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Cake day: November 15th, 2024

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  • Realistically, a portion of that is going to be people trolling/giving a “joke” answer, a portion is going to be people who are so unaware of literally anything going on that they just answer “sure, it’s fine”, or are basically illiterate and effectively just answer randomly. The number of people who are seriously answering are going to be a smaller subset of that number, greater than 0% but lower than the true number.






  • Having also been in Colorado and being big into mining at the time, I can tell you that you would have sold when it hit the ATH of $1000, or definitely when MtGox happened and it halved almost overnight. I worked at Microcenter at the time and remember all the people returning GPUs after that crash. Everyone likes to think they would have held this whole time, but you’d have been a fucking greedy idiot if you had seen something so volatile, made 1000x returns and still said “Nah, I’m gonna hold”












  • The best part is how many of them are using the exact same language that they (rightfully) complained about people using to try and sensationalize and fear monger other cases of civilian firearm ownership. "Oh, it was semi-automatic! (like literally every handgun in existence) And had dozens of rounds (like any modern handgun).

    Exact same fucking shit as people would use to bitch and sensationalize other incidents, but in this case Alex Pretti wasn’t a fucking mass murderer. They’ll complain about the media calling the gun a mass child murderer uses an “assault weapon”, but the moment someone actually exercises their 2nd Amendment rights properly, suddenly they’re happily repeat the same shit because it benefits them.

    Likewise, while I appreciate a lot of people waking up to it, it’s frustrating how many people on “the left” (liberal Dems mostly) who were unbelievably ignorant about firearms and were vehemently opposed to any amount of private firearm ownership, suddenly caring about the 2nd Amendment and parroting off “shall not be infringed”, as I feel like it’s not a principled stance and they’re just saying it because it’s “their side” now. If they’re actually realizing it’s kinda important, good for them, but it’s still frustrating how many people care solely because it’s “their side”