thallamabond

Dealers, by and large, were NOT being held accountable

More than half of all stores with violations transferred guns without running a background check correctly, waiting for the check to finish or properly recording the results. More than 200 dealers were cited for selling guns to people who indicated on background check paperwork that they were prohibited from owning them. Dozens made false statements in official records, a violation that includes facilitating illegal straw purchases.

A Florida gun dealer got in trouble for giving a Taurus handgun to a convicted felon in the parking lot and an Arkansas pawn shop was cited for selling a firearm to a customer even though he’d failed the background check because of an active restraining order. In Ohio, one store transferred guns without conducting background checks 112 times; another was missing some 600 firearms. A Pennsylvania gun retailer racked up 45 violations and received eight warnings from the ATF. But the store was allowed to remain in business, and went on to sell a shotgun to a man who used it to kill four family members, including his 7-year-old half-brother.

and then...

A single violation is enough to shutter a gun shop if ATF officials can prove that the store willfully broke federal regulations. In the vast majority of the cases analyzed by The Trace and USA TODAY, the ATF gave violators the lightest penalty available: a boilerplate warning letter reminding them that their compliance is critical to “reduce violent crime and protect the public.” The agency revoked a gun dealer’s license in less than 3 percent of cases.

https://www.thetrace.org/2021/05/atf-inspection-report-gun-store-ffl-violation/

Not "Completely", but they are trying.

The Last Screenwriter

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32236000/

"Featured Review" is telling.

Cancel-culture mob missed the point. Shame on the cinemas who cancelled the screening because whinging mobs shook their fists.

First of all, the movie is non-profit. Secondly, it was made by a real human crew and real actors.

It was clever to get ChatGPT to write a film script about a screenwriter who feels his job is threatened by AI's superior writing ability. How can anyone not be curious to watch this movie?

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Ultimately, the script lacks any real punch or decent plot twists or narrative layering that we humans love about film. It doesn't go anywhere you wouldn't predict.

emphasis mine.

Busted: 62 members of Congress caught breaking the law

https://www.rawstory.com/congress-stock/

The first is the case of Senator John Fetterman, who committed 31 STOCK Act violations with stock trades involving his children, while others were made in companies he directly oversees.

https://finbold.com/heres-how-many-times-congress-violated-stock-act-since-new-bill-was-advanced/

Barely going to get a fine. This happens daily in congress.

Why go through the effort to put 0 population Heard Island and McDonald Islands?

Pollution remediation banned terms runoff, membrane filtration, microplastics, water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, groundwater pollution, pollution remediation, pollution abatement, sediment remediation, contaminants of environmental concern, CEC, PFAS, PFOA, PCB, nonpoint source pollution

What a massive gift to the worst people

I will not disagree, "just changed" is doing some heavy lifting.

My only point with the graph was to show manufacturing in the US is near an all time high.

It is important to know that US manufacturing never 'went away' it just changed.

Productivity and automation have taken more jobs than them moving overseas.

US manufacturing output for the last 100 years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2583/industrial-production-historical-chart

Giving water to someone waiting in line to vote is a crime in Georgia.

and yet...

Elon Musk has given out $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-handout_n_67ea06a7e4b0893d7b5b1e4d

I'll always respect him for slamming Andy Dick's head against that bar.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2007/07/18/comics-feud-takes-bloody-turn/

Don't forget desquamation (skin peeling)!

Pentagon-wide advisory sent to staffers on March 18 — less than a week before the screwup went public — explicitly warned against using Signal for any sharing of information, classified or not.

The advisory claimed that a "vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," and that Russian hacking groups were "targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest" (a Signal spokesperson told NPR that the company wasn't "aware of any vulnerabilities or supposed ones that we haven't addressed publicly.")

https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-issued-warning-signal-messaging

Educated people do not become fascists.