@mister914 gun culture is no excuse. the point would be to set a strong, sharp norm. if you let your kids have access to firearms, you are responsible for what they do with them. even if a kid seems super sane and responsible, it is your duty to regulate and supervise their use. 1/
@mister914 if you don’t think you can do that, don’t let them access and use firearms. it’s not too big an ask. if a kid gets access to firearms without - parent’s knowledge, despite exercising reasonable care to prevent that, a parent would not be liable. but as a parent, you have certain duties, and regulation of firearm access and use would be far from the most burdensome. 2/
@mister914 will there be sad cases where nice well-meaning people go to jail for what their kid did? yes, just like nice well-meaning people go to jail for drunk driving. like with drunk driving, you have to balance the harm of punishment against the harms that result from failing to deter. in both cases, i think the harms that result from failing to deter overwhelm the harm of punishing people who have in fact done something wrong but still intended and meant no harm. /fin
whatever else might happen this election, we should all take some solace that #RichardHanania has finally fallen in love. with a black woman. who had that on their bingo card? the film, a kind of coming of age, will be so inspiring. a bit bittersweet, as she’s already taken. https://x.com/richardhanania/status/1832537875369619559
@marick (it’s interesting just who it is complaining about the tactic of playing up “censorship” now.)
it seems like the more the Harris campaign wins endorsement of high-profile ex-Republicans, the worse it does in the polls. hmmm.
@magicalthinking biologically i think they’d remain quite similar, they’d not evolve if life support was sufficient to ensure almost everybody lives through reproductive age, but yeah culturally linguistically etc i suspect we’d find them pretty weird. that stuff diverges very quickly.
“this is the new playbook for many on the right. They make provocative statements in hopes of generating objections, and then they cite those objections as proof that no one is allowed to have the conversation. I guess they think you're too stupid to see that the objections are themselves part of the conversation.” https://x.com/sethdillon/status/1832596724919021876
@magicalthinking i mean a small number of people each generation cramped together experiencing similar lives under common governance over tens of thousands of years would become what we call “homogeneous” for sure.
@magicalthinking i’m a bit skeptical it would be that, um, fun. i mean, yeah everything would be recycled so cannibalism in that sense, but i doubt on the generation ship they just eat grandpa. i’m not sure why gender swapping would be adaptive, though i can see wanting technologies like cloning or artificial wombs. bug eating, well, even on Earth we’re likely to source protein that way, but i suspect it’ll mostly take shape as obscurely worded ingredients in processed foods.
@magicalthinking less hopeful when you put it that way…
sometimes i am hopeful they will finally discover Galt’s Gulch on Mars.
there was this guy who worked at Eli Lilly — his job was to come up with the science-ey but somehow catchy names they attach to their blockbuster drugs — and well, he had a crush on this coworker Alice, whenever he even saw her he got really turned on.
q: what do you call a teeny tiny sword fight?
a: a war of awl against awl.
@mister914 you think it’s fine that patents knowingly put firearms in the hands of kids, without supervising and controlling what they do with those firearms? i mean, yeah, the US is too carceral, but whatever the overall level, as misdeeds go, i’d put this pretty high on the list.
@ike we have to make gun owners’ properly liable first!
@admitsWrongIfProven i’m all for criminalizing unsafe storage of weapons, but often we don’t have visibility into people’s living rooms. when someone actually does get shot, i do hope we’ll criminalize what led to that as well.
“[T]oo much attention in the 1950s was paid to Democrats trying not to appear soft on communism, and too little attention to Republicans accepting most of the acquis of the New Deal in return for safety of private property.” #BrankoMilanovic https://glineq.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-end-of-great-order-under-heaven.html
Screenshot of text: As Gerstle writes, too much attention in the 1950s was paid to Democrats trying not to appear soft on communism, and too little attention to Republicans accepting most of the acquis of the New Deal in return for safety of private property. (“The threat of international communism made possible the transition of the New Deal from political movement to political order and ensured its dominance in American life for 30 years”, p. 46). With the declining appeal of communism and then its eventual fall, there was much less need to acquiesce to labor’s demands. Labor had nowhere to go, or dream that it could go, or threaten to go. Reagan’s firing of thousands of air-controllers was the opening salvo of the war on labor. (Globalization and outsourcing to China might have been the second.) This argument is worth making, but is not new.
“There are four types of mens rea, acting purposely, acting knowingly, acting recklessly, and acting negligently.” https://www.grievelaw.com/WICriminalProcess/Sentencing/MensRea
I wonder if really strict parental liability would be a form of gun control we could actually pass at a national level. Even red jurisdictions seem to be evolving their way towards it.
@stubby Alas, H&R Block’s “Premium & Business” is also Windows only. Like TurboTax, they have desktop versions of their personal/sole-proprietorship softwares on Mac, but not if you operate a partnership/LLC/S-corp.
Screenshot of tech specs of H&R Block “Premium & Business” desktop tax prep product, showing a Windows-only requirement.