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  1. Comment on Charlie Kirk shooting: US President Donald Trump says suspect in custody in ~society

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    Based on reports coming out, it doesn't even sound like the FBI caught him. His dad recognized the footage and turned him in. Apparently the father as a policeman and a pastor, so it would have...

    which is probably why the FBI were so easily able to catch him.

    Based on reports coming out, it doesn't even sound like the FBI caught him. His dad recognized the footage and turned him in. Apparently the father as a policeman and a pastor, so it would have been extremely easy to get away with murder here.

    (Definitely correct me if these details change. I know things are developing fast so don't take this as gospel).

    7 votes

  2. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    For political violence, it's legitimately hard for me to find an example in the last 20 years. It's disproportionately rare for political violence to occur to begin with compared to how much...

    For political violence, it's legitimately hard for me to find an example in the last 20 years. It's disproportionately rare for political violence to occur to begin with compared to how much general violence the US has.

    The Brian Thompson case is probably the closest it's gotten to "left wing political violence". But I'm using the term extremely generously at that point where "left wing" is "not blatantly MAGA" and "political" mean "he had some sway of power, despite not being a policy maker".

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Paramount Skydance prepares Ellison-backed bid for Warner Bros. Discovery in ~movies

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    Not in this administration. Lina Khan was ousted when she was needed most.

    Not in this administration. Lina Khan was ousted when she was needed most.

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    A variety of reasons. I can't really pinpoint one reason I comment on anything online. Coping mechanism for powers I cannot control ( I do tend to comment more when I am stressed, even if I try to...

    So why are you wasting your energy arguing about it online?

    A variety of reasons. I can't really pinpoint one reason I comment on anything online.

    • Coping mechanism for powers I cannot control ( I do tend to comment more when I am stressed, even if I try to avoid outright trolling?) .
    • Hoping to seek out encouraging or percipient perspectives of what's to come.
    • Feeling a need to discuss matters that I can't discuss with anyone in my day to day life.
    • Begrudgingly accepting that social media is "the real world" and getting a pulse on perspectives and reactions is just as important as being well informed of the news.

    All of that is also why I comment here on Tildes; I appreciate that most comments here are in good faith. I'd definitely react differently when hearing this on Reddit and not take the time to seriously introspect on the action.

    I'm more concerned about the state's weapons at the moment, and their real and concrete harms, than convincing you to agree with me.

    I don't think we're disagreeing here in particular. Things will sadly only get worse.

    I wasn't joking about my responses to your points, and I'm not weaseling out of defending my principles, I'm just not going to do it for the sake of sport in the comments about a dead man, because you asked me to.

    I don't want to force you to engage with any particular point. I simply, genuinely don't know if they'll be a better context to talk about it. The next context will likely be even worse. I was being genuine as well with my response.

    I hope for things to get better, but I don't think we've hit the nadir yet.

    6 votes

  5. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    Given some of the rhetoric out there and reactions in real world venues over this, I don't think we'll have the luxury of "reasonable context". In many contexts, it is.

    Given some of the rhetoric out there and reactions in real world venues over this, I don't think we'll have the luxury of "reasonable context".

    don't claim we need a well-armed militia, I just think murder should be legal.

    In many contexts, it is.

  6. Comment on Vimeo enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in ~tech

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    Artists, or anyone else who requires high quality video feeds. Vimeo videos are uncompressed (or at least, much less compressed). It also has time stamped annotation, so you can actually send it...
    1. Artists, or anyone else who requires high quality video feeds. Vimeo videos are uncompressed (or at least, much less compressed). It also has time stamped annotation, so you can actually send it to a recruiter or client and they can comment on parts of interest.
    2. Ad-free. If you rally want to make sure Google doesn't disrupt your content, Vimeo is one of the most well known alternatives.
    3. Directly downloadable with no strings attached.
    4. More control over your video. You can edit it after the fact without changing the link, unlist/privatize videos, require passwords to access a video (perfect for NDA stuff), and more.

    Basically, its great for creatove professionals who aren't relying on as revenue to keep them afloat, and it fits their workflow better.

    17 votes

  7. Comment on Vimeo enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in ~tech

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    Grim for roughly 2-3 years. Today, it's only added more sectors that became rough.

    Grim for roughly 2-3 years. Today, it's only added more sectors that became rough.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Vimeo enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in ~tech

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    These days, it's only good news for whoever owns the company. The rise of Vulture capitalists makes this pattern all too common. Acquire the company, lay of all talent, extract whatever value you...

    Getting acquired is usually amazing news for a company

    These days, it's only good news for whoever owns the company. The rise of Vulture capitalists makes this pattern all too common. Acquire the company, lay of all talent, extract whatever value you can for a year, and repeat as you leave the carcass behind.

    I guess artists will need to find a new place to post their uncompressed portfolios.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    Vietnam is the best example of optics losing a war. America didn't lose because it lacked firepower. It lost becsuse it realized that going WW2 on such a small country would devastate their...

    Vietnam is probably the most famous US loss due to this,

    Vietnam is the best example of optics losing a war. America didn't lose because it lacked firepower. It lost becsuse it realized that going WW2 on such a small country would devastate their polling for years to come. If America truly "won" Vietnam there wouldnt be a President Regean. That was all "fixed" for the Iraqi war later on, though (and even then STILL devastated the GOP. Making their own Vice president unelecteable is quite the feat).

    That's honestly what scares me the most about a potential Civil War. We've spend 50+ years being desensitized to the aspect of killing. Once optics can't stop a war, all bets are off. And as we speak we are being desensitized to the idea of military invading cities. The fact that no one is imoeeaching Trump over even the threat of that speaks volumes.

    . "well they'll never win, we can use missiles/drones/helicopters/etc" shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what the point of an armed populace is and how many many many examples throughout history have shown otherwise.

    I don't think a modern civil war within a super power will be anything we can refer to history on. Unlike a normal war, a civil war isn't fought for resources and then "won/lost" after the fact. Its intent would either be to ursurp the government if started by rebels, or to weave fear in its own people and potentially annihilate them of stated by the ruler.

    The latter makes no logical sense; even dictatorships don't aim to do this, because what is a king with nothing to rule over, and no one to command? But we're not in logical times, sadly.

    This is a lot of morbid talk, but do I truly believe we're going to have a civil war? As things are now, no. But we are maybe, 4-5 big events away from one and we have maube8-10 increasingly plausible events. 4 of of those potential events lie in the courts. It's going to be a bumpy ride even if we manage to avoid all those events.

    16 votes

  10. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    I suppose it's easy to mix up rights with "unalienable" rights. It's not Life, Liberty, and a Pair of Bear Arms.

    I suppose it's easy to mix up rights with "unalienable" rights. It's not Life, Liberty, and a Pair of Bear Arms.

    11 votes

  11. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    All this premature screeching, and watch the assassin be yet another MAGA diehard who felt scorned by Trump. I can't say that this couldn't have been from the Left, but following so many of these...

    All this premature screeching, and watch the assassin be yet another MAGA diehard who felt scorned by Trump. I can't say that this couldn't have been from the Left, but following so many of these events (and the fact that it's in Utah) showed me how common it is for the Right to eat itself.

    19 votes

  12. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    I appreciate how it was the republicans who were the ones to defy a moment of silence for their own "ally" while seemingly, the democrats were just going to go with it. They can't even respect...

    I appreciate how it was the republicans who were the ones to defy a moment of silence for their own "ally" while seemingly, the democrats were just going to go with it.

    They can't even respect their own without spouting out hate out of nowhere. I don't even think the assassin has been identified yet and they are already trying to lay blame (just that they charged someone and it turned out to not be them).

    24 votes

  13. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    We had proponents claim that Biden was dead and replaced by a robot. Apparently we're in full fantasy land in 2025 if you go to the right circles.

    We had proponents claim that Biden was dead and replaced by a robot. Apparently we're in full fantasy land in 2025 if you go to the right circles.

    6 votes

  14. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    You do indeed need a bit of terrorism to properly enforce oppression in a dictatorship. Knowing that you can be next keeps the populace fearful and fall in line. It will definitely go the wrong...

    Oppression is not usually dispensed via drones. That's just war or terrorism.

    You do indeed need a bit of terrorism to properly enforce oppression in a dictatorship. Knowing that you can be next keeps the populace fearful and fall in line.

    It will definitely go the wrong way, but yes. If we claim we need a "well armed militia" then the logical steps is giving the people proper leverage against the government. Similar to how we evolved "arms' from an 18th century rifle to a semi-auto pistol. I much prefer the "restrict guns and use strict licensing" angle, but that seems less likely, especially in these times.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    It's bad, but seemingly ineviatable at this point. When you spend 5 years at the bare minimum fostering and evevn inciting violence upon people, then violence is the result. I don't condone it ,...

    It's bad, but seemingly ineviatable at this point. When you spend 5 years at the bare minimum fostering and evevn inciting violence upon people, then violence is the result.

    I don't condone it , but when the leadership renames their army to the "department of War" and then threatens to invade a domestic city, I don't see any other result happening, esepcially in such a connected world where information travels the world in minutes.

    14 votes

  16. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    Jan 6th endangered both left and right wing policy makers. I'm not disagreeing, but we've had quite a few situations this decade that should have been a wakeup call for the GOP. I'm not certain if...

    the impact that a major right-wing infosphere operative being gunned down will have in accelerating other acts of right wing violence

    Jan 6th endangered both left and right wing policy makers. I'm not disagreeing, but we've had quite a few situations this decade that should have been a wakeup call for the GOP. I'm not certain if this is the match that will ignite the cannons, but history can be fickle.

    12 votes

  17. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    I think it's even simpler. we saw governments creaatd 2 dozen other forms of warfare much deadlier than the peashooters we claim our right to have. These days, a remote drone can take you out...

    a lot of people who might should be armed looked at the gun owners and said "I don't want to be like that, at all".

    I think it's even simpler. we saw governments creaatd 2 dozen other forms of warfare much deadlier than the peashooters we claim our right to have. These days, a remote drone can take you out while the government sits in their chair hundreds, thousands of miles away. How do you really practice your "well maintained militia" against weapons like that (weapons which are indeed illegal to own yourself. Curious...)

    I think the 2nd amendment aged poorly, and we either need to take a look at what a "arm" is in the modern world, or re-think the entire idea of what's a right vs. priveledge.

    22 votes

  18. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    I just don't see it. maybe 200 years ago, but even then it was hard for a "well regulated militia" to have any real shot at usurping a government. Driving a car is a near necessity in some...

    but there's a rational, humanitarian case that gun ownership should be understood primarily as right than a privilege.

    I just don't see it. maybe 200 years ago, but even then it was hard for a "well regulated militia" to have any real shot at usurping a government.

    Driving a car is a near necessity in some countries but it is still a privileged, because misuse of it can get you or others killed. why not apply the same to guns?

    12 votes

  19. Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society

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    Or in Japan (completly prohibited), the UK (strict permits),... How many other countries even allow citizenry to carry firearms? Looking at a wikipedia map, they generally are allowed, but almost...

    Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.

    Or in Japan (completly prohibited), the UK (strict permits),... How many other countries even allow citizenry to carry firearms? Looking at a wikipedia map, they generally are allowed, but almost always with permits.

    I'm not too opposed to total prohibition, but I really don't understand why people resist the notion of "having proper training to use dangerous weapon". We do it with vehicles (perhaps not strict enough for cars in some cases), and we do it for certified fields like most engineering, doctors, and lawyers. Why not the tool made primarily to kill?

    35 votes

  20. Comment on iPhone 17, 17 Pro and Air announced in ~tech

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    I don't think it has to last as long as a slab phone. I think we're beyond the "switch phones yearly" trend, but you'll see that even a well taken care of slab phone will probably be switched out...

    I don't think it has to last as long as a slab phone. I think we're beyond the "switch phones yearly" trend, but you'll see that even a well taken care of slab phone will probably be switched out in 3-4 years, even if the hardware can probably last more around 5-7 years. If it can get to that point, I think people will flock to it.

    A lot of small phone enthusiasts strongly prefer durability over flashiness.

    That's a benefit of a clamshell, though. it naturally protects its screen when folded up. Much less vulnerable to having coins other pocket items scratch up the sceen. The main factor is whether or not the screen itself is duable enough for X0000 bends.

    But if the form factor is too thick for you, I understand. I feel like that's the one area where this obsession with thinness can come in handy one day (I prefer a better battery than making a phone 4mm thick or whatever. Especially since apparently we need 6mm of camera anywa)