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		janalsncm 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when A... Stop no, reduce yes. Same with how seatbelts didn’t end car crash fatalities. Eliminating drunk driving also wouldn’t end road fatalities, but outside of Wisconsin no one believes drunk drivers shouldn’t be in jail.

jtbayly 19 days ago [–]

Those comparisons don’t make sense. There are millions of guns in the country, and cutting US manufacturing wouldn’t change that any time soon.

janalsncm 19 days ago | [–]

> any time soon

Mandating seatbelts on new cars also did not immediately stop people from flying through their windshields.

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