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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Should people be allowed to own basic metalworking tools, or is that something else that would be OK to be 'controlled in some way'? Maybe we shouldn't let people write their own software either, as there's all sorts of
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Would they really do less stabbing if they had to use a mundane kitchen knife instead of a 'tacticool' knife or 'ninja sword'?
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
> Why would I bother with an unreliable 3D printed zip gun and 3D printing when I can go and get a real working gun off the street for a few hundred? Even in countries with strict gun control, like the UK, the most serious criminals can
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
To get it through security somewhere with metal detectors. That's probably the only reason to specifically fear a 3D-printed gun in a nation full of proper guns. Of course, 3D printed plastic ammo isn't likely to be very effective
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
After a few decades, you need to start replacing all the solar panels. And the robot army being used to do the construction and resource extraction will likely have a much shorter lifespan. So needs to be self-replicating/repairing&#x2
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
The reality is that the home movie experience is now better. Seeing a film on the big screen was still a great experience back in the 80s and early 90s when the home experience was VHS and a smallish CRT with mono audio. It started to chang
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Do you think the current anti-ICE movement would have happened without social media? Or Jan 6th, or all the Palestine protests, or even the election of Trump? The US has it's first amendment protections, but other countries seem rather
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
In the UK, pay-as-you-go SIMs are widely available. Not sure how much information you need to give to activate+use one these days, though.
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
The online right talk about 'the great meme war' that led to the 2016 election of Trump. Seems pretty clear that social media is radicalising people at both ends of the political spectrum, and it's not surprising that governm
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
IMHO the main point of these schemes is to make it hard for adults to use social media somewhat-anonyously. So the government can more easily identify those posting 'prohibited speech'. If there was a legitimate drive to protect k
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
It's called getting older. As a grown adult, nothing can recreate the feeling of exploring a new game as a child/teen. Especially during the 80s/90s, where gaming as a whole was new and rapidly-evolving. But revisiting old fa
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
> Google and Microsoft will obviously remain Microsoft seem to be pushing all kinds of users away in all directions at the moment while focused on the AI bubble*. Once it bursts/deflats, will they come back? Or are we looking at a p
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
> Stable, cash-generating projects are often first to be put into efficiency/maintenance mode Or they're actively enshittified, aiming to extract more short-term revenue at the cost of a long-term future...
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
If they tried to take significantly more, cash would be a lot more popular. Yet Apple can get away with taking 30% and companies still accept this and push their apps rather than websites.
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Of course it's not about Tesla at all. Yeah, there's been overpromising and underdelivering on self-driving (is anyone doing better yet, though?), but in reality the hate is entirely about Elon and his politics.
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Having them as an exposed 'weak spot' might accelerate the evolutionary process - those who can effectively protect that weak spot have a better chance of reproducing, those who can't get filtered out of the gene pool?
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Yet he's still doing less damage than others chasing the AI bubble, as competition is growing in the EV market. Meanwhile, RIP Windows, Google Search, and maybe the entire games industry, maybe even then end of affordable home computin
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Apps bad. Web good. Why did we let mobile go down the one-app-per-website path?
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About to Implode
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And 'The economy' is just the disguise for getting rid of expensive workers and hiring cheaper workers elsewhere in the world.
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
A vehicle can be just as deadly as a firearm. And vehicles had previously been used aggressively by the protestors. There were claims (no idea if true) that the agent who fired the fatal shots had been dragged down the road and injured in a
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
> How can you think it's a "game'? Everything seems fueled by social media radicalisation, and the social media side of things is very much 'gameified', all about scoring likes/upvotes/followers (and ea
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Of course, if you're taking up arms to resist/overthrow a government, then you should be entirely anticipating that the government will shoot back. Or shoot first. If protest is approaching/crossing the line into insurgency,
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
And if you disagree you're a russian bot. But there wouldn't possibly be any middle-eastern bots spreading propaganda...
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
> There are no ID cards in the UK Not physical cards, but a digital ID system is on the way :(
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> they think the audience is now fully captive. It is, for the large sub-$800 segment of the smartphone market.
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
We haven't had a 'world order'. We've had the threat of mutually-assured destruction. Which has prevented another world war, but not regional conflicts, a cold war, and whatever the history books decide to call the curre
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
You don't want to risk damaging an expensive phone/laptop/TV by plugging in the absolute cheapest unbranded cables/adaptors etc if there's a trustworthy brand available. And with some electrical stuff, such as power
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
A lot of it isn't 'climate change denial', it's more a realisation that we don't have realistic solutions, especially while humans continue to do what they always do - fight wars over territory/resources/r
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
> Soggy is not a problem. It is when you're trying to suck a thick milkshake through one, though...

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