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  1. Mar 2026
    1. a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance

      It would be great if businesses and individuals took seriously the matter raised in this post, but the irony of this statement is that it doesn't align with what you generally find on independently created-and-run websites; getting the info unadorned is usually best found the big platforms, because Facebook, etc. control the site design, and the userbase has to contend with just providing the information. And even if you find, say, the visual design of a platform's look and feel to be unappealing, it is at least uniform.

  2. Jan 2026
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  4. Jun 2022
    1. In the 1920s and ’30s, the NRA was at the forefront of legislative efforts to enact gun control. The organization’s president at the time was Karl T. Frederick, a Princeton- and Harvard-educated lawyer known as “the best shot in America”—a title he earned by winning three gold medals in pistol-shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympic Games. As a special consultant to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Frederick helped draft the Uniform Firearms Act, a model of state-level gun-control legislation.
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