profile mostly just see random no-context posts and tiny ramblings, whatever, i’m not trying to build a brand

but i think the situation is people join fedi and only follow people who look “interesting”, and they don’t realize it’s the random normal people with impenetrable timelines who are actually having all the real conversations behind the scenes

@SportsGoblin the rules don’t say that dogs can’t play fantasy football

@packetcat i respect @pamela and would be interested in knowing her thoughts :)

sitch as i understand it is all the cool folks hang out at OpenBSD, but then you go on Wikipedia and the first thing it says under History is

“In December 1994, Theo de Raadt, a founding member of the NetBSD project, was asked to resign from the NetBSD core team over disagreements and conflicts with the other members of the NetBSD team.”

oh? tell me more about this Theo de Raadt, leader of the OpenBSD project

“In December 1994, de Raadt was forced to resign from the NetBSD core team, and his access to the source repository was revoked. Fellow team members claimed it was due to rude and abusive behaviour on the mailing lists.”

and yk? that just sounds like Linus all over again

@packetcat i DO really need a Posix system, and heck i’d even contribute to make a system more Posixy if there was an easy onramp to doing so, but i’m not spending days learning new languages and systems and how to contribute for a community that isn’t Pretty Fucking Good

@packetcat i keep eying BSD because Not Linux but the impression i have gotten is those communities aren’t necessarily much better and i find it depressing

@packetcat please let it happen again!

(i don’t think Rust is what will do it, but hey, if it does, i’d take it)

this is fine(?)

@Satsuma hey it could have alt text

is an animated GIF, where each frame is a page of text, an image?