Nougat

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Nougat , to Political Memes in nuanceposting the trolley thing

track 2’s extinguishers have gasoline in them

Wouldn't that make them "tinguishers"?

Nougat , to News in Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre

Right, that's the kind of thought I was having with my "maybe" clause. The operator of the rifle is arguably a mechanical part of the automatic trigger pull when a bump stock is employed, because the operator is not willfully choosing to pull the trigger each individual time. The trigger is being actioned by a mechnical process outside of the conscious will of the operator.

Nougat , to News in Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre

The 6-3 majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas said a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock is not an illegal machine gun because it doesn’t make the weapon fire more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger.

While I have not followed this case or read this ruling, bolded section would appear to be true (maybe, I can think of reasons that it could be seen differently). However, that doesn't mean that bump stocks are legal. It just means that the case before the court was to decide whether a bump stock turned a semiauto into a "machine gun."

It would be elementary to make bump stocks illegal, because bump stocks are not firearms. Making bump stocks illegal wouldn't cross the Second Amendment.

Nougat , to News in Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County

"We never said it was good self-driving."

Nougat , to politics in Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds

I’ll take “Envelope Stuffed With Cash” for 200.

Nougat , to Linux in Will Corps ditch Windows over Recall for Linux?

No.

If you're talking about desktops, there is a huge cost involved in switching to an entirely new operating system. I'm not just talking about "How do you get it installed and configured on n laptops for users to then use?" Those users will require training in order to use it - and allllll of the new and different applications that run on that new operating system. (Users are mainly just button pressers, and when you change the buttons ...) The alternative to the above would simply be to disable Recall via group policy. Done and done.

If you're talking about migrating Active Directory to some Linux LDAP centralized authentication, that's going to introduce a whole lot of other complications. Not impossible, no, but it would be a very long, time-consuming, and costly process.

If you're talking about servers, you surely know that lots of companies run Linux servers on the back end. When you're using Windows servers, there's a reason. You want/need to use MS SQL, or Exchange on premise, or SharePoint on premise, for example. Are there other mail servers, database servers, collaboration servers? Sure - but again, switching from an existing platform to a different platform is costly.

These transition costs get exponentially higher when you consider whether companies actually have the in-house expertise to be able to pull off such a thing (Narrator: They don't.)

Nougat , to politics in Supreme Court says marketer is not entitled to a trademark for 'Trump too small' T-shirts

And I imagine that, by now, Fred Trump is much smaller than he used to be.

Nougat , to politics in Many in Trump’s Orbit Back Mandatory Military or National Service Conscription

Miller believes a standardized test at the high school level, called the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, should be administered to all students to help funnel potential recruits into positions within the military, based on their skills and intellect levels.

Let me take a wild guess which people would get "funneled into positions" as officers, and who would end up as fodder infantry.

Nougat , to politics in DeSantis Claims Florida Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure Will Let People 'Bring 20 Joints To An Elementary School'

Just think of how marijuana legalization would help the taco truck industry!

Nougat , to Futurology in Universal Basic Income Could Double Global GDP While Cutting Carbon Emissions

UBI: Yes.

Carbon taxes: Yes

Funding the former with the latter: Absolutely not, because the pressure to avoid the carbon taxes would end up underfunding the UBI.

Nougat , to Work Reform in A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty

B-b-but Biden hasn't done anything!

Nougat , to Enshittification in YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads

You do know that there were static ads on the pages, right? And the whole aggregate viewer data thing? They were never producing the service for free; they had regular old advertising and metrics to sell to fund it.

What they didn't have were garbage intrusive unskippable video ads before and during the video I wanted to watch.

Nougat , to politics in Trump cites Biden’s 'disturbing grin' in effort to terminate limited gag order in hush money case - ABC News

Here's the thing about that gag order: It applies to everyone involved in the litigation. Defense, then-defendant-now-convicted-felon, and prosecution.

What it does not apply to are witnesses or bystanders or jurors. Because those people were neither accused nor convicted of any crimes.

Nougat , to Enshittification in YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads

YouTube used to host and stream videos for free, without ads, for years.

Nougat , to Political Memes in Just a reminder

Democrats have to be perfect. Republicans just have to be on the ballot.

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