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1. Suzu (suzu@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 07:22:26 JST Suzu
   Now, I mentioned the other day about how audiophiles are all retarded faggots who love placebo, but there is a group that competes head to head with them in retardness, and those are the EDC guys.
   Every time I want to see a review of some pocket knife or flashlight, I invariably end in the youtube channel of some crazy dude who carries 10lbs of gear everywhere he goes and reviews and makes lists of a metric shit ton of "everyday carry" gizmos that are very expensive and ultimately useless.
   
   I mean, just as you leave it to "audiophiles" to spend lots of money in fancy cables and shit that does nothing at all, to then listen to shitty music, you can leave it to "prepared" guys to spend a ton of money in fancy items that have 1/10th of the usability of a real item, because "it is lightweight so I can carry it with me all the time". These are the guys who hope for a zombie apocalypse so they can save the day with the pressurized pen in their keychain or some bullshit like that.
   
   For instance, why the fuck would anyone with an IQ above room temperature pay 30 bucks for a fucking titanium spirit level that can be used as a pendant? For a sixth of that price I can get a real spirit level with multiple angles and magnetic affixing. For half that price I can buy a fucking laser level.
   I can understand wanting to have a small Victorinox pocket knife in your keychain, or a Leatherman (and I'm actually considering getting a Leatherman Squirt for my keychain, because although a bit bulkier, it's way more useful than a SAK), but in what situation would you need your emergency spirit level that is strapped to your keychain or to a necklace?
   
   I was just watching a guy saying that this 20 bucks "micro blade" sucked in every aspect as a knife (like actually cutting anything), but he was still recommending it and saying it was something he carried with him all the time because it was "an excellent package opener".
   You know what also makes for an excellent package opener? A KNIFE! With the added bonus that usually a knife works pretty well for all other knife things the microblade sucks at.
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   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 09:46:01 JST gentooP

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     @Suzu I was talking to random gpt models on a specific subcompact conceal carry edc and it basically gave me a keltec pdw which is too large to appendix carry or a bodyguard 380 which doesn't have the three point contact I requested for the constraints.
     Kind of wished that p50 could fit under everyday clothes without imprinting. I can really only see the use for it in security detail and you only fit in where wearing a coat is normal. The other is just too ineffective.

   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 10:10:37 JST gentooP

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     @Suzu Yeah, I need a permit in my state and a qualification every now and then, a expensive endeavor. I'm terrible with two handed pistols, always had more luck with stuff like the evo3 scorpion which I shot once, but again the same with the p50 it's to bulky to conceal carry. Don't want to be profiled as a carrier by carrying a dumb bag around everywhere like idiots do.
     25mm gl in a boot holster? Definitely not legal in my state.. unless it's shotgun not explosive.

   • Suzu (suzu@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 10:10:38 JST Suzu

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     • gentooP
     @gentooP ok, checking here, those seem to be pistols.
     Aren't there a lot of rules basically everywhere that make concealed carry pretty hard to do legally?
     
     The EDC faggots I'm mentioning tend to carry everything but guns with then. In fact, some of them even shy away from knives, it seems (which explains why they settle for a stupid 20 bucks capsule miniblade that can barely open packages).