BanditMcDougal @ BanditMcDougal @lemmy.world

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Is this before or after the war started?

Pretty easy to make a socialist argument for cars IMHO.

It'd go something like, "the only way to ensure the right to mobility is equally distributed is to ensure every individual has what equates to a bus station in their own home."

Using an ideology to support a desired outcome isn't as hard as it should be.

Without teens and boomers, social media would be dead.

According to me and most of my buddies, the answer is diverticulitis in varying degrees.

The length of the 2nd Amendment is insanely short and likely thought to be quite obvious to the authors. Ironically, it has likely been more debated than any other Amendment. There have even been court cases that focus on how the placement of commas impacts the meaning.

To your comment on "well regulated," the debate there has to do with how the phase has changed meaning over time; well regulated meant "well maintained" or "taken care of." A well regulated clock, for instance, would have its gears cleaned and oiled at regular intervals.

Even in the groups that still hold that interpretation debate on whether the phrase then mean well-drilled/disciplined or well-stocked with arms.

With regard to at-home kits, the general rule/understanding was you could build your own with your own tools and any materials that were only 80% or less manufactured/machined to being a completed firearm.

The debate kinda went like this: "Is a block of metal a gun?"
"Well, no..."
"So... How much work am I allowed to do to this block of metal before I get in trouble for selling it to somebody else?"
"Ionno... A lot, I guess? 80% sound good?"

So, people started selling 80% kits within the bounds of the law. They were blocks of material mostly milled with instructions, and sometimes tools, to finish the job.

The article doesn't explain why these kits in question are getting blocked. I'm suspecting too many things were sold at once as part of the kit, though. 80% kits normally don't have barrels, for instance.

Oh boy, let me tell you about the Presidential power that I'm most scared of: the President has 90 days to get Congressional approval for war. The idea being it used to take a long time to get people together to vote on things and even longer to mobilize. These days, though, you can conquer a country in under 90 days...

Subjectively.

Like most things, it is about preference and/or what the measure of success is. Some people prefer the tighter, mixed-use concepts and some don't. I know people that would love a concept like this and I know people that would be overwhelmed and depressed.

Taxes from the middle class. Ftfy.

Provoked Gamer is pretty baller. Are you asking for a friend?

Urbanist?

Up-state NY is more rural and conservative. Towns in the mountains can be fairly small and isolated; those areas vote extremely red.

IIRC, the price cap on labor was to reduce workers from getting drawn to other companies that were paying higher wages. The idea was to make production predictable by keeping the limited labor force in place rather than having them be mobile. It led to the rise of benefits, like health insurance, being offered as part of total compensation packages since the extras weren't capped. Effectively this was the start of insurance being tied to employment.

Law of unintended consequences hit us in a big way with this one.

Countries with the raw materials needed to make modern batteries are about to need some freedom. This is actually scary, because a lot of those minerals are in Africa, and China has a pretty large investment in Africa, already.

American here.

I'm all for minorities and other groups struggling for equality arming themselves. It is a lot harder for the government to stomp on your rights when they have to worry about you fighting back.

It wasn't that long ago the government used airplanes to bomb its own citizens...

Until America addresses it's police problem, which I propose stems from an ongoing inequality problem, the American public needs a way to defend itself.

Why are the Nordic countries so high?

Prefacing this question with the fact I'm an Android user and have never owned an iPhone. Saying this in the hopes people won't think I'm an Apple fanboi trying to make a point...

I haven't been that interested in the EU legislation around this until now; I'm curious what happens when something comes out that is better than USB-C? Are companies stuck until new legislation is passed or is there some sort of auto update to the standard written in?

Unless I'm misunderstanding how this whole thing works, it'd depend on the instance and community, wouldn't it? If I set up my own instance, I can setup my own rules for the communities that might start there. Those community leaders may opt to set rules stricter than the instance rules.

If you go crazy enough, you get defederated like North Korea...

Which includes the Steam client. It's a CEF-based application.

Shit. I 100% missed the company's Twitter post in OP's post. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm not even sure how; it's like one of the first things there...

Youre right; going by their statement, they agreed to help open a safe for a property that had a search warrant. However, they were not under a court order to open the safe. That's the part I disagree with.

For me, this is like if the FBI has a search warrant for your phone and the phone manufacturer agrees to help unlock your phone. In the US, the 5th protects you from being compelled to unlock your phone. If the manufacturer unlocked the phone without a court order compelling then to, I'd be upset with that company. (I'd rather not get in the weeds about what is going on with Customs and Boarder Guards. It's a whole overreaching shit show...)

Similarly, if a the police had a warrant to collect a blood sample and a medical facility proactively helped collect that sample without a court order compelling them to, that facility is assaulting a patient.

I have issues with a locksmith helping gain access to a property, safe, car, whatever, too, if they're not compelled to.

The warrant doesn't force people/companies to help the police with their search of the named people/locations. That'd come from a court order.

People/Companies are free to set their own policies for how they'll respond to law enforcement's request for help, and people are free to agree or disagree with that policy. If they disagree with the policy, they're free to spend their money elsewhere.