SkookumTree
3d ago
I mean, sure, fair. However, there has to be a way to get the predators, $100 Guy just enriches muggers by walking around in rough neighborhoods with his $100s unless the muggers face consequences, whether that's getting shot while trying to rob the dude or going to prison for robbing our hero. If muggers get away with it often enough it's no good.
SkookumTree
3d ago
doctors
Not a fan of that. Doctors treat the sick. We'd do a garbage job of verifying immigration status.
Employers, landlords, DMV, all more doable and realistic.
No, I don't grant that this has the optics of an execution. If we're being uncharitable, it looks more like a gang beatdown than an execution.
Were he being executed, he would've been unarmed, he would've been in control or not a threat to cops...shooting him in the back would have been executing him, and so would restraining him and then shooting him afterwards.
This seems like it was just a tragedy; a gun DID go off and confused agents might've then shot him in the chaos. Fog of war.
EDITED: fair, it seems like a bad shoot, but I maintain these officers were trigger scared and not trigger happy.
SkookumTree
3d ago
"stepping outside" is a real thing
Agreed, but to anyone reading this...
Do it on grass or something given half a chance. There is a reason why "A gets in a bar fight with B, knocks B out, B falls to the concrete/asphalt, gets a brain injury and dies" is a classic manslaughter/second degree murder hypothetical.
For the same reason, if an informal and extralegal "lesson" is being taught - and I do not advocate unlawful conduct - don't hit 'em in the head, they need it to absorb the lesson.
SkookumTree
3d ago
In fact, assuming she did get victimised (and not just a bunch of disgusted looks for being obscene), she would actually be acting virtuously.
How so? Just being bait for evil predators doesn't seem virtuous, unless there is a side of "getting said evil predators what they deserve"...it's analogous to walking around in a rough neighborhood with visible $100s, if you get mugged that doesn't seem virtuous; if you're carrying and shoot the would-be muggers it might be.
Made an insole for my ski boots out of 1/4 mm closed cell foam. It was scraps given to me by a friendly bootfitter. That's going to be the testbed for my Hock-capable (hopefully!) ski boot insoles. They'll go between my 15mm intuition liner and the fischer travers cs boots that I have. After I get some custom insoles made for me (weird-shaped feet that work fine) I'll go see a bootfitter. Then the plan is to get Solarcore aerogel or something similar and really insulate my boots. Hopefully, I should then be well into double boot territory for how insulating these boots are.
If you know of any source for Solarcore or similar aerogel please let me know.
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