@TechConnectify ...there are home freeze-dryers?

I had no idea there were home freeeze-dryers. Neat!

@rwg @combatwombat There's also a question of how do you tell deletion from an instance going down (not the same) and so on.

@combatwombat oh my gods

this is amazing

@unlofl @jalefkowit @Taweret And the crew just _stopped_ and backed the fuck out of there. She was like "can't we just take it to the police?" and they were like "no! no no no! do NOT touch it. they have to come here and take it."

the police showed up and ended up questioning everybody for a while, including her, until they were satisfied it was an actual accidental find. Then they checked to see whether it had historical value, decided not, and had it destroyed. (I don't know how that part works at all.)

Anyway yeah that's what it's like in general as far as I can tell (having no personal experience) when a sword or gun _or round_ is involved. (2/2)

@unlofl @jalefkowit @Taweret There are but they're classified differently. It's about old Samurai class stuff as much (or more) as the utility as a weapon.

I knew they took it real seriously but I didn't have any kind of personal experience with it. Then I saw a video from another westerner in Japan where they discovered - buried and in bad condition - an old sword at their house's construction site. (1/2)

@unlofl @jalefkowit @Taweret And gods forbid you find an old sword somewhere. The police take that shit _very seriously_ and you basically are automatically a suspect.

@unlofl @jalefkowit @Taweret I suppose I should say “registered” since it’s technically slightly different and _if_ you’re able to get permission to do that then - yes. That is what you do.

Trying to remember the details but their customs people went after one of their own olympic shooting team members when she came back from some competition with like the wrong number of rounds.

@unlofl @jalefkowit @Taweret I don’t think you understand how much these are Japanese tourists

remember, _individual rounds_ are licensed in Japan

_individual rounds_.

which made the subgroup of little old japanese ladies firing giant macho guns all the more adorable of course but… I’m honestly glad they only had .22s to deal with xD

to the range’s credit they were all very clean and the sights were well calibrated - since there’s no recoil worth mentioning, if you aimed decently, you would hit the target, and they did, and everyone had a good time ^_^

@unlofl @Taweret Everything I saw was a .22. Of course, that was for the Japanese tourist experience.

If you were a member that was obviously not the case, it was a regular shooting range and club for you.

But the tourist experience! Yeah they had fakes of all kinds of guns in .22 gauge. ^_^

@Taweret OH I forgot the funniest part

so the guns are actual guns (even if they're silly .22s beefed up to look like Big American movie guns) but even with that AND the safety lesson they'd four-corner tie them to the stalls. You had plenty of freedom to aim - really, it made it harder to aim well because of those stupid cables - but it was impossible to, you know, point the gun anywhere but downrange.

anyway it was hilarious and I'm sad it's gone xD

@Taweret The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club - of which I was a member for a year - used to substantially fund itself by advertising this experience _specifically to Japanese tourists_, with the entire event held entirely in Japanese, and with these hilariously overbuilt guns with little .22 actions inside them. xD

Seeing their poster and saying, "I have _got_ to do this" and actually doing so is how I joined the club. I still have my membership pin. xD

(Sadly, they're gone - combination of COVID and rising rents. )

People are asking if Trump’s commentary on Sunday is “a threat.” Of course it’s a threat, it’s always a goddamn threat, he’s been trying to get his followers to commit violence on his behalf since he started running in 2015. He launched a fucking coup attempt, for fuck’s sake.

So is this a threat?

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/10/07/of-course-its-a-threat/

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

@inquiline @freakazoid @cmdr_nova The algorithms tend to point you at people either politically opposite you (to hate), or politically & socially very closely aligned with you (to like), which means he'd likely've been herded along with other older white men who have his same blind spots.

Again, THIS IS NOT KIM'S PROBLEM. But I do think it is _kind of_ a problem, because you _don't_ get the allied-but-not-the-same interactions that _can_ educate.

The problem with _that_ is that it puts the burden on BIPOC, queers (hi), religious minorities (hi), etc. And that's intolerable eventually because _no one_ has the infinite patience required for that.

I don't have a answer for this problem. But I think it might be worth thinking about.

(fin)

@inquiline @freakazoid @cmdr_nova I'm kind of wondering if this is partly fallout from the _lack_ of algorithm.

rdgit did a NotAllMen/NotAllWhites, and it is 4000% not Kim Crayton's job to educate him on that shit.

But another person stepped in and talked to him about what he was doing and he ended up posting an apology a couple of hours later.

TO BE VERY CLEAR: I do NOT imply Kim shouldn't've blocked him, NOR do I think she should've done that work. I am NOT saying that.

But if you look at his posts in general, he seems more ignorant than ill-intended, which makes me wonder if he'd ever have found Crayton with an algorithm filling his timeline and leading him to new accounts to follow.

I have a point, bear with me (1/2)

@chris hashtags are extremely important here, you should add some, like maybe #canada #CanPol #CanadaPol #CanadaPolitics #CanPolitics #politics

And if you just saw this toot because of those tags look at what I'm replying to because I'm pointing at it ^_^