Honestly super fair re: bleeding out. I was considering the thigh there and forgot to mention my problem specifically with the calf, which would be chronic pain. I know that comes with getting shot anywhere and especially in the limbs (sort of Sophie’s choice if you want to gamble on the distal or proximal for the arms), but I figure the problem for me wouldn’t be potentially losing the leg as much as it would be feeling pain every time I walk due to the pressure. If anything, the shin protecting the tibial nerve makes it seem like you wouldn’t be all that likely to lose sensation.

Fair point. I’d still prefer the right arm*, but I think you could reasonably debate distal or proximal. Proximal has less chance of hitting the brachial artery and surrounding major nerves, but if you do hit them, you’re in bigger trouble than in the distal – where the median nerve and the brachial artery have split, making it easier to hit something but for that individual hit to be less severe.

* Another comment mentioned your glutes, which, yeah, fair if you could hit it from the side-on (and be fairly accurate, otherwise ouch, that tailbone).

The gut is notoriously one of the most painful places you can get shot. It’s fairly “safe” overall with antibiotics and prompt medical intervention, although it would carry a higher risk of infection. Plus hitting a kidney seems like a pretty severe complication. So I think I’d rather take the arm.

Edit: Plus possibility of hitting the spine. oof, ouch, owie

100% somewhere in the arm (like assuming this isn’t in some test lab where “the ear” can be consistently guaranteed).

• Foot would likely be serious, lifelong pain when walking.
• Leg is extremely dangerous for bleeding out. Like maybe if I could get immediate medical attention it wouldn’t be terrible, but there are still better options. (Plus avoids an accidental shot to the knee.)
• Abdomen is obviously not a first choice.
• Head and neck are obviously going to be the worst, and I even mean that in the sense that a shot to the head isn’t inherently some insta-kill. Lots of ways to hit the brain that completely debilitate you for life.
• Hands seem like a great way to fuck up the nerves and have dexterity trouble for the rest of your life.

So arm it is, preferably right because it’s further from the heart.

That cat looks overweight.

Fuhrer’s decision detailed a catalogue of sex crimes committed by Cooper. Those include attacking strangers in parking lots and at a bus stop in the 1990s. While incarcerated, she has been accused of sexually assaulting correctional and parole staff.

Last year, she became increasingly verbally abusive, according to an affidavit from a correctional official. She was fixated on a particular female staff member, and was denied access to a number of others due to “inappropriate behaviour and comments,” the judge said.

“The evidence discloses a pattern of escalating aggressive, violent behaviour, mostly toward women, by Ms. Cooper,” Fuhrer wrote.

According to the ruling, Cooper admitted she had many more victims than indicated by her criminal convictions. When she arrived at Atlantic Institution following her gender surgery, she was apparently hiding razor blades in her sneakers, the judge said.

I mean, yeah. Obviously AFAB can be lesbian sex offenders too, but you’re talking about someone who’s sexually assaulted many female victims in the past, still hasn’t changed their ways and finds targets even in an all-male-inmate prison, was incarcerated when she still identified as male and seemingly has been for a long time, has (per the judge) failed to show that her safety in the male prison isn’t being respected, and has allegedly gotten even worse in the past year.

Not only is this likely saving a lot of inmates at the female prison from being sexually assaulted, but it’s probably safer for Cooper herself. I know Canadian prisons are better-maintained than US ones, but I still can’t imagine the target painted on her back when inmates hear there’s an older trans woman with an extensive history of sexually assaulting women who petitioned to be transferred – let alone if she tries to continue that behavior.

But – there’s always a “but” – before you get too excited, there’s a catch.

Both Frame and yserver were built using LLM bots.

I mean, yeah. Even X11’s own maintainers are sick of that mountain of spaghetti and are just keeping it on life support. Anything trying to replace X11 (besides XWayland) is effectively a throwaway project and shouldn’t be seriously used.

Yeah, same. The fact I can chill the fuck out and basically not have to worry about an enormous class of serious, hard-to-spot bugs makes it a lot more fun for lower-level programming.

Like, yeah, I still need to worry about obstacles like other drivers, animals, etc., but it’s a lot more fun driving on a road that isn’t completely teeming with potholes and black ice.

I mean they’re right. The problem with PornHub isn’t that it’s too vanilla or something (I really prefer vanilla) but that almost everything on it is hyperreality. It’s the kind of sex that you could, at age 13, imagine is really hot but then grow out of.

Watching it is just distracting and funny, like you’re watching a parody of sex. It’s hyperpalatable in the way a McDonald’s hamburger or a MrBeast video are – which is totally what some people are into.

I don’t need a deep, intimate connection with my porn, but I would like to feel like the humans in/creating it might actually be authentically enjoying themselves. That scarcely exists on sites like PH, so why would I waste my time trying to find it?

(I know it reinforces the meme, but bread is terrible for birds. It stunts their development, is totally empty calories to them, can get animals sick when if it gets left on the ground and becomes moldy, and, if it isn’t eaten, often runs off into the water to feed microbes. Please don’t feed the ducks bread.)

RAGGLE FRAGGLE!

Aaaaah! Somebody help meeee!

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You completely debunk the idea that “I don’t think the growth in “unknown” is the primary factor of Window’s decline in market share.” in the same comment you said it? Because what you said makes absolutely no sense in the face of the actual numbers.

I expound on the two points because you can’t just rest your argument on them and then limply, vaguely disclaim that it’s terrible methodology.

Those “last two data points” are two months. For OS X, there’s some upward movement the last two months (about 3%, which isn’t a lot given it spiked late last year from 8.3% to 14.07% to 8.2% in a span of three points), while Linux is practically flatlined with a very light upward incline just the last month.

To the extent StatCounter is useful to begin with, the Linux point is functionally meaningless while the OS X increase of a few percentage points may or may not be significant; trying to divine a trend from twitches in those two points is reading noise. Look at the “unknown” line, meanwhile, and see how it begins mirroring Windows’ decline around mid–late 2025. It rose from 11.3% in September 2025 to 21.5% in June 2026. That represents actual, meaningful, lasting change.

Okay, but StatCounter’s graph (edit: here) clearly shows that “unknown” is what’s cannibalizing most of that – and this is specifically measuring web traffic.

“Lemmy celebrates the rise of bots polluting web traffic stats because they didn’t bother to read the article beyond a misleading headline that reaffirms their biases.”

This man looks like he was engineered in a lab to be the villain of an iCarly special.

Birdemic 4 lookin’ 🔥

It’s okay: I’m a commielinguist and can certify what I said.

Is mixing those together where “commie” comes from?