So either she did and TSA didn’t care, it she didn’t and they blundered.

I haven’t found a story yet that says whether the firearm was in a checked bag or a carry-on and that really matters. If it was a carry-on then the TSA utterly failed. If it was checked baggage though then she likely followed the correct US process but took a gun to a country that didn’t allow it and Australian customs caught it as they were doing the luggage scan.

Despite what you may think it IS possible to legally take firearms to other countries assuming you follow the process and the law at your destination. For example there’s gobs of people from all over the world that fly into Colorado, Wyoming, and Alaska every fall with their hunting rifles. It’s also possible, although difficult, to bring firearms into Australia.

Ultimately the TSA would have no definitive way to know whether or not she was actually allowed to bring the pistol to Australia, all they can reasonably do is make sure that it’s stored safely and out of reach. The rest of it is on the person traveling.

This is one reason Western nations ripped out Chinese 5G network appliances a couple years ago.

They were supposed to but here in the US as of mid-2024 some 40% of them hadn’t yet done so. I wonder how far the RotW has gotten with it.

I haven’t seen it discussed but I do wonder if this is at the root of the Telco hack the US experienced / is still experiencing.

Edit: The EU nations are very much a mixed bag and some of the largest EU countries, such as Germany, not only still have Huawei gear in their 5G networks but it doesn’t have to be removed until the end of 2026!

Assad was a butcher and however he was overthrown it’s a net positive for the people of Syria.

This is my use case and experience as well.

Habits in general have nothing to do with “productive workers”. Literal children in socialist societies can care about their habits such as brushing their teeth or being to the breakfast table on time. A teen may consciously decide to install in themselves a habit of reading one chapter of a book every day. A new religious convert may work to create a habit of praying 3 times a day.

People, even children, can also decide to work to unlearn habits. The new atheist that works to stop praying 3 times a day, the dad who decides to stop the “bad habit” of smoking, the child who stops the habit of bugging their parents for a toy every time they are at the store.

So I think you need to back up and work out why you believe habits, good or bad, only relate to work as it doesn’t seem to be true.

Windows 10 installs are GROWING while Windows 11 are actually shrinking.

As someone whose been in the industry a long time I promise you that is not going to last. Starting in January the number of Windows 11 installations will start rising quickly while Windows 10s starts dropping off just as fast. With W10 going EoL in October anyone in a regulated industry will be forced to switch to a supported OS.

Yes I’m aware that you can hop to W10 LTSC for $30 but that is absolutely not going to change much since PC hardware from 2019/2020 is at or near EoL, both physically and from an accounting perspective, so it needs replacing anyway and that new hardware will come with Windows 11.

They are not the same as a comment that I just read that says, and I quote, “Yes we’ve had first CEO assassination but how about a Second?”

If you think they are the same then you are part of the problem.

Of course I have but that’s not what you were referencing in the comment I replied too, nor was it what my reply was about.

I get it, truly I do…just…keep it in bounds please. The instance you are using is self-funded and run by volunteers, please remember that.

Of course they are, them doing so was never in doubt. They’re running on Venture Capital and sooner or later the investors want their money back. Bluesky has to figure out how to do that and transition their users into to before they run out of money.

Please don’t show up in our modlog. I know I speak for all of the Admins at lemmy.today when I say that we don’t want to get involved in this shit.

You can advocate for violence against the poor and minorities all day on here.

Where? Seriously, where is this happening? I’m all over lemmy and any time I see a direct call for someone, anyone, else to die that comment is removed quickly and often the commenter is banned.

So give me specific instances, prove your claim.

That’s simple enough, create a process where CO2 is removed from the air and turned into oil. The chemistry of the individual steps is already known and achievable, the hard part is the energy input required to make it work.

Edit: Okay so I typed the reply and then went and read the paper. Turns out that what I described is kinda-sorta what they’ve done, although it’s certainly not a finished or industrially viable process at this point.

If this happens to two or three more CEOs over the next couple of months, they’ll change their position on gun control,

Say what? Nearly every CEO who is willing to talk about firearms is already pushing for more Gun Control with both their words and their money. The obvious exceptions are of course Firearm CEOs and maybe Elon Musk.

Seriously, have you ever looked at whose funding all of the Gun Control efforts and Politicians in this country? It’s a veritable whose who of Democrat Billionaires and CEOs.

Okay I snorted out loud at that one. That WOULD be a surprise!

Hold onto your socks, because here we gooooo…

probably longer than the life of the car.

It’s not beyond imagining that the “life” of an EV could soon be measured in decades. Vehicles made with all aluminum uni-body construction won’t rust away and without a combustion engine and it’s required transmission all that’s left is the wheel assemblies, interior parts and electronics.

So not only “what is the life of the car” but also who cares if the battery pack costs $5,000 (or more) to replace when you can expect the vehicle as a whole to last another 20, 30, or even 40 years?

Auto manufacturers go out of their minds with worry when considering a future where people aren’t buying replacement vehicles every few years.

Intel’s 5 series GPUs are meant for the low-middle to middle range of the market. They are targeted at 1440p (and under) gaming and the B580 with 12G of VRAM will almost certainly perform perfectly fine.

If you are more concerned about performance but are on a budget then wait for the eventual 7 series ARC GPU or grab a 4060ti.

Trump has been saying he was going to block this deal since early in his campaign. The Biden Administration was / is going to block it as well. The United Steelworkers Union has publicly said that it wants it blocked.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/business/trump-block-us-nippon-steel-hnk-intl/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

So WTF is all of this hubbub about? What’s happening here is absolutely no surprise at all.

here’s no way the US would fail to gain air superiority.

We achieve Air Superiority and then use that to build a McDonalds and a Starbucks on every street corner. It’s a perfect plan!