Because people don't carry them around. They must be locked up and kept separately from the ammunition, or they have to be kept at a gun club.

That's a great comparison.

What's so incredibly frustrating is that the measures taken against climate change had actually started to take effect (CO2 emissions are in decline) and now they're going to make it worse again.

Wibra and Zeeman, aka Zebra.

Oh, there are a lot of guns. People just don't carry them around.

AI doesn't think. It gathers information. It can't come up with anything new. When an AI diagnoses a disease, it does so based on input made by thousands of people. It can't make any decisions by itself.

I assume they'll also be finding ways to switch that shit off.

Which means they could switch off all the weapons they sold to Ukraine.

I'm currently looking for removal boxes. The biggest company charges 30 per 20 on their own site, 29 on Otto and 28 on Amazon. They also deliver much faster when you order from Amazon. I don't have anywhere local that sells decent boxes.

My library is a joke.

China wants Siberia because of its fresh water supply. It will either invade Russia or put Putin's back against the wall and say, "Give us Siberia or else."

So I'm wondering if that is one of the reasons Putin recruited Trump. To have backup.

They're also trained to deescalate.

I remember a while ago somebody posted a video of an Italian cop talking a guy who was beating his girlfriend into giving himself up and the Americans were completely baffled that he hadn't just shot him.