The anti-coercion instrument, known as the “big bazooka” of the EU’s trade arsenal, would give the commission powers to go after US multinational companies, slapping extra taxes on the digital revenues of tech firms.

Nice

Honestly being a child is awful in many ways, wouldn’t want to go back

It can get kind of old seeing stuff on social media that’s just using every easy trick available to fish for engagement though, especially when now a lot of it is probably bots and various propaganda campaigns. Especially if it’s being posted somewhere that people can otherwise have more thoughtful and interesting conversations.

Pointing a gun at someone is dangerous. Pointing a moving car at someone is dangerous. We are gentler on car accidents because almost everyone relies on them and they are so normalized.

Is that a wrong approach though? I don’t have to point a gun at anyone to visit family, but practically I do have to get behind the wheel of a car. That can be fixed by being rich, but not everyone can be rich. The reason people drive despite the inherent risk to themselves and others is more about infrastructure than poor personal choices. I think it might be better to focus on solving the infrastructure problem than being more willing to put people in prison for driving mistakes, because the latter isn’t going to deter people from driving when most of us basically have to in order to live a normal life.

Like you said, it’s societal negligence. With guns, owning one is truly optional for almost everyone, and I think it’s reasonable to impose a much higher standard of personal responsibility on their use than with basically anything else. If you have a gun you better be capable of always using it correctly under pressure or else you should not have chosen to have one and criminal liability makes perfect sense.

What tech do you think is going to be introduced?

Designer pandemics

I think what’s really needed is more development in the anonymous web. Unfortunately hosting a blog exclusively on Tor or I2P isn’t a very accessible option at the moment. Probably fair to expect that the need for this will become more broadly relevant going forward.

In theory, yes, but you’d have to get a jury in one of these conservative states to agree that it qualifies as obscenity.

Someone can lack education but be pretty mentally sharp in some cognitive tasks regardless

There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.

These statements aren’t in disagreement, but accusing “street smart” people of actually being stupid is contradicted by the first one

At this point I’m just hoping for reduced federal influence over blue states and measures to help out refugees from the places whose own state governments are working against them.

To me whether this comic is being fair hinges on stuff like, how many people are being intentionally murdered with cars but the killer gets off easy because of the method? How many accidental gun deaths are prosecuted more harshly than they should be? I don’t actually know the answer to these. It does seem relevant that guns are a tool designed for killing.

The easiest way to tell they only did this for the picture is the lack of red stains on the pants

One thing I dislike about streamers is when you can tell they are using their voice in a “hey you should take me seriously, I am obviously right” kind of tone, and are good at that, but the actual words are just repeating a common opinion and devoid of much any substance or argument. Like they think adjusting the way they say something makes them more right.

Never read the article—why bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?

Unfortunately you can’t even really blame people when it’s all paywalled and you have to know the extra steps (or be rich and subscribe to 100 online newspapers) to be able to actually obtain the text.

Does this website have an onion mirror?

This is why, as a legal principle, freedom of speech can’t be contingent on things like the subjective definition of terrorism. Governments must be prohibited from shutting up protestors.

This is one of the main reasons I hate the attitude that everything you write is supposed to be very filtered.

Also we’re talking about a life-critical system here. What kind of testing and certification are offered by this software. What about the assembly of the hardware?

All irrelevant if the alternative is nothing at all. If the barrier is a million dollars being too expensive, get someone with moderate technical skills to spend a few weeks doing their best setting something up, it will still be an improvement.

Even then I don’t see why something like this wouldn’t work. If not, you could spend 100x more money and still be nowhere close to a million.

flood warning systems are often simple networks of rain gauges or stream gauges that are triggered when rain or floodwaters exceed a certain level.

The gauges can then be used to warn those at risk of flooding, whether by text message, which may not be effective in areas with spotty cellphone service; notifications broadcast on TV and radio; or sometimes through a series of sirens.

It doesn’t seem like a basic solution should even cost nearly that much.

Sure, but this is more addressed to the people who do not intend to go vegan, but are considering replacing the red meat in their diet with other meat for ethical reasons.