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  • I mean yeah that’s one reason.

    But the main reason was to be able to form militias to catch runaway slaves. They didn’t want the government interfering with their slave patrols.

    Slaves and even freed black men were prohibited from carrying firearms by state law. Dread Scott v Sandford in 1857 even had SCOTUS chief justice saying that black men can’t be citizens because then they could have guns and that would be an unacceptable threat to public safety.

    Madison (a Virginian) wrote the second amendment specifically to appeal to Southern states.

    One of the primary goals Republicans (the ones that freed the slaves, not modern republicans) had for the 14th amendment was specifically to ensure black men could arm themselves to protect against persecution from ex-slavers in the south.











  • I have a few, some fractional shares in a company I used to work for (3-letter US pharmacy chain), that got lost in the ether when porting my 401k out to my next employer. Estimated value < $200

    They need a fucking proof of residence matching my address at the time…my early 20s bachelor pad, nearly 20 years ago. My old landlord is dead. My roommates at the time…one went off-grid and disappeared himself, other was and remains a deadbeat and I don’t think he was actually on any bills or the lease anyway.

    Is it even worth the effort of trying to track it down now? It’s almost just on principle at this point.



  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlTroubleshooting help
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    Reminds me of when I was getting pissed off that, on my work computer, Windows would randomly close Teams Windows and browser tabs, exactly every 59 seconds.

    Till I found out that the windows version of caffeine hits the F15 key every 59 seconds by default. I had previously set up PowerToys to map an “extra” key on my keyboard to do Ctrl+W. That “extra” key actually turned out to be F15.