You think that Trump wouldn’t love to disarm his political opponents if given the chance?

They’re already trying it with trans people.

Where it becomes an issue is when there’s a line. When you’re 3 cars back in the line for a gas pump you’re still done in just a few minutes. With charging it can be an hour or more of waiting.

As a leftist gun owner. I’m currently not interested in handing over my weapons.

Gatekeeping is a big problem with anything - especially as it becomes easier.

Film photographers balked at people going digital and about color grading and retouching with lightroom and photoshop.

Car people talked shit about how using an automatic transmission wasn’t really driving.

PC gamers got pissy at console gamers in the 90s and 2000s for just wanting a game to fucking work without having to chase down a conflict caused by a random printer driver that made their game crash in any map with water (my actual lived experience with Battefield 1942).

Lots of old-school 3D printing enthusiasts get upset when new users don’t know when to adjust their pressure advance or can’t read gcode.

Doctors who worked three 30-hour shifts a week in their residency think new doctors should go through the same rite of passage.

Football players who were taught to lead into a tackle using the top of their skull think new rules implemented to prevent neck injuries and TBIs make new players pansies.

We need to understand that part of making the world better is that the next generation of professionals, hobbyists, and people in general will have it easier than us, and that’s a good thing.

I remeber 9600 and 14.4k, and 28.8k.

I don’t remember 13.3.

Aiding an abetting requires participation in the crime or encouragement to commit the crime to some extent. Simply saying how a crime can be committed is not aiding and abetting.

It’s very similar (and in some cases exactly the same) as being an accessory to a crime.

If the Brady Foundation says that people are 3D printing lower receivers using design files from a specific fosscad site to create ghost guns, then someone does that in California, the Brady Foundation isn’t “aiding and abetting.”

The accessory example of the above scenario would be directly telling someone exactly where and how to to get the specific parts and files they need and encouraging them to do so in a jurisdiction where it’s illegal with the direct intent of having them commit a crime.

Since the files are legal many places, as are the materials, it’s almost impossible to prove a specific intent to violate the law. It’s similar with TPB. MEGA got taken down because they directly hosted the files and specifically encouraged people to illegally pirate software using the site. TPB has never done either.

Schizophrenia

I want a grown-ups only lobby for online games with shorter play sessions and games that end by 8:30 so we can go to bed.

Telling someone how to do a thing isn’t aiding and abetting.

If I tell you that you can kill someone by shoving them off the Brooklyn Bridge, I’m not potentially taking part in a homicide.

That’s where we should be different. We should want them to see the error of their ways, but we shouldn’t want anybody to struggle to get food on the plate.

Knowing where to commit a crime is not illegal.

I grew up in a town with a huge standing weekly flea market everyone knew about where everyone knew you were buying stolen stuff, fake IDs, bootlegs, etc. The way I finally convinced my family that TPB wasn’t illegal was by asking them if it was a crime to tell someone where the flea market was.

Version 20,922,789,888,000 ?

The dress is amazing. I used to see the white/gold but now see the blue/black.

When it went viralnI was taking a remote sensing class in college (all about color, really) and we had a long discussion about it.

While there’s truth there, the SR-71 still holds the records for highest sustained speed and altitude of any publicly-known air-breathing aircraft 60 years after they were adopted.

But an unclear coat on it.

Checkmate.

“Campus Police” are regular police (for all that’s worth), not rent-a-cops. Their jurisdiction is University and University-related policing. Think of the University as being its own city.

I teach nights at a university and UPD is pretty great. The city cops are very much out to get people, whereas the UPD has a very light touch. They’ll bust a party with a bunch of 19yo Kids drinking too much and getting loud, and tell them to keep it down and stay safe, while offering to call a non-police volunteer to drive anyone home for free.

Parking Services (not part of UPD) can get go suck on a tailpipe though. Fuck those guys.

The real reason was they wanted to go a different direction and shed the EU baggage (and potential royalties) while reimagining the stuff they liked (like Thrawn).

I kinda respected that they were hiding who the new Jedi was in the marketing. They kept it enough of a secret theult didn’t have many Rey toys ready to go. They did the same thing with Grogu in The Mandalorian.

I’ll criticize Disney for a lot of things, but they do actually seem to allow some of their filmmakers to make artistic decisions that have negative impacts on potential merch sales.

But they did blow up Romulus in the Prime Universe and give us Picard.