Welcome to the UK. You make the mistake of trying to apply logic. Just because a knife is a legitimate tool and you have a genuine reason to be using it doesn’t mean you won’t be charged. Their law simply does not care and if you’re caught it doesn’t matter the reason you had it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/28/man-allotment-gardening-tools-arrest-armed-police-manchester

Search engines are garbage and only give me results about the news story in the OP even with very specific search terms but there was one a few years ago where someone, I want to say he was a carpenter or tradesman of some sort had a normal pocket knife in his work pants outside of work and got arrested and convicted. The judge at his trial apologized and said it was unfortunate since the knife was a normal requirement for his work but the law is the law. They then returned the knife to him after the trial because they acknowledged it was needed for work.

Thanks

Both sides are equally authoritarian once in control.

They fly that close all the time. This is genuinely exceptional, especially for the maneuver they were doing.

Who needs reason when you get to take up half of the next guys parking space! No need for thinkin’ when you look down on commercial vehicles.

And yet they cling to it while disavowing the concept.

It’s an Emotional Support Truck, which is hilarious based on how opposed they are to gender affirming care.

Plasma is great, I’m loving Kubuntu.

I miss my old plasma, that TV was fantastic. Such a shame that movers broke it.

If it involves firearms then the law, constitution and existing precedent mean nothing to the 9th Circuit of Appeals. When it comes to guns, no right is too important to not invalidate to prevent guns.

I’m a fan of grip safeties but I still want some form of manual switch I can use to render the gun safe. I honestly think that the FN Five seveN is the best solution but standard 1911 thumb safety (or an HK version with decocker) does the job just fine.

A safety exists to prevent human error. Not touching the trigger doesn’t solve this.

The primary argument of “you might forget to disengage it in the heat of the moment” is complete bullshit. If you can’t reliably disengage a safety you can’t reliably not pull the trigger during a draw, shooting yourself in the femoral artery or hand. Either you practice your draw until it’s muscle memory or you don’t, removing safety features to simplify the process doesn’t make you safer.

Well glocks don’t have safeties and require you to pull the trigger to disassemble. Negligent discharges when trying to show them off to people absolutely do happen, and with how you have to hold the gun to take it apart the “don’t point at anything you don’t wish to shoot” rule gets overlooked a lot.

They’re the default “modern” handgun but I’ve always said they are a terrible design.

Well, it’s been doing great for my first foray into Linux so far. What are the limits of snap that end up being annoying?

Kubuntu is another great option.