Liz

I'm still absolutely flabbergasted they gave him that bonus. Like, legitimately, what success has the company had recently that was worth it?

Their comment was not "we need to send doctors to respond to shooters."

Their comment was "we need universal healthcare so that people don't feel the need to do these kinds of things."

"If we don't see results by 6 weeks, we're going to try a different class of drugs."

Baseball bat, knife, sword, a small amount of rope, axe, hatchet, machete, chainsaw, fireworks, gasoline...

Here's the thing:

1. You already have to pass a background check.

2. So what more do you want? After that the criteria start to become subjective and will be applied be racists to disarm minorities and poor people.

Now, I'm actually for some more generalized gun laws, like requiring that the gun or ammo be behind a lock when you're not in control of it, but that's not really relevant to stopping mass shootings. Ending mass shootings (a very small fraction of gun deaths) is way more about ending the desire to do such a thing.

We've had easy access to guns for a long time, but mass shootings only started in the 90s, when angry white men felt they were getting left behind and had no way to feel valuable in the new society we've been working to build. I would suggest this episode of Some More News to get a quick understanding of angry men, and the book Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel to get a much deeper look at who these people are and why they act and feel the way that they do.

Our military spending is not preventing us from having free college or free healthcare. Both would save us money if we switched to 100% government funded systems. No amount of military spending is preventing us from saving money.

"Highways shouldn't have guard rails because if you hit one you've already gone off the road anyway."

Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application.

Emphasis mine.

Oh I see, I've got it backwards.

I know nothing about how flatpak works other than that it's containerized. But this meme tells me it's the OS's responsibility to create the flatpak, and not the developer's? Is that right?

Oh, sorry, yeah, I thought you were just asking about how those things with in general, not whether such a weapon could make someone confused. Yeah we don't have anything that works that way.

Well, yes, but also if I actually had the power to make that change I would do it gradually through a market system for exactly that reason. One can dream, though.

Pretty much any power structure is going to coalesce into the "ruling" group and the "opposition" group, because doing so is strategically advantageous. But, proportional representation ensures that those two groups are made up of sub-groups that have to negotiate within themselves and can even threaten to change sides. Compared with an entrenched two party system, you end up with much a more reasonable government.