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I want a land acknowledgement that says, "We acknowledge that we are on the unceded territories of the British Empire. We thank them for having cared for this land and look forward to working with them in partnership as we continue to build this great civilization together."

@KingWash1789 @appathfinders I don’t even know how it would be possible to train someone to be good with a handgun but bad with a rifle. It would be like someone who is good at riding a unicycle but can’t ride a bike.

@appathfinders I've never met someone competent with a pistol who wasn't also competent with a rifle. I have met tons of people who were competent with a rifle but suck ass with a pistol. There's a good lesson in there.

What is more important for the average person? Pistol competency or rifle competency?

@deaflibertarian At some point the cure for deafness will be less invasive (eg: a single injection to grow cilia in the cochlea) and deafness will disappear from the earth. It’s only a matter of time.

A successful doctor who happens to wear cochlear implants and has excellent speech once met with me to discuss a medical study, not related to deafness. He brought up our common ground. He told me he wished he grew up signing. He took off his magnetic pieces. "Now I am totally deaf, like you." I nodded. "But I cannot communicate with you. I wish they understood I am, and will always be, deaf." He put his implants back on. He waited for the interpreter, who was with us, to finish, and I gave him a sympathetic smile. Then he said what many kids have told me. "You're lucky, they let you be you." I gently offered to give some resources to learn ASL, if he was interested. He shook his head. "No one in my life will learn it for me." That conversation still haunts me. And I understand. No one in my life learned for me either.

@craig3352 I think it’s wild that the government has any say in such mundane changes to one’s land. I own 20 acres and I can do pretty much anything I want to it, including dynamite every tree on it.

This dickhead was just fined $42,000 for illegally clearing almost 500 acres of habitat. If he had sought the correct permits it would have cost him $2.248 million. That fine will really teach him a lesson. 🤨

@TheJohnCompton @Richard_21_Ryan @jjreeves Update: I now own a Bodyguard 2.0 and it’s very pleasant to shoot. Unlike the P365-380, it’s small & light enough to pocket carry. If it remains reliable for a few hundred more rounds, I’ll probably start carrying it instead of my P365.

@Richard_21_Ryan @_Chroma_ @jjreeves My whole thing is just that I consider .380 to be marginal in terms of ballistics. The only time I carry it is if I can't swing a p365, in which case it's .380 in an LCP.

Sleeper hit potential with the P365 Luxe. A .380 12 rd. P365 with muzzle brake and a bunch of other shit you can see here.

@WatarmelonTrade @RomanAcleaf @TheRealJChubby I would bet a lot of money that his client is already a convicted felon.

@RomanAcleaf @TheRealJChubby wow, the "law" says a thing, better take away his gun rights over 2.75

Prosecutor won't budge on a felony burglary charge wherein my client allegedly stole strawberry syrup from a grocery store (valued at $2.75). If they go down on it they lose their gun rights, ability to vote, and could serve real jail time. Over $2.75 worth of syrup. Insanity.

@catman1631 @CyborgPeds Helicopters are just plain dangerous. A helicopter pilot flying 20 hours per week for 20 years has a 13% chance of dying in a crash. For EMS helicopters, it’s 30%, as they tend to fly in worse conditions and take off/land in tricky spots.

@CyborgPeds Judging from various news reports around the country - I’d venture to say that medical flight transport isn’t the safest profession. (Lousy aircraft maintenance?)

When I was a resident the hospital decided they could make a bunch of money doing helicopter neonatal transports. They told us residents we’d be the flight docs. I objected and said it was unethical to send us up on potentially risky flights we’d never consented to when hired. The admin in charge told me to be quiet and learn something about helicopters. My classmates cracked up and he looked confused. Later, they demanded I go but I again refused for safety reasons. Eventually the idea was shelved and they hired a team of flight docs. 2 years later one of the helicopter transports had a fatal crash.

@Dannyjokes I’m pretty sure MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is a new streaming service.

New super strong password just dropped

@aaronp613 Can you link to the Reddit thread?

Well this is a new one! A user claims that updating to iOS 26.4 changed their keyboard and now they can’t enter their passcode

@Econ_4_Everyone Why didn’t you break the data up by race? That way we could see if specific races were discriminated against more/less.

The most likely interaction any of us will have with the police is a traffic stop. That simple fact accentuates the import of the following question: when an officer decides to pull someone over, does race play a role? It sounds like a straightforward question. It is not. And the reason comes down to a measurement problem that has haunted this literature, and many others, for decades. What do you need to properly explore this question? Three numbers: i) how many minority drivers were stopped, ii) how many minority drivers were on the road, and iii) how many minority drivers were actually speeding. Knowing all of these is a tall task, especially knowing who was speeding among those who were never pulled over. I call this the denominator problem and measuring discrimination critically relies on solving it. Prior research has a bunch of creative: veil-of-darkness designs, daytime versus nighttime comparisons, benchmark approaches using census data. All clever. Yet, they do require certain assumptions that everyone is not comfortable making. A paper that I just talked about at our student visitation day this past Friday (and I will talk about this week in my Economics for Everyone course) solves it differently. When I was back at Lyft, we leveraged records on the GPS location of every driver every few seconds. That gives us actual driving behavior — speed, location, time — for over 200,000 drivers before any police interaction occurs. We matched those records to official Florida speeding citations secured through a Freedom of Information Act request (kudos to Florida, still the only state to adhere to our FOIA). As far as I know, this is one of those rare occurrences where we have solved the denominator problem: who was on the road and exactly how fast are they driving? Guess what we found? You can find out here (it is depressing so I am not going to recount it): ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura/0… But the broader lesson I want to make with my students is that the denominator problem is not unique to discrimination research. It shows up everywhere in social science. Hiring discrimination studies rarely observe the full applicant pool and almost never observe underlying qualifications. Health disparities research cannot see who never sought care. Criminal justice research fights this at every turn. The general insight is this: selection into measurement is itself the phenomenon you are trying to study. In certain cases, partnerships with organizations can help to solve that key issue.

@KelseyTuoc If elite institutions on the right had explicitly racist policies in hiring or recruiting, wouldn’t you be doing more than just writing about it? There’s be a lawsuit to fund & protests to organize, yes?

This is a common piece of feedback I got when I said I wanted to write that affirmative action, as it was practiced at elite schools, was in fact racist, morally wrong and at odds with liberal principles. "Okay, but it's over, so what?"

@JayMaynard @donguriweb You can’t shift easily from 5th to reverse. It’s not shown in the shift diagram, but there’s a little notch in the shift pattern that requires going farther right before it’ll go down to R.

Interesting. Every manual transmission car I've driven had R on the side of the shift pattern with 1. Putting it under 5 makes the money shift problem a thousand times worse. With that said, putting D and R on the sides of the shifter opposite of the direction you want the car to go seems like a UI design error.

プリウスで高齢者がコンビニに突っ込むのはこれが原因だと思ってる。 他のシフトの車はわかりません🙂

@MorosKostas I thought I’d seen some chewed up indoor ranges, but that is exceptional. Holy cow.

@_Chroma_ Ya I get the rules. I wasnt hitting the cwrry or anything, but if they let me do it, others may too and may not be as great about keeping their shots on paper. That said....seems like that ship has sailed in this range 🤣

Update, it was just the ammo. It doesn't like the remanufactured Super Vel. Just went through a bunch of factory new Speer Lawman without issue. Also, this video earned me a "one shot per second" warning from the range staff 😑 Never had an issue following that rule before but it's so hard to *not* shoot this gun fast!

I have a confession to make: When I was buying my first 9mm handgun, I picked the Sig P239 not because I knew it was a good choice, but because I saw it in Gunslinger Girl. Fortunately the Japanese animators had good taste in guns.

@tedfrank @avidseries Change the cabin overheat protection to “fan only”. It will last *much* longer. Also the overheat protection will not run if the battery gets below 20%.

Charging the car can be twenty to thirty minutes plus a five to ten minute detour. More if you want maximum range, but realistic range is 70% of maximum if you’re only charging to 80% and looking for chargers at 15%. Road trips require some old-fashioned planning. I can’t drive my Tesla to the airport and park in a parking garage for several days in a hot Texas summer without concern that the battery will die from running the AC automatically to prevent overheating. There are parts of Texas I literally can’t drive my car to without running out of battery on the way back. So not good for dark-sky camping. I’m moderately concerned about the scenario where the grid goes down, though my ICE car didn’t fare much better when that happened. I’m mildly concerned about the government bricking my Tesla over low social credit scores. I love my Tesla X, but it’s in spite of it being electric. Would much prefer if it were hybrid with a small backup ICE, but that would probably cost some acceleration and ironically range.

What are the arguments against buying an electric car?

@stanfordNYC Is there any doubt that if the races were swapped, the perpetrator would not get probation? You can always explain why a specific case has a certain outcome, but it really seems like systemic bias in the legal system.

The biggest problem here seems to be not the judge but the statutes. I've attempted a look at how each contributed. Antoine Watson was charged with first degree murder, second degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and aggravated assault. The jury acquitted on the murder charges, which sounds pretty bad, but looks like it might be correct based on the actual required elements. This would have turned on whether Watson had malice (implied by an "abandoned and malignant heart") when he ran up to and shoved Vicha Ratanapakdee. The California pattern jury instructions require that the perpetrator be aware that "the natural and probable consequences of the act were dangerous to human life in that the act involved a high degree of probability that it would result in death." Is that actually true of running up to and shoving a person? Probably not. Though attacking a stranger that way is an evil thing, most of the time a person so shoved will not pass away as a result. So murder, though it was charged, was probably off the table from the beginning. Turning to voluntary manslaughter, it's narrowly defined in California as a killing in the heat of passion caused by a provocation. But there was no provocation here. So involuntary manslaughter was charged, which was what was convicted. Involuntary manslaughter can have a sentence of 2, 3 or 4 years, and in this case, there were enhancements (due to the age of the victim) available that allowed for a 5 year extension. So the longest possible sentence was 9 years imprisonment. As a violent offender, Watson would need to serve 85% of the sentence before getting automatic parole, or about 7 years and 8 months. He had already served about 5 years and 2 months before and during trial. So he served about two-thirds of what he would have served with the harshest possible sentence, and the way the California statutes and instructions are, that 7 years and 8 months is probably the most time he could have conceivably served for running up to and shoving a random stranger, resulting in brain injury, coma and death. In my opinion, if California is going to have such narrow criteria for murder and voluntary manslaughter, the sentencing range for involuntary manslaughter has to run MUCH higher than 4 years. So the judge did have some latitude, but in the maximum case could have added only about two and a half years of additional time in custody.

@ChrissyCasilio He’ll probably only stop victimizing others if/when he’s killed in a shootout with another gang.

SHOCKING update about the individual who stole my sister’s car while she navigates her son battling leukemia, but he kindly left my nephew’s throw up bucket despite tossing all of her children’s car seats throughout Buffalo, NY while he went on a joyride with his friends all night only to end it with a hit and run while he was headed back to taxpayer funded government housing… The same individual who was released WITHOUT BAIL, despite this being his FIFTH arrest for vehicle theft, along with a domestic violence arrest that very same day, and a growing list of additional charges already stacked up in his 18-year-old life. 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 HE DIDN’T SHOW UP TO COURT TODAY! 🫢

@OnlyoneNajwa @razibkhan That was in Israel so it was Arab Christians who got violent. Also the artist himself wanted his exhibit removed from the museum because he hates Israel: jpost.com/israel-news/bd…

@razibkhan It’s not exclusive to Muslims

@GSVBemusementPk @planefag @The_Sourkraut I seeing know about the others, but the LCP in .380 sucks to shoot. The recoil is pretty harsh due to the blowback action, small grip, & sharp grip edges. If I’m going with .380, I’d much prefer a slightly larger, heavier gun.

@planefag @The_Sourkraut P238, CZ83, LCP if you don't mind the trigger

I briefly carried a broom handle as it was my only pistol. Fucker exploded and I stopped.

@RandoRobby42 @FuQImFromTexas @DabsMalone What sort of combat drones (even manually operated ones) do not contain computers? You can’t get away with unencrypted, analog, fixed frequency signals in a war zone.

@FuQImFromTexas @DabsMalone OMG. No, multirotors are not more stable. A multi can ONLY be flown under computer control. A helicopter can be flown completely manually.

Quadcopters dominate today because they’re cheap, simple, and disposable But physics hasn’t changed Electric helicopter style UAVs are far more efficient, carry more, and go farther As autonomy improves and cost comes down, we’ll see them play a much bigger role in warfare🤝