Got it! Warmongers are weak, while a powerful society has no need to heavily fund the military.

He smoked for pleasure. I’m sure he ate and drank for pleasure.

And this is why tenure exists!

All the vegans and vegetarians I’ve met in real life were chill dudes and dudettes. One was an engineer and semi-pro skateboarder that was always making people feel good and happy. Another one was a solid rock climber always smiling.

I know more annoying people complaining about vegans, always grumpy and being proud of always eating meat. I also know this cool swing dance instructor girl who only eats meat, so it’s also good.

MacOS, you mean Unix with a wallpaper? While Unix is not Linux, BSD is open source so it’s nice!

I think it’s set up this way so buyers can’t get back to Sony to ask for a free replacement if the media can’t be used anymore.

Let’s say you buy a disk that contains a movie. You din’t buy the right to watch that movie forever, because if the disk breaks, you need to buy a new copy.

However, we could argue that this is just a symptom of a short industry… If my backpack breaks, even after 10 years, the company will replace it free of charge!

They could try to compensate the imbalance by explicitly asking for the lesser represented classes in the data… It’s an idea, not quite bad but not quite good either because of the problems you mentioned.

Didn’t you know? This cloud provider offers lead-free, gluten-free computing services without antibiotics! Also it’s not tested on animals!

“sacred duty” ha!

Best excuse to commit atrocities throughout history!

In Futurama it’s an ethical problem since robots have a conciousness.

If real life Amazon used robots instead of humans, it would solve so many (yet not every) ethical problems with my shopping habits!

I wish to downvote because this makes me sad… But i know that’s not how it works… take this upvote for nice art!

Akureyri is an awesome city. You should visit it!

We’re on Lemmy. We’re already winning!

Not a trap, an enlightenment! I don’t have a hat like this one but at some point you realize that life is a jungle. Better consider it a safari and enjoy!

This is the first time I heard about self hosted search engines. What is the benefit of using this over something like duck duck go?

Thanks for the enlightening discussion! I still think it would be better to try anything but guns to try and protect against guns… Yet you made me understand that the situation is to far gone to just take a chance and go defenseless!

I mean, my next door neighbor is the closest to a “methhead” in the neighborhood, but he’s only a violent alcoholic and never displayed aggression towards strangers… He’s nice and shares his free run eggs with us, so I don’t fear for my life living next door!

It’s a chicken and egg problem, but your neighbor may not come at you with his gun if he didn’t feel threatened by the one he fears you own! From his perspective, don’t go knocking at the door of someone who might point a gun at you without bringing your own…

Imagine a defensive tool which would make you feel safe without making people around you scared of you!

Take care!

I was once advised never to discuss this topic with Americans because it’s impossible to have a normal logic discussion… But I’m a bit dumb so I’ll do it anyway! (Assuming you’re American, sorry if I’m mistaken!)

A couple of points:

1. You’re right, I’ve never actually seen a bulletproof vest in real life. Notice that your laser focus on the technicality of some vests is very interesting and explains why they are not very common. Yet it doesn’t really implies that it couldn’t work. For example, the slim-fit c’est you’re taking about would be an excellent solution to give a chance to run away. In a similar vein, ABS brakes on a car do not perfectly prevent collisions but still help reduce the severity of accidents.

2. Regarding your imaginary scenario, please re-read the thread… It seems to me that you’re the first one mentioning the “very frightening scenario”. I’ll skip this one for now since it’s a different topic.

3. In public, would a concealable vest be good enough against concealable guns? Would a concealable gun be effective against a non-concealable big gun? It seems to me that all your arguments against vests also applies to guns…

Replacing guns by non-lethal tools would probably be just as effective to disable an attacker, while at the same time being a good first step to detox from this gun addiction, hopefully leading to a reduced number of gun accidents.

Why not buy a bulletproof vest instead? Fighting fire with fire is not always the most efficient…

I remember seeing some sort of huge bulletproof blanket used by Japanese police to apprehend armed peoples. They hide behind that blanket and run towards the gunner to wrap them in it. The good side is that the gunner can be arrested alive for trial.

I don’t know if it was just a concept or of its really in use…

Having the same problem on Firefox on Android right now.

Having the same problem on Firefox on Android right now.