• 0 Posts
  • 12 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 14th, 2023

help-circle






  • Firstly, your ‘instance’ is just like your email server. It doesn’t matter if it’s @yahoo.com or @google.com, I can still email you and you can respond. Some people even have their own servers.

    Next, imagine if Facebook, Instagram and Twitter users could all follow each other’s posts. The posts are already pretty much the same but we just add @Facebook or @Twitter to the end. You could log in to one, but see posts from the others. The only difference is the layout and design of the interface, like the difference between ‘Gmail’ and ‘Outlook’.

    You can also move between servers easily if you want. Sick of @Facebook? Move to @Instagram without losing followers.


  • Seriously - the most dangerous roads I’ve ever been on were in Texas where there were 12 lane highways, and crazy people who wanted to drive 100MPH past you in the right-hand lane, all while people are merging on and off the highway.

    Doing the speed limit meant that EVERYONE was driving faster than you, which meant that you were a lot more likely to get rear-ended from someone who didn’t see you in time. You have to speed to stay safe, and then you add in construction zones and it’s just a death trap.

    Where is our public transportation option?




  • Something which, notably, happens on around 1% of all applications, but is prosecuted less than 0.000005% of the time.

    From 2008 - 2012 there were 32 million background checks, and 373,900 rejections.

    Between FY 2008 and FY 2015, an 8-year period, ATF formally referred 509 NICS denial
    cases that included 558 subjects to USAOs for possible prosecution. The USAOs
    accepted for consideration of prosecution 254 subjects (or less than 32 subjects per
    year) and declined to prosecute 272 subjects.

    32 prosecutions a year for an average of 6 million background checks (completed, there is a much larger number for bg checks initiated)