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  • Hand guns are difficult to be accurate with if you’ve never shot one, and still not easy if you have. Nobody is going to fire one for the first time and be good at it, but within 10-15’ the difference is probably just if the shot was lethal or not. Anything with a longer barrel like a shotgun or rifle, as long as you’re pointing in the general direction it’s as simple as pulling the trigger. The recoil is easier to deal with and it’s easier to aim. Loading could take a second to figure out, but that’s something that can be worked out before ever pulling the trigger.

    I think the fact that most school shootings don’t end up with dozens of kills is because it’s not super easy to be skilled with all aspects of a firearm, but it’s easy enough for quick damage.





  • The difference is if you were being hunted, both you and the hunter can change positions. Russia knows where Poland is and Poland can’t really do anything about that but make it more difficult to get to them. If there were no action taken to bolster the defensive front and Russia made a bigger play, everyone would ask why Poland did nothing to prevent it.

    I don’t think the Poland and nato are showing anything to Russia that can be used against them. Sure if Russia is determined, they could study the response and try to coordinate an attack or something, but it would likely be responded much faster than if there wasn’t already support in the region.







  • I forgot the Sidewalk is a thing. While that tech does kind of do what OP was saying, Sidewalk is limited to only Amazon Sidewalk compatible devices, like the echo line and ring. Just at a quick glance, there are no smart TVs that can connect to that network.

    That said, it is an opt out service, which it awful. No smart TVs will connect, but I’d recommend disabling for anyone that uses Amazon devices.




  • They never should have capitulated to begin with. Target is a place I don’t know that I’ll ever shop at again because of this. Idk if there’s anything they could do now to get me to come back, short of removing everybody tangentially related to the choice to suck Trump’s dick instead of sticking up for minority rights, both trans and DEI as a whole.

    Anyone or any organization that didn’t fight and just caved under pressure, or made a performative action of “fighting” is dead to me. It’s always been an excuse to be shitty, not because they had to do anything. Hell, the likes of NPR that rely almost entirely on government funding didn’t bend the knee at the possible expense of their existence. It really makes these other entities look real fascist.


  • Yea, this paragraph feels like fear mongering. I’m not saying OP didn’t see that somewhere, but from a tech standpoint, the TV still has to authenticate with any device it’s trying to piggy back off the wifi for. Perhaps if there were any open network in range it could theoretically happen, but I’m guessing that it’s not.

    I do remember reading that some smart TV was able to use the speakers as a mic to record in room audio and pass that out if connected. It may have been a theoretical thing but it might have been a zero day I read about. It’s been some years now.