I'm in the UK so take this from that perspective - here, from what I see, no spaces have vanished and in fact they've increased.

Plenty of parks here, most places have a relatively easily reachable mall or shopping centre. Pubs still exist, coffee places are new (I'm speaking as someone who was a teen in the 80s, not so much of the coffee-type culture then). Bikes are back and with more infrastructure, gyms are bigger than ever and exist as a space to meet...it's all still around.

What's different is the alternatives to that. You can also talk to people online now, and to some extent that seems to be removing the drive to meet up in person. Not completely obviously, but it's there. Catching up with your friends over gaming groups in Discord, or just group message chat or whatever is completely common. Seems much less common to go round someone's house than it used to be when I was a kid and teen, but again - not exactly zero. It's more expansion of choice than reduction of opportunity.

Anyone wanting to build a gun really only needs some basic metal-working handtools and
set of plans.

I know I'd much rather have a Sten gun than a 3d-printed "one time use/explode" one.

So I'm aware that NVidia has the edge on AMD in terms of performance right now, so I'm not making that argument. It's more that nvidia are the unwitting drive-by victims of a Copilot shooting for me: one Windows co-pilot ad too far pushed me to move my gaming PC over to Linux, and AMD better supports Linux.

An OS migration on the consumer side also means a manufacturer migration to things that support the new target. Yep, only 3% of the market and I doubt NVidia's board would quake in their boots if they read my post...but it's true.

Since the introduction of ghost guns, homicides have been on the decline.
Does that mean ghost guns are responsible?
No. It's more likely that homicide rates are declining in spite of ghost guns, not because of them.

A larger percentage of gun crimes are being committed with ghost guns.
Does that mean ghost guns are responsible for gun crimes?
Again no. It's more likely that people who commit crimes decide to use ghost guns than people who have ghost guns decide to commit crimes.

If you don't like the second amendment, then campaign to change it. There's a procedure for doing that.

The bill of rights is a guideline for government actions, not an obstacle to get around.

Given the main article was paywalled, here's a summary of Go variations. Besides the minor stuff like 'where to put captured stones, cup or side', there's one fundamental difference: Whether to count area (count every stone towards score, aka Chinese counting) or territory (count empty points within your territory, aka Japanese counting).

This article is great, gives an overview plus specifics on 6 different rule sets in use: gomagic.org

Yeah, because shooting the driver of a moving vehicle immediately brings the car to a dead stop. Well actually it doesn't.

At the distance involved, there was no logical way shooting the driver would have helped. It seems folks are trying to argue that a driver who got shot will immediately move her foot from the accelerator to the brake pedal and do it quickly enough to matter. I simply cannot grasp the idiocy needed to hold this position. The most logical thing (and per law enforcement policy, as far as folks posted online and I have not seen refuted) would be to step out of the car's way, which he did. Since he could have and did step out of the car's way, that is pretty much all the proof needed to show that the shooting was not justified. This is aside from all the other procedural issues with what the guy did. [should never have been in front of the car to begin with; the stop itself was outside the jurisdiction of ICE; driver was demonstratively not blocking traffic as evidenced by the other cars passing before the ICE truck.]

Only time it makes sense to shoot the driver would be if there were enough time and distance such that disabling the driver is necessary to keep them from steering actively towards you while you got away. There was simply not enough distance for any of that to matter in this situation; shooting the driver can not meaningfully change the trajectory of the car in 1-2 meters.

Note that just because immediate execution was not justified does not mean that the driver was necessarily innocent. It's simply statement that if she were guilty of anything, she can be picked up later and face the music through appropriate due process. They already had her plates. Sane people don't want to live in a country where barely literate goons get to be judge, jury, and executioner on the spot.

Except for the doctored AI footage uploaded by some pot-stirring jerk, all the footage shows the guy was not in the path of the car at the time of the first shot. At worst, he got brushed by the mirror as it went past. Even if somehow you went through the twisted illogic needed to justify the first shot, the second and third shots were completely unnecessary. Any competent Law Enforcement Agency would investigate and discipline him for those. Denying medical care after the fact was also unnecessary and unethical if not illegal.

Not holding LEOs accountable for obvious misbehavior makes us all less safe. Stop encouraging such behavior.

Ya know who's not going to trade schools and community colleges? Rich people.

Old Reddit cloned this site, Slashdot. The founders are on record stating this in a 10th anniversary interview - they were aiming at Slashdot (and largely won). It's essentially a Slashdot clone with the ability to create your own topics, post your articles and the old uncapped karma numbers.

Slashdot limiting karma to 50 was an extremely good move.

Sure, but "pure fusion" bombs are pretty much science fiction at this point. Igniting fusion in LiDu requires a tremendous amount of energy and not an insubstantial flux of neutrons. You're not getting either of those things in a profile suitable for military deployment without a fission primary. It might be a small (maybe even less than a kiloton) primary but you're not getting the Plutonium or Uranium (or maybe Neptunium in some cases) out of there any time soon.

It can't be that fruitless. Green Bank West Virginia, which houses the National Radio Observatory, has all kinds of restrictions on what kinds of devices and equipment are allowed within some distance of the NRO since they interfere with the signals.

I will concede that the radio sources the NRO is looking for are rather weaker and more distant than broadcasting satellites in low earth orbit.

There's literally no evidence for what the hell you're talking about. Smog is mostly derived from emissions, assuming you're American your vehicles aren't zero emissions (I'm in the UK, I can tell you ours aren't either by the fact there's an emissions standard test as part of the annual vehicle check, the MOT, which you need to allow your vehicle on the road here), EVs aren't heavier in most cases and EVs aren't worse on tyres than ICE.

It truly is an impressive amount of wrong to come to the right conclusion - better public transport in cities is a good thing, as is walking spaces. But so, so many myths repeated in order to get there.

Information is here:

1. Wheels and tyres
2. High Voltage Drive and Charge
3. 12v battery
4. Locks, Alarms and Immobilisers
5. Electrical and Wiring

I agree... I would really love to have a system setting that said "No shorts, ever, anywhere on the platform" but we must be grateful for the fact that it's only taken how many years for YT to finally listen to those of us who've been screaming for today's enhancement?

As others have said... now it's time for a "No AI" filter but unfortunately YT doesn't ask uploaders whether their video is AI generated or not -- it asks far more vague questions that also require anyone who uses VFX (such as almost any modern feature or indie movie) to tag their uploads as "altered content". Why is that?

Did you read it? Your 'dumb things' is exactly what they would have become and work anyway - aux, hdmi and bluetooth. They weren't bricking the hardware, you could still use them as dumb speakers.

Throw in the open source bit and they're suddenly even more attractive.