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There are a lot of ways to cause mass murder so it certainly isn't "the only way left". People have and will used other methods. Something as simple as fire is a weapon with a history of use in terrorism.

Guns do have laws associated with them. You'd know this if you ever went to a shop to buy one or just looked at the laws. I don't need to pass a background check to buy a car from the dealership. There is no crime for a felon to own a car. A felon could even get a license to operate a car in public. There is no crime for "brandishing" a car in public.

Which law in GA are you talking about? Most states don't outright ban ownership over a diagnosis or seeking treatment. Making that a criteria becomes tricky when trying to determine what counts or who gets to decide. I'm sure you would find a ban on voting for the mentally ill questionable if say Republican law makers decided what counts.

Involuntary commitment is a problem for gun ownership federally regardless of state laws as well. It should kinda take a lot to restrict a right and there are problems with essentially punishing people for seeking treatment.

Ideally we should find a replacement for that horseshoe crab blood or perhaps a way to raise them in captivity. Maybe someone could come up with something to give the crabs to offset the damage caused by taking the blood. The issue might not even be primarily due to the blood with everything else happening climate change wise.

There might be ways to improve things for the birds but animals with super specific niches just kinda run the risk of becoming extinct. I feel similar about Pandas and Koalas.

Some people like the idea but to me that only makes sense if you are basically doing the nomad thing at a cheap location. You'd want to stay in the place for awhile as you're still spending most of the "vacation" working all day. On your days off you could do more. On an actual vacation you would actually be enjoying yourself the whole time. Traveling to just spend all your time working seems like a waste.

Also just try to work on just a laptop for a week. It sucks. I'm not doing that.

I feel like that is too on the nose. Prague U and related media is just propaganda and alternative history. I suppose some of it is close to what is already being taught for some parts of US history.

I've never heard of a rule. Maybe with booze or smokes? Maybe some states or cities have some weird law like NJ does about gas.

I've bagged my own groceries before when it was just the cashier or other baggers were busy or something. Also there is the self checkout. If anyone were to complain I'd just joke, "don't worry, I was a professional in a previous life". I did actually work retail and bagged stuff while being a cashier like a decade ago.

They might think you're odd or think it's weird if you rebag things like they did it wrong. Maybe be annoyed if you were slow. I don't think too many employees would actually care or get insulted. No one under management gets paid enough to care.

@crow Not really sure how someone faking it would expect things to work out. Someone could decide they could get a bunch of clout and followers by faking it. But at some point they get shown to be a fraud then they lose any following they had. Are the people who claim to have discovered something notable before this or could they just be riding a wave for a min for a quick buck? I guess there have been cases in more proper scientific circles of faked results.

Reporting on it is kinda whatever as that's kinda just talking about what someone else claimed.

Another possibility is that some other mechanism is at work or there is a fault in the test setup. At that point the person making the claim could be wrong but not necessarily aware of it. Maybe due to a lack of knowledge.

@science @technology @dzen

The ammo/parts thing was more about how without domestic production there room for it to be affected by changes to import laws or sanctions.

Personally I'm not worried about using something that some other group seems to like. I want what's practical and fits my needs. There is a reason ARs are so common today. They're just good and can be built/modified to fit a lot of people or use cases. If I really wanted something different just to be different I'd get something like a vz 58 or some kind of space gat. It's still kinda hard for me to justify the expense for that kind of reason and I have to rein it in a bit as I kinda want all the things.

To me it looks like an over estimation of the capabilities for the tech. Same kind of thinking that led to lawyers submitting fake cases as support in court. The current tech can be useful but has to be verified and generally tweaked a bit to be good enough. It certainly has room for improvement in quality and just not lying. Real world use has some copyright questions with what the training data was. Applying it to something creative is questionable and more or less feels like uninspired remixes.

Also the whole graphic is kinda suspect to me when "Blockchain engineers" is a job category and it's produced by an org working on AI.

That's exactly what it originally said. This is a repost of the edit I saw a year or two ago.

Lol, clean your guns if you're getting jams. (The idea about jams is mostly a myth based on military personnel being told they didn't need to maintain early designs while fighting in a jungle.)

If you prefer AKs that's fine. It's also fine to own both but I think in the US an AR is more practical for most people if they can't afford both. There are also weird designs mixing the two or having one chambered in the others caliber.

In the US an AR is generally more affordable and more available. Parts and ammo for it also has more standardization and domestic production. In general it would be easier for most people to work on ARs. In other parts of the world an AK would be more common so more recommendable in my opinion. And the low end offerings there would be better than the low end offers on the US market. Where as you can still get a mostly decent AR for $600 in the US. If I got an AK I'd want to spend notably more than that to actually trust it.

People use stuff like Alexa or Google home mostly as a voice activated timer, weather reporter, or speaker. If they have light bulbs maybe they use it that too. It can also be handy for voice activated controls for a movie if it can connect to something like a fire stick.

Most people don't actually know what might be involved in terms of privacy concerns. They see the convenance of tech or something that's neat. A vast majority of people simply aren't doing things like uninstalling Google apps or know what a GPL refers to.

There are open source and local versions of home automation and voice assistants.

I have Alexa because it was on sale and useful to me. I don't really think out loud and can unplug the thing if I want to talk about unionizing. When I replace things or buy new ones I'll be keeping in mind compatibility with open source or local solutions. Alexa does integrate with a lot of stuff though. I do think it will be discontinued at some point. Amazon loses money on the product and it hasn't been increasing sales like they hoped. No one trusts the damn thing to buy crap off Amazon for them.

Over time that subscriber section has become less prominent. At one time it was the way to find content you wanted to see. I think most people now just use the feed YouTube gives you.

Subscribing does seem to affect the algorithm. If nothing else it should help the creator pay the bills so you can keep getting videos from them.

Buzz cut is super easy to maintain and deal with in the morning. You can even learn to cut it yourself. Maybe not ideal if you're a woman.

My car has alerts for routine maintenance so I don't have to think about it. Old school method is a log book. Maybe add an event on the calendar for the next time when you take it in.

I sometimes have to take it for other things but that isn't really routine maintenance.

Blood isn't everything. The ex's mom was a decent person and treated you well. Blood relatives don't always do that. Sometimes they're so awful it even makes sense to go no contact. Sometimes their actions are literally criminal. On the flip side there are friends that are basically family and people who adopt.

What you felt with the ex's mom was real as anything. Don't listen to people who say otherwise. The blood relatives who said it was fake were being manipulative or saying something based on being manipulated.

I mean there are jobs related to firearms but the industry isn't as profitable or big as some people seem to think. Not unless the customers are governments anyway.

I'm not sure if a bar or even normal teen jobs would even be safer than a gun range. I haven't seen people lose their shit at the range but I have seen problems at bars, retail, and fast food places. It seems to have gotten worse too.

If you're expecting 100 hour plus experiences in open worlds or detailed campaigns like AAA titles for $30-60 then there aren't that many. There are still good titles. Might want to check out steam and see what's popular in their VR section. Maybe see what has longer play times if that is what you're interested in.

What do guns existing have to do with kids or younger adults working as a bartender?

I have music or whatever it's called now because I music and red together where the same price as just red. I still have it because I use YouTube more than streaming services like Netflix and don't mind supporting creators I'm watching. I use some of the features of premium on the app on my phone and fire stick too which could be worked around but would be a hassle.

For a vast majority of people who mainly view YouTube as a free service I highly doubt they'd be willing to pay $7 a month let alone $14. A large portion of their viewer base is kids and they aren't going to pay. Maybe if they add stickers or whatever TikTok is going nuts over as part of the monthly sub.

It's not about thief or stuff. If someone breaks in I don't know why they're there. I have no reason to assume they are only there for stuff or won't hurt people who get in their way. Giving them the benefit of the doubt make no sense when they're already breaking in and violating your home. As an example I wouldn't go out to stop someone from breaking into my car or open the door during some incident. But if the door get kicked in a person shouldn't expect a warm welcome.

I do not care if a criminal gets hurt during the course of crimes that violate people's homes and personal safety. Anyone has a right to stop such people with force. Self-defense isn't a crime and I really don't consider it a problem. The gun was not the first resort. There were presumably doors and locks. Maybe some yelling. The criminal choose to victimize someone and found out that goes poorly on occasion.

If you want to prevent violence prevent people from being in desperate situations and commiting crimes against people. Don't expect people to be accepting of home invasion.