I used to think along the lines of the Churchill quote of “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Turns out that was giving us way too much credit.

So, let’s just do nothing about guns? Just give up and let public shootings happen as an unavoidable fact of life, but only for the U.S?

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Orlando, Virginia Tech (handguns, but guns are guns), I could go on, all purchased their weapons specifically for the purposes of what they did with them. The people you are talking about tend to be the most responsible and respectable owners of guns, statistically. City folk with a history of mental instability and their freshly purchased assault weapons are overwhelmingly the problem, not people that were raised around guns used for hunting animals and taught to respect and safety use them from the time they could hold one.

We know.

It’s always the people you most expect.

Whatever helps you sleep.

I’ve worked apartment maintenance and the amount of people who were intimately watching the war room while I worked in their apartments proves this assertion woefully wrong. You’ve got neighbors and acquaintances that are balls deep into that shit.

You should care about MAGA, care in this context is not admonishing or accepting. The same way you should care about Nazis overtaking the government, like the exact same way.

As someone who has grown up and lived among the Mormons, I really have to disagree. They are dense, brainwashed, sexist, culty mother fuckers who will value nothing more than conformity.

Given everything I’ve learned about Roblox over the years, if I had a kid I’d much rather find them watching Chaturbate than playing Roblox. To my knowledge, nobody has ever tried to kidnap, rape, or kill a child, or anyone for that matter, for watching Chaturbate.

All that was required to stop this entire situation was for her to put a password on the computer. I live alone and I have a password on my computer. If you’re too stupid to setup password protection then you’re too stupid to be operating a computer or raising children, this really is an issue of parenting.

Yes. That is actually an ideal function of ethical AI. I’m not against AI in regards to things that is is actually beneficial towards and where it can be used as a tool for understanding, I just don’t like it being used as a thief’s tool pretending to be a paintbrush or a typewriter. There are good and ethical uses for AI, art is not one of them.