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Messages - Kernel Kraut
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« on: January 03, 2019, 07:49:33 PM »
More enticement to drop 70 dollars on a single plane for a game
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« on: January 03, 2019, 07:44:28 PM »
Because I certainly do. Any DCS players here?
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« on: January 03, 2019, 04:18:19 PM »
make sure to write down your thoughts and feelings on all of your coworkers next to some conspicuous evidence so someone can stumble across it in 200 years time while searching for a can of beans to eat
I'll make an audio recording instead because people might be illiterate at that point.
Be sure to allude that you're still alive and need help, but when the interested party finds you it turns out you're a dead and dried up husk. That makes for great story telling.
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« on: January 02, 2019, 10:37:52 PM »
I've finally decided to keep a journal. I'm not doing daily entries but I'm also not doing much besides sitting at home right now. Oddly enough Red Dead Redemption 2 kinda inspired me to write occasional things down. Kinda liked the idea of having record beyond just memory alone.
Any of y'all keep a journal?
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« on: January 02, 2019, 09:35:14 PM »
I'd really like to move into a new apartment, possibly by myself. I think being alone would be better than tripping over other people's shit all the time.
Living totally alone is hard. I've always been fairly indidepedent and enjoy my alone time. But after a year of being away from my family I was slowly going crazy. Granted it might have been the distance. But fuck, Christmas 2016 was hard alone. So was my Birthday July 2017. Though that may have been partially because I had just been broken up with. Whiskey kinda filled that hole. Kinda.
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« on: January 02, 2019, 12:46:00 PM »
I really only listened to a few new albums this year. All hit the spot fairly well
Judas Priest's Firepower was a killer album
I love Black Label Society's Grimmest Hits
Black Stone Cherry put out a pretty good new Album in Family Tree
God Smack's new album is half decent
Album of the year for me was FIREPOWER. Halford still kills it. It was a killer album.
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« on: January 01, 2019, 11:01:41 PM »
Move the fuck out of California and get back to Utah. Buy guns, pay off my truck. Buy more guns. Start prospecting more. Finally learn to Fly Fish.
These are all things I want to do. Will I do them? Doubtful.
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« on: December 30, 2018, 11:01:32 PM »
Payed for half of Radeon 570 R because poverty tier
Got 50 dollars Amazon, bought a new pocket knife with that
Two new pairs of pants
New pair of shoes
two cans of soup (gag gift so funney xDDDDDDDDD)
a whiskey glass with a .308 embedded in it. (the copper jacket actually has a cooling effect through the glass.)
10 bucks from my brother
Then my buddy bought me DCS Persian Gulf when he really, REALLY didn't need to.
TBH, I got far more than I needed.
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« on: December 30, 2018, 06:14:36 PM »
Hello, glorious leader here. Please speak knave
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« on: December 28, 2018, 05:25:26 PM »
10 years ago i would be knee deep in 30 celsius snow at this time of the year. Now its just wet and chilly.
areyousureaboutthat.mp3
i want my 30 celsius face hurt cold weather
How in the fuck does snow at 30 Celsius? Snoway that's right
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« on: December 28, 2018, 04:15:04 PM »
Welcome back Kraut. This place is so negative and backwards but I like to stick around because people here know me better than most IRL people
That's pretty depressing fam.
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« on: December 28, 2018, 11:25:01 AM »
and I can't even post on Bungie.net about the glory days of bungie.old because I didn't by Desti-shit 2. How will they ever know the greatest story no one ever wanted to hear about a bowl of Cheerios? How will they ever find out about the emotional rollercoaster that was the banning of Souljaboy? The current state of Bungie.net makes me sick. Zoomers playing their Borderlands MMO wannabe forgetting what made the site great. It wasn't Halo, it wasn't Bungie. It was the glorious Flood. A place to shit post and troll to your hearts content. But now it's all gone, never to be remembered by anyone but us bungie.old boomers. But not even the biggest sip will cease this pain. Nevermore. 
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« on: February 04, 2018, 01:44:36 PM »
These people...these people are one of hte things that drove me to quit my old job. I didn't realize it at the time. I mean, I had my disdain for them. Funko pop shit everywhere. Pretend 'nerd culture,' Man buns (twat knots) with shitty beards, Superiority complexes, punchable faces. It drove me up a wall with how fake it all seemed. Like some sort of shitty culture. Is this what Men have become? I mean, I'm not the example of the ideal male, but shit, at least I have a spine and my own personality and don't willingly partake in any soy-based products. I bet they're all cucks too.
Hipsters...I fucking hate hipsters and everything they've spawned from their shitty, what ever the fuck thing they had.
soibois are the future get used to it
Not while I have a breath in my body they're not.
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« on: February 04, 2018, 12:10:21 AM »
These people...these people are one of hte things that drove me to quit my old job. I didn't realize it at the time. I mean, I had my disdain for them. Funko pop shit everywhere. Pretend 'nerd culture,' Man buns (twat knots) with shitty beards, Superiority complexes, punchable faces. It drove me up a wall with how fake it all seemed. Like some sort of shitty culture. Is this what Men have become? I mean, I'm not the example of the ideal male, but shit, at least I have a spine and my own personality and don't willingly partake in any soy-based products. I bet they're all cucks too.
Hipsters...I fucking hate hipsters and everything they've spawned from their shitty, what ever the fuck thing they had.
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« on: February 03, 2018, 11:55:03 PM »
250k in Cocaine so I can OD before I drop dead.
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« on: February 03, 2018, 08:46:38 PM »
I worked for Tesla and I still don't like Teslas. What does that say?
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« on: February 04, 2016, 09:14:49 PM »
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« on: December 06, 2015, 07:43:18 PM »
Again, I don't care. I will not give up liberty for safety. People who want more restrictions can blow me.
I don't even know why you care so much about US internal politics. Well, unfortunately it doesn't really matter whether you care or not. This is no different than the thousands of extremely conservative Americans who thought and still think that gay marriage is a horrible thing that should never have become a reality. Despite all of their resistance, public protests and vocalization of their opinion, it still happened. The same thing is going on with gun control too. It's a slow and gradual process, but it's happening.
And the reason I care is purely out of academic interest. I wrote a Bachelor's thesis on criminal justice and gun control in the developed world and now have a Master's in criminal law. From an academic point of view, the US is a very peculiar and rather ancient anomaly in the Western world when it comes to its attitude towards firearms. This just interests me, that is all.
I am entirely willing to bet that you are looking at national data, and not state data. While the United States is one nation, we really are more of a collection of nation states that fall under one banner. Internal state politics vary drastically and so do demographics. While the Uniform Crime Reporting is very helpful to gauge national instances of violence, it's not very helpful in dealing with said violence. We need to break it down even farther to truly get an idea of what the problem is and where it lies. Look at reporting by state and then compare against the other 50 states. (This would actually be a good GIS project, but I am entirely to lazy to do it right now.) Now the data we are going to be interested here is the violent crime per 100k people. This will give us a very good representation of just where each state lies. What you'll find is that states that border, well, the Southern Border tend to have higher rates of violent crime than say, East Bumblefuck Iowa. This is a given, after all there is a drug war on the Southern border, and there is a lot of spill over. But you'll also noticed that states with the Major Cites such as Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, etc... tend to have a higher rate of violent crime. Now we'd break it down by county to isolate the county that is causing the most violence in a state. Once we isolate the county we can look at regions. Break it down by census tracts, and now we can see where the violence really stems from. Now, the curious case of Maine. Maine is one of the safest states in the Union. Poverty is low, and unemployment is low. Maine also rates as an F according the Brady Center, one of the major Gun-control lobbying groups. Maine is incredibly pro-gun. Yet, gun crime remains low. It's truly mind-boggling (to people who aren't reasonably intelligent individuals.) The reason? Because there's low poverty! I believe in you, do the research past just looking at national rates of gun violence. It really doesn't tell you anything. You really have to dig deeper than just the surface to really get an idea of what's going on.
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« on: December 05, 2015, 09:38:11 PM »
No.
What an insightful response debunking my entire argument. That'll teach me to bring common sense and facts into this debate.
Listen, I've argued this for years. I'm tired of it. My answer is no. I will not trade Liberty for someone else's perceived security. It's not going to happen.
Want to solve the murder problem? Fix the cultures the breed violence. I, and the Millions of other legal gun owners do not cause violence. We do not murder or steal. We merely want to be left alone to and not have the government punish us because some hood rat decided to shoot up a drug dealer on the corner.
You can scream, bitch, and moan for more gun control; but it'll do jack and shit. Thugs are going to thug, peddlers are going to peddlers, and busta's going to get busted. It's as simple as that. Be that with guns, knives, or fucking spears. You fix that culture of crime, you fix the violence.
So, like I said, No.
You can make all the comparisons to other countries you want, but you're comparing Apples to fucking grape fruit. Belgium is not a good comparison. Belgium is a homogeneous country. The United States is not. There will ALWAYS be more friction in a place where many cultures come together than a place where there is one defined culture.
Gun control is becoming an even hotter topic with increasing amounts of politicians openly supporting it, including the woman who is likely going to be a presidential nominee soon. While the number of privately owned guns is obviously still on the rise, gun ownership is on the decline while the number of people supporting gun regulations has been increasing. Next year, there will be more people dying by guns than by vehicles in your country, which is not even close to being rivaled by any other developed country. Gun free zones are becoming more prevalent and increasing amounts of better and more recent research is supporting the benefits of gun control measures. Mass shootings have been becoming more frequent and they sway the public opinion quite a bit. You can say "no, I'm not ever going to let this happen, don't you tread on me" all you want. Albeit slowly and gradually, this is happening. Your country will almost definitely but slowly shift towards stricter gun control.
As for your other points: Legal gun owners are not perfect. They commit crimes just like the rest of us. It's also been demonstrated that the easy and legal access to guns directly fuels the illegal market, making it cheaper, easier, faster and less risky for criminals to get their hands on firearms. People don't just care about the millions of "good law abiding gun owners". They care about the broader implications that such a system holds. Also, substitution mechanisms when guns are taken out of the equation have often been found to be minimal and significantly less effective.
I also never compared the US to my own country, nor have I ever advocated a direct implementation of a European style gun control system in the US. No one in the right mind would think that it'd work.
And Belgium quite literally is a country made up out of several groups of people from different backgrounds and nations. We're a bunch of Frenchies, Dutchmen and Germans crammed together in a single country with 6 different governments, 3 official national languages and over a million foreigners living here (which is a lot for a country as small as this one). It's not as diverse as the US, but there are far more homogeneous countries in the EU if you want to make this comparison.
Again, I don't care. I will not give up liberty for safety. People who want more restrictions can blow me. I don't even know why you care so much about US internal politics. Again, gun purchases/registration/etc. should be just as regulated as automobiles.
So anyone can purchase one regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, and religion. Oh, do you mean that you have to register and insure cars? Fun Fact! No you don't. You only have to register and insure a vehicle if you intend to operate it on public roads. Want to buy a car from your bro and you only intend to operate it on private land? Go right ahead, no can stop you, and no one can force you to do anything about it.
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« on: December 05, 2015, 06:38:12 PM »
No.
What an insightful response debunking my entire argument. That'll teach me to bring common sense and facts into this debate.
Listen, I've argued this for years. I'm tired of it. My answer is no. I will not trade Liberty for someone else's perceived security. It's not going to happen. Want to solve the murder problem? Fix the cultures the breed violence. I, and the Millions of other legal gun owners do not cause violence. We do not murder or steal. We merely want to be left alone to and not have the government punish us because some hood rat decided to shoot up a drug dealer on the corner. You can scream, bitch, and moan for more gun control; but it'll do jack and shit. Thugs are going to thug, peddlers are going to peddlers, and busta's going to get busted. It's as simple as that. Be that with guns, knives, or fucking spears. You fix that culture of crime, you fix the violence. So, like I said, No. You can make all the comparisons to other countries you want, but you're comparing Apples to fucking grape fruit. Belgium is not a good comparison. Belgium is a homogeneous country. The United States is not. There will ALWAYS be more friction in a place where many cultures come together than a place where there is one defined culture.
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« on: December 05, 2015, 06:02:24 PM »
If they had a bullet buttons, which one rifle looked like it may have, judging by the grainy photo that was released of both rifles, then they committed a Felony by using a 30 round magazine. Though, had they removed the bullet button, they also committed a Felony. Man, great thing we have these laws in place! It showed them terrorists good! I'm not going to go in detail again because I really can't be bothered to say the same things over again, but here's some general remarks.
Gun control needs to be a nation wide solution. Imposing stricter regulations in a single state or county while leaving its neighboring areas untouched does not work. This is backed up by both pretty common sense and actual evidence as brought forward by research and police reports. Looking at certain areas with stricter gun control measures like Chicago and NY, it's been demonstrated that up to 90% of all guns used in crimes are brought in from other states. Creating an island of stricter regulations while leaving it so that any person can drive over county or state borders, easily obtain a firearm and bring it back in without many issues is pretty ineffective.
Restrictions on things like magazine sizes can yield positive (albeit minor) results. If I remember correctly, in the wake of laws restricting the usage and sale of these magazines, law enforcement found significantly less of them being used in crimes. Additionally, shooters are often overcome by police or bystanders as they are reloading. Making it so that a person has to reload more often can provide more opportunities for people to flee, hide or take other actions against him. Furthermore, even small disincentives have been found to work.
And no, (mass) shootings do not "as always" take place in gun free zones. The idea that mass shooters seek out these areas because they'd face no resistance is more or less a myth and rarely ever takes place in reality. Furthermore, a large part of mass shootings do take place in people were legally allowed to carry firearms.
Also, on the topic of gun free zones, they are not supposed to exist as a countermeasure against a planned attack by a deliberate mass shooter. The people who support these zones generally do not believe that the gunman is simply going to turn around because a sign on the door says it's the policy that no guns are allowed on the grounds. These areas exist to stop other, more impulsive shootings and accidents. Every year in the US, tens of thousands of people are injured by (accidental) gun fire, a lot of it taking place in public spaces. Accidents aside, it happens rather regularly that a conflict or misunderstanding devolves and leads to a fight or a situation where someone pulls out a firearm and potentially uses it in a dangerous and illegal fashion. Finally, many people agree that the presence of guns in an area might stifle productivity. The availability and carrying of such weapons in the office, government grounds or schools is likely to perceived as a threat or intimidating factor to some. The reason gun free zones exist is not to change the mind of a deliberate mass shooter, but to prevent accidents and impulsive gun use (both of which claim a lot more lives and injuries each day than actual mass shootings), and to try to ensure a safer environment as a whole.
No.
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« on: December 04, 2015, 11:32:09 PM »
Bitch, do you know who i am? I go shooting whenever i can.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 10:35:03 PM »
I-I-I-I get to be Vining?
Winning with Vining!
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« on: December 03, 2015, 11:03:51 AM »
1) Get a gun
2) Shoot yourself
1) Have many 2) No, I have to much fun shit posting here.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 10:30:24 AM »
But the price of my right to defend my self:
Mandatory training class
120 dollar 'fee' to the country Sheriff
4-6 month wait.
At least my Sheriff issues on Self Defense grounds. But I think after yesterday, they may be a bit swamped by applications.
I have another issue I've run into. It's against Company policy to have a gun on the property. But the property is in a shady as fuck part of town next to the Maximum Security Prison that LA county sends their inmates to. Plus the town that it's in is a little more than rough. I don't think any of m coworkers would care, in fact most of them are unbelievably progun and some of us have gone shooting together before. Honestly, we have a lot of talk about our next purchases in the office. Which is kind of cool. I digress. If someone from corporate comes along and saw me carrying, I'd be fucked.
At the same time, I am searching hard for a place out of state. I hope to do it sometime next year, not sure when.
So, what should I do? Should I go ahead and get my CCWL? Should I not take it when I have work in a rough part of town? Should I just wait till I get out of state to a place where I may have constitutional carry?
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« on: December 02, 2015, 08:05:14 PM »
Two suspects dead.
One Male
One Female
One suspect Detained.
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« on: December 02, 2015, 06:18:24 PM »
One of the detained suspects 
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« on: December 02, 2015, 06:14:57 PM »
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« on: December 02, 2015, 06:10:19 PM »
New Crusade When?
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