valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

I had no idea anyone ever made a repro colt-burgess
https://taylorsfirearms.com/catalog/product/view/id/460/s/1883-burgessr-rifle/category/13/

@hackernews@die-partei.social Netgear routers used to ship with a magic url anyone could call which would return the admin password of the router.

These people are wrong. https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/equitable-research-requires-questioning-status-quo

con-man, journalist, and a politician are all just variations of professional liar

@awl They made it in 30-06 as well. Still do I believe although nowadays they're made in Japan

I wonder what random people eventually received stuff that was stuck on the boats in the suez canal a few months ago

I'm looking forward to a dove hunt in a few weeks and yesterday a morning dove landed on a bench in front of me in downtown. Taunting me.

@shibao go to a match and offer to run the tablet. Then everyone has to tell you their name.

https://www.shopheritagemfg.com/stocks

You could absolutely do this with the new 2 inch barrel version.

If you have a heritage rough rider 22 revolver. It's only $300 including the stamp to make it into a carbine. Heritage makes the parts.

@gat also you can shoot it in uspsa which you cant with a 223

@Ladyfat I got to the end and I'm still not sure if she's married. I would assume not but it doesn't actually say.

@alex wait did you not know it was a cult before you went?

@freemo But why is setting and essentially dressing the defining factor? Would someone who likes "Westerns" not also generally like Seven Samurai even though it contains none of those things? Isn't that why we define genres?

Hot take?:

"Western" movies is a terrible way to define a genre. We don't define other genre's by their setting (except for maybe scifi?). Instead of talking about "Western" movies we should talk about the genre I would call "Hero" movies. The "Hero" movie genre includes everything from The Outlaw Josey Wales, Seven Samurai, The Patriot, and possibly Star Wars. This is a better genre definition than "Westerns".

Is Back to the Future Part 3 a western but not the other parts? They have similar plots! That's the point of the movies! So do Josey Wales and The Patriot. These are the same movies in different settings.

So if "Westerns" are defined solely by their setting then the episodes of Star Trek TNG that take place in the old west are a western but Firefly isn't. This definition of a genre is absurd and useless.

@alex "Despite my efforts to bring normies to the Fediverse, the userbase is still primarily a bunch of nerds."

We have feelings.

I'm starting to think that the whole "permanent record" this is a grand conspiracy to oppress children

@wjmaggos Generally it's considered a bad thing if you're starting with what you're going to do and then considering how to get by the rules

I'm watching bladerunner and I noticed that this lamp has various hunting pictures on it. I wonder why they chose that.