Encrypt-Keeper

It’s always been weird to me as someone who isn’t an engineer in degree or title why those with degrees in engineering think people shouldn’t use an accurately descriptive word like engineer when it’s perfectly appropriate just because it’s a little to close to the title of their licensed profession.

Engineer is a verb, to devise or contrive something. Simply, to design a construct. A programmer by definition engineers a program and is therefore by the rules of the English language, an engineer.

They may not be a Licensed Professional Engineer, but an Engineer they remain.

Yyyyup. Evidently our Catholic president is attacking Christianity, according to them.

Sounds accurate to the east coast from NYC to Florida. Is it better out west?

If Jesus really turned water into wine then what would you call that if not alchemy?

Take a trip to PA, all the grocery and convenience stores have added seating areas so that they can legally sell beer and wine lmao.

The same publishing company (but different development studio) recently released a simplified, licensed Star Trek game built on the Stellaris Engine.

It’s a little rough around the edges right now but it’s an official Star Trek title and it’s much easier to get into than Stellaris, and it’s currently on sale for $20

The validity of your comment really depends on which movie franchise you’re referencing

Buddy I think it’s time to talk to your wife.

Which one of the three do you have?

Were those assault weapons as easily aquirable then as it is now?

A lot more easy as a matter of fact. All the stores stuffed with guns now were just as stuffed with them back then, if not more so, and it was easier AND faster to get them into your hands. I mean you’re casually calling a semiautomatic AR-15 an “assault weapon” because it LOOKS like a military gun. But prior to 1986 you could just go and buy a fully automatic machine gun that also FUNCTIONED like a military gun. I mean there was a point in time in American History where you could order a rifle in a paper catalogue.

You could argue that we’re not doing enough to prevent guns from entering the hands of mass shooters, but we are doing more than we ever have before and yet it’s worse than it’s ever been before. At the end of the day guns are a tool used in these crimes that can and do make their execution far more bloody and deadly and something should be done to minimize that as much as reasonably possible, but they aren’t at all the cause.

Well OP is framing the entire timeframe as 200 years but he also specifies the last 30. So 35, 40, 45, 60, 100 years ago are all still more relevant than over 200 years ago.

The point he’s making is that the title asks what changed to make mass shootings more commons “in the last 30 years” and you answered it by blaming the difference between guns today and guns 250 years ago, so he pointed out that there was at least a 30 year period where the guns of today were available and yet the mass shooting problem of today didn’t exist (1960-1990).

That would mean that the cause of mass shootings today isn’t necessarily because we evolved beyond the musket.

…is it though? “Creating sentience” is the simpler of those two things? You could feed enough Medical journals and protocol into ChatGPT that it could probably do a better job at making medical decisions than at least one human doctor out there in the world. But we can’t just tell ChatGPT that it’s sentient and have that work lol.

Dang serialized TV where everything has to go back to normal after every episode got to him.

People from Canada, Mexico and South America are not technically “Americans” because none of them have “America” in the name of their country, whereas we do. In fact, it’s the only word in the name of our country that uniquely identifies us. We’re just called Americans because it’s realistically the only name we could have. If other countries that already have their own names take issue with that, they should have done something about it before we chose the name United States of America.

I’m sure it was a direct reference.

Yes clunky, unintuitive social media platforms did just fine back when they were all equally immature, clunky and unintuitive. But social media has changed a lot in the past 20 years and it’s grown to be more intuitive, usable, and relatively frictionless to adopt.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect every Tom Dick and Harry who are used to modern social media platforms built on decades of improvements to form and function, to just dive in head first to an experience that rivals the social media of a bygone era.

Even if you can figure it out, it’s still just unintuitive and a hassle. Theres a lot of friction and friction is the enemy of adoption. I’m a datacenter engineer and despite know exactly how Mastodon works it would just be too much time and effort to get the content flowing. I setup my account, figured I’d get around to it and never did. I wouldn’t blame any average person for just not feeling. Like putting in the effort.

The only reason I’m on Lemmy because I followed specific subreddits here so I didn’t need to go looking for anything.