Let me get this straight. Trump thinks a presidential candidate paying someone else to endorse them is a campaign contribution? Illegal or otherwise that’s not how that works, that’s called advertising.

Most “gun enthusiasts” don’t give a single fuck about these. They’re pretty useless as they just waste ammo and make your aim worse. I have no idea who’s actually fighting for these, but it’s definitely not the majority of gun owners. You’re right, nobody needs these, and almost nobody actually owns them. This decision won’t really change that either. Ultimately this is largely a non-story just as much as it was when they were banned in the first place. There’s far more meaningful things people should be focusing on right now both in terms of gun violence and just in general.

Yes. The guy just dumped the magazine, you can do that with a normal trigger as well, it just takes a second or two longer. Lets say it takes you 7 seconds to empty a 10 round magazine with a normal trigger. A forced reset trigger lets you do it in 5 seconds. Meanwhile an actual machine gun can do that in half a second.

More violence possibly but it’s not going to meaningfully increase gun sales. This entire thing is so ridiculously overblown. The thing in question here, forced reset triggers, just let you pull the trigger slightly faster (like less than a seconds difference compared to a normal trigger) than you otherwise would. It really is the most inconsequential decision whether you’re for or against gun ownership. Almost nobody cares about this decision.

I think it’s more that most people just aren’t aware of any equivalent alternatives, or in some cases like where there literally aren’t any alternatives. Look at phones, both Apple and Google suck and their mobile OSes are terrible but what’s the alternative? Sure there’s a few Linux phones out there and that’s almost an alternative but it’s not there yet. You could go with a “dumb” phone, but for most people that’s not going to work. So you pick your lesser evil and bitch about it whenever the latest round of enshitification hits.

If you asked most people what alternatives exist for Spotify they’d probably say Pandora, and maybe Apple Music or Youtube Music and then struggle to come up with anything else. The better alternatives are suffering from a massive discovery problem.

Nope although they do get a mention. Apparently in this case it’s forced reset triggers. Saying they allow a semi-auto gun to fire like a full-auto is a bit of a stretch though, even more so than for a bump stock.

If it was ruled unconstitutional you’d think it would automatically be considered repealed. I suppose this could come into play potentially with our nut job supreme court though. If they decided to overturn the 2003 decision and it wasn’t officially repealed it could come into effect again, so uh… good on Texas I guess?

That will be an incredibly short section of class then. Here I can help:

In 2020 Trump claimed there were discrepancies in the election after losing the election, but when forced to submit evidence under oath admitted he had no evidence of discrepancies. That concludes the section on 2020 election discrepancies.

I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me

Says the guy in charge of the department responsible for medical advice.

This is one of the incredibly rare instances where I agree with something RFK Jr. says, I agree nobody should be taking medical advice from him. Now if he could fucking resign and you know stop giving medical advice that would be great.

Exactly, he’s already a walking security disaster.

Wake me up when someone besides OpenAI says they’re the best at something. When a company releases a benchmark they designed that their own tool that’s generally regarded as not very good is suddenly the best at, that’s not news, at best that’s PR, at worst propaganda. This reeks of “we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong”.

Seems to be some kind of centralized streaming service catalog. Never heard of it before now and no idea why anyone would be willing to pay $30 for it let alone $60.

It’s literally in the name! Congress controls the Library of Congress.

While the goal might be correct, this isn’t going to do shit. This is a non-story, Trump is just redoing something he did in his first term already that failed. The headline is what Trump is after, this is just a PR move.

I mean there’s a good chance. Air traffic control in the US is hanging by a thread.

It is simultaneously the most promising and most dangerous tech imaginable. There are so many amazing and wonderful things it could enable. There are so many horrifying and terrible ways it could go wrong. It has to be approached with utmost caution and incredibly well thought out regulation and standards. I’m not sure I trust any government or institution in existence in the world currently to manage it the way it needs to be.

The problem is who’s going to stop him? He already said he’s planning to run for a third term. Track record isn’t looking great, he seems to have figured out that if he just does things and ignores the law nobody stops him.

If Trump somehow loses the next election they need to throw the entire book at him, then write a new book and throw that at him as well. We also need to add a few more amendments to the constitution to prevent this shit from happening again. Maybe eliminate political parties? Not sure exactly how to fix this but it’s blatantly broken right now.

Absolute fastest way to kill this shit? Feed the entire Disney catalog in and start producing knockoff Disney movies. Disney would kill this so fast.

That privilege does not extend to ongoing crimes or future crimes. Lawyers have an obligation to act to prevent harm to both their client and others. If you were to tell your lawyer you kidnapped someone and locked them in your basement, they’re absolutely going to tell the police about it so that person can be rescued. Past crimes may or may not be confidential depending on the nature of them. For instance if you admit to molesting a kid in the past that’s currently living with you the lawyer would likely report that because it’s highly likely you would molest that child again in the future. It’s all contextual, but there is no absolute right to confidentiality.