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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’m sorry if I misinterpreted the quote about places with legal gun owners having less illegal gun owners. How else should I have interpreted it?

    You pulled a statistic, please provide a source for it.

    Yes, a person entering an empty room with a gun on the table is absolutely statistically in danger of mishandling the gun and harming themselves. The actual meta study referenced here is behind a paywall but people do not behave well when put in a room alone with a dangerous thing. As far as I can tell no one has replicated the experiment with an actual gun, though I’d love to see that. Now I don’t want to strawman too much here but you might be tempted to say that the problem isn’t the gun but the combination of human stupidity and guns. That’s generally what makes dangerous things dangerous, and isn’t the gotcha people on the gun side often think it is. In a world with only guns and no humans there’s no gun violence, hooray.

    I’ll let you have the final word here if you wish, I’m pretty done with this discussion. I’ll just reiterate one last time that this is all you trying to convince me that I should not be feeling more safe in a place that doesn’t allow guns and I think that’s pretty fucked.





  • None of what you just said is true. Starting here

    Just to be clear, walking into a room that has a gun in it doesn’t magically make you more likely to get shot.

    That’s nonsense, obviously there’s an increased probability with strict causation between being around guns and getting shot.

    If you’re in a place where legal gun owners are, and where illegal gun owners are unlikely to be (or at least unlikely to cause problems in)

    You seem to be pretending that “good guys with guns deter bad guys with guns”. I invite you to provide any source that backs this up. This is an American myth, and from outside it’s obvious that the presence of “good guys” with guns just make the criminal elements more likely to arm themselves. It also is increasingly obvious that a very large portion of the self proclaimed good guys are in fact also bad people just itching for an excuse.











  • This is exactly what happens. Actually the whole Wayland/xorg thing is not necessary, simply exiting a Wayland session and starting a new one will probably have the same effect, might depend on compositor. But it doesn’t help knowing that it’s the cause, I’ve known it for years, no closer to a solution. Obviously closing the tmux session and starting over is a “fix” in the same way that turning the machine off and on again is a fix. Kinda defeats the purpose of persistent tmux sessions.