Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition (or removal) of reward or aversive stimuli. The frequency or duration of the behavior may increase through reinforcement or decrease through punishment or extinction.
Don't worry, you're not pissing in my Cheerios or anything, I just always end up in one of those "That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works!" rants whenever they pull the "ghost gun" nonsense.
It's like how it's illegal in Mass to own a suppressor unless you're a cop or military, then you can buy as many as you want. Like...it reduces recoil a little and reduces the noise from permanent hearing loss to temporary hearing damage, it's not gonna make a gun silent. Movie magic quiet is only possible with very particular sub-sonic rounds of a specific caliber. You want silent? You put a suppressor on an air rifle. Dead silent and completely legal to put a suppressor on in all 50 states because it's not a gun, despite being just as dangerous at close ranges.
Edit: Also, these laws are often supported by firearms manufacturers because it benefits them to prevent people from being able to go elsewhere, like making aftermarket car parts illegal or forcing people to get their service done at a car dealership.
I haven't played KSA yet, forgot that it was a thing, but one of the big ones is a custom engine as opposed to the cobbled together mess of code that is KSP, which is running on an engine that is absolutely not meant to do what KSP does. All the weird physics glitches in KSP are because it's trying to wrangle the engine into functioning in this way.
KSP2 was actually supposed to fix this as well with a brand new engine, but the publisher forced them to use KSP's engine "because it would be faster" (it wasn't).
This is how you do it. You create clear and direct laws that specify what isn't okay. New Hampshire banned all billboards. I believe Vietnam recently banned all ads longer than 15 seconds online. These make it absolutely clear what is and isn't okay, and leave no wiggle room for companies to try to circumvent the laws on technicalities.
Personally, I'd consider it a declaration of war.
Yeah, isn't the whole reason that God considers humanity to be above the angels is because we have free will and they don't?
This means that everything they do is on God's orders, so either Satan was following orders and still is, or he somehow gained free will and led a revolt against the master who enslaved his entire race when He created them.
Either way, not evil.
Next time you talk to him, suggest that he pick up some of those over the ear noise cancelling headphones. You don't even have to have them turned on, but the size of them makes taking them off such a visible hassle that it seems to discourage a lot of those kinds of people. And the rest you can ignore and pretend that you couldn't hear them because you had the noise cancelling on.
They probably misconstrued "pick-up artists aside" as being very specifically about literal "pick-up artists" rather than as a generalized hitting on someone in public thing.
I do agree with them, though, in that it's very culturally dependent on how okay it is. I remember from a long time ago now one of those "kids today are always glued to their phones" memes where somebody just responded with a photo of a commuter rail car from the 50s where every single person in the photo was reading the newspaper, and I have a similar story from my dad about my grandfather: My grandfather worked in NYC for over 20 years and he commuted by train. During those commutes, he sat next to the same man, twice a day - on the way there and on the way back - for years, and only once in at least a decade did they ever speak to each other. "Are you finished reading that?" Those were the 5 words that man spoke to my grandfather, who handed him the paper he had finished reading, and they never exchanged another word again. I don't think they ever even looked at each other.
I would also add that it's a very extroverted thing to do, and not in the sense of social anxiety or something, but in the sense that introverted people burn mental and emotional energy in social interaction, and by trying to engage with a stranger in a random conversation, you might be using up the spoons they have that day. I'll talk to random people in public as well, but I keep it to one-off statements that people can either leave be or reciprocate with if they want. A joke about the traffic in trying to navigate the grocery store, that sort of thing. I'm very good at talking with people, I learned it from working a service industry job as a teen, to the point where I was basically the public face of a company, but I find it EXHAUSTING to do. I'm an introvert, pure and simple, and social interaction simply takes energy to do. At the end of the day, all I want to do is isolate myself so I can recharge and unwind.
Plus, there's the whole "women having to handle a man" aspect. Women have to treat men differently and behave differently to protect themselves when interacting with men (ones they don't know in particular), and so a random stranger trying to start up a conversation is A Situation that they have to analyze. It goes back to the "women would prefer to be in the woods with a bear" thing. Women would rather a random bear try to start a conversation with them in public, or something.
So...step 2 is figuring out how many cells are needed to run DOOM on wetware?
You beat me to it. I saw a post probably almost 20 years ago by a kid on Facebook talking about how he got banned from a Young Republicans Facebook group for giving this answer. His reasoning was: it's a carpenter's tool, not a weapon, and used to help people and improve the community. Kid actually read the Bible and got hate for it.
Because the most common people complaining about Bluesky fall into 1 of 2 groups:
People upset that Bluesky isn't tolerating their behavior (mostly Nazis and transphobes angry about the community not letting it become Truth Social 2 or allowing transphobes to harass users, but also certain leftist groups, much like the tankies here on Lemmy)
People upset that the infrastructure isn't FOSS or some similar complaint about it not being enough (purity test behavior like in every comment section on Lemmy)
And people saying that Bluesky is an echo chamber tend to fall very heavily into group 1.
It's a real catch-22. The ability to spin up new servers leads to plenty run by your run-of-the-mill person with some knowledge about hosting. The downside is that it's inherently unstable due to relying on your run-of-the-mill person with some knowledge about hosting to maintain a social media server, and it's always easier to destroy than it is to create.
Each time a server goes down, there's some percentage of users and communities that won't return due to the effort of relocating and starting all over. Why go through the effort of finding a new server, especially one run the way you want, and start over when the same thing could happen within a month. It's like when a Discord server disappears, but your account gets deleted every time as well.