Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if developed countries start refusing entry even to educated Americans on general principle. We fucking suck, and we’ve burned a lot of what little good will we have as a people.
And even if you did get in, you would probably have to deal with that animosity from the locals.
I think the seeming lack of bad will against him stems from the fact that he didn’t kill anyone but himself. Just a righteous (or rather self-righteous) rampage of property damage.
…except that he absolutely intended to kill people considering the arsenal of firearms and shooting ports in his contraption.
It’s somewhat like Dark Souls in that there’s appeal in mastering the enemies you fight in predicting their moves and timing your own. Finding a weapon that jives with you, buildcrafting, etc. It is a circular gameplay loop in that you kill monster, cut them up, use pieces to make gear, use gear to hunt better monsters…but that’s not a bad thing I think.
It can be a more challenging game than it might seem on its face, especially Freedom Unite, and especially with the limited control schemes of the older portable consoles. I started with 4U and find I struggle going back to it after playing World and Rise.
Straight to Leavenworth.
What is with people and self-snitching? Do they need attention that much?
You can get surprisingly far by making people laugh.
There are fan projects like 2009scape that you can play for free.
Get on the grindset, steal consumer electronics and catalytic converters from your own family.
I feel like there’s a followup with that fucking dragon as the giant hologram, and I’m trying not to imagine it.
Mmm fecal microparticles
There’s some subtle differences in the frame shape and other things that I’m too dumb to articulate. The only marks I can see are import marks from “CAI” - Century International Arms, which would be strange to see on a USGI 1911.
I think this model is a Star BM, and surplus retailers were hocking these things for ~$250-300, about 6/7 years ago. I almost got one but decided against it.
It’s some Star model pistol, looks like a 1911 but not quite, and in 9mm.
A cheap springer airsoft pistol works pretty good in my experience
The only thing Bethesda is motivated to do, frothing, absolutely chomping at the bit, is figure out a way to successfully monetize modded content.
Even back then, once the public support died down a bit they just had the NYPD bulldoze the whole thing. Since then the police have only gotten more brazenly violent against protests that are not in the establishment’s interests.
Shit will get “wild” when instead of picket signs and bullhorns, people start bringing rifles and pipe bombs. Otherwise the outcome of any meaningful protest will be the same no matter how many people show up: an unforgiving police crackdown.
AI’s most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.
My take is that it’s a joke of “what anarchists think they do” as the top comic vs “what anarchists actually do” as the dilapidated trap house.
I’m not an anarchist but something tells me that going to Lemmy to shit on anarchists wouldn’t be well-received.
Then it becomes an issue of intent, and how someone looking into you might interpret your intent. You might end up legally in the right but still end up harassed, jailed, and/or put on trial with all the costs that entails in the meantime.
If you’re underwater financially or you’re clearing out an estate sale, its a legal avenue, but I wouldn’t make a habit of selling self-made guns.
Bartering also assumes, for your example, that the apple farmer wants oranges and the orange farmer wants apples. Consider that either one may not. And then consider how many other goods exist even in primitive agrarian society that people may or may not want at any given time.
Currency is whatever the agreed vehicle is for value exchange that solves this. The apple farmer can now sell apples for silver nuggets and use the silver to buy tools from someone else later, which the orange farmer either doesn’t have or is unwilling to part with. It allows for more complex transactions that then helped grow more complex societies.