I hate community notes, it’s a cost free way of fact checking with no accountability

And it lets certain communities brigade the notes with misinformation/disinformation to try and control the narrative.

Electro chemical machining can make a barrel.

Yes, but that’s not 3d printing any more.

It’s a separate process requiring separate tools, materials and skills.

Or the metal parts needed to make a “3d printed gun” function as anything other than a random suicide generator.

You can’t print 100% of a functional gun on a consumer printer unless you are willing to accept it blowing up in your hand after a shot or 2.

shown that but I guess Americans didn’t want to be outdone on stupid self destructive acts.

The percentage of Americans that are aware of Brexit, let alone the problems with it, is vanishing small.

Same with DJI pocket cameras - you need to use their app and allow it to connect to the internet as part of the out of the box “setup” process.

Nobody should be surprised by this.

It needs to function without a layer of parasites between doctors and patients.

You gotta be a really profoundly uncomfortable, nervous human being

That’s an interesting way to say “religious”.

Project2025 and it’s evangelical backers are a major driver of this prudishness.

by focusing on improving education systems

The same people removing DEI legal protections are also gutting the education system.

If it turns out women are just 6 times less likely than men to want to have these jobs,

Suggesting that women don’t want to work in a fully bro-culture environment isn’t really the best arguement you could make.

but my money is on “at least one sustainable holdout” somewhere.

That is a possible outcome. But far from a desirable one.

There is so much more we (as a species) could be doing to prevent a mass extinction event.

But instead we’ve got our collective heads so far up our own asses that we can’t even cooperate enough to do what could be the simplest things.

It’s frustrating to see this disaster coming directly at us and being prevented from taking meaningful action by politicians who refuse to cooperate, by billionaires who hoard wealth and sculpt public opion toward self-destructive ends, by religions that gleefully anticipate their scriptures version of Armageddon.

but I’m unconvinced that would scrub the entire surface clean

Not entirely. The wars over increasingly scarce resources (such as farmable land and water) will do a lot of the extermination as well.

The awful climate is the main reason I can’t see myself moving to Canada.

That’s fine. We’re trying to cut back on immigration at the moment anyway.

But since I’ve got you on the phone, would you mind doing something about all the noise coming from downstairs. It’s getting hard to sleep at night.

Nah, that’s just being a good neighbour.

Plus, while May is a parliamentarian, she is also the leader of a party of one elected person.

Yeah, NoDak is pretty strong red hat territory. They wouldn’t be a good fit.

Also, Indiana, Idaho, South Dakota and Wyoming, you’re expressly not allowed in.

There’s far too many MAGA hats in Montana and North Dakota for them to be welcomed either.

The same thing might have happened if she bought a Mac and needed some Windows only software.

Is it off, or is it an optional module that doesn’t have to be adding bloat to my system if I don’t want to use it?

LLMs can take up a pretty big storage footprint.

My biggest issue with that is the amount of bloat a full local LLM implementation would add.

But if it’s an optional module that you can choose to add (or choose not to add) after the fact, I have no complaint.