Lol

Oh look at this long list of "fascist" countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory

Official languages are extremely common. It standardizes the language used in official documents.

Ok, why is history important to remember. What do you expect people to actually do with the information you've provided?

Also a big fan of Mauviel. Their handles are very comfortable, unlike All-Clad

Knives are basically inherently bifl. You could make a $5 chef knife from Walmart last your lifetime if you take care of it, and you could wear a $500 handcrafted work of art into a nub if you're too aggressive with the sharpening, or chip a quarter sized shard out of your Japanese gyoto while using it to cut bread.

The biggest issue with home knives is people never honing and sharpening them, so something that cuts like a laser new is smushing tomatoes a year later.

The BIFL version of this is a commercial tool like this, or you could just use a knife, which is easier to clean and sharpen.

Yes. You might even be bored they're so safe

Seattle proper has a lot of property crime and rising violent crime, but the Eastside is wealthy and well run.

1a. You encourage them to die, and provide an "ethical" means of suicide

1b. You actively set about eliminating them

We have many examples of genocide from the last century alone for reasons far more petty than the wealthy protecting their hoard. The ultra wealthy are naturally at odds with the interests of the public, and if they have the support of the military, don't even have to pretend to care (e.g. Myanmar).

Couple that with innovations military automatons, and the ultra wealthy may be faced with a choice between living like God Emperors in a world denuded of most human life or having to share their wealth to prevent a second Reign of Terror.

> No one cried when the window tappers job went away due to alarm clocks, or atleast no one cares anymore. Same with carriage makers and so on. This is the evolution of life.

The people actually doing those jobs might have had a thing or two to say. There's a whole lot of people who seem awfully self-assured that it won't be their job that goes the way of the window tapper. And if it is, they'll just retrain.

Oh wait, the AI learned to do that job too, before they finished retraining. Now they're competing with the AI, the existing workers in the field, and everyone else who just tried to do the same thing.

Yeah, the superstars may not go away for a while, but 42 year old Ed from accounting who just took out a second mortgage to send his daughter to college may have some trouble finding a new profession and keeping his house. Maybe some history holo a century later won't give af about Ed because everything worked out in the end, but he and millions upon millions like him are going to have a very different take on the matter.

Every new industry will be at least partly automated right from the start.

The issue isn't that there won't be some new jobs created. It's that there will be fewer and fewer created, while existing jobs are simultaneously coalescing into fewer and fewer positions.

And those new jobs will be under pressure, both from automation and from the ever increasing number of displaced workers trying to retrain into the new fields.

The fundamental problem is the devaluing of the human worker by making them much more replaceable, even if it's just with another human.

And you can walk in and out with a manual action rifle in as much time as it takes a background check to clear. This isn't something that's going to stop a mass shooting, but if someone's feeling the tug of the abyss, it could be what they need at that moment.

As long as this isn't something that law enforcement starts pressuring people into, I'm fine with this.

That's fair. As long as this remains a voluntary tool and isn't used in a coercive fashion.

Imo, there should also be a voluntary temporary surrender w/mandatory waiting period for return of firearms.

People go through tough times. Might be them, might be someone in their home. They shouldn't be forced to choose between losing their right to own and keep firearms and getting the help they need when they need it.