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This is honestly, the dumbest, most American take in the world.

It literally ignores the plainly obvious fact that not a single other developed country allows gun ownership, and yet, still have rights and democracy and freedom.

Guns did not get your rights, and they do not protect you from a government that has AI powered drones with anti tank mines on them. Hell a fucking APC with a sound cannon will make your AR look like a child's toy.

Guess what happened when a pair of guys had enough guns and body armour to challenge the local LA government in the 90s? Oh would you look at that, every single local government's police force across the country just militarized and bought tanks and SWAT teams in response. The idea that the government will let any random potentially mentally ill or terrorist citizen, buy enough firepower that they could legitimately challenge the government, is dumb on its face. No government anywhere allows that or would for obvious (see: terroristic) reasons.

Wide spread gun ownership just makes everyone less safe. Full stop.

epic bad, upvotes plz

Epic barely changed it. You stopped playing because you put 1000+ hours into it and eventually got bored and moved on.

Yeah I do agree with your overall point.

Last week's assassination of Minnesota's Democrat former House Speaker was the logical sequel to that of the United Healthcare CEO

I don't disagree with your conclusions about cheering on violence and what it begets, but I will just point out that if you're going by the sequel logic then the shooting of Brian Thompson was the 5th movie in the series, with the first four being assassinated Democrat state representatives.

It also ignores the literal hundreds of movies and documentaries that have been made where American Insurance companies kills thousands and cause enormous amounts of suffering, just so that they can turn an even higher profit.

I still don't agree with political assassination, but starting the narrative with the assassination of Brian Thompson is pretty arbitrary if the storyline is so broad that this is the sequel.

This is honestly a trash article. It can be summarized as:

"Microsoft, a trillion dollar corporation that makes around $150 billion in pure profit, every single year, is tempering expectations around AI, BUT then why are they still investing $12B dollars in it, that makes no sense!".

Like, they're tempering expectations around AGI revolutionizing the economy, not saying AI is trash and theres no value whatsoever in it.

Fellow AI-haters should check out the newsletter and podcast of Ed Zitron.

If you're not a hater and want a balanced and rationale take, don't.

Why aren't the data brokers being charged with accessory to murder?

Writing stuff down with pen and paper is an objectively better way to remember things then digital files, also way more secure unless you really, really know what you're doing.

(worse)

It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help

Did it?

It's not, that's a you and your partner thing. Healthy relationships have space for independence and personal hobbies in them.

A significant other should not prevent you from enjoying your hobbies.

Most of the people I know who don't have kids and 'don't have time for gaming' in reality just have a significant other who looks down on gaming and makes them feel bad about it when they do.

if you don't have kids, you should have plenty of time for video games.

If you do have kids that can become harder to justify.

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Devs

Most people can intuitively both exit VS Code or edit and save a file with it.

Saying that no software is intuitive is a false equivalency or overbroad generalization.

You always have to learn the processes in a new company, this is just part of that.

This thread seems entirely filled with people who seem to not grasp my core point.

Yes you do, but in most cases, no you shouldn't have to. Software should be intuitive. If it's not, it's more efficient to write software that is, rather than waste time constantly training everyone on inefficient software. This is literally one of the core tenants of the agile manifesto.

Lmao, you called me a junior because I don't regularly use VIM. Don't trick yourself into believing that youre a pleasant person.