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papertowels ,

Software to “make” 2d artistic images is much easier to develop than robots to do household tasks. Not that we don’t see advancements there either, for example robot vacuums are becoming more commonplace.

papertowels ,

effectively require a dedicated purchase. Rather than giving the kid yoru old motorola you kept in the drawer.

Ah right, because smartphones don’t need to be purchased

papertowels ,

A group of them came by my college every week and provided a low cost, all you can eat vegetarian lunch. Don’t know much else about them, but that’s a point in their favor in my books.

Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun (www.usatoday.com)

Myers, who says he’s a licensed security guard, was sitting in his car Wednesday to conduct “overwatch” while his son trains because “he has seen numerous crimes occur” in the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement....

papertowels ,

To make things clear (and worse), this man wasn’t even on the job! Nobody asked him to do this! He just dropped his kid off for a class nearby and decided it was his duty to shoot anyone he deemed suspicious.

papertowels ,

Point of clarification - yes, the individual may be employed as a security guard elsewhere, but he was importantly NOT a security guard in this situation. He’s just a dude who dropped his kid off for a class nearby and deemed it necessary to “patrol” the area to go on power trips. He’s a bully with a gun.

papertowels ,

Oh yeah then why do my glasses have two pieces of polycarbonate lenses

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

papertowels ,

Probably start with buying them dinner first

papertowels ,

Yeah I guess I just have low standards but that looks great…

papertowels ,

Freetaxusa does them for like 20 bucks

papertowels ,

“just put your social here…”

papertowels ,

The design is very human

papertowels ,

That’s about 5’ 9" for imperial folks

papertowels ,

I’m guessing you’re looking at 5.7 feet?

papertowels , (edited )

Upkeep can be a PITA, mentally as well as financially.

I found out that local housing co-ops offer 3 bedroom 2 baths for rent at like 800, honestly I’d prefer that over owning a home.

Gaza: After ICJ order to halt attacks on Rafah, Israel launches over 60 air raids on the city in 48 hours (euromedmonitor.org)

Palestinian Territory - Israel continues to ignore orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including the Court’s most recent ruling. This ruling requires Israel to halt its military assault on the Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip and reopen the Rafah border crossing to facilitate the movement of...

papertowels ,

Idk man, Trump’s got some wild plans for Hitlertown.

“On day one, we’ll restore our travel ban. We had a travel ban because we didn’t want people coming into our country who really loved the idea of blowing our country up,” he said. He called the ban an “amazing success.”

“We didn’t have one incident in four years, because we kept bad people out of our country,” he claimed.

“I’ll also be implementing strong ideological screenings for all immigrants coming in,” he said. “If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihadists, then we don’t want you in our country and you’re not going to be getting into our country.”

Trump also said he would cancel student visas of Hamas sympathizers.

“The college campuses are being taken over, and all of the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests this month, nobody’s seen anything like it,” he said. “Come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you.”

…

As president, Trump would “put every single university and college president on notice,” he said. “The American taxpayer will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers on American soil.”

I know you were speaking in hyperbole, but it sounds like he’d actually be gunning to actually put Palestine supporters in camps.

papertowels ,

Sorry, the website doesn’t make it clear to me, what are these numbers indicating they’re a recipient for? Are these direct donations from Israel?

papertowels ,

Can you link some sources as examples?

papertowels ,

Hasn’t this been in the works for over a year now, with the congressional hearing a while back?

Feels pretty bad if 2/4 years of stuff doesn’t count.

papertowels ,

Well one is far more feasible to get than the other. Half the country supports a man who is openly soliciting bribes from oil companies ffs.

papertowels ,

Which meds are you referring to? He did an insulin price cap, does that count?

papertowels , (edited )

there’s a great planet money podcast that covers this

It turns out childcare is just a very labor intensive sector due to the amount of adults needed to watch the kids. This means that most of the costs for daycare are already labor:

In fast food, labor is 25% of the total costs. Estimates for day care - it’s, like, more than 70% of total costs.

Given that labor is already a disproportionate amount of the costs, raising salaries a little has a large effect on the increased cost that parents would have to pay.

For some real world numbers, daycare is around 1.3k/month for me. The school does 3 kids to 1 teacher, so that’s a max of 3.9k/month of income per 1 teachers salary. So already, in an ideal world where 100% of what parents pay go directly to the teacher, the max they’d make is 48k/year.

Factor in things like renting the facilities, utility costs, administrative and security staff, taxes, etc. and you quickly start to see why even though it seems like parents are paying a lot, there’s just not that much money to go around.

papertowels ,

On one hand, some really are hilarious, on the other it irks me that these start to normalize deep fakes.

papertowels ,

High COL area?

papertowels ,

Also, leftist single issue voters == right wing single issue voters

papertowels , (edited )

My guess is it’s less about the criticism and more about you discouraging folks from voting at all.

papertowels ,

Nah, once you consider being for or against someone to be a “single issue”, then most votes through history get wrapped up in it, rendering it kind of moot.

Additionally, I can easily break down the actual issues behind why I’m voting against trump :)

papertowels ,

You’re not yourself when you’re hungry, have a SNICKERS^®

papertowels ,

I believe that’s the point here…

papertowels ,

In the context of this discussion, the chart title is “young male virginity on the rise”, so it doesn’t seem too far off the mark.

papertowels ,

Eh, monkey see word male, monkey think female appropriate word to use when discussing things.

Monkey brain is not the smart brain, but I understand where it’s coming from.

papertowels ,

Worth pointing out that you can find in game premium currency

papertowels ,

The one thing I know about tik Tok is “the algorithm” zeroes in on your tastes real fast, so just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there, it just means you probably don’t consume political Tok toks (which sound miserable…)

papertowels ,

Out of curiosity, what’s a snapshot of 75% political Tik Tok look line?

papertowels , (edited )

Maybe it says something that China limits access to their kids

In 2019, Douyin limited users in teenager mode to 40 minutes per day, accessible only between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Then, in 2021, it made the use of teenager mode mandatory for users under 14.

Seems like a bit of a digital smallpox blanket.

papertowels ,

Idk about your system, but mine is currently facing a massive budget cut

papertowels ,

No worries they bumped up everyone that had a grandfathered in price after a year or two

papertowels ,

According to the cdc, they’re actually doing pretty well. A few surprises are doing worse, notably Colorado and DC

papertowels ,

Wait, so what’s the role of an armorer on set?

papertowels ,

Thanks! I don’t know much about filmmaking.

I did some googling and it seems like she should’ve been considered too inexperienced for the job, from what I read, westerns are particularly difficult due to the amount of guns on set and should’ve been supported by a crew of multiple armorers?

She’s also simultaneously facing charges of concealing firearms to get them past a bouncer then showing off that she snuck a gun in on social media, so idk how much sympathy I have for her…

'Run, run, run': Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot (apnews.com)

A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured....

papertowels ,

Probably because in a shopping mall you don’t need to be accurate in the slightest to kill others.

papertowels ,

I definitely haven’t, lol. My assumption is this guy wouldn’t need to aim to hit folks in a shopping center, but that’s just a guess. Given that automatics are illegal where I’m from they’re kind of a mythical concept haha.

I personally think I’m grateful this guy didn’t have a firearm of any sort. There’s a picture of a guy armed with a bollard having a standoff with him to protect his family. This would be a very different article if the slasher was armed even with a pistol.

papertowels ,

What I’m saying is that depending on the shopping center, you could very easily “shoot everywhere” and still hit many people, for example, the bump stock fueled 2017 Vegas shooting.

papertowels ,

Okay this is a blatant disregard for correlation vs causation, with a side of no shared data to boot.

papertowels ,

Inaccurate, but it doesn’t say anything about less lethal.

Bystanders and buildings have been struck by the bullet spray of modified Glocks

You are once again assuming that the individual is aiming at particular targets, but instead they’re in a shopping center with strangers.

Finally, even with your provided one year of data, it’s correlation vs causation.

papertowels ,

I’d say the reason the military did that is probably because they’re not shooting into crowds of inattentive, unsuspecting bystanders, and you can’t really compare military tactics to a dude shooting up a mall where folks are unarmed, but this is getting pretty far into the theoretical weeds.

papertowels ,

To put it succinctly, just because you can’t hit your intended target with an automatic firearm doesn’t mean the danger goes away - oftentimes bystanders get hurt, which is mentioned in the quote you brought up.

papertowels ,

There’s a nuanced difference between odds of being someone being killed by x versus y, and the number of deaths resulting from x vs y.

My hunch is that spraying into a crowd with an automatic results in more deaths at a faster rate than someone actively aiming, but quite frankly my personal belief is that having a knife severely limited the number of deaths when compared to any firearm.

papertowels ,

I mean, it’s a gun issue, but definitely not a pro-gun one.

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