If their ex- gets a restraining order against them because they’re stalking them and trying to claim it’s just “coincidence” that they end up at the same places all the time, then they’re going to fail the character test to get licensed.

It does, yeah. You do have to use it though; just having it does nothing.

I live 115 miles from the nearest hospital that has critical care abilities. I live 30 miles from the nearest hospital of any kind. What’s faster, do you think? Pegging the speedometer on my car trying to get to a hospital, and meeting the ambulance on the way? Or waiting?

I have a faraday wallet. Every so often I put my phone in the wallet so that it can’t be detected by RF emissions.

I have a brand new car. It has a DCM, a digital communications module. The module has a single fuse. Did you know you can pull the fuse out, and suddenly your car is deaf, dumb, blind, and mute? Sure, no more GPS, but IDGAF. For a better, more permanent solution, you can disconnect the wires going to the DCM, and install a wiring sub-harness to completely bypass it. It can’t receive data from the car anymore–which means it’s also not able to store data that can be downloaded by a mechanic later–and the battery that powers the eSIM will die in a day or so.

Fuck big data, and fuck you for suggesting that it’s okay just because it’s existed in some form for ~50 years.

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If you like prog, yeah, definitely.

I know that the soil is pretty shallow; ledge is just a few feet down. (On the positive side, if you want to build a rock retaining wall, frost heave will give you lots of free rocks every year!) I haven’t checked soil quality yet. If I need fertilizer, it’s not going to be just ammonium nitrate, it’s also going to be potassium and phosphorus. And I need to work on my compost heap, maybe see about buying chicken or cow manure? (Or raise chickens…?)

But when I say ‘garden’, I mean several acres, not going from a 10x10 to 20x20. I also need to get a greenhouse in, because we have a very short season here otherwise.

I don’t really have to worry about that. The closest ‘body of water’ to me is a swamp/bog that’s maybe a mile away. Runoff would have to run very far indeed to get to a body of water, and 99% of the way there would be through spruce and birch forests.

So, I had to look this up, but the Oklahoma City bombing was in '95. In season 1 (I think?) of The X-Files, Agent Mulder is given a shit job for stepping on toes, and he has to double check people purchasing larger quantities of ammonium nitrate. That was filmed in '93.

It’s DEFINITELY controlled now. If my garden goes well this year, I’m probably going to try a much larger plot next year, and I’ll likely need fertilizer for it. And, well, I’m not sure how well that’s going to go.

Not exactly. It was a combination of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil (y’know, the stuff that you use to heat your house with in large swaths of New England; the deceased boiler in my basement ran on fuel oil). That combination is called ANFO. But, by itself, it’s quite stable; you need an explosive to set it off. Most of the time, that would be a detonator, but I don’t know what McVeigh and Nichols used as the detonator. I believe that whatever they used as a detonator was set off remotely, by radio.

Nazis should get a platform. A platform with a short drop and very sudden stop.

Given that a lot of guns turned in to buyback programs have been inoperable… No. Also, there was at least once case of a guy printing a lot of pistol frames–and for most pistols, the frame is legally the firearm–and then turning them in for cash. The filament for the printer cost far less than the cash he received for each one, so he made a pretty significant profit.

He seems to be a cool dude. IIRC, one of the big things that he does is organize feeding homeless people in Texas.

You might like Punk With a Camera.

In re: TERFs, transgender people make up a very small part of the general population, roughly .5%. The odds that any given TERF would get picked up by an UBER driver that is a transwoman are very low.

I suspect–and I’d need to be checked on this–that you would need to have gotten your gender marker changed on your driver’s license in order for Uber to correctly identify your gender. And that makes it an even smaller subset of trangender people that could trigger TERFs. OTOH, I could absolutely see a TERF going ballistic over a cisgender woman that wasn’t fully gender-conforming…

Go to an actual archery store to get fitted and try some out; read reviews in Bowhunter magazine. A lot of the differences are pretty marginal for new users. Current bows have a pretty amazing drop-off rate, which makes it very easy to hold at full-draw. But you do need upper body strength the get to the drop-off point.

If you’re talking real, serious, the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it apocalypse, then I’d recommend getting either a fiberglass recurve bow in the 80#+ range and a few spare strings, or a Mossberg Shockwave and a single shell. The fiberglass recurve bow will be difficult to learn to shoot effectively, but it essentially maintenance-free. The Mossberg will prevent you from having to learn to use the bow effectively.

I have a very strong preference to the silicone triple-flange ear tips. They help block outside noise and fit comfortably. Unfortunately, they also don’t work with many ear buds. Shure is one of the few brands that they work with for certain.