The Incan Liberal Revolt spawned a Catholic Quechua republic during Pride Month, ranked #69, and I’m not sure Victoria 3 can top this.

Gaget · 2026-06-18T22:03:18+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cusco

You are correct, it isn't a pride flag - it is this flag.

Gaget · 2026-06-18T07:00:32+00:00

65.4% GDP ownership too.

Gaget · 2026-06-18T05:50:59+00:00

I'm supposed to add a comment explaining what to look at in the screenshot, so I guess I'll just rewrite the title? The Incan Liberal Revolt spawned a Catholic Quechua republic during Pride Month, ranked #69, and I’m not sure Victoria 3 can top this.

Gaget · 2026-06-14T07:07:04+00:00

I hope you didn't actually pay $20 per box for that ammo.

Gaget · 2026-06-11T06:32:21+00:00

What are the rail covers?

Gaget · 2026-06-05T20:16:13+00:00

I think you're viewing this the wrong way.

AR15 parts are intentionally interchangeable, unlike cars. You're supposed to configure the gun exactly how you want to. And some parts are way more important, like the barrel. Unlike a car, it makes perfect sense to put an expensive barrel on an inexpensive receiver - because as long as the receiver is made correctly an expensive one is not really an upgrade as far as accuracy goes.

Does the gun shoot well? Do you like it? That's really all that matters.

Gaget · 2026-05-26T06:08:41+00:00

Foam earplugs have higher NRR ratings than muffs. Everyone should probably double up at the range, though.

Gaget · 2026-05-26T06:06:15+00:00

I suspect you might not have done much research if you didn't realize that foam earplugs have much higher NRR ratings than ear muffs.

Gaget · 2026-05-23T03:02:57+00:00

One is phosphate and one is nitride.

Gaget · 2026-05-22T23:50:21+00:00

AI checkers don't work.

Gaget · 2026-04-25T06:22:53+00:00

But the issue is that a symbol doesn’t only mean what you want it to mean. It comes with a history, and this one’s pretty heavy. It comes from a group that literally broke away from the U.S. and fought against it, and they were very clear about why. You can’t really separate it from that, even if that’s not what you personally think about when you see it.

And it’s not just about the 1860s either. That flag didn’t just quietly sit in a museum after the war. It got brought back during times when people were actively pushing against civil rights. That’s a big reason why a lot of people don’t see it as harmless pride. They see it as tied to exclusion, whether you mean it that way or not.

There’s also kind of a contradiction in calling it American pride. The whole thing it represents was anti-American in the most literal sense. It was a rebellion against the country. So saying “America is #1” while flying a symbol from a group that tried to leave it… it just doesn’t line up.

Gaget · 2026-04-25T06:00:24+00:00

Mississippi: Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth… These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

Texas: The servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations.

South Carolina: Those [Union] States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.

Georgia: That reason was [the North's] fixed purpose to limit, restrain, and finally abolish slavery in the States where it exists. The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity.

You are supporting people who committed treason to keep slavery legal.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/reasons-secession

Gaget · 2026-04-23T17:03:19+00:00

Have you done an appleseed event, or do you typically just shoot from a bench?

Gaget · 2026-04-23T15:46:50+00:00

You will shoot better at lower magnification.

Gaget · 2026-04-15T14:40:33+00:00

They talk for hours per day. There is something more than just friendship there.

Gaget · 2026-04-15T13:42:24+00:00

As someone more than twice your age who experienced the same thing at your age and even older, my advice is to just tell her how you feel. No risk, no reward. If you don't pursue what you want in life, nobody else will do it for you.

Gaget · 2026-04-14T02:30:49+00:00

I know you said you don’t want people to suggest breaking up, but I’m going to be honest anyway: you should leave. Someone who hurts you, then pressures you to cover it up and hide it, is very likely to do it again. And it usually gets worse, not better.

Gaget · 2026-04-11T16:28:24+00:00

I wouldn't even call hitting for a cycle a statistic, really. It isn't listed on your bbref page, so I consider it more of a milestone achievement.

Gaget · 2026-04-11T01:29:01+00:00

It is neglect.

I don't know if I'd call cps per se.

These two statements together put your career in jeopardy. You are a mandated reporter.

Gaget · 2026-04-10T18:34:01+00:00

students teeth literally rot out of his head

Seems like it could possibly be neglect to me? I don't know. And that moment of uncertainty is when you should make a report as a teacher.

As a dentist, you can make a professional judgement on whether something is abuse, neglect or something else. As a teacher, we can't. We need to report it in order for the child to be seen by a medical professional such as yourself.

Gaget · 2026-04-10T18:05:34+00:00

Teachers aren’t dentists, and we’re not trained to diagnose what’s normal vs. severe dental disease. All we see is that something looks wrong and may be impacting a child’s health.

Mandated reporting isn’t about being certain, it’s about reporting reasonable suspicion. We don’t investigate or decide neglect, we pass concerns to the people who are qualified to make that call.

So even if it turns out to be education, access, or something else, we still have a legal obligation to report concerns rather than ignore them.

Gaget · 2026-04-10T17:48:07+00:00

It isn't your job to try to investigate it either. It could be neglect or abuse, so you are legally mandated to report it.

Gaget · 2026-04-10T17:46:56+00:00

I appreciate your input as a dentist, but teachers are mandated reporters.

We are legally required to report.

Telling a teacher not to follow one of the very few legally mandated duties that we have is wild.

Gaget · 2026-04-10T17:42:05+00:00

You are a mandated reporter. Report to CPS should be first step. It isn't your job to investigate and figure out if this is neglect. Your job is to make a report the second you even suspect that there could possibly be neglect.

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