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- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 days ago:
No, literally no goal posts have ever been moved.
The point was and always has been, that widespread availability of guns does not effectively resist tyranny in the modern era, but does kill numerous people needlessly.
All you have shown, is a couple random example of guns being used to take ineffective pot shots at governments that ultimately crush them. Literally not a single example of people successfully using personal firearms to resist government oppression, let alone at a scale that would justify the thousands and thousands of needless deaths.
You’re just a gun lover blindly trying to justify a reason for owning them when one doesn’t exist.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 days ago:
Oh so your advocating for resisting in unproductive ways? Glad to get that out in the open.
Also, the Provisional IRA primarily used military weapons leftover from WW2 and modern ones to the era smuggled in from Libya.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 days ago:
You’re referring to the Provisional IRA? Tell me how successful they were in their goals of ending British rule in Northern Ireland.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 days ago:
Yeah, did you read the examples you gave?
Your literal only modern example is a case in Fiji, an island with a population the size of Nashville, Tennessee, and army of 6,500 people.
And the coup was only successful because the special forces unit of the army that was run by a former SAS commander joined them and armed them.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 days ago:
Personal firearms have basically never been used to resist government tyranny in the US or entire rest of the developed world.
What does consistently work is mass mobilization and turning out in numbers.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 days ago:
No, it really didn’t benefit them in any meaningful way.
Widespread gun ownership has gotten an enormous number of innocent people killed though.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 days ago:
No one cares about whether or no they use a dashboard to track signals intelligence data. The interesting part of this story is the unpublished assassination weapon, not how they selected targets.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 3 days ago:
You would Franz Ferdinand your way to a needless war.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 3 days ago:
Unilaterally labelling people ‘fascists’ and thus worthy of death, makes you a fascist.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 3 days ago:
We aren’t. Guns drastically increase the death rates of violence and attempted suicide. Banning guns will reduce these. It does this at the cost of the state obtaining a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. I believe we can drastically reduce the rate of fun violence through testing requirements before someone can buy a gun, like what we do with cars.
The state always maintains that monopoly. If citizens buy guns, the police militarize.
Citizens do not enact change with the state through guns, they do so through numbers, by turning out and striking en masse.
- Comment on Have you noticed 3 days ago:
The nooticer can never train their powers inwards for fear of nooticing too much and ceasing to be
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
But most importantly, many Americans believe that the equalizing force of firearms—something that allows the citizenry to defend themselves against tyranny and for the weak/frail to defend themselves against the physically strong— is philosophically worth a small reduction in public safety.
Yeah, idiots.
Cite how many times guns have helped resist tyranny.
I’ll start citing innocent people killed by the tyranny of widespread gun availability.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
Nope.
Just objectively and probably false. This is NRA nonsense.
Guns increase the rates of suicide, they increase the rates of domestic violence murder, and they make everyone less safe around police by giving police an excuse to use deadly force.
Guns also are not manufactured clandestinely en masse, anywhere, because it takes a lot of precise industrial machining to do at scale. They are not like sex or weed that are impossible to ban, when you stop manufacturing them for nonsense reasons, they stop circulating and criminals stop being able to get their hands on them.
I do not understand why Americans think they are so unfathomable unique that none of the evidence from other countries applies to them.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
Oh do tell us the value of goods and services transported every day by gun.
Because I can give you a number for the approximate economic value provided by cars, can you tell us the economic value provided by guns?
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
Do you know how many innocent people’s blood that has cost?
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
However, there can eventually come a time where resistance is appropriate. Hitler never would have taken complete control of the country, exterminated so many Jews, and started Europe on the path to a world war if the Germans were armed and actively resisting his rule.
Bruh, come the fuck on. Jews were 1% of the population, meanwhile like 30% of the population actively supported the Nazis, and far more would have continued to turn a blind eye as long as violence wasn’t being perpetrated against people like them.
This is nonsense alt history that ignores the fact that Nazis steamrolled and enacted death camps in far more countries than just Germany, and personal ownership of firearms didn’t make a dent in stopping them.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
Look at the results of that 90s LA bank robbery. It was the first time that two guys had enough body armour and firepower to challenge the local police. What was the end result? Every police officer across the country getting assigned body armour, high powered rifles, and every police agency militarizing and buying APCS, tactical units, etc.
The idea that the government would allow you to own weaponry that would legitimately challenge them is asinine.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
This is honestly, the dumbest, most American take in the world.
It literally ignores the fact plainly obvious fact that not a single other developed country allows gun ownership, and yet, still have rights and democracy and freedom.
Guns did not get your rights, and they do not protect you from a government that has AI powered drones with anti tank mines on them. Hell a fucking APC with a sound cannon will make your AR look like a child’s toy.
Wide spread gun ownership makes everyone less safe. Full stop.
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 4 days ago:
epic bad, upvotes plz
Epic barely changed it. You stopped playing because you put 1000+ hours into it and eventually got bored and moved on.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 6 days ago:
Why aren’t the data brokers being charged with accessory to murder?
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 6 days ago:
Writing stuff down with pen and paper is an objectively better way to remember things then digital files, also way more secure unless you really, really know what you’re doing.
- Comment on It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed? 1 week ago:
It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help
Did it?
- Comment on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store? 2 weeks ago:
Lmao, this is hysterical nonsense.
Hey everyone on Windows, is your machine filled with thousands of shady app stores because you have the ability to install Steam? No? What a shocker! Who could have predicted!
- Comment on Are humans really so predictable that algorithms can easily see thru us, or does continuous use of algorithm feeds make us predictable to their results? 2 weeks ago:
That works for pattern matching, but you don’t want to do that for doing accurate calculations. There is no reason to average the AI run calculation of 12345 x 54321 because that can be done with a tiny calculator with a solar cell the size of a pencil eraser. Doing calculations like that multiple times adds up fast and will always be less reliable than just doing it right in the first place.
I agree.
Same with reporting historical facts.
I disagree. Those are not remotely the same problem. Both in how they’re technically executed, and in what the user expects out of them.
But the AI that is being forced down our throats is worse than wikipedia because it averages content from ALL of reddit, facebook, and other massive sites where crackpots are given the same weight as informed individuals and there are no guardrails.
No, it’s just different. Is it wrong sometime? Yes. But it can also get you the right answer to a normal human question orders of magnitude faster than a series of traditional searches and documentation readings.
Does that information still need to be vetted afterwards? Yeah, but it’s a lot easier to say “copilot, I’m looking at a crossover circuit and I’ve got one giant wire coil, three white ceramic rectangles and a capacitor, what is each of them doing and how kind of meter will I need to test them”, then it is to individually search for each component and search for what type of meter you need to test them.
Basically any time one human query needs to synthesize information from multiple different sources, an AI search is going to be significantly faster.
- Comment on Are humans really so predictable that algorithms can easily see thru us, or does continuous use of algorithm feeds make us predictable to their results? 2 weeks ago:
Things don’t have to be more reliable if they’re fast enough.
Quantum computers are inherently unreliable, but you can perform the same calculation multiple times and average the result / discard the outliers and it will still be faster than a classical computer.
- Comment on My brain is acting like a junkie who hasn't had their anger fix 2 weeks ago:
Being dismissive doesn’t sound cool when you’re objectively wrong.
- Comment on My brain is acting like a junkie who hasn't had their anger fix 2 weeks ago:
No there absolutely is not.
Literally at a core fundamental there isn’t, since lemmy’s algorithm isn’t engagement driven.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, he navigated Disney / Lucasfilm’s grip on the Star Wars franchise pretty adeptly.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 3 weeks ago:
Notably not being described as an RPG but an action adventure game.
Still, interesting given the studio founder is Stig, who directed both the Star Wars Jedi games and some of the God of War games.
It’ll be interesting to see his level of spectacle brought to a DnD universe.
- Comment on Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Undoubtedly, but we still chose to come to Lemmy because we visited it and saw a bunch of people that we mostly agreed with on it.
Think about how many Lemmy users block hexbear or lemmy.ml, or would spot in disgust when they visit gab or voat or something.
Users prune those sources because they aren’t interested in hearing wildly toxic fringe ideas (or flat out being propagandized to), but it’s still fundamentally up to you as a user to decide what you consider rationale and worthy of discussion, and then going forward the content you see on here is only what’s shared by very like minded individuals.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that Reddit as a comparison intentionally promotes rage bait constantly, both in comments and posts, and that drives people to go even more nuts and become more polarized compared to a more neutral algorithm like Lemmy, but even open and decentralized social media platforms create filter bubbles.