Whatever you do, do not give your money to BetterHelp. They’re a fucking scam.

Just as an FYI, whether lie detector tests are accurate or not, lying in a polygraph interview for a federal background check is a crime. Polygraph interviews can and do sometimes lead to criminal prosecution.

I miss the golden age when we had AIM, ICQ, or GoogleTalk, etc all on the client of our choosing.

Hangouts was the best thing going for a while there. Of course they had to goog it up.

FYI, in case you did not notice: nutomic, the user you’re replying to, is one of the two creators of Lemmy. Make of that what you will.

fuck yeah.

I was picturing Warehouse 13, but for weapons.

I get that. And I did try to play along… But I’m mostly not interested in owning firearms that serve to glorify feds, or politicians, or criminals. Not really favorite groups of people and owning a firearm comes with some baggage to care for and protect each of them lest they harm someone or decay.

Maybe if MLK or Jimi Hendrix carried a derringer. Or Thurgood Marshall’s shotgun. (No idea whether those are a thing.) But those aren’t likely to be in the crime lab unless involved in a crime amd I also am not interested in having a murder weapon in my house. None of my guns have ever killed anyone (AFAIK) and I’d prefer to keep it that way. Did Harriet Tubman carry a weapon? That would have been illegal but I’d proudly own that.

Notice the items I chose secondarily are still valuable for their historicity, while revering neither criminals, nor the feds (nor violence, generally.)

I also like old and weird or otherwise interesting firearms of all sorts. Maybe I lack imagination.

If I’m going for pragmatic and boring I’d pick an autoseer.

But it might be interesting to own one of the bullets they pseudo-scientifically “analyzed” to tie it back to a specific gun.

Or maybe some DNA evidence used to exonerate the wrongly-convicted.

Because reasons.

So much this. I have become persona non grata at more than one startup, where I told the executives what they were doing wrong… It turns out that even when they say they want to hear it, they don’t actually want to hear it.