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shalafi

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  • My thoughts as well! Also, I can't get over how ridiculously handsome this kid was at 15. That shouldn't be allowed. Nerd him up or something.

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    I have never once considered this, or seen it written or heard it said.

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  • Fact: The 2A exists.

    Fact: American courts have always upheld it as a right to individual firearm ownership.

    Fact: Changing the Constitution is difficult.

    Opinion: We're not going to change it anytime soon, even to allow Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

    You're pissing into the wind arguing against the 2A. We need other approaches.

  • US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs

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  • And we'll be stuck with more monster ag business. Lose-lose.

  • There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM

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  • Changing one's face enough to fool biometrics is so rare as to be discounted. Those bastard Tleilaxu Face Dancers though!

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  • Of course! I'm just mad at the simple-minded idea that there is no adolescence, only child or adult. The idea is ludicrous and harmful to the teens we're raising to be adults.

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  • I didn't and wouldn't say it does! But the difference shows that almost every state in the planet recognizes that teenagers are not "children". It's insulting to them at best, detrimental at worst.

    A radio host was bemoaning the fact that her 17-yo daughter made a fire in the fireplace while home alone. Host was pretty upset.

    Caller: "Did she do it properly?"

    Host: "Yes, perfectly! We taught her to make a safe fire. But she's a child! She has no business starting a fire without adults at home!"

    I wanted to scream! In less than a year she can join the military, sign contracts, tell mom to fuck herself, go it alone, do everything but buy beer. And this is how you prepare her for adulthood?!

    Sorry, the whole "child until 18" thing gets me bent. We're trying to train these people to be adults, yet at the same time we tell them they have no agency until they're 18, merely "children"? It's fucking insulting and harmful.

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  • That's a small group and composed mainly of younger people who don't vote. I built my own PCs from 1994 to around 2019. Now few people even own PCs, let alone build and upgrade.

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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  • 54 and just this year my neck has started to look stringy, especially in bright sunlight. Ugh. At least I can manually fix the hairy ears.

  • nom nom nom 🐻

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  • Not for long. In either case you're going to be bear 💩 soon enough.

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • Just another tool for the mechanic to stock. They'll be on eBay and Amazon soon enough.

  • Don't be a fool, use the proper tool.

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  • Gran Torino.

  • Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.

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  • For your detractors, I'd like to point out that nothing stated here in untrue.

    The problem is feeding 10's of thousands of video streams, from a single entity, to the police and government. And now they're using AI to sort the data, which is a powerful use case for AI.

    Were we to magically feed all the webcams and doorbells and security cameras to a single source, it would still be a technological mess to sort out. Flock's system is purpose built to track us.

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • I've got two. They're only for if I'm in a desperate pinch.

  • Nebraska Town Finds Out Town's Biggest Employer To Close

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  • Listen to interviews and read quotes from people like this. They know damn will it's Trump's fault, but they think he doesn't know. Seriously, always the same attitude.

    "We just need President Trump to know that his $policy is hurting us out here."

    Imagine begging a malignant narcissist, with spiraling dementia, to give a shit about you.

  • Jim Beam shutting down bourbon production at Kentucky distillery for a year as Trump’s trade wars hit sales

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  • Include clueless. Watch Mamdani interview NYC Trump supporters on the street. Americans are politically stupid, they vote according to their pocketbook and their vibes, always have.

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  • The 3rd and 4th paragraphs are certainly true. There are dozens of articles pointing out that Western children are indeed growing up slower. Had a great one I can't find again, but it backed exactly what you're saying.

    We GenX folk grew up far faster than GenZ, so younger attitudes sometimes confound me. If times get hard, like Depression 2.0 hard, we'll see that trend flip within a single generation.

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  • Russia already had population issues. Sometime, I think the turn of the century, they enacted a new state holiday for people to stay home and make babies. Not even making that up.

    Imagine how bad it is now!

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  • VERY few countries peg the age of consent at 18, mostly the hyper-conservative. Only 10 states in America and only Turkey in Europe. Not sure there's any countries in Africa or Asia.

    This notion that a human goes from child to adult on their 18th birthday is truly bizarre to me. I was sexually active at 16 and the girl I lost my virginity to was 14. We weren't adults, in full command of our lives, but we sure as hell weren't children. At 17, my gf and I had sex almost daily, if we could manage it. And you would say we were children? Mighty developed and freaky children indeed!

    The age of majority you're arguing is the age at which society deems one responsible enough to sign contracts, join the military, in short, be responsible for one's decisions. But to act like there's no in-between state is ludicrous.

    Even weirder is people arguing, correctly, that sexuality, autism, etc., is on a spectrum. But our maturity is not? That idea goes against even the most base observations.

    My daughter turns 13 next month. Last summer I was already seeing her flip between "child" and a more serious person, sometimes minute to minute. (Can't explain better, sorry.) Her brother is 10 and 100% child, no trace of maturity, as you would expect. By the time she is 14-15 she will be a wholly different person. But you would class her the same as a 10-yo?

  • If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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  • What till people find out what "dashboard" originally meant.