Weasel words.

You directly compared the number of defensive uses directly to the number deaths due to gun violence.

That comparison is only relevant if every defensive use averts a death. This is obviously not the case as many defensive uses don't even prevent a crime!!

I think the US homicide rate would severely drop if we ended the war on drugs, which is a driver of most of those homicides. We'd further reduce deaths with universal background checks that included both criminal and mental health checks. And mandatory safety training would again further reduce deaths. Now improve the social safety net for those having a mental crisis, that could prevent a lot of gun related suicides.

I agree on these points.

Where do you think criminals get their guns?

Start with criminals for sure, but the fewer guns civilians have the fewer guns that criminals (who are also civilians) will also have.

Assuming you're American do you actually vote Democratic? Because that's the implication of your policy bundle.

In either case, that reminds me of the politician promising to "reduce waste". If reducing drug crime and abuse was easy then everybody would do it. The point of guns is the more you reduce the number of guns the bigger the drop in deaths.

Those numbers are measuring completely different things.

A defensive gun use does not necessarily prevent a crime, much less a homicide.

A gun owner successfully deterring a mugging would could as a very successful defensive gun use, but the benefit would only be in them keeping a few hundred dollars worth of property.

Again, a sanity check. Do you really think it's plausible that the US's homicide rate would triple without guns?

Personally, even if a few additional crimes are prevented I don't think that's worth the large number of excess deaths created by US gun policy.

BS.

Those self-reported defensive uses virtually never actually deter a crime. It's just a gun owner thinking a crime might happen, touching their gun, and claiming their gun saved the day.

If that were actually true, can you imagine how insanely high the US's crime and homicide rates would be without guns? And why is neighbouring Canada so much safer with far, far fewer guns and defensive gun uses.

The "defensive gun use" statistic is nonsense.

This is the immediate family making the choice, not some random pundit.

Because the audience understands it's an AI representation and not the actual person reincarnated. And people have the ability to judge if the tech is being used appropriately.

I mean we literally do have photos and other archival footage of dead people already. And those, just like this, are used in the media to advocate for issues related to their cases.

Why aren't you freaking out about whether those photos and videos are being used appropriately either?

I agree we need to approach this tech with caution, but not with this level of histrionics.

Adding to this - is it just the icon that's gone, or will new Macs also be formatted to the name "Macintosh SSD" instead of the even-older-than-the-icon "Macintosh HD".

I'm fine with the idea of updating the image and using an SSD. But it's possible to detect whether SSD or spinning rust I think? If so, why not both images?

I have an HDD I use for for backups - Time Machine. Speed is not of the essence there, cheapness and large'ish capacity is. They're still in use then - until 4Tb SSDs are as cheap as 4Tb HDs they're fine for backup.

Democracy includes creating a set of rules for folks to be treated fairly. If Aurora has demonstrated the safety of their vehicles to a sufficient degree then I'm fine with them using them.

It's great! I mean, the syntax is a little unusual in that it seems to start with the URL google.com and the protocol isn't http or https but "site:reddit.com"...other than that, the search is great!

I mean...I'm not American so have no view on your parties but otherwise, yes you got the idea. That's what a competition authority is meant to do. Of the ones you mention there's investigations into Google search, Microsoft was already convicted for Windows but wriggled out of it, Apple and Google are both being investigated for practices on iPhone/Android respectively, Apple Music/Spotify both complained about dominant abuse and I think there was some investigation (I know there were complaints, not keeping up to date with outcomes), Coke and Pepsi are enormous if you consider their sub-brands too and I completely agree with looking into the food market (throw in Unilever as well), Amazon's abuse of dominance has led to many fines, Walmart - again not American but what I read about them going in at a loss, waiting for things to close/go bankrupt and then raising prices all the while claiming subsidies for their workers - yep, agree they should be investigated. Steam absolutely should do - it has far too much dominance. Meta and Tiktok both were investigated...

Yes, you're pretty much spot on with what a competition authority should be doing.

There is a kids' app.

I can assure you that if you harnessed a large number of peacocks, their potential as a sonic-based weapon is far higher than as a laser-based on.

Root cause found. See also: JLR (Jaguar Land Rover).

Windows Vista and 7 - it's can be looked at as Aero++. But...Aero copied and arguably improved (in the transparency stakes at least) Apple's Aqua. And this is before we throw in the Linux window manager crowd.

It's a design trend and it can be pointed to at various places where it really started. Honestly I liked Aero, so for me just like command-tab copied ctrl-tab - I don't care. If it's good, I'll take it. I haven't tried any of the betas so I don't know which side of the fence I'll land on yet.

Implementing features through plugins is one way you get bugs. And the WM without plugins is generally how new users (who might not stick around) experience it.

And I'm sure they were working on bugs as well, it's just the eye candy is what got the headlines because it's what people see.

Russia started the Nazi talk because they're still very proud of the "Great Patriotic War" (WWII) and claiming it's a continuing fight against Nazis is good domestic PR. Not to mention the fact that Ukraine did historically have some issues with Nazi sympathizers (not surprising when you consider the crap the Russians put them through).

Ukrainians throw the Nazi talk back at the Russians because modern Russia is about as close as you're going to get to a modern Nazi state. They're not only riddled with far right open Nazi sympathizers, but their treatment of civilians is downright Nazi like, and their treatment of POWs seems to be as bad or even worse.