That is a Swedish Ak5… They are being replaced with the Ak6.

A question I have is once you are a billionaire, why do you need more money?

What is there left that you can’t buy?

Ok but how would a lack of voter secrecy prevent the government from killing people who voted “wrong”?

To me that just seems like it would make it easier.

I am a Swede and have luckily never had to think about these things, if I am being arrogant with my staunch support of voter secrecy, I want to know.

I thought we had decided on Space Karen

Fines in general should use the day fine system.

He has the right to be judged by a jury of his peers, and it appears as if his peers agree with his actions.

I got my own place a decade ago, I don’t have a TV, never had.

I just don’t see the point, it just feels restrictive.

I am considering getting a projector though…

No, just no.

The moment voter secrecy is gone, you will have a far, far , far worse situation.

The moment you can verify what a person voted for, then you have opened the door for violence, intimidation and voter bribery.

The point of voter secrecy is to prevent others from being able to force you to vote on your own.

Immagine a wife of a MAGA husband, with voter secrecy she would have the option to hide voting for the Democrts, without it she would be able to be forced by her husband to vote for the republicans.

This is simply because he would be able to verify her vote, with voter secrecy he has to trust her. (Obviously there are ways he still could come close to verifying her vote, but there remains options for her)

While I like odd scenarios, this would be completely impossible to enforce, for one specific reason.

Anything can be a writing implement, it is simply not possible to ban writing as a concept.

You would need to ban litteracy to do that, and that would quickly ruin any country stupid enough to implement a rule like that.

I can absolutely see banning the printing press, xerox machine, and even a normal printer as they all quickly amplifies the message at a low cost, but normal pen/paper has too many uses and are too easy to make to effectivly ban.

I don’t remember a lot of toilet humor in B1, B2 or BTPS, it was a very childish humor with SOME toilet humor, I think just moving back to the sarcastic/frustrated slightly immature humor of B2 would do wonders for the series.

I have basically just played through B3 after grinding B1, B2 and BTPS, and the humour takes an absolute nosedive in B3.

Also B3’s UI is terrible

Borderlands 1 was a bit too slow both with the gameplay and the humor, this is obviously understandable due to it being the first game.

Borderlands 2 had humor that was really, really perfectly on the edge, the story was a classic freedom fighter story set in a bizarre sarcastic universe.

Borderlands TPS kept going with the same type of humor that B2 had but added a lot of fun backstory to Jack and the loaders/constructors.

Borderlands 3 took it too far with the toilet humor, and the whole social media storyline. At times it felt as if I was acting out a scene rather than playing a hero. Oh and I absolutely hated Vaughn.

It is also the fashion…

I often run the WTYP podcast videos in the background.

Back when I used to frequent What Could Go Wrong on reddit I normally had the sound muted.

Some

I disagree, from what I have seen, the vast majority of people are empathic, we just focus on those who are not

Yeah, without empathy our current society would never have had existed, sadly greed is often more powerful once basic needs and safety are met.

CEOs of publicly traded companies doesn’t have the option to show empathy, they are there to maximize the company value for the shareholders.

Going against that would be a crime.

This is not an excuse for not doing it, this is an explanation of a faulty system.

Insurance companies should not have shareholders.

Luckily waste storage is a solved problem.

Drill hole in bedrock, put waste in hole, backfill with clay.

Most of our power generations comes from “make water hot, hot water boils into steam, steam spins magnet”

Nuclear power is just a different source of heat.

Ah, yeah, I have read about that, I do feel a bir hesitant to use BTRFS so I didn’t think about that.

The Linux machines I have worked with all ran ext3/4 or xfs.

To be completely fair, I never gave BTRFS a proper chance, at first because it felt too new and unstable when I heard about it, and later I heard that it was developed by Facebook and let my distaste for that company color my perceptions of btrfs.

But I just checked the wikipedia article and saw that plenty of reputable oranizations have worked on btrfs, so I guess I’ll get it a go when I build a NAS…

Thanks for reminding me of it, I may get set in my ways from time to time but I do genuinely try to learn and change my way of thinking.