Never even heard of it.

I assume you're talking about mass shootings [...] The way you phrased this is funny [..] No shit? That's what guns are for.

Bruh, you said it, not me. Mass shootings are innocent people.

I've got too much shit going on to argue but you did not say innocent people so don't put words in my mouth.

Bro you fetishize guns and it's weird, just stop it. I don't need a gun because it doesn't turn me on, it's so easy to live your life gun free but i get it you can't get horny without it and that's OK too.

So your quantifiable measure of value is.... Innocent people dying?

I'm just giving you the argument in favor of gun control compared to "RAM control" as the OP requested.

Once again, please quantify the value of AR-15s that is unique to that form factor compared to, say, a handgun

Nobody has been able to quantify the value of owning high powered semi automatic rifles in a way that is even debatably close to the quantifiable lives lost to them.

I'm presuming you're referring to mass shootings but the way you phrased this is funny because... No shit? That's what guns do.

Aside from that, in the US at least I can think of several reasons why, minorities for instance, should be armed.

You've created a false dichotomy. For your argument to work computers would need to only be used to create pornography which is preposterous. Firearms have a single primary use, launch a high velocity projectile at a target. The target varies between paper markers, game animals, human combatants, and school children. Computers however have near unlimited utility and can be used for uncountable benign purposes beyond creating assorted types of pornography. Firearms have no such utility. They can shoot bullets, hang on walls/windows of trucks, validate poor self-esteem, and provide a tinkering stim via modification. Creating csam on a computer represents 0.001% of what computers are used for where shooting and killing civilians is probably close to 30% of what firearms do.

Lemmy doesn't have a unified opinion on anything. I'd bet you could find some lemmings that are in favor of Altman's statements about RAM, especially if you venture very far into the pro-AI communities. But it's been my experience that lemmings tend to have more mature views of complex political issues and I'd bet you'd find that the average user doesn't fully support either of the artificial binary of positions on gun control.

In a world without nuance, this might be the gotcha! you were hoping it would be. But when you add nuance and critical thinking to it-

It just ends up being false equivalence dumbuckery.

In an effort to provide an actual response:

What you've displayed is called "black and white thinking".. You have essentially argued that "all things should be subject to government oversight, or nothing should be. There is no in between".

The argument against the second amendment is based on the measurable harm vs the measurable value.

RAM in the hands of consumers has measurable value. We can quantify the things we can do with it that we couldn't do without it.

Nobody has been able to quantify the value of owning high powered semi automatic rifles in a way that is even debatably close to the quantifiable lives lost to them. You cannot quantify "the ability to overthrow a government" and attempts to quantify "good guy with a gun" events fails spectacularly.

Like most things in life, nuance is important.

It’s true, every single lemmy user secretly supports the second admendment, but doesn’t want you, specifically, to know about it.

Yes, all of Lemmy thinks exactly the same way on every topic

(in case you can't figure it out, that's sarcasm)

What's the deal with people who delete their posts all the time on Lemmy?

FTR gastroglizzy but a lot of people do that, it's weird.

Never heard of that thing. Who cares?

Hmm, did you check that there isn't already an account with the same name? You can probably just click on a random account on Makertube and then replace the username in the URL with your own username.

Otherwise, you can also contact the admins through this form: https://makertube.net/about/contact

Yeah, the request account route was what got me bounced for pre-existing.

Yup! I think that's great advice; start with the music in your head. I sometimes try to sing a line before I play it, to make sure I'm playing music and not just muscle memorying scales and arpeggios.

Nice! I have a whole rant about the music education system. I think most "educated" people just learn to read music exclusively, then they "graduate"to "jazz" and suddenly they have to improvise when they can't even play by a simple melody by ear. No problem, says the education system! We will teach them all the RULES of improvisation! Two years into jazz programs and students are just spitting out scale after scale after scale and the teachers are BEAMING with pride because of EVERYTHING that student has LEARNED!

"This student is masterfully mixing dorian and mixolydian modes here."

"Because they can hear them in their head and it's effecting an emotion they're having or is it because they know they are playing from a ii minor to the dominant fifth and just randomly playing notes from the modes?"

"It doesn't matter."

Thing is, teachers have to teach something to get paid and convince students to keep paying them and to convince administrators to continue to hire them. "Play what you hear and practice hearing every day" is something anyone can tell you, but so many people HATE hearing that because it is SCARY to face how fucking terrible you are at music when you get started. And it's scary because we've convinced ourselves that music is about TALENT and that if we don't have talent, we're fucked.

And the reason we think its about talent is because the music education is not designed to teach you music, it's designed to teach you to play an instrument and to READ music. And what's worse, music education viciously selects for people who've already managed to teach themself music, that is to say, "If you can teach YOURSELF music, then you can join our music program." But music programs don't see it that way. Instead of saying, "Why isn't this student getting it?" they'll say, "well, that person just has no aptitude." And where would they have gotten the aptitude from, deafly note reading scale after scale after scale all day long? The system is DESIGNED to fail students, and then BLAME the student!

Anyway, my life changed when I decided to never look at another piece of sheet music to figure out a song and just play by ear, so that's what I try to do every day: just find a melody somewhere, usually one that I already can sing, and pick it out on an instrument.

Well, fair enough, i think im a terrible singer too XD and sometimes crazy people will waste your time for sure. Anyway, check out this victor wooten video sorry about the youtube link fuck youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBNT5K2sEFQ&t=935

Fair enough -- i will say im reminded of this victor wooten video where he had a student who was only trained to play off sheet music and wasn't creative didn't know how to improvise. Wooten told him, "just play it wrong, like just play what you feel like playing and if it's wrong that's fine this is just an exercise."

And that was what the student needed to become a better musician.

Oh, hmm, I'm honestly not sure, if it's worth moving to Makertube, if you've already got a PeerTube account. The social features on PeerTube are unfortunately not too great, so I think, most of the interactions happen on other platforms anyways...

But well, did you go through their "Request an account" form?
https://makertube.net/signup

Yeah, Lemmy is much better for that than Reddit. 😅

But yeah, Mastodon is actually built around people being the persistent entities that you follow, so it's like a magnitude better still.

I'm learning people exist as persistent entities on Lemmy, an experience I only had on the very tiniest of subreddits... this might be fun! thanks for the tip!

Hm. How would I transfer my account from dalek.zone to makertube? Tried to create one and it said it already exists, and when I try to log in with the email or @dalek.zone, it's "incorrect."

For community, I would recommend posting your videos to Mastodon as well. You can upload to PeerTube and then just "boost" the post from your Mastodon account. Of course, also make ample use of hashtags.

Mastodon is more focused on people and what they're doing, unlike Lemmy which is more focused on news and discussions. That's why I'm recommending it here.
Like, it's not just a technology thing. Folks on Mastodon are actually interested in getting to know people, whereas on Lemmy, they're generally not.