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  • I practice safe handling with the handheld barcode scanners at the hardware store checkout.

    • Do not point the scanner at anything you do not intend to scan.

    • Keep your finger away from the trigger until you’re ready to scan.

    • Be aware of your surroundings including what is behind your target.

    I would extend it to any gunlike, or vaguely gun shaped object, even those that cannot cause harm. Don’t become complacent with safety practices even when it doesn’t matter.


  • Its important to follow evidence based medicine rather than eminence based medicine. Respected organizations get it wrong sometimes, in fact being wrong is an important part of the research process.

    Cutting edge research is research into areas that are not well studied. Future studies will the confirm or refute those findings. It’s only when enough research has been done, and the field is no longer cutting edge, that we can really be certain of the results.

    The gold standard for evidence are meta analyses which look at the totality of research on the topic. They will look at every study and trial done and draw conclusions on that basis. If one of those says something, its probably true and you should trust it.

    I should remind you that the paper that started the modern anti-vaccine movement was published in The Lancet, one of the most respected British medical journals. A fraudstser, con artist, and then licenced doctor tried to cash in on the reputation of his employer and status. The result is the persistent lie that vaccines cause autism that we are still dealing with today over 25 years later.

    You have to learn levels of evidence and analyse information on a case by case basis. Eminence counts for little. There are no shortcuts.



  • I see no issues here. These AI tools came out during the game’s development. Its not unreasonable to try using new tools upon release. And its reasonable to be unaware of the harms of these new tools before the harms are widely reported on.

    If things were as described, this seems fine. They now have a clear policy against AI. People, even in groups can be mistaken and learn and change their ways, which is what appears to have happened here. I can’t fault anyone for making the occasional misstep.

    So long as they stick to their commitment to not use AI.

    Not only is AI bad it is also bad —


  • It not a known carcinogen. It is in group 2B from the IARC, labeled as possibly carcinogenic. There is some evidence that it might cause cancer, but not enough to say with certainty.

    The scale is based on levels of evidence, not severity. Group 1 known carcinogens includes many things from Plutonium to alcohol and processed meat. Rankings are by evidence, not dosage.



  • You can only feel what it feels like to be you, and since you’ve only ever been yourself you have no point of comparison.

    I don’t think gender feels like anything. I am trans, I have been both a man and a woman and in my experience they don’t feel different. In this moment I feel like myself, just as I did a decade ago.

    The things that have changed is that I no longer suffer from a crippling depression with an unclear cause. I have a range of emotions, and can feel emotions correctly. I consider my body to be part of myself.

    All the above are now clearly signs of gender dysphoria, but at the time were hard to identify. The depression always has a more plausible explanation. The other two, I barely noticed I had because I experienced that my entire life.

    It took me a very long time to discover that I am trans. It took a lot of self reflection to figure it out. Feelings were useless. I did think I would be happier as a woman, but that always seemed more of a logical deduction than a feeling.








  • Yes, its a deliberate choice.

    Dishonored is a descendant of the looking glass studio, 0451 immersive sim games, such as Deus Ex. These are games have flexibility, they let you choose how you approach. You can fight, or you can sneak, or you can do both. The game succeeds on this goal, as you can have a very satisfying time with the combat or the stealth, and you can do both. You can fight your way out of failing to sneak.

    The morality system gives the game reactions to your actions, gives your choices an effect outside of the level you’re currently on. It does encourage a specific play style but that is deliberate. The outsider is a malevolent force, who doesn’t care for this world. He gives you these powers that come with a cost. Getting the good ending requires to resist the temptation. That’s the point.



  • Copyrights don’t last perpetually, and the bible is old enough to be public domain. Newer translations and editions can be under copyright but the underlying work is public domain.

    Copyright purportedly exists to promote the sciences and useful arts. Historical scholarship, and the research into old manuscripts in making a new edition of any old work does have value, and does entitle you to a copyright. However, scholarly editions generally have a shorter term than original works.

    The bible is public domain, but there are copyrighted editions. The same can be said for most historical works of note. There are copyrighted editions of Beethoven’s symphonies, Shakespeare’s plays, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s books, despite the original works being public domain.

    I don’t think copyrights are evidence for or against the existence of any god, or the validity of any religion. The fact that there are copyrighted editions means there is interest in studying the texts, which is true for every extant religion.


  • I configured my previous PC that way. I set it up that way during installation. I put /home on the HDD, and everything else on the SSD. This meant that files just go to the right drive by default.

    I did have to create a folder on the SSD and change the permissions so steam could put games there. Steam does not have root admin access.

    This is an advanced configuration, but you can manage it. Since its during installation, you’re wiping the disks so there’s little risk in trying it again if you don’t get it right on the first try. Linux Mint’s installer has the tools and instructions on how to do this.

    The directory structure on Linux works very differently from windows. Things can be linked and everything is a file, and the location of something in the directory structure doesn’t match the hardware its on.

    / is the root directory of the system. /home is where all your files are stored. Select “something else” during the Mint installation and manually set up partitions, to put / on the SSD, and /home on the HDD and it should just work.