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Also, I suspect people who are anti-gun have never had violence inflicted upon them

Have you considered that some have just had violence inflicted upon them by people with guns?

How about en exam on morals and ethics?

Let's just hope that there's no such thing as "mental illness", or "emotion", that could make a "good guy" want to do something "not good".

No, we're not. There is literally nothing in Europe that happens in a year that compares with the gun violence and homicide rate happens in America in a weekend.

Yeah, but they're not because no one wants to fire something that might blow up in their hand, and it's not actually that easy to mass manufacture illegal guns, even with 3d printers and CNC machines.

Like I said, we all know you can make a homemade gun with online information. That has been the case for literally the last 2 decades. And yet, underground homemade gun manufacturing is virtually non existent, because guess what, it's not that easy to do at scale in a way that won't get you immediately caught and all your equipment and supplies impounded.

Literally every developers western country that bans guns has not seen any noticeable rise in homemade guns being used at any regular pace. In what world do you think Norwegian clubs are being shot up with homemade uzis?

Abolishing the police is an overly broad demand that can't really be taken that seriously as an actual, society wide, legislative course of action.

That being said, it might still be worth advocating for as a matter of negotiation, and it's worth abolishing many specific existing police forces and replacing them whole cloth with new professional forces.

And no, gun ownership should not be allowed. It's fucking asinine to think that the world will be a better place when you allow anyone to point and click murder someone on a whim.

Guess what happens when you let good people buy guns? Bad people buy them more frequently, and in greater quantities.

Guess what happens when you challenge your local government's use of force with you own personal cache of weapons? Oh look, every police force in the country just bought APCs and militarized to make that infeasible.

You'll still always need hunting rifles, shotguns, etc. and you will likely need to have special circumstances where someone or their security guard can get a firearm for exigent circumstances, but by and large the idea of allowing widespread firearm ownership for personal defense reasons is nonsense. All of the arguments fall apart when you examine their effects at a systemic level.

You do not need handguns. Handguns are the biggest problem.

Try living somewhere that's not America for a minute.

Yes it will. The idea thaat criminals will mass produce homemade firearms is nonsense. Even the cartels don't do this at any scale.

I'm Toronto it's like 13% of guns that are domestic, the other 87% are smuggled in from the unregulated shithole that is America, 0% are homemade.

Neither will harm or effect your baby in any measurable way.

What will effect them measurably negatively is having obsessive parents who min/max every decision rather than being happy and enjoying their child.

Happiness comes from acceptance, not obsession.

the pinning system with filters is handy for food, but feels clunky outside that one usecase.

The pinning system is an improvement over not having a pinning system that should exist in every game. Food, water, ranged weapons, explosives, healing items, shields, even melee weapons, it makes sense for all of them given that all of them can break.

Can you bring up the pause menu at any point (including cut scenes).

I've always felt like a sign of a well polished game was one where the pause menu would work at any point, including during cutscenes.

Conversely, Grounded has the best inventory management system of any survival game ever.

To the point that I have a hard time playing others now because they all feel tedious in comparison. It's hard to imagine someone playing Grounded and then building a survival game that didn't use hot deposit.

A reminder that anger is addictive, and social media fuels it.

Engagement driven algorithms that are let to run wild inherently pick up on this, and start feeding you anger inducing content. Even non engagement driven algorithms often end up doing this by accident.

And when we're angry, we think less clearly and empathetically, and we lash out and say more than we mean and make hurtful comments and generalizations.

That sparks anger in the person we're conversing with, which tends to create a feedback loop, also known as a fight.

If you actually want to have fun, engaging, conversations with people different then you, and learn something from them, it's a constant exercise in calmness, deescalation, and nuance, not things the internet trains us well for.

tl;dr: humans like to think we're highly evolved beings, but at the end of the day we're all basically these cats:

When you understand how RSUs work and what you're signing up for there's nothing inherently wrong with rewarding someone for years of service.

However, their structure / terminology is inherently misleading and manipulative.

A company could just give you stock at each performance review. It doesn't need to give you magic shares that need to be incubated before they hatch, it could just give you the actual shares they want to pay you at each point.

They don't because that would expose that they're actually giving you nothing in the first several years, and they want you to think you own part of the company when you don't.

Again, when you understand what they're actually offering then you go in eyes wide open, but they are intentionally trying to deceive people into thinking they're getting a reward earlier than they actually are.

Clickbait article. This is nothing.

Is the 30B calculated before or after Oracle arbitrarily increases their pricing for no reason?

This is a horseshit analogy.

Stealing money from your account is theft, it's not still there afterwards.

The concept I think you might've been looking for is opportunity cost in that pirating deprives an artist of potential sales. Which is a fair point, but it is still not the same as stealing since it does not deprive the artists of their original copy.

It's also all done in the context of a system that is not run by artists and does not primarily benefit artists, but is instead run by and benefits middlemen.

You said servicing the central AC will certainly be cheaper in the long run. That's wrong.

It might be, but it depends on a lot of other factors.

You seem to be biased against window ACs for some reason, and seem hell bent on misinforming people about them.

Decent modern window ACs will have a higher baseline efficiency than older full house units, and cool just the room you want. Conduction losses through the wall are minimal compared to trying to to cool literally 10x as much space. They are incredibly easy to DIY, and cost $500 up front, but you'll get half that back when you sell it when you're done with it. Literally the same price as the AC tech who's gonna come out and say that you need to install more return ducts, insulation, or another unit to keep up with the increased average outdoor temperature.

Like literally everything else, some are built cheaply, some are built well. Look up reviews before you buy.