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Bake 'em away, toys.

They're about 2% better at being a telephone IVR than the older ones, probably at 6x the power cost.

I had an AI render a simple diagram for a presentation with explicit instructions. It rendered a Rube Goldberg nonsense graphic. I included it anyway for the lulz. Sure, they will get better, and maybe some day be almost as useful as the Enterprise computer. No way they'll be Lt. Cmdr. Data this century.

What an aimless waste of compute, all because these moronic tech companies believe people have a want or need to book a hotel by talking to a graphics card.

Some are, some aren't. Until it personally impacts them daily, many probably won't connect the dots.

Wasting taxpayer dollars on a technology that doesn't work to accomplish nothing useful. Think we found that fraud, waste, and abuse they've been looking for.

Starting in July, CCW training laws are changing, including requiring re-training for all renewals. That seems a bit different, most licenses in the US like car, ham radio, etc. don't require re-training.

Putting the certification courses on the back of CPW will also remove funding from the "Parks and Wildlife" part of CPW, which is arguably more important given how often Colorado is a tinderbox these days, and we want our CPW folks managing the parks and wildlife.

Polis said on some TV blurb that they'll make a money program for those too poor to afford the classes to not make this a tax on the poors, and that they'd hope to cap the classes at "under" $200 to keep them affordable. To add an extra layer of complexity on a layer of complexity.

Training is good, full stop. However, they could have chosen a different tack, this all seems rushed and ill-thought-out.

https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_003_enr.pdf

Seems that is ok, time to Rube Goldberg a giant magazine tube.

A FIREARM THAT HAS A PERMANENTLY FIXED MAGAZINE THAT CANNOT ACCEPT MORE THAN FIFTEEN ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION , INCLUDING A SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARM THAT HAS BEEN CONVERTED TO HAVE A PERMANENTLY FIXED MAGAZINE THAT CANNOT ACCEPT MORE THAN FIFTEEN ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION;

What seems really dubious is their "Gas-operated vs not" section for handguns.

Banned:

(c) "GAS - OPERATED SEMIAUTOMATIC HANDGUN " MEANS ANY SEMIAUTOMATIC HANDGUN THAT HARNESSES OR TRAPS A PORTION OF THE HIGH- PRESSURE GAS FROM A FIRED CARTRIDGE TO CYCLE THE ACTION USING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

Not banned:

A SINGLE OR DOUBLE ACTION SEMIAUTOMATIC HANDGUN THAT USES RECOIL TO CYCLE THE ACTION OF THE HANDGUN ;

Seems it would be incredibly easy for them to go, "oh yeah, none of them use recoil," as recoil is a late phase created by the gas discharge on every semiauto. Gas discharge blows the slide back (gas operated), then casing is ejected, spring pulls slide forward while another spring pushes the next round in place. The whole principle of all firearms is to use the exploding gas to make a bullet go one way, and gun parts go another, which would limit pistols to revolvers.

Colorado already lost Magpul and other sources of revenue to the last attempt at this, and it did nothing to stop shootings.

The timing is just the ass end of asinine too. Colorado is supposed to be a bastion of freedom in the middle of a sea of backwards red states, instead we're speed-running authoritarianism as fast as we can while the nation collapses into Fascism.

Doesn't help that Polis has no spine, even though as a gay Jewish man with a family, one would think he should be at the forefront of not letting history repeat.

Especially given that some of the Fascists' planning involves disarming the nation.

I remember seeing "green" crap back in the 90s and early aughts that were always going, "See, we take this plastic bottle, and grind it up into bits, then we combine it with some other stuff, mix in some asphalt, and presto, new road surface! New playground turf! Transform plasic into new plastic for all this other stuff!" It was so amazing we could take plastic and recycle it!

Then to find out years later that none of this ever happens. My state was sending bales of plastic to China to be ~~recycled~~ burned in incinerators until it became too expensive in 2018 or so.

It's fun having been lied to for decades, only to find out it was all bullshit the whole time and we weren't even trying to slow the use of plastic.

China won't flinch, they're already working with the EU to bring down tariffs on EVs, and for the first time ever, with Japan and South Korea for trade stuff. The EV tariff setup was a deal we (the US) brokered with the EU originally to starve China out of the market so they didn't become a dominant force in transportation. Now China will be the dominant force on Earth while the US becomes an underfunded backwater country with last-place in everything. Chinese products are already predominant in most countries on the entire planet.

We handed them the solution to the problem they dug themselves into while we starve ourselves out.