Rep. Tony Lovasco, a Republican from the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon. “Generally speaking, we don’t charge people with crimes because we think they’re going to hurt someone.”

Too much to unpack here.

Define “done”.

On mobile, when everyone was releasing their new voice assistant technologies, Cortana outperformed them all. On desktop I agree that Cortana was a waste of space.

I’ve been a MS products fan since Windows Phone, Cortana, and OneNote stole my heart. I loved the great features that Windows 10 and Edge provided out-of-the box. Bing provided better results than Google for some time.

But Phone was never accepted by the market, and with it, Cortana faded away. OneNote hasn’t kept up with the market, and they somehow broke the cursor on mobile. Sticky Notes lost compatibility with Dark Mode. They started pushing ads to Windows start menu, and embedded ads in Edge Collections.

Microsoft makes great software, then fuck it all up. Oh well, back to Linux.

Yes. I think it’s especially important for attracting (or perhaps more accurately, maintaining) new users to the fediverse.

Like I said your original request (statistics of “legal” CCW permit holder, without premeditation, discharging a firearm, in California) is incredibly specific, making it very difficult to find quality research. But here’s what I was able to find for you:

Johns Hopkins has this: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/study-finds-significant-increase-in-firearm-assaults-in-states-that-relaxed-conceal-carry-permit-restrictions

This one includes some good details as to why these studies are challenging, and what causes errors in the data: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/concealed-carry/violent-crime.html

Here’s a summary from GVPedia (note the sources in the footnotes): https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GVPedia-Permitless-Carry-Factsheet-Feb2022.pdf

Hopes this helps.

PRI is a right-wing political policy advocacy group. Do you have a nonpartisan source?

I have no idea, that’s a very specific and difficult statistic to try and research. Do you have the answer?

hmmm. Sounds like something an insurrectionist would say.

Jesus Christ.

You lost me with all the ads baked into the OS. You’re not gonna win me back with… checks notes Notepad.

He’s a hero /s

Commodore 64 joystick.

Purina had a good one that was pellets made from recycled paper. Think it was called yesterday’s news. I haven’t seen it in my local stores in a while though.

Every accusation is an admission.

Kevin Kline, playing Dave Kovic, playing President Bill Mitchell.

Grays. Sports. Almanac.

I hate 3d movies. They don’t add to the story or the experience. Moreover, I find it distracting.

Dark mode and live widgets.

Edit to add: https://www.howtogeek.com/809114/5-ways-windows-phone-was-ahead-of-its-time/

Windows phone was the best phone OS I ever experienced. Features were years ahead of iOS and Android.