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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

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

I wouldn't go that far, because it's not the worst possible thing, but yeah I still don't like it.

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?