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Might be noteworthy if you missed it: https://lemmy.world/post/53011126

tl;dr: College told flock to remove the cameras and they refused saying they were within terms of the contract. Any cameras that got bagged were unbagged.

The leaves on the right of the old seal are olive leaves, and they're supposed to symbolize a desire for peace (extend the olive branch, etc). The leaves on the left are supposed to symbolize honor in combat. The arrows in the eagle talons are supposed to be readiness for war. The new seal has no leaves.

There seems to be some idea that firearm manufacturing is some version of witchcraft when the reality is that it's closer to the professor with his coconuts on Gilligan's Island. The arguments tend to go something like: "That's impossible" when actually it really isn't. "That's illegal" when not only is it not, but it's specifically protected. "You shouldn't do that" when some people just like to tinker. "That should be banned" without understanding that the regulatory framework to truly ban it would require tracking everything and every one at all times.

That last one is where you get into a lot of very hairy issues. Apps to track women's periods have been datamined, and some states propose using the data to look for possible pregnancies and termination of pregnancies. You can track every purchase of barstock, milling machines, routers, tampons, router bits, buckets, bags of salt, car batteries, and every web page access, and you'll still not stop it, but the amount of privacy you lost in trade for the attempt is staggering.

The best comment in this thread, by far, is this one as a proposed solution to the problem, but of course nobody wants to try that. Instead we want to throw regulatory spaghetti against a wall and demand that people accept less durable materials to work with or demand that people be less innovative. History suggests those approaches won't work.

I stand corrected.

electro-chemically machine

3D Printing Enthusiasts and Second Amendment Supporters should've been a natural fit, but instead we got CA banning plastic rope and requiring 3D printers to reject building certain designs. I don't unerstand why they didn't gel.

I wasn't aware of any for consumer level chips. All I really want is a basic motherboard+processor with ECC RAM and solid electronics with good capacitors and power filters like the manufacturers seem to be doing for the high end gaming rigs, but without a lot of bells and whistles that need to be turned off as part of the "new computer" process.

It's not intended as an epic story, rather a story about how a lot of people seem to think there's a huge moat to creating a firearm, but there really isn't.

they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture

I've heard that it's also possible to make consumer motherboards with ECC RAM and no built-in wifi as well, but surely someone would've tried that by now if is was technologically possible.

Maybe the RISC-V RVA23 push will be able to figure it out.

Is this how it is?
Is this how it's always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing?

Florence + The Machine - Free

Also:

I did my best, tried to impress, my childhood dream made flesh
And my dresses and my flowering sadness, so like a woman to profit from her madness
I was only beautiful under the lights, only powerful there
Burned down at thirty-six
Why did you dig me up for this?

Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats

You can have long guns purchased through the Civilian Marksmanship Program shipped directly to your door. Those are a drop in the bucket compared to most firearm purchases in the US, though.

Chilling effects also maintain sundown towns, keep LGBTQ people out of certain places, and the last time I checked nazi symbolism was back in vogue :-(

I think we need to approach gun legislation like we do cars. License to carry in public, strict rules about thier usage, and automatic max penalties and enhanced charges for any crime committed while carrying a gun (legally or otherwise), which can include losing your carry license.

The USA is big, and not every county/town constablulatory has left the good ole' boy network behind. You can get on the banned list by doing either the right thing or the wrong thing, and a towns full of grey men who can't speak up isn't an attractive future, and it's some people's realities. Those licenses to carry have to be approved by the locals after all.

I don't disagree with the spirit of what you said about max penalties or enhanced charges, but there've been some serious injustices to lay down at Mandatory Minimum Sentencing's feet when it's been put into practice, and I don't trust the current crop of people not to misuse it. We can't even get enhanced charges for misuse of public trust positions right.

I would say though that your trainer wouldn’t be thwarted by a bullet ownership limit either, it would just slow down their training.

You took it wrong or I misspoke; I was talking about the ability for someone to go get practice on their own without having to ask for permission. A box of 50 .22 is like $10 and closer to the size of a pack of gum (or half the size of a harmonica, or whatever size comparison the kids are using these days). I couldn't justify putting my name on a law that gave Keanu Reeves carte blanche to go train for a new John Wick movie when the average American is under greater restrictions. Where I am I learned from my father and there are ample public lands reserved for the purpose, plus any private land you can convince someone to practice at. Not every place in America has that luxury, though, and not every law is going to fit every place well.

OP asked so I tried to game it out the best I could.

Me, too. Good faith questions and answers are good things. As for strict usage, I think we already have that for the most part. Before adding any more laws I'd really like to see a national agreement on terminology as to what open carry, concealed carry, and all the terms really mean from a legal standpoint. I remember reading stories from when COVID was taking off that folks in California decided it might be time to get armed and didn't realize what the process there really involves. I doubt there's a real solid understanding of their gun registry system, either, and that's without getting into the really weird stuff that's been on the books.

In general I'm pro second amendment. It wasn't until commenting in this thread that I realized the firearm used to assassinate Shinzo Abe is probably legal in the US now thanks to the recent NFA changes regarding short barreled shotguns^1,2^. So, pro second amendment enough to be uncomfortable adding a lot of new legislation that doesn't seem to understand the underlying technology or what the second order effects might be, but not so second amendment that I'm going to lowe's when they open to prove a point. I expect someone else will get there soon enough for the clicks, though.

• [1] Legal disclaimer: That is purely speculative on my part.
• [2] Constructing your own firearm in the US has always been legal, the issue isn't making one, it's the barrel length and selling one that isn't serialized.

No idea why they would ignore such direct existential danger for their companies.

Risk Management (that's what they named the LLM after they fired the people responsible for that) is probably telling them that there will be a huge pool of willing applicants to work for less money than the people they let go, that talent is fungible, etc.

The real fun part is when people start asking for hiring bonuses to come in and unfuck the company slop. They won't start trying to hire people until they start losing customers which means the quality of the product is lower than it was when they took on the customer. If it takes them longer to fix their codebase than it would for a competitor to start from scratch and outdo them on marketing or advertising, then they'll go under.