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I think whether mass shooters are mentally ill is debatable on a case by case basis, some obviously yes, some less obviously.

But what I’m saying is this point is moot because even if 100% of mass shooters are “mentally ill” and that is the driving force behind their culpability the individuals saying “we need better mental health care in this country” in the wake of gun violence are so full of shit and obviously using the topic for misdirection with no intention for meaningful change. This is clearly evidenced by the fact that mental health services have been systematically defunded year after year for decades, very often by the same individuals who clamor the same.

I’m torn on the idea of arming leftists in the current climate. I don’t disagree with you there. I live in a somewhat rural area that is heavy Trump and the right wingers are heavily armed. I don’t blame a trans person for arming themselves to defend themselves in an area like this, and my post history reflects as much.

That said there is a difference between arming yourself and actively contributing to increasing the amount of arms in the world. And what made it interesting is you claimed this is an ethical and moral issue. If your friend worked to only arm leftists that would be an interesting take. I doubt this is the case though. I am assuming they are like any capitalist based on your first line - anyone’s money is good enough.

To answer your question as others have said the hammer has a utilitarian purpose, as do knives, as does dynamite. With the exception of something like skeet shooting guns sole purpose is to rob the consciousness of a living being. I do not believe that the sport outweighs the risk. There are far less dangerous ways to hunt, we’ve banned things like lawn darts for less when the danger outweighs the utility. America just has a raging hard on for guns because of military fetishism

No, I think systemic issues need to be addressed of course. But I think in America, as someone who has worked in mental health for decades, the use of “mental health” in the wake of large scale violence is exclusively a scapegoat because there has almost never been meaningful action behind it. Overwhelmingly in almost (if not) all states since 2008 mental health programs have seen massive budgetary cuts year after year after year.

And this begets the point that “mental health” is a weasel word for treating systemic issues. Frankly even if you increased the budgets of Medicaid and community mental health programs 10 fold I don’t believe mass shootings would be impacted much in terms of rate. The systemic issues that create these conditions - wealth inequality, racism, quality education access, quality healthcare access, etc would essentially all remain and take generations to resolve even if you forced fixes tonight. The rot goes deep. Almost any therapist who works in community mental health programs will tell you that most of their clientele suffer more from lack of resources than mental health disorders

what a stupid mindset. Show me a time someone managed to kill 20-50 people in a span of 15-30 minutes with a bow, let alone a knife, let alone a laymen that didn’t have military training.

As an aside the goal does not have to be to solve the problem definitively. It can be to make the problem markedly better. If mass shootings with body counts in the above turned into mass stabbings, which are obviously traumatic and horrible but typically have fatalities in the single digits (often only 1-2), is that not a tremendous improvement? It is of course still very worthwhile to address systemic factors that lead to violence, but making violence less severe is worthwhile as well.

“He has good morals and ethics”

How could he possibly if he has devoted his life to creating weapons? What’s his response if and when his guns are used for violence, be it murder, suicide, armed robbery, etc? Even if he is “small time” for “enthusiasts” of the “sport” it is only a matter of time until this occurs. How does he reconcile this? That it’s not the guns fault? Just the glamorization of them, the obscene amount of them, the fact that they are readily available, pushing it onto “mental health”, or some other scapegoat that allows him to escape accountability for facilitating mortal violence.

I hope your friend goes out business and his entire industry collapses.

Lost media is a crapshoot. That’s basically like asking for the missing Dr who episodes or that movie about the clown that leads the kids into gas chambers at Auschwitz that Jerry Lewis did. Unless you’re really lucky at some yard sale you’re basically waiting for some industry producer to die and their tech nerd grandchildren to clean out their house and leak cool shit, or someone to finally catalog archives of remote broadcasting stations, or whatever.

Even then it’s still a crapshoot. Missing Dr who episode? Everyone wants those so when they’re found they get the fancy restoration treatment (assuming the person who find it realizes what they have, of course). But controversial shit like the holocaust clown and the sitcom you referenced? There are people who are probably happy to see that stay buried. See: the holocaust clown movie is not actually lost but the people who have copies refuse to archive or it in any meaningful way or exhibit it because they feel it’s tasteless or whatever. Censorship wins, though tbf the movie was described as just kind of shitty by people who saw it.

As for the show you want there is at least one episode leaked online which I assume you’re aware of because it’s all over the place, youtube, internet archive, etc. in addition this guy on youtube claims to have the whole series and appears to prove it by posting the VT clocks, which are preepisode slates used by channel 4. This could be easily faked though. In the comments he describes not wanting to release it in hopes of pursuing a legal means of release in 2017 (his video is posted 2016) which pushes towards fake because that timeline is obscenely short for doing all the licensing nonsense involved in properly releasing a dead show. He’s a corpo bootlicker (straight up says in comments won’t release out of respect for the rights holders, because apparently having your hard work never see the light of day is more respectful than acquiescing to social (likely advertiser) pressure and shelving it).

As far as I can tell that’s the only lead but if his video isn’t faked it suggests the tapes still exist. If this is the case your other avenue would be tape trading, which is this whole other crazy thing. This is really hard to get into because you kind of need to have a source for stuff that is rare and be willing to hoard it, which is shitty. There are people who hoard specifically to deal only with other people who hoard, which is so fucking dumb and it’s like who cares, but they do it. This is a whole thing and it’s hard to get connected with but the easiest inroad is a place like myspleen or forums dedicated to preservation (like the forums about restoring the original Star Wars trilogy, 4k77 and harmy and such). Every once in a while you’ll see people dump a bunch of 35mm scans onto myspleen or rare screeners, shows like this in much higher quality than ever seen, etc. sometimes it’s just a dude being sick and sharing but sometimes it’s one of those tape hoarders realizing that this one has been passed around so much it’s basically worthless and burning it for upload credit (which is functionally worthless on myspleen but w/e). And sometimes it’s someone taking a moral stand or whatever like a year ago or so someone posted like 20 35mm scans that were circulated in those groups but not to torrent normies. But if someone has this show it’s probably one of these nerds and they probably want some rare weird shit in exchange for it, like you have to buy a $2500 35mm print of Halloween 4 and send it to some rando who will clean and scan it professionally

Plenty of people on here who can’t be bothered to read past the first 8 words of a comment because their brain is so rotted by tiktok and browsing reddit by all to only read the headlines.

This only works if minimum wage is enough to guarantee housing, food, healthcare, transportation, internet access, a small degree of entertainment, etc. you know, basic standards of living and not just modern slavery

Person you responded to said av1, I didn’t mean to imply you did. HEVC is good balance and quicksync will handle it as you’ve said. 10th gen stuff will handle 4-5 at the expense of more power (but less than like a typical gpu build).

Last statement you made is critical - usage dictates build

Just as long as you’re fine with your media server absolutely eating power all the time

Stop encoding in av1 and get a low power older intel chip around 10th gen or so with quick sync. Unless you have like 5+ users watching 4k media at the same time this will handle transcoding absolutely fine while using far less power than a dedicated gpu

Fuuuuuck plex

For the past like 5-7 years I’ve said consistently that the second plex took VC money the writing was on the wall and that they would eventually and consistently take actions hostile towards their consumers and doing what they can to both move to SaaS and alienate lifetime pass users as well as distance themselves from their core purpose of sharing collections of pirated media hidden behind the thinly veneered “for tobacco use only” bullshit of “actually you can just rip your own physical media”

Every time I post, whether it’s banning the ability to serve on hetzner, putting ads all over the app and starting to collect data, increasing monetization, etc and talk about how it’s inherently going to continue getting worse plex users inevitably come out of the woodwork to be like “well this is overblown, plex is so good it’s worth getting fucked, jellyfin is slightly harder since it’s not backed by 40 million dollars of devil money that demands endless growth until the product is ruined”

As long as those people who are willing to get walked all over exist, that demand a slightly easier existence over one that serves them, every product and service will continue to get worse and worse while a small group of people get fat off of endless subscriptions

this is like that 4chan greentext about how you can’t watch porn if you’re a fragile straight because straight porn is gay since it has a naked guy and lesbian porn is gay because it’s actually gay

These people are morons but the ones at the top like him are psychotic. They’re purposely trying to get their “followers” isolated from anyone that may soften their views and talk sense into them. I’m sure Tate and similar “influencers” know tons of incel/mra/nofap/redpill/mde/etc types that buy into this shit soften their views considerably (and stop buying and watching shit) when they finally get a partner