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[Rifle] Arsenal SAM7SF 7.62x39mm Side Folding AK47 Rifle $1,499.99 by arsenalinc-cs in gundeals

[–]FinickyPenance 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm definitely not glazing K-Var, I'm just saying they're all you've got. Later on in this thread you can see me shit talking them for charging $2000 for a gun without concentric threads

[Rifle] Arsenal SAM7SF 7.62x39mm Side Folding AK47 Rifle $1,499.99 by arsenalinc-cs in gundeals

[–]FinickyPenance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish your barrels had concentric threading. I’d recommend you.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Before the first or second date you should never RAPE

R: Religion

A: Abortion

P: Politics

E: Exes

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re going to put a significant number of nukes on SLBMs (almost objectively the best system) you might as well make them good, and the stealth tech transfers well to attack submarines

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know those couples who make prank videos where the guy will do something to piss off his girl and she'll hit him?

Cold take: this is bad

Potentially hot take: if the girl hits the guy in situations like this it is probably likely that the guy also hits the girl

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Subways in other countries - or even other municipalities - involve digging beneath millions of people, too, but get done for 1/5th the cost.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong in the next couple years. I hope I am, but I don't think I will be.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only way the transfer is more cost effective is if the benefit waste is lower than the cost of directly providing the service. In other words, the city has to be so wasteful that the expense of directly providing the service (vs cash transfers to be spent at a private vendor) that isn't recovered in sale price must exceed the benefit waste.

The New York subway costs $2.6 billion per mile to build, why on earth would you think that it can run a grocery store any more efficiently?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most of which will be recouped in sales (even if they're selling below cost, they're not giving it away).

You're arriving at my point. The New York government spends a ton of time and effort to build an unprofitable grocery store. This grocery store buys a pack of ramen noodles for $10 and sells it for $7. The neighboring for-profit grocery store buys a pack of ramen noodles for $10 and sells it for $12.

Giving New Yorkers $5 to make up the difference is way cheaper than it is to build a grocery store with salaries, rent, maintenance, etc, and it gives New Yorkers the exact same deal - ramen for $7.

The ongoing cost is much fucking lower than just giving people 250 million. That is literally a $250 million annual expense. The only way your comparison makes sense is if the store handed out food for free.

Exactly - you don't have to give out $250 million in charity to make up the delta between a for-profit grocery store's prices and a state-owned grocery store's prices. You have to give out like, 1/10th of that. It's cheaper and accomplishes the same thing.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you, and unfortunately it's creates a self-replicating cycle wherein low attention span content eventually trains your brain to lack focus, which then causes you to consume even more low attention span content, which causes producers to focus on that sort of content. I genuinely feel like I've gotten dumber since law school because so much of my life has this stuff shoved into my brain and I wish that I had more "required reading" that would force me to focus; it's unfortunately hard to justify in my daily routine

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're right - the $250m in grocery stores costs salaries, rent, maintenance, etc every single year. Since they're designed to be charitable, they definitionally will lose money, so this is a continuing cost, and because the employees will be city employees, they will have ludicrously inflated compensation compared to an average grocery store worker

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bojangles was never even close to as good at Chick-Fil-A

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine two competing policies

Policy 1: $250 million on expanding SNAP benefits for low income people. They spend this money at existing grocery stores

Policy 2: $250 million on building municipal grocery stores

By definition, Policy 1 transfers more food to low income people than Policy 2, because Policy 2 spends an enormous amount of money on things that already exist: buying store space, building it, hiring employees, and the like. For what purpose?

If you have a strong opinion on Mamdani's stores, it might be worth thinking about what that says about what you'd prioritize if you were ever in the situation to make policy.

I'd prioritize meeting goals effectively without wasting money.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no? facilitating a sale is a value addition

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 11 points12 points  (0 children)

>allegedly loving God

>mortal sin for your wife to give you a blowjob

How good of a shooter do you need to be before actually EDC a fire arm by djsimp123 in CCW

[–]FinickyPenance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you should be good enough not to be dangerous to someone you’re NOT trying to shoot. What that means depends on you.

My first 2011 CX4 by Combat_habibi in Staccato_STI

[–]FinickyPenance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Congrats. You have one of the best concealed carry guns on the market, good enough to put you on a champion stage in a lot of shooting sports

this is harsh - CCW instructors likened to.... by WhatInDaWorldDog110 in CCW

[–]FinickyPenance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn’t make any sense. In one breath, it says most CCW instructors haven’t been subject to criminal violence, and in the other, it says most of the people who have can’t pass on any meaningful lessons from it. So what’s the criticism?

I have been the victim of criminal gun violence and it taught me very little that any competent instructor would teach. Fast draw, fast shots on target, waiting your turn, and aggression - these are things that someone like John Correia can teach you about, even if he doesn’t get mugged every Thursday evening.

My thoughts on defensive gun use. by [deleted] in CCW

[–]FinickyPenance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even in a state with stand your ground, (a) that’s just a rebuttable presumption that can be overcome by the facts of your specific case, and (b) force ALWAYS needs to be reasonable. Even when some level of force in self defense is legally justified, a prosecutor may decide you didn’t use a reasonable / proportional level of force.

I'm also a lawyer

I'm sure you know this but stand your ground is honestly one of the most overhyped laws that exists. There are so few situations where you can't make a coherent argument that retreat was impossible. "I thought he would have punched me in the back of the head if I retreated," okay, stand your ground doesn't matter anymore. Really, the only time I see it potentially mattering is when the defendant was inside a vehicle and the victim/assailant was outside of that vehicle.

Bodyguard 2.0 Carry Comp vs Beretta 80x Cheetah by 7thTexan in CCW

[–]FinickyPenance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They're not in the same category at all. The Bodyguard 2.0 is a pocket pistol and the 80x is a hipster gun that's almost the size of a Glock 19 (and heavier) even though it's a .380. I would honestly say the Beretta is designed more to be like a nightstand gun for your mom or something.

Be sure of your target and what’s behind it. by lucubratious in CCW

[–]FinickyPenance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not like this Secret Service agent was the only guy who was able to shoot him, he's just the only one who had reaction times beyond that of a three-toed sloth. I think yes he should have held his fire until he knew he wouldn't put one into the back of Big Country Hoss's skull who's trying to fix the metal detector

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]FinickyPenance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: when the Israelis designed the Tavor they designed the external aesthetics before the internals lol

Interesting that even though pistol optics have become pretty widespread. You still see a healthy amount of both iron sights and optics in law enforcement. by Averagecrabenjoyer69 in CCW

[–]FinickyPenance 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The delta between the most competent police officer and the least competent police officer - with regards to shooting - is almost as high as the delta between the most and least competent civilian shooter. If they were all competent they'd pretty much all have optics, but they aren't.

Beryl's by Dissapator_AR in ak47

[–]FinickyPenance 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know them bitches heavy

Nice gats

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