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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldAnd here's your gun
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    2 months ago

    If you’re buying from an FFL anywhere in the US you absolutely are getting background checked. FFL’s don’t want to open themselves up to more liability than they need to.

    The only way you’re not getting background checked is private sales from your cousin vinney you suspect is in a gang or your redneck uncle Rob.

    That being said, background checks are different from waiting periods. They usually only take 5-10 minutes to get approval. You literally just awkwardly stand by the counter and dick around on your phone while you wait







  • Muskrat grew up as a trust fund baby on money from his dad’s apartheid emerald mines. He’s essentially clueless regarding technical skills and got where he is from just hiring people who knew what they were doing.

    Unfortunately there’s been a bunch of propaganda over the years making him out to be some super genius that’s the lead engineer for all of his companies, and he’s since bought into all of it


  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldBoss Mom
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    3 months ago

    Or they could be ignorant of history and assume that the UK stole The Falklands from native people simply. I don’t really blame people for that becaise Great Britain did that a lot, they’re just innocent this time around

    For those unaware, The Falklands were actually uninhabited by the time Great Britain colonized it. The only recorded settlers of the islands before that was a group of pirates that used them as a base. They ended up disrupting so much shipping that the US navy came in and wiped them out 50-100 years before Great Britain claimed the islands.









  • Not really. Most money is actually just numbers on a spreadsheet. This is because loans actually create money in a virtual sense. If you want to reduce the money supply, a better approach is to up interest rates, which encourages people and companies to reduce how many loans they take and pay off the ones they have.

    And yes, this is what the Biden administration did to reduce inflation, and it worked. At the start of his term it was over 8%, and at the end it was under 4%.

    Unfortunately, people don’t understand that reduced inflation doesn’t mean reduced prices. It just means the prices don’t go up as fast. They also don’t understand that negative inflation, i.e. prices going down, is actually terrible for an economy since everyone is then encouraged to spend as little as possible, reducing cash flow


  • They’ll take any extra taxes gained and put it into the military budget

    Trump is actually trying to cut the military budget too. Which is actually problematic because we have a lot of equipment (particularly aircraft) that is aging out and we already can’t develop and/or manufacture replacements fast enough