If this is a smooth bore barrel… then you’re loosing a fucking 50 cal that is not spin stabilized.

Oh god what a bad idea.

A 45 70 derringer?

I mean… that is basically pretty close to what this appears to be…

But why? Who dared you to do that? They’re an asshole!

Aw, don’t be shy…

Cortana just wants to get to know you!

We swear she hasn’t been locked in an airgapped cluster underneath Kirkland for about a decade now!

Pinky Promise!

A lot of people are more irresponsible than you can possibly imagine, and, if you point that out to them, you are harming them.

Is glock gonna release a carbine conversion kit with an underbarrel shot gun?

Just in case I need to do some door breaching, while I’m standing my ground?

Quite literally, such a weapon only exists for you to flex with, that you can fire it and remain in control of the weapon, maybe even hit the intended target as well!

Its… this thing only exists because of dares.

There are more practical weapons for every use case that might even possibly qualify as uses this thing could have.

… I guess unless you are an actual WH40K spacemarine.

Yeah, revolvers are the classic ‘deep in the woods - wildlife defense handgun’… but 10mm and 5.7x28 semi autos are gaining popularity there.

A long gun in the same caliber as this would be an anti-materiel rifle… as in, designed to disable jeeps, power transformers, parked helicopters.

You are not going to have a fun time hauling a 30 lb war crime machine with you, into the woods.

… That… looks like a break action ‘pistol’ that is firing 50 BMG.

If you fired one handed, or even two handed, while not being significantly yolked up…

This thing is flying out of your hand(s), probably into your face.

Or, just exploding.

… there is a small difference between ‘a mysterious bank’ and ‘a mysterious bank that you solely own and operate’.

Quite literally there was a Bank Of Jeffery Epstein.

A private bank in the typical sense is one thing… a private bank in the sense of a personal bank?

…Oh boy.

‘Perform a 216th Trimester Abortion on William’

Well… no.

Thats… Sony and MSFT raised prices on all of their hardware too, same with Nintendo.

We’re at the point where being a huge player… can only get you priority in the queue for chips and parts.

It can no longer secure bulk pricing discounts.

That’s how bad this is.

…Does hurling slurs and insults at Elon’s twitter account, right after he accidentally bought it, and then being banned from Twitter … mostly likely directly by Elon, because he’d fired or locked out all the moderators at that point… does that count as a ‘gamer moment’?

Its the actual only thing I’ve ever used Twitter for.

… Twitter is a really shitty MMO, right?

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don’t know why.

Zuck: They “trust me”

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

Don’t be a dumb fuck, do not trust Zuck.

Yep. And confused white boy who just straight up admits he is lost?

He very probably is just lost, and thus isn’t looking to start anything.

Mutually beneficial solution to all involved is just… help him get home.

Win win.

Just think of using Windows as being a cuck who is fine with your kernel getting a train run on it, every day, every night, all the time.

You literally don’t even know by how many, who they specifically are.

But also, I’m sure its fine, no need for regular STD testing.

… not that it would even be possible.

Yes, there is a high demand for SpaceX to be less insolvent.

Yep.

The absurdity of it all… I do not see how any thinking person could understand, and not be enraged.

I did a bit of a stealth edit, wrote more after you replied here, but basically:

Anger is a gift, when it is righteous, it motivates just actions.

But it is also a danger, because too much anger makes you stupid, makes you do things that will not help the situation, potentially make it worse.

All I can say for myself personally is that self-discipline… must be strong, and diligent.

When death can visit such a dispossessed (or dispossesable) person so easily, making mistakes needlessly is just going to shorten your lifespan, and you must be alive to be able to enact or spur any kind of real and good change.

Thus the anger must be controlled, otherwise, you will lose yourself, in one way or another.

If I can offer a seemingly stupid but effective trick:

Box breathing.

Inhale for 5 seconds.

Hold for 5 seconds.

Exhale for 5 seconds.

Do that at least 3 times, if you need to, wait 30 seconds, do 3 of em again.

By some quirks of our biology, with most people, it does help lower cortisol, and help you maintain focus, be more rational.

Sometimes, in a particularly enraging or terrifying situation… which is still ongoing, you still need to be able to think, or you may die.

Or, just generally, when you’re not in a life threatening situation, it works too.

Well without going too much deeper into my own story:

I then got very badly injured, got fired, got evicted, spent years crippled and homeless.

… So I know I don’t count.

And, having been something of an impromptu … effectively a field medic … oh yeah, I had ODs die on me, had people with necrotic, long untreated wounds, exacerbated by drug use… that I could do a basic field dressing of, beg them to go to a hospital, then never see them again. Sometimes I was treating minor gunshot wounds, stab/slash wounds. Sometimes I was dodging drive by shootings myself.

I’ve now very directly personally saved some, at least temporarily, and lost friends.

To the point that I have PTSD now too, and can tell you there is an entire second world behind the facade where a low level war is playing out, all the time, that most ‘normal’ people just … want to go away, whatever it takes, whatever it costs.

… To the point that I’m not able to be clever, or philosophical about it… I’ve fully experienced the horror of it, and can frankly only conclude the reason I am still alive is … basically, dumb luck.

All I know is that it doesn’t have to be this way, and that it is this way… causes me great anger.

My current goal is working on controlling that anger… pure rage makes you stupid, thus useless. Also makes you into a just generally unlikeable asshole.

I’m really still just recovering, physically, and mentally.

… yeah, don’t even know where I’m going with this, like I said, it broke my ability to … consider the implications of ‘the whole thing’. ‘The whole thing’ did too much damage to me.

I mean, no 100% guarantees here, but I don’t know how they would block it…

I guess they could just block an entire massive port range or something, but I think that would break a good chunk of the internet.

I think the more realistic fear in this case would be your own at home router or pc itself having backdoors and rootkits you don’t know about, that then ‘phone home’, or perhaps store some kind of local log you don’t know exists, that they grab physically.

Yeah I think they’d have to basically say ‘its illegal to use anything other than a US gov approved router and browser and OS, brought to you by megagcorp,’ full on cyberpunk fascist overdrive.

Now would even that totally block it? Technically, no, effectively, probably?

Honestly, do you own research on this… I’m not an expert, I could be wrong, but my understanding of it so far is that… yeah, it would take ‘unthinkable’ measures to effectively block this.