Emptybee
9d ago
Re #3: Interesting that police dogs apparently function as biological missiles and are sufficiently dangerous that preventing a bite on fellow officer is worth messing up your arm. The realities of police work might call for that sort of training but its definitely not the warm and fuzzy image that gets sold to the public.
Emptybee
29d ago
It's not taken from any of your categories but I think this one says "glory" pretty well: Race to Durango (Two Steps From Hell)
Emptybee
1mo ago
That's simply not true. Look at Roe v. Wade. After it was decided, the right spent decades trying every legal variant they could think of to get around it. Every side plays legal games.
Emptybee
1mo ago
Honestly, this shouldn't reach the Court. The appeals court has all they need to reverse. After which, the SC just denies cert.
Emptybee
1mo ago
The Supreme Court has been backing away from the fighting words doctrine since 1970. Since states can't enact a stricter doctrine than the one the federal government uses, I doubt this will survive appeal.
Emptybee
1mo ago
Animal shelter personnel sure but there's no way am I buying that the average cop is better than average citizen at identifying dog breeds. When it comes to dog attacks, it's the police report that typically serves as the source of identification. Even if the animal survives to be taken to a shelter, the news isn't going to ask shelter workers what the dog's breed is. They're going to quote the police report.
Emptybee
1mo ago
The opening of Cremieux' blog comes right out and acknowledges that "pit bull...refers to a type of dog rather than a breed". It then goes on to list several different breeds that get lumped together under that heading and admits that additional breeds sometimes get tossed in as well. So, once again, if you compare "pit bull" attacks to German Shepherd attacks, you're comparing apples to oranges.
Emptybee
1mo ago
The problem with those statistics is they're compiled by accepting the identification made by people, like police officers and news reporters, who don't have any expertise in dog breeds. For most non-experts, any big dog that's not obviously a shepherd or rottweiler gets labelled "pit bull". Then a category that actually consists of a dozen breeds—plus mixes—gets compared with attacks made by single breeds. Of course they're going to have larger totals.
From: In Defense Of the Pit Bull (Salon; Feb. 5, 2013)
Karen Delise studied every fatal dog bite reported in the years between 2002-2005, and found that “eleven dogs involved in fatal attacks with no Pitbull characteristics were counted as Pitbulls, while their ‘true’ breeds were not reported, and three dogs that were clearly not Rottweilers were identified as Rottweilers.” That was among a total of 47 fatal attacks (by all breeds) reported during that period.
Emptybee
1mo ago
The Mythbusters retested that particular myth, in episode 75, as a result of complaints they tested against the wrong model of scope. Against a much simpler scope with fewer internal components, such as an Vietnamese sniper of the period would likely have been issued, it was found to be plausible.
Emptybee
1mo ago
Not a whole lot, I would think. All of the hard-core Republicans in my sphere are loudly or quietly anti-data center. It seems to be a winning issue with every flavor of populist.
Emptybee
1mo ago
Exactly. Snyder was clearly a fan of the comic's visuals; he lovingly recreated several iconic panels. But he failed to grasp the purpose of many of Moore's plot points and went for spectacle over substance.
Emptybee
2mo ago
If you're open to using Steam, I strongly suggest checking out Humble Bundle on a regular basis. They offer pay-what-you-want game bundles with higher donations unlocking higher tier bundles. Thanks to them, I have almost as many games as books.
I don't know if you can buy it in the UK, but we used to use a product called freeze spray to get gum out of carpet. Try searching for "gum remover spray" on Amazon.
Emptybee
3mo ago
Also unconventional right. I think it's something of a grab bag category.
I also went back and compared by answers category by category. Eleven times my answer matched the answer most URs gave; ten times it didn't. Change just one answer I bet I wind up in a different box.
Emptybee
5mo ago
40% German, 60% Autistic (Wittgenstein).
Unreasonably pleased that it adds up to 100.
Emptybee
11mo ago
I think the media isn't suggesting the Russians did it for the simple reason that there's no cause to think that they did. This is a tiny factory in a rural area. Even if it had a tremendous amount of automation, those sixteen people weren't supplying even one percent of the military's ordinance. It simply makes no sense to target it for sabotage.
Also worth noting is that industrial accidents of this type aren't exactly unheard of. In fact, there was a smaller explosion at this same site around a decade ago.
Remember than the law can't just say "don't wear gang colors" and call it a day. The law has to either define gang colors or designate some authority which will define them. I can guarantee you that there are jurisdictions who would just love to define MAGA caps as gang colors.
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