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  • Ukraine has been slowly evolving into a 1980s era NATO army, while Russia has slowly been regressing into a 1960s Soviet one

  • If authoritarian dictators can do whatever they want via nuclear blackmail, we're already all doomed anyway

    The world will be split into two camps: countries with nukes or otherwise under some sort of nuclear umbrella, and countries who are desperately rapidly developing a nuclear program, the third group who doesn't have nukes and isn't rushing to develop them will have already been annexed by the first group

  • "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

    As long as there are people willing to kill to oppose it, death is an unfortunate necessity for democracy's preservation.

  • Netplay isn't exactly ideal, as from what I understand it generally requires the syncing of all players emulated console hardware simultaneously (basically, every emulator tricks the game into thinking they're all being played on one single console), which is a lot harder to reliably achieve than having native netcode to handle multiplayer

  • Boeing is a strategic military asset of the US government, who needs to hire private corporate hitmen when we have plenty of tax dollar funded ones

  • There were other officers on the scene

    One of which had a shotgun, the rest were armed with either their service pistols or non-lethal, the officer with the AR-15 took point because he had the most effective weapon for the sorts of long ranges you would see in a large department store with a reported active shooter

    The other officers had warned the officer who fired to slow down and de-escalate, but they were ignored

    It was not about deescalating, this was a (in two separate 911 calls from people in the store) reported active shooter in a now unknown location, and the officers were attempting to follow their training by forming into a group and slowly moving through the store to find and eliminate the threat, they were telling him to slow down because he was pushing ahead out of formation (I believe upon seeing the woman that was attacked, blood streaming down from the multiple lacerations on her head and face, attempting to crawl towards them for help)

    The other officers had non-lethal options, but the officer escalated and fired live rounds in a situation where they couldn’t know if they were putting bystanders in danger

    Lethal force is certainly authorized in (what is believed to be) an active shooter situation, with hindsight we can say he didn't have a gun but the officers at the time not only didn't know that, they were told the opposite, he was both armed and had already fired the weapon. Upon spotting the suspect, he was holding something (a painting) in front of him, concealing half of his body, and with a gun trained on him made a rapid movement with his free hand behind the painting, which is ultimately what got him shot

    not militant thugs who spray rounds at the spray rounds at the slightest provocation with no regard for bystanders

    The officer fired three rounds, one of which either missed or over penetrated, ricocheted off of the ground, and then penetrated a wall to unfortunately kill an innocent bystander hiding in a changing room behind

    Cops are overwhelmingly shit and need better training, but aside from the almost freak accident killing of the innocent bystander, this was more or less a textbook handling of an active shooter situation by police who probably have never otherwise responded to one in their life, without the two errant 911 callers who apparently mistook breaking glass for gunshots the response would have likely been very different

  • Three shots, one of which ricocheted off the ground, penetrated a wall, and killed the 14 year old hiding in the changing room behind where the shooting took place

  • There were two separate 911 calls reporting an active shooter from people hiding in the store (apparently both mistook the smashing of glass as the sound of a gunshot), the officers that responded treated it as an active shooter situation because that's what they were told it was

  • "Of course I know about fork-knife and Scooby-Doo toilet"

  • Solar power is just really inefficient nuclear fusion

  • If only there was a way to know who removed the code

  • Chopping the heads off the hydra will kill it this time, for sure

  • Monthly Active Users

  • Don't underestimate how dumb and greedy corpos can be

  • If I ever have a device connecting to open networks by itself I'm snipping its wifi antenna

  • No, we're going from "a different cable for every device" to "a different cable for every device but you need a label maker because they all look the same", and you're going to like it

  • At this point I just refuse to ever connect smart TVs to wifi, it's not worth it

  • If the implementation is so broad that I have to break out my label maker, can we even really call it a "standard"

  • USB C seems like a good idea but in reality all it really did was take my 5 different, not interchangeable, but visually distinct, cables, and make them all look identical and require labeling