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I’d start by admitting that school shootings are, despite being extremely sensationalized, also extremely rare.

There have been multiple school shootings this year alone. Your statement would have been reasonable had you made it in the wake of the Columbine shooting, but to say it today is frankly absurd.

In scare quotes, because the people that commit random acts of violence in schools—versus targeted violence–are so uncommon that it’s hard to draw definite conclusions about risk factors.

That is not relevant. Targeted violence in school isn't tolerable either.

Almost all of them ‘leak’ information in the days or weeks prior to murders; I do think that there needs to be a way to seriously investigate things like that, but I don’t know how you could do that in a way that doesn’t infringe on other, equally fundamental rights.

Indeed, so we're going to have to solve this problem in whichever way minimizes harmful side effects. Unfortunately, that may involve inconveniencing gun owners, but it's better than depriving everyone of privacy and going full Minority Report.

When you get right down to it, a lot of it is an issue of culture, where people feel like violence is a reasonable way to express feelings.

Mass shootings in particular are usually committed by someone who has no intention of still being alive afterward, and they do indeed almost always end in the shooter's death. That's not merely a “way to express feelings”.

the UK and Australia both have combined rates of violent crime–battery, forcible rape, robbery, murder–comparable to the US, and, in the case of rape in Australia, likely rather higher.

You're contradicting yourself. How can American culture be uniquely violent if those other countries have similar rates of violence?

The US does have a sharply higher murder rate though; our violence is more lethal.

Because we have guns.

The unfortunate truth is that you can’t have rights without someone misusing those rights to hurt other people.

Yes, and we preserve those rights despite that because the alternative is worse.

The alternative we're discussing right now is gun control. Is that worse than the status quo? If so, why?

If people can drive, sooner or later someone is going to drive a rental van into a crowd, just because they want to kill people and that’s the way they can do it.

This equivalence is questionable for two reasons:

1. Unless I'm mistaken, that doesn't happen anywhere near as often as shootings do.
2. Cars have a purpose other than killing. Guns don't.

Unless I'm mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process' memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.

The ones that haven’t suddenly decided that Russia is our best friend all of a sudden for some reason that I still can’t figure out.

The reason is money. Either they got paid by Putin or they've been brainwashed by someone who got paid by Putin.

Buddy, in this economy, most people's only feasible financial-emergency strategy is to jump off a bridge.

Politicians: “Look how great the economy is doing!”
Job market: doesn't exist
Housing: doesn't exist
Homeless people: everywhere

Why there aren't massive riots, I can't fathom. Civilization is coming apart at the seams and everyone is just…okay with that.

It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren't known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.

Dis gon b gud.

Note that for vector graphics editing, Inkscape is really good. That doesn't help you if you need to edit photos, though.

KDE has neat stuff, but Compiz was the king of bling.

Linux. I signed up with my first proper ISP as a kid in the '90s. The service included a shell account on their Linux server accessible by telnet. I thought it was really cool and decided to see if I could run it on my own computer, and to my delight, I could.

This group has been demanding the censorship of porn, consequences be damned, for decades now. They have failed thus far, and the sky has not fallen as a result, so it's pretty clear that it's safe for society and the courts to continue to dismiss their irrational hysteria.

Such an on-device feature would either be trivial to break (if it's an ordinary API) or be impossible to implement in an open-source browser and OS (if it's some locked-down DRM-like thing), and the latter is not privacy-preserving because proprietary software tends to be spyware.

If these moralizers would just shut up, go away, and stop trying to ruin the Internet, that'd be great.

Dynamic typing is insane. You have to keep track of the type of absolutely everything, in your head. It's like the assembly of type systems, except it makes your program slower instead of faster.

Difficult to test == poorly designed

It's pretty much a natural law that GUIs are hard to thoroughly test.

I take it you don't already have a desktop you can use?

Sadly, mods can and do remove the horrid dialog wheel thing, but they can't add more interesting dialog options.

I feel like Bethesda wouldn't use Denuvo at all, because it would break a lot of mods, and Bethesda games rely heavily on mods to be fun.

ETA: Also, Bethesda games tend to be appallingly slow even without Denuvo, let alone with it.

It costs four hundred thousand Red Bulls to crack this video game in twelve seconds.

I loved Fallout 4…once there were enough mods to fix everything that's wrong with the vanilla game.

Which is par for the course with Bethesda. 🤷‍♂️

“If you open this device, the contained alien immediately escapes, rendering it inert.” There. Problem solved. Case dismissed.