AndyLikesCandy @ AndyLikesCandy @reddthat.com

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You clearly grew up more privileged than me, and lived a more sheltered experience, if you truly don't know that criminals work in groups.

Bored teens with no futures do exceptionally dumb shit, like attack people for fun. They pick the weakest person they see, and in NYC every year there are at least one or two stories where the attacks turn into homicides.

I mean you lack the legal option of having a means to defend yourself.

Read what? You said I'm buried in macho fantasies.

My owning guns has no bearing on domestic violence happening in a different household.

You know yourself and know you are the kind of person who might use a gun on your own family. I know myself and have no such violent tendencies. The broader statistics may be relevant to the question of whether you disarm everyone wholesale, but are irrelevant to one individual's personal decision whether or not they will defend their own lives given existing legal constraints.

I don't dispute that.

Only question is: what is your plan for when 3 dudes surround you and the first one who is much larger than you makes every signal that he's about to dominate you?

I have no macho fantasies. More randos could beat me to death with their hands than the ones who cannot. You may have a bit of martial arts training and fantasies of obliterating some muggers with your hands but I have no such illusions. I've been the victim of crimes like this and consider myself lucky as I was utterly helpless at the time and survived. So fuck off with that "just run away or fight" nonsense you believe from watching too many movies where good guys always take damage differently from bad guys.

In every other country if three people decide it'd be funny to beat you to death, you actually have zero you can do about it.

You take your robbery and beating, stabbing or slashing, accept the Belfast smile when they decide to give you one, and hope they stop while you're still able to survive.

He's still going to prison for discharging a firearm apparently.

Not QUITE how Twitter works, Democrats can pay for ads and run all the psyops they want with fake accounts too.

Question is whether any Chinese or Russian intelligence teams decide targeting messages at lefties is going to contribute towards their goals as a whole.

"caving" is a stretch, one results in much more money in their pocket including funding for their reelection campaigns

Your government has guts. It's just a government representing corporations and not people.

I completely believe that they were failing.

Question is how bad will the PsyOps and interference get? Without them?

Other responder is on the money for established brands.

For new car makes, they are forced to play it safe.

For example Rivian, let's assume there is no technical constraint. They need to decide how much they are willing to risk before introducing a new product. When you invest billions before the first customer buys anything, your investors who are fronting all that capital want you to use the formula that is proven to work in every respect apart from whatever dimension you're innovating on.

Cars going on sale this year were designed multiple years ago. They were tested. Tooling and whole new production facilities needed to be designed and built and supply chain set up for all the new parts. Test batches evaluated. It's not like how you patch shit software almost on the fly in today's beta culture.

If someone like Rivian got the shape wrong because in the meantime everyone decided the porsche 356 was the prettiest car ever made and every new car was round and curvy, they'd lose what's called product market fit, which is the death sentence for every failed company. As a car maker they can recoup some money by slashing prices but this whole product cycle would be a huge cash loss they cannot afford to miss.

So everyone plays it safe. Everyone copies apple. Everyone emulates the design direction of Ford's F150, Toyota's Prius, etc.

Or, you know, change emissions regulations so that cars can be made smaller again.

Hate to tell you there's no singular villain trying to kill kids with cars.

Literally the only reason cars got this big is because minimum efficiency is the result of dividing mpg by square footage, and by law the number has to go down every year. I do not blame auto makers for simply making the same popular models a little bigger with each refresh so as not to have to redesign from scratch the things that took 100 years of engineering effort to get to the present level of function.

You are correct. YouTube is tricky for several reasons, and hard to prosecute because the true monopoly is discovery (because everyone uses it).

Content can be consumed anywhere, you can follow some niche creator on Patreon, but YouTube is realistically the only place you'll discover them.

YouTube chooses to demonetize and outright ban perfectly legal and normal content that happens to disagree with their politics. On it's face this is okay, they're a private company after all, but the insidious thing is that entire subjects may as will not exist for you know because YouTube bans them.

Alas, his lawyer and the judge would agree on how inadmissable this fact will be. Enjoy getting fucked. Don't forget to vote to make sure these assholes are the only ones people in town with guns!

Palmetto State Armory is a huge business. It's like saying Costco is the choice purveyor of moms raising mass shooters and that CVS is the choice purveyor of personal care products and racist Christmas decor to white nationalist mass shooters. I'm sure Amazon would support this sort of PsyOp.

Nooooooo!!! Stitcher shut down, and Spotify actively hates people who listen to podcasts from computers. Any recommendations?

100%. Alphabet's YouTube business needs to be next.

Hot damn, BUT I question American face values specifically because it's conflating a second epidemic: overdoses are often recorded as suicide when it's not a clear accident like a medical interaction with prescriptions - it's up to the coroner.

Access is about more than billing.

In the US you need to wait multiple months to see a specialist, about 9 where i live as a new patient, and/or pay massively out of pocket for a private specialist ( $300-1000 per session).

Your other option is to say you're thinking of killing yourself, but this is a direct route to involuntary care which red-flags you and gets your guns confiscated with virtually no hope of having your rights restored, as well as a record that gets in the way of getting a new job, housing, etc.

So, if you're the average depressed person, have zero friends and have non-zero guns, you're kind of on an island.