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Rocken to this on the way home. Feel like Joe might like them if he doesnt already listen.

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Here’s something you may not realize: Gun ownership has been declining for decades. According to the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, in 1977, 54% of American households had guns. By 2010, the number had fallen to 32%. Yet gun sales are at record highs. That means that existing gun owners are buying more and more guns. It’s not enough to have a hunting rifle over your mantle; you need an entire arsenal, just in case the government falls, society disintegrates, and you have to protect your cave — sorry, your home — from the marauding hordes.

That’s exactly what the gun manufacturers want you to think, so you keep buying. They know that hunting will never again be the pastime it once was, and as more Americans move from rural areas to the suburbs and cities, their natural market withers.

That “responsible gun owner” politicians talk about, the one who reverentially passes down to his son the bolt-action rifle his father gave him? That guy isn’t good for business. The manufacturers need the other guy, the one who fears he may not be all the man he could be.

— Paul Waldman, discussing masculinity and gun ownership in his piece, “Not man enough? Buy a gun.” (via ceedling)

This isn’t very true. First of all they totally neglect the grown in population. Id be interested to see how the number of gun owners bas changed as opposed to the percent. As some one with quite a few guns, who’s family has quite a few guns and with friends who have quite a few guns. I know almost no one “stock piling an arsenal” for when the government comes. I buy and most of my family and friends buy a gun if they find them fun to shoot or if they are a quality but cheap gun that shoots cheap ammo. For the most part we aren’t these nefarious strange dooms day prepping types. Just ordinary people who happen to enjoy going to a range and shooting holes in paper or maybe trying to hit golf balls at 100 yards.

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The Impossible Girl: A Pledge To Make The World That Wouldn't Have Killed Him:

kimboekbinder:

Because I find myself profoundly affected by the death of someone I didn’t know - Aaron Swartz, activist and inspiring human - I have decided to pledge here, publicly, my intention to work towards a just world.

Because I know the terrible dissonance of seeing a world of beautiful possibly…

I understand this. How ever, at least with scientific journals I understand why it cost money to use. I dont like it, but if you want the papers to have credibility they need to be peer reviewed. If you want them to be peer reviewed, peers need to be payed to review them. Paying them cost money and that money is recouped in the cost of reading the paper.

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I typically dont post memes but hey.

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That’s it. The Internet can’t do any better today. —Lars

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I walked out of this show after 30 minutes. I’d had enough, I felt pummeled and exhausted, I was bummed that much of the music was backing tracks from a laptop. Still this was one of the most powerful shows I saw all year. This is hip-hop with no mercy. This is turn-on-the-switch, throttle up with no breaks. This was some of the best drumming (by Zach Hill) and the most intense singing (by MC Ride) I saw all year. I only wish I could understand the words more often.
-Bob Boilen

— This is my exact feelings about death grips. Not good on my ipod, but id see him again live in a second.