There’s always a possibilty for the mechanism to trigger if you accidentally bump the gun

Ah, a Sig owner, I see.

Finally, a fellow Glock hater!

Two things that should be completely unacceptable in a modern firearm:

• Having no safety mechanism whatsoever. (Trigger dingus doesn’t count.)

• Requiring a trigger pull (or even putting your finger inside the trigger guard) for any other reason than intending to fire a shot.

And there are so many excellent modern pistols out there that don’t break these two rules. Pistols that do everything a Glock can do, but without these glaring safety issues. So why is the Glock still the ‘default’ choice? It’s especially egregious to see it as a recommendation to novice shooters. Dealing with these safety issues should require an expert. Putting a gun with these issues into the hands of a new shooter is just asking for trouble.

It could also be a case of a prosecutor who agrees with the shooter. (A right-wing extremist prosecutor, who has ever heard of such a thing?)

In that case, the prosecutor might feel pressured to bring the case before a grand jury, just to make it look like he’s doing his job. But he could deliberately throw the case, neglect to mention important evidence, etc, etc, and fail to get an indictment. That way, he gets to shut down the prosecution without making it look like it was his choice. Since grand jury proceedings are sealed, nobody would be able to know he deliberately sandbagged and failed on purpose. Then he gets to make a public statement about how he tried, but the grand jury said no, so his hands are tied.

So it could be a way for a malicious prosecutor to kill/bury the case without looking like he’s deliberately letting a murderer go free.

They don’t do anything involving school shootings.

Not true. They’ll stand around and blockade the entrance to prevent parents from going in to rescue their children.

Luigi should try this defense.

“I just wanted to show him my cool gun, but then it went off, all on its own. Complete accident!”

A formula I’m positive they still use.

Kind of outdated at this point.

They used that to bypass Congress’s power to allocate funds, so they could do it without asking Congress for money to do it with.

But these days, the executive branch just reallocates money whenever and wherever it feels like, including levying new taxes to pay for it all. No Congressional approval necessary.

If I wanted it to taste bad and bitter, sure.

Failed.

Reason: didn’t mention God.

The kids today will never buy that concept though. They’re going to be dangerous until they’re extinguished.

Please do not extinguish the kids.

Plus, no chargebacks.

If a customer gets cash from the ATM and then gives you the cash, they can’t later try to claw that cash back by denying the charge.

They could already easily track your face because your aunt uploaded a picture of you to Facebook and tagged you in it.

What they’re trying to do here is connect your face/identity with your Discord account, so that they can more easily track down dissidents who say naughty things online through Discord.

(I am kind of making the assumption that their perfect, all-powerful AI, once developed, would also be a bit more efficient than current models, allowing it to more easily run on consumer-grade hardware. Also, in the meantime, consumer-grade hardware is only getting better and more powerful.)

You can ask an LLM to vibe-code you a new model from scratch, but pre-training it you’re gonna be limited by the resources you have available

Why would you ask the uber-LLM to code you a new model that hasn’t been trained yet? Just ask it to give you one that already has all the training done and the weights figured out. Ask it to give you one that’s ready to go, right out of the box.

For me, the permanent cure for hiccups was being in the hospital with broken ribs. Getting a case of the hiccups when you have broken ribs is not fun.

With pain as my teacher, I quickly learned how to stop hiccups with willpower alone. And I’ve been able to do it ever since. I get one hiccup, tell myself “that’s the last one”, and it is.

or if I should try to find a good quality version instead, since what I usually find is in the supermarket where it’s almost universally cheap junk

Or take the opportunity to check the second-hand market for it! Craigslist/FB marketplace, thrift shops, ebay (used, private seller), garage sales, etc. Tends to be a lot cheaper, great for the environment (because less resources needed for new production and less stuff in landfills), and keeps your money away from evil corporations.

Why would you ever have a backlog in the first place? Why would you buy a game and then not play it?

Put the games you want to play in the future on your wishlist. When you’re ready to play a new game, pick one from your wishlist, buy it, play it.

The games aren’t going away, they’re not going to run out of digital copies. Why would you ever buy it before you’re ready to play it? It doesn’t matter whether it’s sitting in your wishlist or your hard drive, so let them sit in your wishlist, where it’s a lot cheaper for them to sit.

(Okay, sure, games go on sale on steam occasionally, and you might want to pick one up while it’s on sale. Even then, though … games tend to get cheaper over time as they get older. Just waiting and buying it later might ultimately be cheaper than the ‘on sale’ price.)

Man, I still eat like shit, but when I switched to drinking only water (instead of mainly soda/juice), I was easily able to lose the excess weight that had been building up.

No other changes. Just drink water. Only water. Water is good.

I keep a pitcher of cold, filtered water in the mini-fridge by my desk. That shit is delicious. And I don’t even miss anything. If you’re struggling with the switch to water, get yourself some good water.

Yep. Just like the fuckers walking around with $2500 sunglasses.

Those sunglasses don’t do anything that a $20 pair can’t do. And they don’t even look all that different.

The important part is that they enable absolutely disgusting consumerist snobbery, allowing some very vapid people to think that they’re better than other people because they have the expensive sunglasses.

In just about any kind of product you can think of, there are brands catering to this kind of conspicuous consumption.

A lot of it comes down to a mix of snobbishness, sunk cost fallacy, and tribalism.

You can’t admit that your $5,000 pair of headphones sound exactly the same as a $300 pair, because:

• You’d no longer be able to pretend that you’re better than the people who have $300 headphones.

• You’d have to admit to yourself that you completely wasted $4,700.

• You’d have to realize that the tight-knit community you’ve formed with other $10k headphone people isn’t really bettor or even really distinct from communities of people with $300 headphones.

So far… Just wait until the lobbyists get their hands on our laws…

You see, big tech AI bros? This is why you’re dumb. Even if this all pans out and all your AI dystopia dreams come true, it doesn’t mean you’re going to be rich and powerful and at the top.

If your AI becomes as good as it’s supposedly going to get … I can just ask it to develop a new AI for me. And then I don’t have to use yours anymore. Why would anybody pay you to use your AI when it becomes trivial to make a new one, tailored to their specific needs? Why would I need your big tech company for anything if anything you can provide could be readily replaced by just asking an AI for it. If AI becomes good enough to replace everyone’s job, it will replace big tech as well.

The only people who might be benefiting from all this are the ones who manufacture and sell the hardware that runs it. If AI becomes good enough, all software companies will go bankrupt. Yes including Google, Microslop, etc.