thebestaquaman @ thebestaquaman @lemmy.world

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There are no "accidents" with firearms, there can only be negligence.

Look, I've been in the army, I know firearm safety, and I strongly disagree. People can slip and fall, or inexplicably fumble and drop stuff. People with no history of it can suddenly have seizures or heart failure that causes them to seize up or collapse. None of these are common, but all can occur. If you happen to be carrying a loaded firearm when it happens, that firearm can go off. Even if you have the safety in place. Shit can malfunction.

Regardless, if I get shot, the question of whether it was intentional, an accident, or due to negligence is really a secondary matter. The primary issue is that I just got shot, and that can have irreversible consequences.

My point is that if I happen to get shot, I really don't care how statistically unlikely it was to happen in the way it did. The most effective way to prevent firearm injuries/deaths is to keep firearms away from people that don't strictly need them.

I'm just waiting for the point where essentially enough people have caught on to this tactic that the effect flips.

Now, when trump announces some policy that will harm a certain business, their stock tanks, a bunch of people buy the dip, the policy is called off, and the stock rebounds. There are probably already people that begin buying already once the policy is announced, in order to catch the dip.

If this continues, there could eventually be enough people trying to "buy the dip" that trump announcing a harmful policy causes a stock to jump, rather than dip. Which would be hilarious.

The issue I see with the logic that "Everyone should have the right to carry a gun everywhere, until their negligence causes harm" is the massive consequence of someone messing up with a gun.

Guns are so extremely lethal that when accidents happen (they will eventually happen), it is likely to result in death or disability. It seems pretty clear to me that society overall is safer for everyone the fewer guns there are around. It doesn't really matter if the person that shot me due to negligence loses their license, I've already been shot, and they shouldn't have had a gun in the first place.

Knives and guns aren't at all comparable weapons. One allows the user to quickly kill multiple people at ranges up to several hundred meters, the other gives the user a significant advantage (edge) in melee combat against an unarmed/unarmoured opponent.

The dream here, in FOSS terms, is that governments see the massive potential value in using FOSS, and start actively contributing to it.

Imagine if the German or Danish government puts the people on their IT payroll (who are now maintaining Microsoft systems) to maintain FOSS systems. This would be a huge benefit for everyone, if enough big actors do it, it may be what pushes stuff like Microsoft into being a niche service.

Fair enough, I'm just one of the people that massively prefers reading to videos, so I thought I would link the OP instead of asking you for it :)

The comic, for people that prefer reading over watching YouTube videos.

That can really depend. I've had both friends and family who have struggled with all kinds of issues. In every case I've seen so far, building a daily routine that involves getting out of bed and doing something that makes them feel useful/successful has been the cure.

It turns out that we're social creatures, and succeeding at doing stuff that benefits someone other than ourselves often helps us feel like life has meaning. That in turn helps us get over/process whatever shit we have behind us.

By all means, the LinkedIn post here is dogshit. I do, however, believe that for most people, getting back to work/school is paramount to getting better. Research backs me up. I'm on my phone now, but if you're interested, I'll dig up some studies when I have time.

I have three stores within 200 m, one of which is open 24/7, another of which has a massive selection in fresh cheese, meats, fish, and baking goods.

Sorry, but I was in the US last summer, and I really feel bad for you guys regarding the whole food and walk-/bikeability situation.

What do you mean?

You can pay someone to vote a specific way, but with the current system, there doesn't exist a way for you to verify that they actually voted how you told them to.

The problem with any kind of system like this is that if you can verify your own vote, then someone else could always force you to show them that verification.

Relevant XKCD

No matter who threatens you, they can't see what's on the paper ballot you put in a box. There's people at the polling station that ensure that.

If there's any way of tracking your vote, someone could threaten you, force you to vote a certain way, then force you to show the verification afterwards.

The safest way to ensure everyone gets a fair vote is paper ballots in a box.

I know the US uses a lot of mail-in voting, and that you generally deem it to be secure. I also understand that the US is a far less densely populated country than my own, which makes mail-in voting more necessary. However, we don't have that in my country, and the reason I'm glad for it is exactly this: There's no truly effective way to prevent anyone from forcing someone else to mail in a specific vote.

I'm not an expert by any means here, but my impression is that it at some point comes down to a tradeoff between security/anonymity and having a fast enough connection. TOR slows you down much more than an ordinary VPN is what I've heard.

You don't need to pretend education was perfect before in order to realise that it's getting worse and try to reverse the trend.

You also don't need to pretend it was perfect before in order to see that the proliferation of LLM's is harming education.

This doesn't work after the pdf reaches a cert max size.

Trump will destroy Ukraine’s ability to defend it’s self.

The options the US has for achieving this are severely limited. Any missile or bombing campaign would involve violating NATO airspace, and would likely result in loss of materiel/personell. Stay the fuck back.

That's because they're full of shit. If you have the equipment to properly treat water, it will be drinkable pretty much no matter what it's been through.

Obviously, you shouldn't be drinking unsterilised water that's full of shit.

English has a lot of influence from both Germanic and Latin, to the point where I don't think it's reasonable to classify it as a strictly "Germanic" language.

There are plenty of English words that can be traced to old Norse (i.e. Norwegian Viking occupiers, raiders, and/or traders).

If anything, I'm happy they forced us to train to fight with gas masks when I was in the army. It's clear that russia won't shy from anything...