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But you can’t start your scenario from after there’s already a fully situated authoritarian government in place. If you’re starting from there then there’s no actual law about anything at all anyway, guns or otherwise.

And secondly, you’re arguing as if strong gun control laws means a gun ban, which aren’t at all the same thing.

Not OP, but my position has always been the constitutional position of “a well regulated militia”. Like imo you shouldn’t be able to have guns in your home, but it would be fine if there was a single gun locker on literally every block where you could store an entire personally-owned arsenal, as long as the locker met strict security rules and the gun users met strict and recurring training requirements.

This is a topic I’ve gotten disagreement on from my fellow lefties for a long time, and I’m glad they’re finally starting to understand. I’ve always believed in strong gun control laws, but not a ban.

Yeah we all go through a stage where we haven’t mentally matured yet and have this tween-like rebellion reaction to any idea about changing for the better. Some grow out of it at a younger age, some at a normal age, and some not at all. I remember a bunch of examples I’ve seen happen through the decades;

“You say i shouldn’t eat meat, well i say nuh uh! Now I’m gonna eat twice as much!”

“You say i shouldn’t smoke cigarettes, well i say nuh uh! Now I’m gonna smoke cigars too!”

“You say i shouldn’t be racist, well i say nuh uh! Now I’m gonna be even more outrageously racist!”

It’s just a non-thinking reactionary response to the idea that you aren’t perfect.

Abortion - till i was about 14 i had thought it should be illegal, but then i grew up a little bit more and realized the topic wasn’t like it was being presented at all. The truth is that in many cases an abortion is the best outcome for all parties involved, including the fetus, the person who’s pregnant, and all of the rest of us in the world.

And when you start thinking about how to build a system in charge of differentiating which pregnancies should be aborted vs which should be carried to term it immediately becomes clear that if anyone besides the pregnant woman gets to decide then it becomes a literal waking nightmare of horror movie scenarios.

In any non-juvenile view it’s obvious that abortion has to be legal, easily available, and entirely up to the pregnant woman to decide on

Checks and balances in the US government would stop a president from doing anything truly egregious. Unfortunately that belief has been proven very very incorrect

(There was always the regular corruption and killing that the US was doing, but that was the “regular” accepted type of horribleness built into our system. But i truly thought the checks and balances would prevent the occurrence of extremely out of the ordinary radically new nakedly illegal tyrant style horrors.)

Nyc to dc, then dc to nyc, and then nyc to dc yet again all on a single charge

That sounds like a wonderful dream! So amazing that it actually came true over there!

WOOT! Fantastic! I love to see this is happening!

American here, can you tell me if this is a good thing or not?

And even if that feature doesn’t exist, you still have the bookmark feature on your web browser. Posting like that is selfish

It isn’t always that simple. It could lead to age verification requirements

You seem to be under the impression that gambling is illegal only for children in New York, but that’s not what’s happening here, gambling is illegal in New York for all ages.

Here’s a great world for everyone’s vocabulary - yonic

Fucking preach brother.

Depending on how briefly they can be triggered i wonder if it could be fired in a controlled enough temporal pattern to create recognizable notes. Human hearing goes down to 40 cycles per second, so if it can fire in burst of less than a 40th of a second then that could work

“We’ve created a real life version of the torment nexus from the famous book Never Create The Torment Nexus”

The word “notebooks” in your comment makes your point really unclear in this context. I think you might be referring to portable computers but the way it reads sounds like your referring to actual paper books

We do know about it. Most of the big name ai services are all public about working for government enforcement agencies. Palantir, Flock, Boston Dynamics, Tesla xAI, etc

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Are these available in the US?