Emptybee
10hr 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
2d 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
3d 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
3d 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
6d 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
1mo 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
2mo 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
4mo ago
40% German, 60% Autistic (Wittgenstein).
Unreasonably pleased that it adds up to 100.
Emptybee
10mo 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.
Emptybee
1yr ago
There may be a split market, one marketed as AI-driven and dominated by AI, and the other marketed as AI-free and dominated by AI.
This is delightfully cynical. I wish I thought you were wrong.
Emptybee
1yr ago
INTJ, every time. The amusing thing is, while I peg the I and T scales quite hard and am always comfortably N, I'm always around 51% J to 49%P. You'd think at least once I'd take the test on a day when P was up but, nope, never happens.
Emptybee
1yr ago
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." Training exercises are deliberately as close to the real thing as possible. That means safety rules that exist in peacetime are often waived. Flying low to the ground, jumping out of perfectly good aircraft, operating a boat with no lights or radar, for example, are all things that can easily go catastrophically wrong. But the military trains to do them anyway because practicing while no one is shooting at you is still safer than learning while under fire.
Emptybee
1yr ago
If Cryptonomicon tickled your fancy, check out Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, a trilogy which utilizes the same sort of parallel story lines.
Emptybee
1yr ago
The time to worry isn't when things like this are popping up on the news. That's what a 24-hr news cycle and "if it bleeds it leads" click chasing gets you. The time to worry is when stories like this become so commonplace that the news stops covering them.
Emptybee
1yr ago
You also try to avoid killing off the entire flight crew yet here we are.
Regardless, the point was that physical sensation is an integral part of the piloting experience and it's not one you'll get from a desktop sim. Replace looping with strong turbulence if that makes you feel better.
Emptybee
1yr ago
Yes, larger. Try doing a loop in a simulator then do one in real life. Even the very expensive sims that airlines and the military use can't 100% replicate the feel of real flight. A PC and desk chair certainly aren't going to do it.
Emptybee
1yr ago
I'm not sure why you'd consider the very real performance difference between a fighter and commercial jet to be prohibitive but think the much, much larger difference between a sim and real life is just fine.
Emptybee
1yr ago
Fighter jock, so very hard. There's a reason "flying by the seat of your pants" became an expression. Even the very best simulators don't match the actual experience of putting a plane back on the ground safely. Also a commercial jet is much much harder to crash than a fighter jet which, by design, trades stability for agility.
The biggest issue would be a lack of familiarity with the controls. Put simulator guy/gal in the co-pilot's chair so they can point out where the appropriate dials and buttons are and you should be fine. Aside from being in a plane full of corpses and murder hornets anyway.
Emptybee
1yr ago
Civilization VI, V, and various other 4X games: PoatatoMcWhiskey https://youtube.com/@PotatoMcWhiskey
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.
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