Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to AFF and Facebook —

   Sage advice here. Ah, but for COVID-19 . . .

   Seth Anderson Bailey
   Monday, March 23, 2020 at 11:13 AM

   Honestly, I think the thing that amazes me the most, is what seems to be a resurgence in men that don’t go down on women. In fact, I bet there’s a man reading these words right now that’d sooner lick a bunghole that put tongue on clitoris.

   Or the number of women that tell me they’d just as soon men stop trying, because they won’t listen.

   This is the wrong answer, America.

   We are living in the age of the bare muff. For you to forsake this tasty and satisfying meal now, of all times, is just goddamn tragic.

   Women, be firm but easy with your men. They are often both rather delicate and not very bright.

   Men, listen to your ladies. Just this once. I promise, it’ll only make you more heterosexual and masculine, and totally not the opposite, no matter what some popular rap DJ’s have to say.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Midnight’s Edge — Marvel’s New Warriors feat. Snowflake and Safespace to Rescue struggling Comicbook Stores [YouTube]
2. Van Halen — Live: Right Here, Right Now
3. Overkill — The Wings of War
4. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
   1. Star Trek
   2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
   3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
   4. Star Trek: Voyager
   5. Star Trek: Enterprise
5. Science Channel — How the Universe Works

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. Posted to Facebook [ page, profile ], Quora, Spreely [ page, profile ], and Twitter –

   Q: Without appealing to emotion or using ad hominem attacks, how can I convince conservatives that gun regulation is a good thing?

   A: If by “gun regulation,” you mean more restrictions upon those of us who own firearms for the sake of “saving lives,” “stopping crime,” or whatever other buzz-phrase du jour, well, you can’t convince any principled conservatives (or principled libertarians such as myself, for that matter) that your proposed “gun regulation(s)” are anything resembling a good deal.

   Why is that?

   Because We The Conservatives and Libertarians recognize that We are NOT the problem in any way, shape, or form.

   There are anywhere to 330,000,000 million to 1,000,000,000 firearms in American hands, depending upon who you ask. About .0001 (0.01 %) of those firearms are used by people to kill themselves or others.

   So what you’re saying is that because of ONE TEN THOUSANDTH of the American people, the rest of us simply must surrender liberty and property upon your demand, so that you can have your warm-fuzzy feel-good moment where you “got something done” and “made a difference” ?

   NO, THANKS

   Feel free to shove that notion BACK where the sun doesn’t shine.

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LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. The Human Chronicles Saga, Book 1: The Fringe Worlds by T. R. (Tom) Harris
2. Overlord DVD by “Dicktor Van Doomcock” — Snowflake and Safespace | The Worst Idea in Marvel History! [YouTube]
3. YellowFlash 2 — The fall of Marvel Comics | New Warriors is nothing compared to this! [YouTube]
4. JLS Comics — History and Origin of G.I. Joe’s COBRA COMMANDER! [YouTube]
5. The Firearm Blog [TFB] — TFBTV: Top 5 Guns: Tim of Military Arms Channel Picks His Favorites [YouTube]
6. Garand Thumb by Mike Jones — The LMT M4 (Ambidextrous, improved reliability M4) [YouTube]
7. Taofledermaus — Prototype RUSSIAN slug is almost unstoppable! [YouTube]
8. Van Halen — Live: Right Here, Right Now
9. Overkill — The Wings of War
10. Vanity Fair — The Book of Reese by Ann Patchett
11. Wired — The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming by Steven Levy
12. TNT — Justice League

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LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Titan Comics — Adler
2. Dark Horse Comics — Starship Down
3. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Star Trek
4. Overkill — The Wings of War
5. Van Halen —
   1. Balance
   2. Live: Right Here, Right Now

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   I left the LPNM simply because I have an extremely low tolerance for back stabbing and cheating. Others left around the same time I did for the same reason.

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Consider Diaspora*, Flote, Friendica, Gab, Liberty.Me, MeWe, Minds, Pocketnet, or Spreely as possible alernatives.

   http://diasp.org/people/797c4c40d5020132c71100259069449e

   https://flote.app/mikewb1971

   https://nerdica.net/profile/mike [Part of the Friendica portion of the Fediverse]

   https://gab.ai/mikewb1971

   https://liberty.me/members/mikewb1971/

   https://mewe.com/i/mikewb11971

   h t t p : / / m i n d s . c o m / m i k e w b 1 9 7 1

   https://pocketnet.app/mikewb1971

   https://spreely.com/mikewb1971

3. Posted to Facebook —

   I’m slowly duplicating my FB pages on Spreely, in advance of a possible mass migration.

   Diaspora* doesn’t have pages or groups, and it helps if you can read German, French and Spanish, but there is some interesting stuff there.

   Friendica is similar to Diaspora, along with the posts in Russian and Japanese.

   Gab is a less-censored version of Twitter.

   MeWe lets you create groups at no charge, but charges you per month for pages. Also, they don’t let you share links for anything there (including your own stuff) outside of MeWe.

   Minds lets you create groups at no charge, but doesn’t have any version of pages. Plus, the mobile version works fine, but on the desktop / laptop version, their user interface needs a bit of work.

4. Posted to Facebook —

   They can’t die of coronavirus if “Dr.” Kermit and his unsterilized Shop-Vac get to them first.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. 12.21 by Dustin Thomason
2. Colion Noir — How This Pandemic Exposes The Truth About Gun Control [YouTube]
3. Military Arms Channel (MAC) — Best Infantry Rifle: M14 vs. FAL [YouTube]
4. The Pholosopher — AnCap Grind – The Pholosopher (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) [YouTube]
5. Van Halen —
   1. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
   2. Balance
6. Slate — The Groceries That No One Wants to Panic-Buy by Aaron Mak
7. Pluralist — Twitter Notices Obama Is Following a Porn Star on Social Media by Brian Trusdell