Someone said it was a Glock but I can’t find details. Since it was a year ago that it actually happened it’s likely there’s news or depositions out there that gave more details. Either way the guy had been drinking boxes of wine, so it was either drunken rage, or drunken drunk.

What you consider legal now, could be considered grounds for arrest or worse if the world changes. And the world is always changing.

That said, if you have no interest in torrenting files or starting insurrections out of your basement, a VPN isn’t going to do much for you. They’re barely effective for actually protecting you if the actual government wanted to go after you for something and your data and personal info is already compromised by the fact that you’re here, chatting on the internet. If you just browse social media it will give you a bigger headache to have it on since most sites now block VPN traffic and reddit will even permanently shadowban you if you log in under a VPN.

This is fine advice but doesn’t answer OP’s question, only adds to it.

As a lifelong shooter, I am extremely dubious of the man’s claims, he sounds guilty AF.

And as someone who is also an expert on raging alcoholic fathers from the South with poor firearm control, I firmly believe the guy is just a raging asshole with no impulse control and a heart full of hate, and he let the feelings win and decided to end his daughter in rage.

This has been going on forever, all Trumpism did was give it a shape so that it could make the news.

It also goes on everywhere in the world, all the time.

Our species is not what you think it is, and I am sad for every thinking, feeling person who thinks they know how bad the situation is, but hasn’t yet had that moment where it all sinks.

It really depends on the part. Austin and San Antonio are very art-focused, moderate/liberal cities in some of the most beautiful areas of the country, but everywhere in America has rural populations of utterly deranged hog-people.

A place like Dallas you aren’t as likely to get shot, but you are more likely to face weird, old-money racism and discrimination.

The problem with texas is it has some of the most vast areas of rural population, as the entire state is just this flat sprawl of land with isolated communities full of poor drug addicts who just stare at the flatness of it all before going insane.

This is fantastic news. I don’t even care if they get investigated or not (most are guilty of something) I just want to sweep the mid-terms with entirely new people so we can bury this entire branch of legislative liches and fake opposition.

go step on a partially melted ice cube in your socks.

What will we really lose?

Further, why would he dissolve an organization that’s been doing his will for the entirety of his presidencies?

I love that their new commercial is basically the same tactic that child abductors use to capture kids.

“Hey Billy, don’t you want to be a neighborhood hero? Don’t you want to help find my lost dog? Just hop in the back of my van attach this camera to your house and we’ll save all the doggies in no time at all!”

This is like telling Lemmy US leftists that they need to start reinforcing their communities and getting social and start grassroots movements to get better representation in their states.

It’s a great message, but the mob is too varied and complacent to actually treat the situation as dire as it really is.

I don’t disagree with anything you said, I am just saying that we need to look at a much larger reality so we understand exactly what the actual fight is about. The travel statistics in and out of the US is insane, even with all this going on, the world moves on and people are still doing what they need to do in mass numbers.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/travel

This whole immigration fight is strictly performative, and you can boycott visiting the US or any states you want, but it’s never been about actual travel in and out of the US, it’s about people who aren’t white being made to feel unwelcome so that the races in America are pitted against each other so we don’t unite against the actual enemy. (This is also why it’s utter bullshit that we have so much “anti ICE” protest being staged but aren’t seeing as broad of a message against the people who fund and empower them)

This is a staged fight so everyone picks a fight with the set-up villain of the story and ignores the storytellers.

Why not. If we’re stuck with sketchy, lawless apps for chatting we might as well go back to the OG sketchy, lawless chat app.

I’m okay with banning the internet entirely. You need a license and proof that you’re using it for business, and make keyboards illegal.

“Regular” content and spaces are untouched.

They are also rolling out something like an AI that monitors your chatting and browsing habits that can determine your “implicit age” as well, this isn’t exactly shocking, but it’s gross how it’s being promoted as a handy feature.

The entire thing is a state surveillance project and yes, they are working on desensitizing the population to having no privacy or personal lives.

Sure hope our government doesn’t collapse to a fascist oligarchy or authoritarian surveillance state, sure could bite us all in the ass when the armed deathsquads get ahold of both our identifications, faces and our ideology and the names and faces of all our friends and family members.

Or would be a shame if all the people who use discord to communicate with other marginalized people suddenly had all their personal information revealed to friends, family and schools, including what chat channels and servers they visit, what games they play, who their friends are and so on.

Oh well, I’m sure the company and the government will be completely fair and transparent about all of our online identities.

One of many massive security leaks!

Dark Tom needs to rise to kick the internet’s ass and create a new, old internet that has no algorithms or bots.

I guess we would need some way to confirm the users aren’t AI or bad actors so we would need to use kind of face reco- oh, I see. We’re trapped in hell.

I am never going to convince my younger family members to change platform, they literally keep discord on 24/7 with their friends and SO’s and keep lobbies open around the clock to wander in and play games and stream and thrive in the social space.

It’s horrifically un-secure and I hate so much about the whole thing from a safety standpoint.

I will likely kill my main account and delete all my personal data and messages, for whatever good that will do, and just make a dummy account to received messages and say hi to family. Same as I did with facebook and other social media.

There are lots and lots of companies that use discord the same way they use facebook, just a place to promote and gather “feedback” and such. They likely mean they ran the official company server, not that they use discord to chat between teams.

Although I’ve done that before too.

it was useful when it was new and there were no alternatives as easy to use.

Now it feels like commercialized app slop that wishes it was actual social media.