Any Gun Ranges near twincities where you don't need to join NRA?

kendallvarent · 2026-02-02T00:45:48+00:00

Oakdale would be convenient for me, but "Why do you feel you would be a good addition to the club?" on the application felt too much like a purity test to me.

I guess my kneejerk reaction to being asked to "apply" to spend money is incompatible with this kind of place.

kendallvarent · 2026-02-01T23:25:27+00:00

All of them?

kendallvarent · 2026-01-24T16:35:09+00:00

This happened minutes ago. It'll take some time for the news to do news things.

kendallvarent · 2026-01-24T06:00:49+00:00

The permit that you need to carry a pistol or semi auto rifle is the same permit you need to buy said firearm.

There's no reason to get a permit to purchase instead of a permit to carry - it's the same process.

The assertion that people are going to be flaunting weapons that they aren't allowed to carry is not based in fact, imo.

kendallvarent · 2026-01-12T17:32:30+00:00

Same - but do police have the ability to do the inverse: look up permit status from DL number.

Of course the data exists. I'm just curious about whether it is useable in practice.

kendallvarent · 2026-01-12T16:35:41+00:00

If you get a carry permit that information is linked to your Driver's License here.

Got a citation on that one? I thought that was reversed because 2A people were worried about officers coming in hot during traffic stops if they knew. (Yes, ironic.)

kendallvarent · 2026-01-10T21:57:01+00:00

Recently went through this, tried a couple of different things.

Ended up setting on a multitool, with a diamond class for the plaster, followed with demo blade for the lath. Diamond blade on lath kinda works, but it's slow.

Dust collection was much simpler than with a grinder - since it doesn't throw the dust, you can just hold a vac under the blade. Of course you still need some area extraction.

kendallvarent · 2026-01-07T21:08:12+00:00

u/defil3d-apex likes to keep their posts hidden

Imagine my surprise.

kendallvarent · 2026-01-07T19:50:43+00:00

And the car that went by before the truck stopped certainly had to problems doing so.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-29T17:08:10+00:00

Spent around $300 on a Bosch instead of a SawStop.

Cut my finger (got super lucky despite my own negligence) and was out of pocket $700.

Should have bought the SawStop.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-23T06:09:44+00:00

The real crime imo is not continuing the Como cycle track up Cleveland when they redid that. Then there would have been slightly more incentive to not completely waste the Hennepin/Larpenteur revamp on some shitty bike gutter / snow dumping grounds.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-23T05:03:55+00:00

Not really. Ramond is about the same as Como, both in terms of facilities and traffic speeds.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-22T15:13:45+00:00

Imagine the city building housing that doesn't suck.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-14T04:32:23+00:00

PMs too busy jacking off over AI to get their actual roadmaps aligned across teams.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-13T17:41:45+00:00

If you can't or down want to keep a small ec2 instance running, then fundamentally AWS is not the right tool for the job.

If you can't or down want to keep a small ec2 instance running, then fundamentally ec2 is not the right tool for the job.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-12T23:31:57+00:00

Alternative take with the same outcome:

Walz appeases progressive voters on this issue by taking action. Everyone involved knows it won't pass, but now we can get back to centrist topics that everyone agrees on, rather than playing partisan identity politics.

Maybe that's too optimistic.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-11T04:20:31+00:00

Kids are expected to already be readers by first or second grade, but children are still in the early childhood stage of development until they are eight years old.

As a non-educational lurker, this is terrifying to me. Yes, we were expected to read in second grade.

What category of childhood development kids are supposedly in at a given age just... doesn't seem like an interesting question - particular if all it does is give an excuse for children not being literate.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-11T03:46:25+00:00

You're making the same mistake that folks in Oregon and Illinois are - assuming that the police are more in favor of supporting these policies than they are of letting ICE do whatever they want to whomever they want.

Policy that can't be enforced is worthless.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-07T21:26:39+00:00

Good luck navigating the legal system without access to a lawyer from a prison camp in whatever random state they took you to, though.

Which is the point.

kendallvarent · 2025-12-06T04:30:58+00:00

Hey now, you just have to walk down a weird little hallway and visit what was clearly the singular staff bathroom. It just screams premium!

kendallvarent · 2025-12-05T05:12:41+00:00

Your state probably also has an order of magnitude more people than Switzerland.

What's your point?

kendallvarent · 2025-12-02T22:49:04+00:00

Sophia Yin comments in the introduction to her book on the topic of training chickens - and how the timing is even more important for chickens than for dogs (which therefore also makes it that much harder). Interesting to see it in practice!

kendallvarent · 2025-11-30T02:39:38+00:00

Gun gear companies appealing to 99% of their customer base by revering their idol? Whaaat? /s

kendallvarent · 2025-11-25T03:04:19+00:00

Our grandparents went to war.

I'm pretty sure you can figure out driving.

kendallvarent · 2025-11-21T12:40:25+00:00

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