JTarrou
16hr ago
Glock triggers are among the worst factory pulls in that class, and the stock shoe is pretty bad. But they do smooth out well at high round counts and the shoe is easily replaced. Learning the Glock trigger was much easier than full double-action-only snubby triggers. When people shoot my battered old carry gun, they think the trigger is great for a Glock, but it's just a shoe and fifty-two thousand rounds. Most expensive trigger job in history.
JTarrou
16hr ago
There's something darkly funny about the prospect of the profit motive of the cynical businessman being far more valuable than the truth motive of a good-faith academic for producing actual knowledge or useful research.
Darkly funny? That is just obvious reality, and always has been.
JTarrou
19hr ago
It isn't my sense of things that academia contributes much to medical and engineering research. Maybe Johns Hopkins and MIT do, but not "academia". 99% of universities produce exactly nothing of any scientific, cultural or literary worth.
JTarrou
1d ago
Academia will not reform itself and will not stop trying to overthrow the government, constitution and society that produces and funds it. They will at some point be brought to heel, either by the government or the people. Some president sooner or later will realize all the money and land being sucked up by organizations of useless traitors and fake "scientists", and just take it. That is, if the people don't turn up with pitchforks first.
Whenever and however that happens, exactly nothing of value will be lost. Academia is underwater morally, politically and scientifically. It is fundamentally compromised and incapable of even describing the problem. The above report is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
JTarrou
1d ago
I carried a Smith Airweight for a decade, so I know why you're carrying a revolver. Does it have to be the Bodyguard?
Out of curiosity, exactly how many rounds have you fired in that gun?
JTarrou
1d ago
There's guns I like a lot better than Glocks, subjectively. But in terms of the whole package, aftermarket, reliability etc. the glocks are just too ubiquitous. It's cheaper and easier to run multiple guns in multiple holsters with various magazines etc. Plus they're dead simple to work on, and I shoot them as well as anything on the duty market. Do like Walthers and Caniks, even M&Ps aren't that bad.
JTarrou
1d ago
In pockets: Knife (Leek), wallet, phone, keys.
On belt: G19
I don't bother with much else, unless it's specifically a political protest.
JTarrou
5d ago
All good so far as individuals are concerned. Individuals are unpredictable. Populations are predictable. I think the concept is fine so long as it's combined with other evidence and at the population level. Just because people are imprecise and "scholars" are political hacks doesn't hurt the concept itself. If you tell enough young men that some thing is bad and they will be rewarded for hurting it, some percentage will take you up on the implicit offer to the degree it is legitimized by their social context.
JTarrou
6d ago
As someone who barely uses AI and doesn't much care about it, it seems to me that what we have created is not artificial intelligence, but robot translators. A good enough AI can translate the vast fluctuation of semantic meaning from real people in real language into machine binary. This used to require immense technical skill and knowledge, but at some point will be available to anyone willing to put some time in.
JTarrou
6d ago
Sure, but "unheard of" and "practically unheard of at the country level" are two vastly different statements.
If the various and sundry ecological predictions are correct, then it seems to me there is only one broad course of action: Push nuclear, nuke China and Russia and re-colonize the entire world to keep them from developing in ways that would produce carbon. Anything short of that is ineffective and unserious, according to the current state of climate science. We are already past the tipping point, the ice caps will melt within a century and if we don't start killing billions, there won't be a future for humanity. Naturally, being an American, I favor other billions.
Modestly proposed, modestly delivered.
Or maybe, just maybe, science didn't solve the entire planet's climate model in 1975 and this whole thing is overblown. Good news! Turns out we didn't need to kill all those people after all! Woops!
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