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This has always been one of the problems with CSAM laws. There have been a number of cases now where minors were charged with CSAM possession for either naked pictures of themselves, or pictures (consensual) of their girlfriend/boyfriend who was also a minor. There's also the broader discussion about what exactly qualifies as CSAM, with some jurisdictions going for a more maximalist approach that considers things like drawings (even highly unrealistic or stylized ones) of people or even fictional characters to be CSAM. Some jurisdictions don't even require the photo or drawing to depict the minor naked or even engaging in a sexual act, they instead define it as pornography if the person in possession of it gets some kind of sexual gratification from it. So for instance a photo of a minor that's fully clothed and just standing there could actually be considered CSAM.

The problem is that it's hard to draw hard lines about what does or doesn't qualify without then leaving loopholes that can be exploited. This is why many jurisdictions opt for a maximalist approach and then leave it to the discretion of the police and prosecutors for what they do or do not consider, but of course that has the flaw that it's entirely arbitrary and leaves a lot of power in the hands of prosecutors and police for something widely regarded as a extremely serious crime.

War on mergers? What in the absolute fuck are they going on about? Our government has never been more friendly to mergers. We need to be breaking corporations up left right and center not approving more mergers.

These fuckers aren't going to be happy until there's just one mega corp that owns literally everything (including the government).

Massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and pollution in general, massive reduction in both poverty and homelessness (ideally homelessness would be eliminated, there's literally nothing stopping that from happening), access to healthcare as a fundamental human right, and massive reduction in wealth inequality would be a good start. On top of that we need better democracies (nothing has fundamentally improved on that front in hundreds of years), and equal protection of rights and access to justice for everyone, not just for the rich, those with the "right" color of skin and who happen to believe in the "right" delusion.

The EU has done a bit for a lot of these points in theory but the execution in many cases has been sloppy, haphazard, and generally ineffective. The rest of the world is looking a lot worse and in many cases is actively regressing. While individual countries at various points in time have seen improvements in individual areas in many cases those improvements were short lived as the various elements of humanity that oppose progress for selfish reasons chip away at and eventually destroy these small gains.

Our science, technology, and medical knowledge do constantly improve, but when all of that is then used for warfare and squeezing profit out of the suffering and misfortune of others the net effect is negative.

It seems like it's almost a law of nature that for every gain and improvement humanity makes in one area, we must have an equal negative impact in another.

Things haven't been getting better, we've just gotten a lot better at deferring the negative consequences of our actions. In many cases entire generations can go by now without having to suffer the consequences of their actions, but those consequences are still coming.

The CEO death was definitely not faked or planned. It's possible this guy is a patsy so they can wrap the case up. He was apparently already in custody for a firearms offense when they flagged him as the killer. It does seem awfully convenient just how much evidence they're claiming to have tying him to the murder. I suppose we'll know for sure if another health insurance executive gets what they have coming to them following this arrest.

They don't care if there's gaps, those people just won't get mail service. They're only interested in extracting as much money as they can from the rotting husk of the US economy. They've just hollowed out so much of the middle class now that they're scraping the bottom of the barrel and need to start squeezing the last dregs out of the barely profitable things like the USPS.

Nixon started the culture war bullshit that eventually resulted in the anti-woke and anti-trans bullshit. Reagan started the economic insanity that gave us our current massive wealth gap and is driving the popular support for deregulation and tax breaks for the wealthy. Clinton and Bush cemented our corrupt media and the domestic spying programs.

The P320 is the most recent one that's had this issue. Analysis seems to suggest it's a combination of a bad design and worse manufacturing. In particular the manufacturing quality of the sear has been pointed to as a possible source of issues. Since it looks like a manufacturing defect is a significant contributor many of them may be perfectly fine but it's hard to tell without doing a thorough teardown and inspection by someone trained to know exactly what they're looking for.

Badly designed ones. Sig Saur rather infamously has had a ton of problems with guns firing when dropped or in a few instances when bumped while still in a holster.

Most guns should not be capable of going off when dropped or hit, there should be various safety features in place to prevent that.

In a truly ironic twist the Donvict is aiming to get rid of the EPA and Clean Air Act.

cough cough ^jury ^nullification cough

Sorry, there must be something in the air today.

Only exception would be if they can produce those wafers at 1/10th of the previous cost, but I highly doubt that's the case.

Secret?

Also I'm surprised they're even bothering with the pretense that Trump isn't Putin's bitch.

More security won't save them. For a time it will stop these vigilante style attacks, but if that outlet is cut off eventually you'll see large mobs leading the attacks instead and security won't be able or willing to stop them.

Death is the ultimate consequence. His family has kept the wealth for now, but if it gets bad enough that won't last either.

Your problem is you're taking the principled stance of how a fair system should work, but we're well past that point now. The system is broken and rigged. Desperate people when given the choice between lashing out randomly at those responsible or wasting time and energy playing rigged games that don't achieve anything will opt to lash out even if it doesn't accomplish much in the long term.

Things are at their breaking point and it's going to get messy. These sorts of things are just the first cracks along the stress points. If significant changes to reduce peoples frustrations aren't made it will lead to significantly more violent events like this.

The rich should be very scarred right now because there's absolutely nothing more dangerous than a group of people backed into a corner and desperate.

Should whoever did this have done this? No. But by the same token most people aren't going to be particularly bothered by this either. A complete scumbag got murdered and considering the society we're living in now that's literally the only bad thing that could have happened to him. He was never in any danger of facing consequences from his actions through legal means.

He did face the consequences, but his fellow executives who were just as much to blame haven't and likely never will. This isn't a solution, but it is a warning sign that things are approaching a tipping point. Historically when things get this bad and the "peasants" start pulling out guillotines and scaffolds things have gone very badly for both the ruling class and many of the ones leading the executions, but in the wake of such things there is some improvement. This is a significant warning to politicians and lawmakers that if they don't do something soon to address the rampant corporate greed and rapaciousness this sort of thing will start becoming more common and eventually the mob will be coming for them as well.

Everyone knows Bin Laden because his name was plastered all over the news for months on end. People have been angry at United Healthcare for a lot longer but it was always a faceless corporation. This event has put a name to that corporation and a focus for that anger. If the media covers this like they did Bin Laden I guarantee everyone would remember his name.

The only tenet I take issue with is 4. I used to be a really strong proponent of absolute free speech but after seeing the mess of propaganda and conspiracies that have thrived in the relatively free environment of the internet I've taken a more nuanced approach. While I still believe you should have the right to say anything you want and be free from censorship, I think there's a co-equal right that other people have the right not to be subjected to what you have to say. As with many things I think the key here is consent. While you shouldn't be outright censored what you say should have content warnings and people should need to opt in before being shown whatever it is.

That was my plan until MS installed copilot on my system without asking. A month later I installed Linux and haven't looked back. I did dual boot just in case I needed it, but I actually haven't had to boot into windows for the last 4 months. It's gone so well I'm currently planning to do the same to my wife's computer in a few months when I give it its hardware refresh.

That's a fair criticism of Biden, but Biden wasn't being criticized by that comment, rather the media coverage was. The media has consistently shrugged their shoulders and acted like nothing was wrong as Trump time and time again utterly violates both conventions and laws, but the moment anyone not in the MAGA-sphere puts even a toe out of line it's treated as a huge scandal. Should Joe have pardoned Hunter? No it undermines the entire message of nobody is above the law, but at the same time it's such a trivial thing in the face of the absolute and complete disregard of both morals and laws shown by Trump and his team daily.

In the face of such blatant double standards the media's rush to clutch their pearls in this case just rings as exceptionally hollow.

Actix-Web was one of the original web frameworks and is still very popular and well supported. That said, it's in the process of being replaced by Axum which is by the people who created Tokio (the async framework underlying both Actix-Web and Axum). Axum is fairly well supported now, although maybe not quite as complete as Actix-Web.