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Keep up the good work :)

Username doesn't check out, thats definitely an improvement right here ;)

~~fake and gay~~ hopefully true and trans (and based af)

Homoioteleuta sure are a beautiful thing.

So: All of the valid criticisms of easily available weapons remain valid, it is just unfortunate that in this less-than-ideal world we're inhabiting where guns are readily available, the good people don't have them. Maybe being a good person just correlates with not liking weapons designed for murder all that much on average...

Honestly, left leaning people (like myself) currently saying stuff remotely pro self defense using guns is more an expression of hope of arguably evil people (read: ICE) being shot than actual belief that this is likely to happen on a broad-scale.

This is for at least these two reasons:

1. For a variety of reasons, minority groups that could currently have use for guns for legitimate self defense are the ones who overwhelmingly do not have guns. As someone from a country with sane gun laws, I consider it relatively straightforward that having more guns is not the solution to this, also, see 2.
2. Shooting someone from the government coming to kidnap you will not really prevent you from being kidnapped for longer than a few hours, maybe days. The state out-arms you as an individual significantly (which arguably is not a bad thing), and this has been the case for over a hundred years now. Meaning: the actual effectiveness of guns for self defense against state violence is near zero for the individual.

On a systemic level, it would however improve the status quo if there were notable risk for ICE agents to kidnapping people, i.e. being shot. This is probably not gonna happen for the aforementioned reasons. You can (and we do) still have hope though.

For your personal use, you probably shouldn't get an "AI" GPU. If you start needing a terrabyte of VRAM and heat, space, and energy start getting real problems, reconsider. Even if you need more VRAM than the best gaming GPU (i.e. 5090...), it will be cheaper to get multiple gaming GPUs and use them as a cluster (you will take a performance hit though).

Fedora Silverblue (GNOME), absolute stability with modern software. Distrobox for non-flatpaks or Dev environments. My choice.

Racism is still bad, glad to hear from a judge in these times.

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