DuskStar

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by DuskStar 4y ago
What if pulling the lever has a 50 percent chance of reducing deaths, but always eliminates societal cohesion and trust?
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> They used the work of others to get to the result. Should everyone go back to assembly on bare metal, then?
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by DuskStar 4y ago
$20 device is illegal to import or possess for 99% of Americans, but a lot of criminals have them anyways. (And essentially no otherwise law abiding Americans do) You should support more gun laws to make other things besides this illegal to
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by DuskStar 4y ago
I'm sorry, but a budget deficit of 9.6% of GDP isn't exactly a healthy level either.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Sometimes, specific terms matter. Federal law is one of those times. Especially gun law, because getting it wrong means the ATF shoots your dog and you go to club fed.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
The second one is an "Assault Weapon ", not Rifle . This is why it was called the Assault Weapons Ban. See [0], "a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi
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by DuskStar 4y ago
And such lists have very often led to further restrictions / confiscation in other countries, so it's not exactly a baseless fear.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
You do not in fact need a driver's license to purchase/own/operate a motor vehicle in the USA - only to use public roads. (And that's just talking about "by law" - "in practice" people drive with no l
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Because trusting the government to have the power to determine who gets to defend themselves means that African Americans in the post-civil-war south, and Jews in 1930s Germany, don't get to defend themselves. People keep saying that t
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by DuskStar 4y ago
But you just completely ignored what I wrote, which was that a policy's name may be viewed differently than that policy's implementation . And then you said there's no objections to red flag laws! Did you even read my comm
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by DuskStar 4y ago
My point was that one of their key examples of "the elites are wrong on what public opinion is" was a subject where "public opinion" is extremely dependent on wording, and that they themselves do not seem to realize thi
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by DuskStar 4y ago
A lot of gun restrictions can be very different as presented versus how they are in practice. Especially when it comes to the sort of "edge cases" that don't actually end up being edge cases. Universal background checks sou
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> Think also about gun control, which we know is much more popular with the public than elites often think it is. One of the things that we’re seeing recently in American politics is an effort by activist groups to correct misperceptions
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Your definition of "civilized" seems to be "places gun control worked", and excludes most of Central and South America.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Like the cops at our most recent school shooting in Texas, you mean? Seems like they already hesitate to act.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Indeed, but we should almost certainly care more about total homicide than gun violence (which is 2/3rds suicide, 1/3rd gun homicide).
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by DuskStar 4y ago
For a while, the biggest mastodon instances were japanese, (and potentially still are), and had a different approach to lolicon. https://medium.com/@EthanZ/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reas...
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by DuskStar 4y ago
If you use your free speech to say to a project veritas "operative" that there's no way they're a project veritas operative, you probably deserve to get fired for sheer stupidity at the very least.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
The Navy is currently deploying 100kW-class solid state lasers. It's taken a while, but the dream of laser AA is coming!
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Two More Pyramids and a Sphinx (2019)(analog-antiquarian.net)
16 points by DuskStar 4y ago|1 comments
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> It’s impossible to rate high on all those issues and not be “stable” in any meaningful sense. However, a dictatorship can ALSO be stable - just look at North Korea. Democracy is not the only way to achieve stability.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
I think broadwell was a process shift, not a microarchitecture shift.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Maybe many people are working multiple jobs? So your jobs each pay X, but your income is 2X.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Mass shootings in areas with strict gun control , don't forget that part!
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Lithium is light. This means that it generally floats to the top of things. This means that it is not a good candidate for asteroid mining, because while it has floated to the surface of the Earth over the course of many many many years, it
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by DuskStar 5y ago
This depends. Do you want someone to be able to take care of you after you retire? Medical care, that sort of thing? If so, that means that you need people. People younger than you. People with some sort of societal attachment to you that r
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by DuskStar 5y ago
I think it's ironic that you complain about robber barons preventing the modern equivalent to libraries when Andrew Carnegie built 2000 public libraries in the US alone.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
I bet the Vatican is one.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Should we apply the same standards to things like BLM or Moms Demand Action? Those standards being "billionaires donated, therefore illegitimate" as far as I can tell.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Why does everyone always get this backwards? Section 230 is what allows moderation without assuming liability for the content . Completely unmoderated forums do not require section 230. Moderated forums do.

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