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  • If one isn’t into guns, it’s hard to parse what you’re looking at it. You’re looking at mostly garbage. Those are grandpa’s guns, which may be great!, and I’d bet few actually function. Can’t get a new firing pin or funky spring for that 70-yo shotgun? Turn it in, get paid!

    EDIT: See my edited breakdown on that first pic: https://old.lemmy.world/comment/21103440

    Anyway, over on /r/liberalgunowners, we’d get a hearty chuckle out of the buy backs and police pics.

    Or, look at it this way: Almost every gun pictured is a long gun of some sort. In America, long guns, including AR-15s, are used in ~4% of gun deaths (including suicides, weirdly enough). It’s the pistols people kill with. See any pistols?


  • No, it was not. Gun buybacks are never successful.

    Look at this bullshit. Here’s a wider angle.

    It’s a joke, always is. People turn in their crappy, broken, rusty guns, get paid and the state is like, “Look how great this is!”

    Wish they’d do a buyback in my state. Got a couple of busted POS guns I’d love to get paid for.

    EDIT: Apparently lemmy doesn’t believe me. Let’s break down the first pic where we can see some detail. Making educated guesses here. Left to right:

    • Unknown, broken stock
    • Pellet gun
    • Unknown
    • Pellet gun
    • Unknown, but something’s off ?
    • Toy
    • Unknown, either a .22 or a pellet rifle
    • Broken body, snapped off stock
    • I think they zip tied two dissimilar gun together? Broken body, hence, the zip ties
    • Neat looking antique, WWII era? Older I think?
    • Homemade. How To Blow Your Fingers Off 101.
    • Bolt laying there as filler?
    • Homemade pistol. LOL, you couldn’t pay me to fire that monstrosity
    • 120+ yo old shotgun, can’t shoot modern loads or it explodes, missing foregrip, badly broken stock (have 2 such antiques)
    • Unknown single-shot rifle
    • Single shot, break-open shotgun.

    Not enough detail to guess on the last couple. One other thought, you can’t get ammo for much of that old garbage.

    What a haul of killing machines!



  • Not enough water, especially now that global warming is starting to show. Much of our water comes from aquifers. Once drained, they’re not refilling for hundreds or thousands of years.

    Yeah, we could be smarter, more efficient with distribution, but we can’t sustain 100’s of millions living in deserts and semi-arid lands.

    I’ll allow that South America and Africa could likely be OK on water, don’t know anything about them and haven’t heard of a single issue on either continent. Well, except for Amazon water levels getting historically low.



  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe forbidden fruit
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    Read Genesis as a tale of solar system and earth formation, followed by animal evolution, then human evolution. For an origin myth, it’s by far the closest to reality I’ve encountered.

    “Let there be light!”

    Solar ignition.

    “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures…”

    First animals created were in the sea! They brought in the birds way too fast though. :)

    They got the order of events mixed here and there, but if you squint real hard, you can see it. But Adam and Eve’s fall from grace really nails it.

    There they were, walkin’ around butt naked, eating whatever they wanted, no problems. Then they decide to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the troubles begin. They are cursed to spend their days toiling for food (beginning of agriculture), Eve is cursed with painful childbirth (we evolved big heads because we got that Knowledge).

    They suddenly develop problems that animals don’t have; shame of nakedness, knowledge that they’ll die, struggling with morals, enmity between the sexes, etc. Cherry on top, they can’t go back to monke.

    CAVEAT: The version you read makes a difference. Whatever I’m cribbing off now isn’t as clear as the last time I wrote about this. Also, there’s a second creation story in the same damn book! Chapters 2 and 3 are a beat-for-beat repeat of 1. Who edited this mess!? 🤦🏻‍♂️