I was going to do a deep dive into the legislation to figure out WTF I was remembering here, but it’s been kicking around my inbox for a full month now, so I think I have to give up on that.

I don’t think I ever laid eyes on one myself, but I did talk to shooting buddies who bought a restricted and then regretted it. I guess it’s possible they were just exaggerating, but there definitely was something about having to call movements in.

The legislation we have here does make no sense, although that can cut both ways if you want to own something weird. I never got the PAL myself but I’ve thought about getting a specific kind of blackpowder musket that would be banned in the 'states.

There’s both hype, and anti-hype.

It will do some jobs humans do now, but not others on any clear timeline. And the role of chessmaster was taken by the computers over a decade ago.

I mean, it can do a little logic. But only as long as it helps it gossip.

Political posting is mostly about jumping on a bandwagon, not any practical considerations. Adding nuance is no fun, so sure, they go straight for kill em’ all, not “maybe relax the rules on taking oaths to the king”. 99% will never do anything IRL anyway.

Dwarf Fortress. That’s where my mild obsession with technological bootstrapping and self-sufficiency started.

Although I think I was more of a tween or teen when I discovered it. If I needed to be an actual child, it’s harder, because Mario Kart and JumpStart influenced nothing. Probably RuneScape; it’s fuzzy, but I think that was my first taste of internet culture.

Almost all people would agree that’s not the same thing as the subjective experience of pain, though. By that measure, a smoke detector is actually screaming when it’s power is interrupted.

Plants don’t have organs for movement or information processing, because those are too energy intensive and wouldn’t help much. Their other tissues respond to stimuli, but the data rate is orders of magnitude slower than an animal in the same environment.

I’m not sure why these signals would need to reach any significant complexity, but if they did amount to thought it would have the weird property that the plant’s mind grows (with it’s “body”) about as fast as it can think. And it’s kind of beside the point. Stealing from !Teppichbrand@feddit.org:

Plants have feelings too
No, they do not. There is no serious study to suggest that they do. Plants do not have a brain or central nervous system. At most, they respond to stimuli. If you really care that much about the welfare of plants, you should go vegan, since many more plants “die” for animal feeding. Do you feel bad while mowing your lawn? And would you rather rescue a potted plant than a dog from a burning house? Is docking pig tails the same as branch trimming to you? Question upon question…

Prove it. They do not have any sound-producing organs, nor any structured nervous system to coordinate a non-hormonal response to anything.

People also believe that goldfish have no memory, and insects don’t think or even aren’t alive. You’ll notice the common thread of these exonerating us for our tiny fish bowls and our swatting.

It’s like the modern version of “animals don’t have a soul”.

Ah, technically correct, the best kind.

Okay, equivalent in unpleasantness to prolonged torture.

Depends massively on the farm and the practices.

Being a cow on a pasture looks okay most of the time. Factory farms should not exist.

TL;DR, the physiology is pretty similar to someone filling your lungs with a saline solution, but slower because they’re cold blooded.

When you consider this, that most ocean plastic comes from fishing, and that modern day slavery is heavily present in it (no police on a boat, and hard to escape) I actually have more respect for meat eaters than pescitarians. Don’t eat seafood, folks.

Edit: Oh, bycatch too, and habitat destruction from bottom trawling. I might be missing more, it’s kind of impressive how fucked that industry is.

And there’s a state propaganda ecosystem making the war look normal and okay, and most people just aren’t that into politics.

Civilians are civilians. Sometimes they’re dumb, but we’re still not supposed to demonise them.

I mean, in 2005 the US was a lot closer to Canada on multiple fronts when it comes to human rights. I’m kind of surprised that the court sided with the challengers - and not at all surprised the decision was successfully appealed in 2009, which you probably should mention.

I’m actually in a safe riding, on top of it all. I do activism as well, but it’s a drop in the bucket. The sweet, sweet taste of powerlessness…

Oh well. In a world of 8 billion it’s only fair.

Yes, it’s probably good to note, although in this context it sounded like you were giving a reason government help would be pointless.

Have an upvote, friend.

Poggers.

From the “horse’s mouth”: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-zelenskyy-ukraines-war-russia-closer-end-appeals/story?id=113936136

Yep. Politicians and the kind of people that hang out with politicians seem to be behind the curve on understanding what’s happening, but even they must know this by now. The trick is that rolling it back could provoke Trump, and they’re trying to keep that to a minimum at the moment.

That being said, if Carney doesn’t fix the rules within the next year I’m going to be very disappointed. The courts will probably strike it down eventually regardless.

Yeah, some of them need assisted living as well. Not all of them, though, and there’s also a lot of food (and other) insecurity among the housed.

We are not allowed to simply give it out to anyone. This is not like a church pantry where all of the food is donated by the community and’s parishioners. There is government funding, as well as private businesses, which I am guessing get their money back from the government for funding this. If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation.

Yep. That’s really dumb. When people talk about government inefficiency, this is what they mean.

Is there any chance you have enough (wo)manpower to prepare and preserve it? Even watermelon can be pickled, dehydrated or made into a jam.

Although this leaves ones that approve from a distance, potentially. That’s fine, secret ballots are important and the culture in the forces will be anti-AfD now.

Really, they need to ban AfD from competing. Does anybody have updates on the effort, now that it’s been prescribed an extremist organisation?