Interesting. Here the license has gotten steadily harder to get. I’m sure there are connections: drivers schools, traffic authority, grift, etc, but the fact is that it’s a bit of a hurdle for many.

Prices for these types of exams are fixed, and not particularly expensive. You aren’t getting therapy, you are being screened for obvious things. Usually less than 30 min. That time does let you find the glaring stuff.

Ehem. Brother.

Where I live, in Europe, you CAN own firearms. Long guns pretty easily, as they are considered hunting/sporting guns, including semi-auto assault rifles, albeit, with 3 round magazines. Buying or even 3D printing larger ones is trivial, but it’s a felony to have one near the gun (same range/car/house…).

Long gun licenses require a medical, which includes a basic psych eval.

Handguns require a stricter medical, with a more detailed psych eval, and a course which includes gun safety, and legislation, among other things.

Except for some rare exceptions (jewelers, judges, and other people that can objectively be considered a target for assault or retaliation) you cannot carry, open or otherwise, except to go to a range, or hunting ground, and the gun and munitions must be separated; guns in a case in the trunk, with the magazine and munitions in the front of the car.

I don’t get why there isn’t a reasonable license for guns in the US. There is for cars, no?

And sadly, the highest percentage is within a family.

At the rate this is going, you may be saying this seriously soon

Yeah, but you don’t go as far as rejecting having your name added to the Trump Kennedy center.

I installed in my(old but very good) car a surprisingly nice sounding stereo unit, very inexpensive, like 30€.

The unit has no cassette or CD. It does have a micro Sd slot, two USB, one is charge only, for phones, and the other for storage. It has a remote. Physical buttons and a multi modal knob.

My phone has 512Gb of storage, and I almost never use streaming services.

I imagine your phone notifies you of texts, anyway, no?

My phone is jailbroken (rooted, Android).

Unless I discover a deeply hidden part of me, it’s highly unlikely that I’d get a grinder notification.

Anyway, you won’t get that notification I the ipod, but you will in your phone.

I’m actually restoring a Motorola Startac phone for my son, but there is no pretense of usability there, (except battery life), it’s simply for the cool factor.

True. That’s why I started the comment with “I”.

I was thinking about doing this, getting a storage constrained, apple constrained, obsolete piece of hardware, to do what the phone I already carry does better.

Oh, wait!

And often not even haptic.

Windows 8 .1 was effectively Windows 9.

Which will create a labor boom, to operate the robots, a la Tesla

Haaretz reports that 82% of Israelis support the expulsión of Palestinians from Gaza, so yeah, fuck Israel AND Israelis.

Nazi Germany had millions of smart people supporting the world domination effort.

Where does smart=decent?

I my case, I use a 5 year old Xiaomi flagship, that still runs like a charm, and has a 1.5-2 day battery life. That means that having this phone has meant a 250% reduction in ewaste if we use the 24 month cycle average for the industry.

What is it that you people don’t understand about “The right’s right to bear arms shall not be infringed”?

Maybe you should take a course to read good.

Yeah, but, but…A Tan Suit!

Yeah. A crushing defeat in midterms is a better outcome. Also, if some republican senators and congrespeople figured that they can save their asses by opposing Trump, those from tariff ravaged states, for example, he could even be impeached.