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Modern gun control laws started in response to black people arming themselves.

Using the word "modern" lessens the message. Gun Control has always always always been about keeping minorities from arming themselves and the racist trash are still at it today.

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The NRA was suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers started patrolling with guns.

I despise the NRA but this kind of revisionist history needs to be called out.

First off prior to 1977 the NRA had an established history of supporting Gun Control. It didn't suddenly pop into being because of the Black Panthers.

Second when the Mulford Act was passed in 1967 it started a sea change at the NRA that culminated with the "Revolt at Cincinnati" in 1977. The NRA as an organization supported Mulford, like it had other Gun Control legislation for at least 50 years, but it's very clear that their membership did NOT and they took over the organization to keep it from continuing.

Today's NRA is a completely different beast than the one that existed in 1967. It's primary faults are that it got corrupt as fuck and that it's entirely silent whenever there's a conflict between lawful gun owners and law enforcement.

Regardless, the point stands. The NRA wasn't "suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers", it already had multi-decade history of supporting Gun Control.

In the United States the sale of Firearms is regulated by the Federal Government and / or and individual State itself. All NEW firearm sales must go through an FFL. In many places that is also true for used firearms but even where it isn't its STILL one person selling a firearm to someone else.

To make it absolutely clear at no point in any firearms transaction is any normal person purchasing firearms directly from a firearms manufacturer.

In the case of entities, such as a Gun Store / FFL, who can purchase new firearms directly from a manufacturer there's still no direct sales happening and the sale of those firearms is controlled by Federal Law.

So HOW is it the fault of US Firearm Manufacturers when people purchase firearms and traffic them across the southern border?

They better get busy. Even if Republicans don't tilt our economy in the next 6 months we have maybe 2-3 years before we're undertaking very serious austerity measures of our own and at that point it won't matter who is in power. The U.S. will be pulling out of security guarantees all over the globe, including Europe.

Affording the mortgage is one barrier but if someone can't get or stay insured then they can't carry a mortgage no matter how well their personal math works out. That's the problem that Mr. Powell was talking about.

But I guess why settle for good money...

They've been almost completely reliant on money from Google for over a decade. It's a tenuous situation and it's entirely possible that this money will be gone when the Google antitrust lawsuit is done. If Mozilla loses that revenue then it's basically game over for them.

We don't have to like it but Mozilla needs a new way to be funded and the options are limited.

It’s not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that’s not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery.

Yet. I lived through the first browser war (Netscape Navigator vs Internet Explorer) and I'd estimate we're right about the year 2000 ish. At that time both browsers were still active and reasonably well supported but it was clear that IE was going to win and somewhere in the IE6 / IE7 (2004 / 2006) time frame is when the real fuckery started. Since Edge started using Chromium in 2018(ish) we're basically following the same schedule from two decades ago.

Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.

Sadly this is the same thing we said back then too and we (IT & the tech community) pushed hard to get people to leave IE and adopt Chrome.

90% of people and corporations are either using Edge or Chrome and since there's essentially no difference between the two they are equally bad. We're back to a browser mono-culture, just like in the bad old days of Internet Explorer.

The waves of repression and crazy coming off this guy are so thick you can almost see them. I'd bet $100 that this guy will be outed sometime in the next few years.

Couldn’t possibly be all the federal workers getting laid off.

They are certainly part of it but there's a very long chain of organizations, many of which aren't obvious to most people, supported by the US Federal Government. Those organizations are swiftly going into preservation mode and seeking to spend as little money as possible by laying off staff and downsizing or cancelling projects. Every one of those layoffs and project changes has negative effects downstream on other businesses, contractors, and services.

The idiots who voted for the current administration have no idea what's coming and how badly its going to hurt them.

The CDC recorded 16 outbreaks in 2024.

Again, RFK Jr is a fucking clown and I wouldn't trust him to watch my dog but technically he's correct here.

RFK Jr is a dumbass but the US has always had measles cases. There were 285 of them last year.

"Eradicated" has a technical meaning and its different than a lay reading.