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Gun control means: mandatory background checks, waiting periods, bans on previously convicted violent criminals owning guns, potentially magazine limits or limits on fully automatic licenses to specific users (like you may need to demonstrate you have proficiency and be a member of a gun club). None of this goes against "the right to bear arms".

It does not mean nobody can buy guns or that guns are taken away - this is the fearmongering always pushed by the very conservative, very pro-Trump NRA.

Little known fact the 'te' in Techdirt stands for "terrible article titles".

We did it Reddit Lemmy, we found a pixelated mess and made up a story about what it is.

April 23rd will be the first day that his administrations charges for obstruction of justice are delayed / postponed because [made up reason so the judge doesn't have to do their job].

Just like happened last time.

And the time before.

And the time before.

First, they came for the "terrorists", and I said nothing, because I am not a terrorist.

Then, they came for the "illegal immigrants"..

While this is definitely an escalation, and a dangerous one that should be called out and fought. I want to point out that American citizens have had NO due process and NO rights on Guantanamo Bay ever since Bush Jr started disappearing people and flying them over there under the guise of terrorism accusations.

These are US citizens who were abducted, taken out of country, and not even allowed a lawyer or told what their charges are, beaten and tortured - that the courts decided that was all more or less acceptable for, and further that it was also acceptable to be detained indefinitely.

Trump is a symptom, he is not the disease.

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/court-rules-guantanamo-detainees-are-not-entitled-due-process

In my experience people primarily get annoyed at thread necro when it's to ask/discuss something tangential to the initial thread. Just start a new one in that case, instead of potentially bumping notifications to several people for your barely-related issue/discussion.

OTOH if it's relevant info for a long dead thread then by all means add it or ask your query, that info could be valuable to someone with the same issue or it could be a pertinent update to an old discussion with new info.

There's nothing inherently wrong with necroing a thread though. Automated archiving of threads is mostly counter-productive. Like when I find a closed and locked thread on GitHub that I have a fix for I just go "oh well guess they can find the fix themselves".

I hate influencers too so I get it, but I figure its mostly kids and young adults who grew up watching him, so I put the blame more on the systems and communities they grew up in.

Those kids should have been protected by say.. A strong consumer protections board, or parents controlling their screen time & curating their viewing, government banning phones at school, or outright banning social media for kids, or a quality education teaching them media literacy - but all of those things are demonized as bad things that those socialist European countries have.

"Worries users" - is the USA an operating system now?

Is AI writing these posts? The statement makes sense in context in the full post, but the headline absolutely does not - leads me to believe yes, AI slop.

I agree. I mean he's lied about delivering so many things over the years, why don't they just point out that it's another failure.

Instead they twist it into something he didn't say - and lose credibility. Stupid.

Can also vouch for AirVPN. Going on 7 years now with no issues.

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The narcissist in cheif will just blame the Chinese, and they'll agree because it's less painful than facing that they did it to themselves.

It takes a lot of daily reinforcement to deprogram/unbrainwash people, so I don't think it'll happen fast unfortunately.

It's a really poorly thought out idea.

Imagine how his followers would react.

Imagine how many on the left side of US politics would very likely see attempts on their lives or successfully be assassinated in revenge - AOC, Bernie, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib?? Even centrists like Kamala and Obama would be likely targets.

The damage that political assassinations cause in a democracy (even a flawed one) is far greater than the 'good' they may do in taking down a bad leader.

Only musicians have to wear the politically dangerous slogan that could risk their lives, or the life of their children or partners?

*I would totally do this hypothetical that I have no danger of actually needing to do in the real world ever. *

I hope you realize that this reads just like those "you know, if I was on board that plane that got hijacked.. Things woulda been different" posts.

All the keyboard warriors in this thread implying they'd happily shout out 'death to Trump!' on the world stage while having a kid and family living in the US (as JB does) are kidding themselves.

"His friend didn't like Trump" is a little different to his friend publically endorsing an assassination attempt on their president.

Anyone who was aghast that 'OMG Tenacious D broke up' is no fan - they break up on every album, literally every show - it's a bit. Jack Black is no fan of Trump, he's publically stated the entire Apocalypto album was a response to Trump's 2016 win. He hates his guts.

That's very different to advocating for political assassination on stage.

The smart response was to back away from the situation, distance himself from KG, Kg to issue an apology, let it cool off - and then come back later. And would you look at that - so far that's exactly what's been done.

Lol you really don't understand what etymology means do you?

The purpose of this thread is talking about why the Americans adopted a particular spelling - the evolution of the word, not who initially named it. Words change and evolve over time, as does their spelling. This is why Wikipedia dedicated an entire two page section to explaining how the word developed (etymology - remember?) and the people who popularized the spelling.

I'm done replying to you, it's like talking to a brick wall and now you're just being childishly abusive.

The most gen-x/millenial throwback thing about this set is the random card pack that has a chance to include a "signed cacodaemon rookie card". Genuinely funny that you'd have to buy multiples of this set to try and collect the whole set of cards.

I don't mind this stuff, I mean people spend stacks of cash on far more worthless and non-functional collectactables.

You’re literally arguing that the dude who named it that isn’t the reason it’s named that.

No, I'm not, I'm discussing the etymology of the word as Wikipedia states it.

This is the last quote I'll drop from the Wikipedia article I've linked because really, you should be able to just read this yourself.

In 1892, Hall used the -um spelling in his advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and 1903. It is unknown whether this spelling was introduced by mistake or intentionally, but Hall preferred aluminum since its introduction because it resembled platinum, the name of a prestigious metal. By 1890, both spellings had been common in the United States, the -ium spelling [aluminium] being slightly more common; by 1895, the situation had reversed; by 1900, aluminum had become twice as common as aluminium; in the next decade, the -um spelling dominated American usage.

This quote is from tthe etymology section, explaining how the spelling rose to prominence in the US - again, Americans drove this spelling adoption - Webster then HALL. Not 'the Brits'. 🤦‍♂️

It's true. Pretty sure I read that on an Andrew Tate post before I left Twitter, I believe he is some kind of gay authority?