I mod a worryingly growing list of communities. Ask away if you have any questions or issues with any of the communities.
I also run the hobby and nerd interest website scratch-that.org.
Reverse osmosis filter, you can just get an under the sink one of you don’t plan on drinking your shower water. Kind of pricey up front, and you have to replace the filters every so often, but it gives good taste and peace of mind for filtering.
I am telling you from first hand viewing that bottled water plants use the same kind of filtering.
and the whole hooters/twin peaks concept
I haven’t thought about Hooters in years. It always did seem like a dated concept from the 1980s that was somehow still clinging to life in the 90s. It’s still in business, so obviously somebody must be going to them, but I don’t know if I’d call it normal for most Americans.
Anecdotally this is also my experience. I grew up with shoes off in the house, but even up to the early 00’s it seemed to be a cultural outlier in the US.
These days I think the majority of people who I go over to visit have a shoes off rule. Seems like the split is between the older half of millennials and up shoes on, and younger half and down shoes off for the most part.
If a business has a sign posted stating “no guns allowed,” you can still legally carry your weapon in that business.
I’m sure that’s the practicality, but I am skeptical of the legality of a CCW permit trumping the rights of the property owner.
It sounds more like breaking the law and just not getting caught. Do you have any links to CCW permit overriding property owner rights?
#8: Police
State police enforce state level laws, and Federal agencies enforce federal laws.
The whole semi-autonomous thing. If a state and the Feds both have their own laws against something they could each try to arrest somebody, but there could also be a situation where one might not have a law while the other one does. For example , weed is still illegal under Federal law. The Federal government has mostly chosen not to enforce these laws, but it could. Many states have legalized weed to varying degrees.
So there could be a situation where somebody is smoking weed in a state that has legalized it. The state police have no power to arrest that person, but the Feds do.
I’m sure this has all made it more confusing.
In the US with all the variety there are places like that, but then places where you seemingly can’t find liquor to buy and take home anywhere.
There’s differences between how wine & beer, and hard liquor are treated. I’d say the “average” experience is beer in any corner shop or gas station, beer and wine in a grocery store, and hard liquor in specific liquor stores.
Alcohol sales vary hugely between states. In some states, you can get hard liquor at Wal-Mart while in others you can only get it at state run stores.
The rules about licensing mean some areas gas stations usually don’t even sell beer, while in other places they have giant walk in beer freezers.
Some states or counties have dry laws where they don’t sell alcohol on Sundays, or maybe no hard alcohol, or maybe you have to wait until noon to be able to buy it.
It’s all over the place.
As for the Wal-Mart machineguns, I think you’ve gotten enough replies on that detail, but again gun sales are something with huge variety. Some states have put restrictions in place where a Wal-Mart theoretically could still sell guns but doesn’t because of the hassle, and gun stores end up being few and far between, while other places basically just have the Federal minimum in place.
And if he has a permit but is printing then it can also land him with some penalties.
I can’t find anything in a quick search the specifies printing as being illegal. In fact, a quick search brings up the opposite, that printing is not a legal definition and the discussion around it by laypersons often becomes muddled with confusion between printing and brandishing.
States will vary, but did you have a particular one in mind regarding the specifics of printing? Some of the search results I get mention some anti-printing laws but none I find get more specific than that.
Then it isn’t a filler. I never said I don’t swear, but have greatly reduced it. One effect of reduced swearing is that when swears are used, they have more punch.
I’m not sure why you’re so invested in debating that people who habitually swear won’t insert swears into unrelated thoughts, but the only support I offer is to listen to someone who habitually swears speak. I don’t want to sound like that, so I make the effort not to.
My choice on how I speak and type doesn’t impose anything on you.
I have made a conscious effort to reduce swearing, which has brought my swearing down to near zero, both online and in real life conversation.
I have found that it streamlines the ability to make a point. A lot of swearing is simply thrown in out of habit, and if you remove it, all you do is make your point more clear without losing anything of substance.
I think for many people swearing is a “filler word” in the same way that “umm” can be. I have also worked hard to reduce my other filler word use. My goal with both of these is better articulation.
The next effect is that swearing is normally viewed as an extreme use of language for an extreme situation, and when you don’t constantly swear the times that you do actually conveys how notable the situation is.
An isometric or similar perspective CRPG with turn based combat, and the freedom to build characters and think up alternate ways to complete quests that is comparable to the original Fallout games.
Set in a slick scifi space opera, adventure universe. Where the player character controls their own ship and can fly from place to place, while also upgrading the ship and participating in space battles (also turn based). Lots of main planets to explore with bespoke elements, but also a good amount of tasteful procedural generation of minor planets to help fill out the game world.
A few games come close, but nothing quite gives me Classic Fallout + Mass Effect + No Man’s Sky that I want.
I think the problem is I’m a Lemmy.world account. I don’t see nothing, I see a page saying “community can’t be found”.
I know Lemmy.world was defederated from sh.itjustworks at one point, but they’ve refederated so I should be able to see it. But it’s got to be something related to the different servers talking.
I mod the 40k community, so obviously that one.
Would be cool if Oldhammer, Battletech, and the general tabletop minis communities got some traction.
I’m trying very hard to revive the militaryporn community.
And Risa is great (usually) but it doesn’t need my help to be popular
If you’re the kind of person who counts Die Hard as a Christmas movie, I seriously suggest you watch The Long Kiss Goodnight as a contender. Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson co-starring in a Christmas flavored spy adventure roadtrip.
Here’s a minute and a half to make my point.
I have a number of people who I text nearly daily. With many of them it is often just wordless sharing of meme pictures but it keeps the contact fresh if either of us want to actually talk or meet up.
In the cases of the ones I want to keep the most we have exchanged backup numbers of family members, which we never use, but are there if one person suddenly stops texting for a long time.
Chechil, it’s like a salty, chewier, briny version of western string cheese.
Onepagerules is a good way to dabble in actually playing a game without the complexity and constant rule edits of official 40k. It has the advantage of very flexible list options. You can play either Grimdark Future which is the full scale game, or Grimdark Firefight which is the skirmish game using fewer models.
The rules and army books are also 100% free.
Tabletop wargaming. Lots of systems, and I lot painting and especially scratch building or converting models. I love converting and the history of wargaming so much I made my own website (shameless self promote scratch-that.org) and I have dug deep to try and save old Web 1.0 stuff, much of which I haven’t posted for various reasons.
Airsoft. Love running around in the woods as the hunter or hunted.
Brewing mead. Super easy. Way easier than liquor.
Running. I’m terrible at it but oh well.
Lifting. I can do a 1005lb leg press!
Making 3D assets for video games. This is lapsed but I used to love helping make stuff for game jams.
Firearms. I’m American, I don’t have a choice on this one. I like both history and mechanics of them. Used to do 3-guns and I didn’t place at the bottom.
Is reading a hobby? I like to read when life stops roaring (rare).
I recommend !warhammer40k@lemmy.world
We have, uh, Warhammer 40k.
TNG is where most people start, but I’d actually recommend watching the TOS movies first, personally. You can skip the first and fifth movie, the rest are pretty good.
I really enjoy TOS, but I know that a lot of people don’t have tolerance for 1960s productions. The TOS movies, starting with the second one, were made with a more modern style. You should watch them if only to get the proper impact from TNG’s ‘Relics’ episode.
Abe Simpson throwing Homer under the bus for the attempted murder of Mr. Burns.
Also possibly Abe Simpson shooting down a German airplane. If he actually did it. (In 1994, not during WW2)
Edit: Oh and I guess Abe Simpson cheating on his fiancé, getting the side woman pregnant, giving up the baby, and keeping everything secret from Homer and his other son until he thought he was on his deathbed.
And then when Abe Simpson told young Homer his mother was dead and never came clean until she showed up again.
Man, Abe sucks. It’s a wonder Homer didn’t stick him in that crooked home he saw on 60 Minutes.
Oh those. I meant the Gillette Fusion razor heads. They are supposed to be disposable, and I do eventually get rid of them, but I extend the lifespan by a lot with a squeeze bottle of alcohol on them to clean them. A head that should last weeks will end up lasting me months with just a little care.