Makeitstop @ Makeitstop @lemmy.world

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I'd call him a sadistic necro-hippophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Or like that list of scenarios I mentioned in the post you replied to.

flashing a gun, brandishing, showing off to their friends, or even selling.

These things don't happen very often, but then, neither do fires.

Let me put it like this: If someone was looking at the security cameras and saw a person waving a gun around, do you think that they should say something, or should they just ignore it? If the answer is that they should say something, then there is at least some value in detecting the presence of a gun. After that, it's just a matter of how effective and reliable the system would be, and what it costs to implement. But I'm not arguing that there are any worthwhile systems in existence, only that such a system could have value.

Which is why I said that this would be less useful for active shooters and more useful for other scenarios.

The basic concept isn't a bad idea, assuming it works and you already have the cameras. If it ran locally at a negligible cost, I'd say it would be a potentially useful tool. But even then, it wouldn't solve the problems, just help identify them more quickly, especially in situations where a gun is in the school but isn't being fired yet. Less useful for an active shooter, more useful for spotting someone flashing a gun, brandishing, showing off to their friends, or even selling.

It would be like a smoke detector, good to have but only as part of a larger plan, and also not something you should be dumping a ton of money into.

Is he in IT? Just noticing the cat 9 tails he's got there.

If there's one thing that should be clear from Trump's reelection it's that there is no limit to what the Republican voters will support.

Anyone who was going to leave the Republicans has probably done so by now. All that's left are the MAGA true believers, single issue voters, the echo chamber dwellers who would be outraged if they were aware of news from the real world, and compartmentalists who block out all warning signs coming from their own side as no true Scotsman conservative supports that stuff and even if they did it's still better than the other side.

And of course, there's also the low information voters who don't know about any of this stuff and just want egg prices to go down or something.

With the renewed interest from the show, it would make sense for Microsoft to get someone else working on a Fallout game since Bethesda isn't going to do it any time soon. However, I would think that Obsidian would be the more natural choice. I would guess that MS would prefer to utilize one of the studios they own rather than license it out, but I could be wrong about that.

And even if they did license out development on a Fallout game, I would assume that they would be in a hurry to get something out there, which would make Larian far less appealing to them. I agree that they would probably make an amazing Fallout game, but another studio would probably make a decent enough game that costs less to develop and pays off sooner.

Robert Jordan spent a lot of time writing about women dominating other women.

Or a judge's weed wacker.

I get that there was basically no chance that a sitting president was going to jail. But it's not like making him pay a fine would have caused a constitutional crisis.

About the only good thing I can say about this is that it's at least being honest about the complete lack of consequences.

When a man marries his mistress he creates a job opening.

Yeah, just as soon as he finishes buying Greenland, I'm sure.

Because it's being directed by Putin. And because none of them give a fuck about foreign policy goals as long as they have wealth and power at home.

It's not an official strategy, and the defense can't do anything to overtly encourage it. But they are going to try to make the defendant sympathetic, and given the chance, they will try to get the jury thinking about just how unsympathetic the victim is.

The terrorism charge also brings his motivation front and center. If it was a 2nd degree murder only, they might have been able to suppress a lot of discussion about UnitedHealth for being irrelevant and prejudicial. But now they not only have to discuss it, but they have to allow the defense to respond to it. If they aren't careful, this could easily open the door to a jury nullification strategy.

Deny. Defend. Deport.

At least they got to discover the wonders of porn before the end.

When Aliens Attack?

I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn't even the dumbest thing he says today.