Yeah. Any car that isn’t armored should be assumed 0% bulletproof. I wouldn’t trust a car door to protect me from a .22.

The engine block is the only thing on a regular cop car that would reliably stop, deflect, or at least slow most bullets.

No, those are all necessary.

I needed a machete one time and honestly could have managed with a different tool. I now own three of them.

Another BioShock… Don’t mind if I do.

We did alcohol prohibition in the US once. I wouldn’t describe the effect on crime as “settled down”. A more apt description might be “St Valentine’s Day Massacre”.

It probably doesn’t matter if they are actually bulletproof. They’ll be used as propaganda show cars, or personal vehicles for the brass, and never called into actual service.

No one in their right mind is going to pick the “bulletproof” cybertruck over an armored Bearcat in a scenario where they expect to be shot at. For non-tactical applications they’re no more or less bulletproof than a standard potrol vehicle.

I’m sure I’ll get down voted to holy hell for saying this, but I’ve always appreciated that the rules are pretty transparent and it was easy for me to rack up a great credit score even before I had a decent income. To me it always felt like an open book test.

I will never understand why users don’t like client side decorations. I get why developers might dislike it. But the title bar is Gnome is functional.

I love KDE but every window having a big, windows 95 ass, useless bar doing nothing but wasting screen space feels so old and clunky. No one needs that much handle on a window.

Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console.

Original Xbox because you could slap on a no solder mod chip and boot from the hard drive. Suddenly you could switch up the loader, run modded games, run emulators… Truly ground breaking for the console scene.

Or SNES if you’re the kind of weirdo who buys a console because they like games.

Brooklyn 99 has a whole story line about Rosa coming out as bi. That’s not exactly the same thing as writing her Lesbian, but it’s representation.

Narrow models trained on a task specific data set tend to be very good at their specialization. So protien folding, or material sciences have benefitted from machine learning, but we shouldn’t mistake that for being the same thing as chatGPT.

One of the bigger problems we have with AI at the moment (in my very inexpert opionion) is that they seem to be trying to throw LLMs at every problem and swearing that it’ll achieve AGI soon.

Meanwhile Alpha Fold is more closely related to stable diffusion than it is to ChatGPT.

It’s even worse than that.

We are somewhere between 5 and 7 years into the problems with Roblox being well documented by everything from major media outlets to national governments. It’s well past the point of blaming nievete or ignorance.

Parents are doing a cost benefit analysis and speculating that their kid won’t be one of the victims. They are paying to put their kids in harms way because they see the high liklihood of social isolation or temper tantrums to be a greater problem than risk posed by Nazis, and groomers.

The point of a date is not to get to know someone new. It’s to get to know someone romantically. Some people want to know a little bit about someone before they are ready to decide if that’s something they’re interested in.

It’s not always “that” you ask someone. Sometimes its when you ask… or how, or what you say.

He’s not a creep, but he has the emotional intelligence of an insurance investigator.

“Hi, you sound needy and vulnerable” is a rough starting point for a pickup line. He clearly didn’t mean it as an insult, but it’s not hard to imagine a woman in that situation being embarrassed, feeling exposed, and being insulted by the implication that this guy might be trying to capitalize on her moment of vulnerability.

Hurt-people hurt people.

Or the feral cats? Does humanity deciding to cull a species not perfectly fit that model as you imagine it?

I live in NJ (where this guy is coming from) and I’d say the bigger problem isn’t eminent domain. It’s homeowners who don’t want sidewalks in their neighborhood. The idea is that walking is for the poors, and we are clearly too classy for such things as basic public safety.

The wealthier the town (around here) the less likely a residential area is to have a sidewalk. They advertise and brag about “walkable” downtowns like it’s a cute novelty not a given that should apply to every street.

To be fair though, a lot of these quiet suburban streets are very safe to walk along. Pedestrian accidents on quiet suburban streets here are mostly unheard of.

The Venn diagram of privacy focused and paranoid has a good bit of overlap.

But anything private enough for the most paranoid dev is private enough for me.

There will always be some percentage of users that Linux just isn’t for, and some users that fall in love.

In my opinion the motivations that convince them to try Linux are irrelevant. What’s important is that the general trend is more users sticking with it.

IMO I couldn’t care less if people dual boot, we’re still have a use case for Windows. I have a Windows machine myself.

It would be ideal if everyone could take a step back and appreciate that it’s society against the problem of mental health, not the well vs the unwell.

But civility and humanitarianism are frail. They don’t hold up well against humiliation, disgust, or fear. Eventually the general public will opt for an inhuman solution over no solution at all.

Well that’s kind of what I’m getting at. How many times does that happen before everybody just goes back to using GPL, MIT, etc…