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HelixDab2

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  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • Emissions are a large part of what's causing the habitat destruction, depending on where, specifically, you're talking about. For instance, the warming oceans are caused by the increasing CO2 levels, and warming oceans and ice cap melt is causing massive changes in weather patterns, which in turn, is leading to droughts, floods, increased wildfires, more and stronger hurricanes, etc. Deforestation in the Amazon is still an ongoing problem, although I understand that the president of Brasil has instituted a program that takes land back from ppl that illegally burned forests to turn it into grazing land. (I think seizing the cattle would help too; the large-scale rancher that do that need to be bankrupted.) Microplastics are definitely A problem, but I don't think that we know how much of a problem they are yet, in that we're not entirely sure how increasing levels of microplastics in animals, etc. is going to affect them in the long term.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • So. This one is complicated.

    Part of the issue is that we want to have an auto industry in the US; being utterly dependent on a foreign country for the majority of your transportation isn't a great idea. Yes, the big 3 auto companies should be doing basic electric instead of high-end luxury electric (...that usually doesn't work super well...), but they need to get competitive in that market. Super cheap electric cars from China would undercut the US auto companies so badly that they would likely end up being bankrupted. At that point, Chinese companies could charge whatever the fuck they wanted, because we'd have no options.

    And, more than that, the big 3 auto companies directly employ about 600,000 people, and millions more indirectly (as parts suppliers that do nothing but supply the auto companies); losing those companies means losing millions of jobs. And not just jobs, but often union jobs.

    There's a certain value in trade agreements, as well as a certain value in protectionist trade policies. But, in this case, it would make more sense for the gov't to take partial ownership of the big 3--through stock purchases--and fund development of competitive EVs. Much like China does through their domestic economic incentives and subsidies.

    ...And then also fund public transit infrastructure.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • Sure, you can get from Savannah--a major city--to Boston--also a major city just by taking trains. That's a great case for public transport.

    But as someone else pointed out, can you get from one side of Savannah to the other efficiently, at off-peak times? I lived in Chicago for over a decade, and while the transit system isn't great, it's not bad. I lived in the Austin neighborhood (if you know Chicago, you know that's not a great area); if I went to see a concert at downtown without driving, I had to walk about a mile and a half to get home, because that was the closest train stop to my home, and busses in my area stopped running at 11p.

    Where I live now, even if trains ran to my town (and they technically do, but it's only freight), I would have to travel 15 miles to get to the train. And that 15 miles from where I live to the train is also about 1500' of elevation loss. That's pretty great for riding a bike there, and really, really sucks for getting home. Especially if I have groceries of any kind.

    I agree that we should have better public transit, and I agree that the cost is a net public good. But that doesn't solve all transportation needs. It may take a large bite out of them, but it doesn't fix all of them.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • Particulates are bad, sure, but they're not what's causing climate collapse.

  • How Times Change...

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  • SCO crashed and burned in part because they tried to sue multiple Linux providers claiming that they owned all the rights to certain pieces of code that they'd contractually leased from IBM, and that IBM giving code to Linux distributors violated the terms of their agreement with IBM. It was a lawsuit that dragged on for over a decade and a half--I think that it's still going--and it's bled SCO of tens of millions of dollars ,esp. since they've lost nearly every single claim they've made.

  • Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

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  • Go ahead, don't follow laws.

    Hope you have a good attorney already, and a few hundred thousand to fight the charges. If you're American, you might try seeing if you can get Ken White; he does a lot of 1A stuff, plus criminal defense. He's probably only about $500/billable hour.

    Good luck, you'll need it.

    I don't have that kind of cash, so I don't very, very publicly break laws and dare cops to come get me.

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  • Every time I've had that happen, it's been the cable going bad, not the port.

  • Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

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  • So you are intentionally being obtuse.

    Got it.

  • Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

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  • ???

    They both obligate moderators and administrators to remove illegal content, and failure to do so can result in criminal penalties for the people running the site.

    Are you intentionally pretending that you don't understand that both types of content--regardless of any morality--can land the admins in jail?

  • Legal Experts warn Trump may soon be facing “prison, not politics

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  • Which "legal experts" are claiming Trump could be facing prison? If they actually have JDs, they should be disbarred for incompetence.

    SCOTUS has already ruled on this; the president has very, very broad immunity from any criminal prosecution. The case was dropped in Florida because his stealing highly classified documents was an "official action"; if that can be handwaved away, then so can defrauding the country with a shitcoin pump-and-dump.

  • Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

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  • If both CSAM and criticism of the state of Israel are illegal in Germany, then the admins and mods are legally obligated to remove both. Their feelings and beliefs are not relevant to their legal obligation.

    I don't see how you are incapable of understanding this.

  • Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

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  • Wut?

    No, silencers weren't regulated into the NFA by the ATF; congress put them in there, way back in '34. You can read the text of the act here. It's in the very first section:

    AN ACT

    To provide for the taxation of manufacturers, importers, and dealers in certain firearms and machine guns, to tax the sale or other disposal of such weapons, and to restrict importation and regulate interstate transportation thereof.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, that for the purposes of this Act -

    (a) The term "firearm" means a shotgun or rifle having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length, or any other weapon, except a pistol or revolver, from which a shot is discharged by an explosive if such a weapon is capable of being concealed on the person, or a machine gun, and includes a muffler or silencer for any firearm [emphasis added] whether or not such a firearm is included within the foregoing definition.

    It's right there in the text.

    Aside from that, the ATF per se didn't even exist prior to '72; before that, it was part of the IRS, rather than an agency within the DoJ, and before the IRS, it was part of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

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  • It's not up to the ATF to make laws; congress is supposed to do that.

    Also, "sensible" gun control is functionally no different from "sensible" abortion restrictions. If you want to fix gun violence, fix the problems that lead up to it. If you want to stop abortions, it's easier to teach factual sexual health and make sure that everyone has free access to birth control.

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  • First - the place to shoot is the hard part for many people. Indoor ranges don't allow you to do the kind of practice that you would need to do in order to become proficient with an automatic firearm. Outdoor ranges are quite a drive for most people.

    Second, and more important - the fact that people can learn doesn't mean a lot. Most people, including most gun owners, don't. A shockingly large percentage of gun owners don't practice regularly, or at all.

  • Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

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  • I can't see who is catching a ban for what comment, because the comments have been censored. Q.E.D.

    ...Much like I have been for pointing out how the law functions. So, that's cool, I guess.

    FWIW, a number of states int he US have passed anti-BDS laws; it should be blatantly illegal under 1A to prevent institutions from boycotting Israel, and yet, so far, those laws haven't been seriously challenged.

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  • Hard pass on discussing anything with your denialist guns r gud mentality

    Yeah, isn't is strange that someone doesn't want the state to have the monopoly on violence, and believes in civil rights? Weird, right?

    From your article:

    "Platkin said Glock is profiting by continuing to sell the adaptable version in U.S. markets, even as they make and sell handguns in Europe that cannot accommodate such a switch."

     
             This is something I've having a really hard time finding a source on. Everything I can find says that that about half of the Glock pistols that are sold in the US are made in Austria. And, as I said, sales in Europe for pistols are very tightly controlled, meaning that very few pistols--relatively speaking--are getting into the hands of anyone other than cops and military, so I'm not sure that there's a strong motive for them to make the design alteration in the EU.
     Aside from the assertion from New Jersey's AG, I just can't find a source for that. I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, and, if the AG is correct, then yes, Glock should change their design in the US. There's already precedent for this; open bolt semi-automatic firearms manufactured after 1986 are banned because they can--in general--be readily converted to full auto. However, given how many Glocks currently exist in the US, that would be an enormous legal mess that could possibly result in the National Firearms Act being declared unconstitutional.

    "Also known as “auto switches,” the devices, which are already illegal in New Jersey and some other states, [...]"

    They're illegal in EVERY state; it covered under federal law, specifically the National Firearms Act (1934) and Firearm Owners Protection Act (1986). Even if it was legal in New Jersey, it would still be a felony to possess or use one.

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  • How many people actually go out to a range every single week and burn through a couple hundred rounds working on training drills though? I did shooting at distance today (100-550y with .223) and burned through about 140 rounds, and most ranges don't even have that kind of distance available. (Thank fuck the RSO had a spotting scope; I couldn't see my splash in the grass to see where my rounds were going when I didn't hit. He was able to see trace with his scope though.)

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  • Do you have evidence to support that? Because AFAIK, the Glocks made both in the US and Austria have exactly the same design. OTOH, in most of Europe, it's very difficult to get the appropriate license for a handgun, so it's largely irrelevant.

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  • Yes. Trump is not actually friendly to gun rights.

    If he was, he'd be pushing to get the Hearing Protection Act (HR 404) and the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (HR 2395) out of committee and to the floor for a vote.

    Biden wasn't friendly to gun rights either. I don't think most politicians are friendly to gun rights, since if they actually managed to expand them to what they should be, they wouldn't have any major issue remaining to campaign on.