most Democrats not being armed or proficient with firearms.

Is this based on hard data or hyperbole?

I’m guessing I’d fit your definition of a Democrat but also your definition of anti-2FA.

I own exactly one firearm, but I used to own more. I don’t think I’ve ever told any of my friends that I own a gun, even our neighbor who’s mentioned his own multiple times. It’s just not something I feel compelled to talk about unless I’m actually going to shoot it.

After the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings it made me sick to my stomach looking at the semiautomatic military style rifle I had. I got rid of it and all my other firearms, only keeping the first one I ever bought, because it was a gun I had always wanted.

That gun has sat in the safe for the last five years, with a barrel lock, unused. I pulled it out last week, stripped it, checked, cleaned it and lubed it. It’s back in the safe now alongside two magazines loaded with .45 hollow points and six of FMJs.

I’ve even been looking at shotguns recently but I’m not ready to believe we’re there yet.

Here’s the thing though, most of the people I know from growing up are like me. We’re all pretty liberal still these days, we grew up around firearms, learned how to use them properly in gun safety training. Some kids hunted regularly, others would target shoot on the family farm when visiting or at the cabin.

I’m a Xennial though. Maybe our generation beat the Armalite crazy wave. We were all about the .30-06 and distance.

They drank Flavor Aid at Jonestown. Kool Aid just got all the bad? good? PR because it was misidentified by investigators and witnesses in testimony.

Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.

AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?

Wisconsin Supreme Court. Nobody actually lives in Wyoming.

Hmm, if farmers had actually listened to any educated people

This really comes across like you think farmers are not educated people. Benefit of the doubt that this is not what you intended but you may want to re-write this.

Just block and move on. The doomerism is just another form of trolling but you can block the user and it’s like their doomed attitude got sent to El Salvador.

Unless I missed something about how Kamala Harris is running for President of Israel, then no.

Though it would mean anybody who votes for Harris, should she be elected, shares responsibility for her policies, including any enacted around Israel.

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polling shows most republican voters are *not* in favor of extreme abortion restrictions. They want abortion up to a certain point and for certain reasons.

So those polled voters indicate what they want in a poll.

But when they’re told the other side is murdering full-norn babies, they go for what seems to them like the lesser evil.

Yet those same voters elect (choose) the politicians (their representatives who speak for them) who want something different.

Again I ask why a distinction should be made, in regards to voters and politicians, when discussing party. Seems to me like both groups, voters and politicians, say one thing and do another.

As Maya Angelou once said, “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.”

I administer a tenant today that has given me plenty of understanding.

You’d never be able to tell. If this is true your “understanding” doesn’t show but I’ve seen some very dysfunctional organizations so I wouldn’t be surprised.

I am aware of telemetry, yes.

Even if we ignore your continued conflation of Word and Microsoft 365, I suspect you have nothing to support your assertion that Word transmits the content of your document files to Microsoft.

Realistically this whole exchange is moot. A medical providers use of patient data management software in no way constitutes a “release” of data to that software provider as the person I originally replied to seemed to think.

Perhaps you’ll have an opportunity to administer a tenant someday and that’ll give you a better understanding.

So I am not being willfully ignorant. I work with both daily.

Then you’re just being ignorant.

O365, which is actually Microsoft 365 now, is a suite of productivity software as well as collaboration and cloud-based services.

Word is a word processing program. They are not the same and use of Word does not equate to O365.

You should know this. Just like you should know that a business using a piece of software, such as a medical facility using Epic’s patient data management tools, does not equate to patient data being “released” to Epic.

Since you seem to be struggling with the concept perhaps a different example would be easier for you?

Just because you get an MRI doesn’t mean the data collected for the MRI is “released” to GE.

Politicians are the elected representatives of the voters. If the politicians want something their voters don’t then why are they being elected.

Your dogs might be chill but I bet all the other dogs find their unsolicited advice and wildly off base assumptions annoying.

Using your logic they’re also probably pretty thin skinned when called out on it.

Well damn! You’re 0/2!!! Look at you go!

Maybe, just maybe, two comments on Lemmy, one not even directly about our dogs, isn’t enough for your armchair analysis.

Don’t worry, I don’t expect you to actually eat your hat, though that was a foolish thing to say.

Firstly, nobody comes to our door “unexpectedly”. We’re alerted and have them on camera before they hit our front walk.

Secondly, our dogs lose their minds barking when my wife comes home from work, when we have expected company, when we come back from running errands, when our neighbor comes home from work and slams his car door etc. etc. etc.

It’s almost like they both have high amounts of guard dog breeds in them.

I’m there with you.

We have a camera on the driveway and the front walk. We have a sign at the start of the front walk that, in compliance with state/federal law requirements, says no politics (among others). Anybody who makes it to the door gets yelled at for not reading the sign and asked for their permit from the city to go door to door.

We really don’t like people, outside of expected visitors/deliveries, coming to our door. Our dogs lose their minds barking and then are on high alert for a while going off at every little noise.

Political texts, regardless of party or content, get an automatic delete and mark junk. Same with emails.

Mailers don’t make it into the house and go right into the recycling.

We don’t vote based on the best marketing campaign.

I want to show some love to B&H Photo. They’re one of my go to’s specifically for tech stuff.

I feel like people give up on in store if they can’t find it at a big box store and go to the online equivalent of a big box store (Amazon).

Anybody who puts in a little effort should be able to find a specialty store either in person or online.

I wasn’t having a discussion with them or you however when you present incorrect information or are intentionally obtuse I will call it out.

If you want to engage me on the original topic I can happily explain both how the concept that a medical provider is “releasing” data to a software vendor is wrong and how equating O365 and Word is wrong.

I imagine you’re too busy finding ways to be offended on someone else’s behalf and making light of recent terrorist acts though.

It does, your willful misinterpretation doesn’t change that.

I looked through your post history, you seem to have at least enough technical aptitude to understand that.