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by qball 2y ago
The UK is not a European country.
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by qball 2y ago
It may surprise you to know that Canada currently has more restrictive gun laws than any European country. It bans handguns, most modern rifles, and magazine size limits are very low, and treats down-converted rifles (from full-auto to s
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by qball 2y ago
An NYPD officer? Scaremongering? Perish the thought. I'd actually expect the 15-round magazines to be more common, given that's the size of magazine the Glock 19 comes with, and they don't stick out of the gun. But then ag
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by qball 2y ago
>that might have a counter initiative answer. Handguns really aren't that great at killing a target- you're trading off power for the ability to even get the gun into the fight (without detection, in this case). So ideally, y
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by qball 2y ago
>The highest capacity I see in a very quick online search is around 30. The largest reliable magazine for a Glock that is still halfway concealable holds 33 rounds. The largest reliable magazine for a Glock holds 50 rounds, but it's
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by qball 2y ago
>Glock designed the handgun specifically to allow this, and they even manufacture switches themselves. It really isn't, though. The way these work is exploiting the fact that the backplate on the gun can be modified such that the o
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by qball 2y ago
Just like "the science" about brain development ages.
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by qball 2y ago
>cleaning-intensity ultrasound could cause issues for humans? Apart from it being loud as fuck? (They say it's ultrasonic, but there's some harmonic around 15,000 Hz that they all exhibit for some reason- both the bucket cle
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by qball 2y ago
>at least Chrome doesn't actually show you ads directly throughout the browser's interface Chrome actively prevents proper adblockers from working as it has removed the extension framework integral to their function, and most w
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by qball 2y ago
So's the Corporation that the Foundation controls, but that's more because it operates at a loss rather than being a charitable organization.
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>not necessarily cultivated at school Agency is actively suppressed at school; that's one of its core functions.
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>since nowadays there's no guarantee that a process shrink will get you significantly cheaper transistors That is because all cutting-edge chips use TSMC. No competition means price per transistor can stay consistent or even rise,
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>something which 9mm doesn't do reliably Neither does .45, of course. Handguns (well, 9mm anyway) dispense what is functionally a single pellet of buckshot- the pellets (while still potentially lethal) aren't that powerful on
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There is one particular US citizen that owns a private fleet of ICBMs. Those missiles are typically used to do things like launch low-cost satellite internet and ferry astronauts to and from the ISS; but the only difference between those m
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by qball 2y ago
>but that tiny part of my brain is shouted down immediately by the rest of my brain screaming Your gut feeling is simply wrong. General pornography availability and sexual assault are negatively correlated; you'll notice the former
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by qball 2y ago
>locking everything down in the name of "safety and harmlessness." This was always a pretense- people are concerned about the sci-fi trope of AI destroying the world, so why not re-use that name to justify inserting political b
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>It seems quite possible to take a sedan and replace the back seat and trunk with a bed and still meet requirements. These already exist, they're called "utes". Modern compact utility vehicles are simply the North American
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by qball 2y ago
Closing off any future French-speaking (read: sharing more Quebec values) Western expansion was (and really, still is) actually a big deal.
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>The whole Quebec movement is basically dead in the water now. Quebec's Separatist party has complete electoral dominance (except for Montreal, but Montreal is the least Quebec part of Quebec) and has the ability to force the govern
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by qball 2y ago
>if you've been a stable nation for century+ Quebec has tried to separate twice in the past 50 years, and comes within a Brexit's margin of actually getting it done (and if it wasn't for Montreal, they'd already be go
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by qball 2y ago
There are between 4-7 major subcountries in Canada (for reference, the US has 11 of them) depending on how you count them. Those are the West (everything west of Upper Canada), Upper Canada (triangle formed by Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal), Lowe
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by qball 2y ago
The French were the only Western European country to realize that the US did not have their best interests in mind when it comes to energy security in Europe. History has done nothing but show that pursuing nuclear as a vital national resou
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>and a universal menu bar equivalent webOS, the poster child for simple and consistent UI, did all of this. Much like the Amiga, this OS is always imitated, never copied, even though Android should have thrown out everything after Honeyc
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Who are they going to call, the cops? (This is also why criminals tend to seek illegal firearms; self-defense from other criminals is a more salient issue than it is for the average citizen for this reason.)
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>Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant but leads to positive sentiments around environmentalism for environmentalists Which is all you really need to know about why they did it. The vast majority of people dispose of their
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Yes you can. C# has had anonymous types since language version 3.0, released nearly 20 years ago; everyone who has used .Select() at the end of a LINQ query has used this.
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At this point the only thing an AI startup has to do to get people to spend money on the model is to: -not censor it -not be doing prompt injection It's very easy, which is why no other firm is capable of it.
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>This increases the level of necessary parental involvement needed and gets rid of one little way that kids learned to interact with other adults and families. This shit has a direct and measurable impact on birth rates for a negligible
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Enclosing the commons for the sole purpose of enclosing the commons is bad.
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>I don't think it has much to do with that. Sure it does; Russian police do nothing about credit card theft because (and to the point that) that money is ultimately coming out of Western pockets ( https://www.youtube.com&#

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