Something you probably do not want to think about.

Let's say you are a mentally unbalanced person with easy access to guns 70 or 80 years ago.

If you were black and you went on a shooting rampage nobody cared because nobody cared what the black folks did to other black folks and we didn't let them near white folks.

If you are white and you wanted to go on a shooting rampage well, you had plenty of black folks you could shoot up and again nobody cared.

My point is the violence was there people just didn't give a shit. If you actually read the history of racial violence in America it is terrifying stuff. We do everything we can to pretend it didn't happen.

So by the '70s racial violence was frowned upon and you were likely to get in trouble for it and by the '80s you were definitely going to get caught and thrown in prison. Hell there's a couple who showed up at a black birthday party waving their guns around and threatening people and they're doing 10 years in federal for that.

So what you're seeing is there is no longer a socially acceptable outlet for mentally ill people who want to commit violence and kill people.

It's kind of like how fentanyl became a crisis but crack cocaine wasn't a problem. Fentanyl was a problem because good American white men were taking it and overdosing. But nobody gave a shit about black people just lock him up in prison if you catch one of them. And let the CIA sell them the crack you lock them up for.

And of course pointing any of this out triggers the fuck out of people because we're not supposed to confront or think about all the racial violence that exists in this country today let alone the stuff that existed before.

Not the ones doing the shooting anyway. There have been studies and school shootings are generally not done by the bullied ones.

What it looks like so far is you have a mentally unstable child who has been showing clear signs of mental instability and parents who have been leaving guns lying around because why the hell not we've got a second amendment right?

The parents of that school shooter in Michigan are going to do 10 years in prison for negligence. That seems to be the solution right now. I'm not sure it'll work since again talking about studies there are clear studies that long prison terms don't actually deter crime.

Education and awareness would be the solution but that's off the table because you can't have the slightest discussion about gun control without it being used to elect incompetent politicians who wreck the economy in favor of billionaires.

Basically gun control like abortion has become just a polarizer designed to create a handful of single issue voters. So serious discussions are impossible.

Of course they're extremists. They don't believe anyone who produces anything should have the right to their own property. That people should produce music, software, and movies without getting any compensation.

Once again, if that is their belieft then they can go produce software, music, or movies and give it all away. Let's see how long they last doing that.

Stealing people's works does not help their cause.

It's their job! Their job is to prevent monopolies (in fairness, they haven't been doing too good a job of late in that department) so the consumer (i.e. you and me) don't pay exorbitant prices for products and services because there are only one or two providers.

What he wanted was for the government to roll over and let things go through since clearly the company was not able to compete in the free market. He wanted someone who could manipulate people's purchases by not showing competing products to take over the failing iRobot and get a stranglehold on the market.

Wow. The day your bubble burst is going to be hard for you.

A huge chunk of their money comes from selling some of the worst crap to cops. There's a thing called cop City in I think Georgia where Motorola and one of the company paid for 2/3 of the building. It's a massive complex for training police. Motorola gets the money back when the cops buy tech and weapons from them.

This kind of blending of government and Private industry is a huge component of fascism. It's also all kinds of fucked up do you have a private company giving the cops tens of millions of dollars for a training facility.

This kind of crap here in the school is an extension of that. And you can't say no because they are going to give a lot of money to local politicians and you're going to learn the names of those local politicians and most people when it comes to local races vote based on which name they recognize.

Even if you're somehow smart enough to figure this all out on your own and you do them scroll enough that you're aware of it your neighbors aren't.

DJI drones phone home with location information as part of their basic functionality, so for these devices it's a valid concern.

Outside of these custom all-in-one ready to fly drones, drone motors are ALREADY like that. They come in well-defined sizes, they are rated by kV (thousands of RPM per volt) and they have standard mounting holes. If you just don't screw with the fully preassembled drones up front you can easily get that kind of parts interchangeability. You can also buy controller/radio combos which provide the same or superior range to what DJI offers, so the only benefit to buying a prebuilt drone is that you don't have to do anything, and it comes with a number of down sides.

I built my first quadcopter for under $200 all in, including a Devo 5 radio which I could load alternate firmware and an additional $10-ish radio transceiver module into so that it supports all of the major protocols. That's a price with regular range and without FPV, but the point remains — you don't need DJI.

Nah, that's the reason for the moral. The actual moral is: don't fuck with Apple gift cards — neither a buyer nor a redeemer be. Apple has certainly taught us all a lesson, and that lesson is that their gift card system is insecure and they will punish legitimate customers for their lack of security. Whether it's even possible to make a gift card secure is irrelevant to that lesson.

Here's why

Will the spotify year in review be updated to tell you how many children were trafficked as the result of the ICE ads they carry?

IOW undoing the works of Bill Clinton.

If only more people understood how the TCA led to the rise of Faux News we might have some clarity.

Yup, just another example of the Carbon Capture Perpetual Motion Machine Scam. The thermodynamic uphill problem with atmospheric capture is so extreme that if you had enough free energy sitting around to make it worthwhile, you wouldn't need to do any of this.

True but the problem is that it's bleeding over to mainline gaming.

AI he's worse because it's very tempting to slopify because of the huge cost savings. Where before they would at least do the pre-production work by hand now they want to do it with AI slop.

That didn't pull their own weight? Sure you did. It's a pretty universal experience.

You resented it didn't you? Again pretty universal experience.

That feeling of resentment is easily exploitable to prevent any effort to organize. It is really easy to get people angry at somebody who maybe isn't working as hard as they do or in a job is miserable as theirs. Misery loves company and people want other people to be miserable like them.

Mix in a bit of generals stupidity and the inability to process information and a ton of propaganda and it's basically a done deal. People become incapable of organizing.

If you look at the 1900s when socialism was popular we still need it everybody to be firing on all cylinders and working so it was really easy to turn regular working people against the billionaires because it was really obvious that everybody was working except them.

Now we are looking at about 15 to 25% of the population becoming basically useless. They're just isn't going to be any work for them to do it's worth doing and that they are capable of doing.

The idea of letting those people sit at home and play Xbox and drink beer is infuriating on a primal level to anyone that still has to go to work. What's worse is the more useful you are and the smarter you are the more likely you are to be stuck working in that world.

I don't know how to deal with resentment but you can't sit people down and explain to them that they shouldn't feel something. Explanations don't make feelings go away. It's why Ronald Reagan famously said if you're explaining you're losing.

If only you could get wood by punching trees