wlxd
1yr ago
This is not something I am ever seeing progressives complain about, so I conclude that this almost never happens: if it did happen on a regular basis, I'd have seen NYT editorials complaining about this endlessly.
The reality is quite the opposite: the cameras show that the police misconduct is very rare, NYT is quite aware of that, and so it doesn't want to bring attention to bodycams.
wlxd
1yr ago
Good point, but as you observe, I don’t think it matters in city of that scale. Even if there were 10 schools with 10 000 poor Asians in each, that would still only add up to less than 10% of NYC Asians.
wlxd
1yr ago
I suspect a lot of it is due to NYC Asians running small businesses and engaging in a lot of tax evasion, which makes them look artificially poorer than they actually are. No good evidence, though, just suspicion.
wlxd
1yr ago
Thanks for the answer. Yes, I’d carry bear spray anyway, to save the bear’s life and myself a lot of hassle if possible. With respect to the firearm then, would you say that the difference between say 9mm and 10mm in terms of stopping power is less important than your familiarity and capability with the firearm? I imagine that if you try using something like .22, that would only tickle a bear, so is 9 mm already viable, or should I get myself a new higher caliber handgun for this purpose?
wlxd
1yr ago
I did. I don’t plan to stay there forever, only for a few years, and then transition it to be a summer vacation destination.
wlxd
1yr ago
I am thinking about moving to Alaska. I do lots of outdoors stuff, and given how much wildlife there is in Alaska, safety from it, bears in particular, is a concern much larger than it is for me in lower 48.
Here is the question: do firearms offer higher degree of safety from bears than just bear spray in practice? If yes, which firearms would be an appropriate balance of effectiveness and practicality (size, weight, operational concerns etc)?
wlxd
1yr ago
This fictional dialogue sounds absurd, because you are not engaging the actual arguments for drug war and penal system in general. Here, check out this one instead.
COP: Do not do drugs, drugs are bad for your health!
CITIZEN: It is nice to learn that someone cares about my health. What would happen if I do drugs?
COP: You will go to prison.
CITIZEN: Prison is place where my health will get better?
COP: LOL. Prison is place of beating, rape and torture, as close to hell on earth as there could be. If you survive at all, you will come back as complete wreck, both physical and mental.
CITIZEN: But you said you care about my health?
COP: Yes, but I also care about health of everyone else. If your example will lead to 10 fewer people being scared off doing drugs and preventing them from destroying their own lives and 100 of lives of their families and friends who will be saved from being a part of the drug caused carnage. Sure, it will suck to make you suffer in prison, but it will do a lot of good for many other people, and, of course, you can avoid prison by not doing drugs, which is the entire point.
Now, you might of course dispute the effectiveness of the prevention effect, or argue that it is wrong to sacrifice someone to serve as an example, even if it will prevent great amounts of suffering, but if you prefer to insist that it is just about pure sadism, and there is nothing more to it. instead of engaging the argument, you might as well go back to Reddit.
wlxd
1yr ago
When we bother to ask как дела (how's business), we can expect a genuine status check, down to financial reports and epicrises.
In Poland, when asked „co u ciebie?”, you are pretty much supposed to complain. This means that you know better what is not going well in their lives than what is.
wlxd
1yr ago
The weird thing about this theory is that “Russian” in Russian is in fact «русский», “russkiy”. There is also the less common word «российский», “rossiyskiy”, which describes something more related to Russian state rather than Russian ethnicity. Thus, there are Ukrainians who are «российские», but not «русские».
wlxd
1yr ago
Vent moisture? Here where I am, the temperature is below freezing now, which is rather unusual, and my heat pump struggles a bit to keep up. Thus, I’m running a boiling pot of water non stop on big burner on my gas range, to both add extra heat with cheap gas, but also to add extra moisture, in 50% relative humidity range. Without it, and without my big air humidifier, it’s like 20%, which makes everyone in my family cough a lot and get skin issues.
wlxd
1yr ago
These are Stirling engine fans, and they don’t do much more compare to regular convection (they simply don’t have a lot of power to move substantial amount of air). They’re really cool, though, I love Stirling engines.
wlxd
1yr ago
Funny how everyone here was very much aware that Twitter was ran by leftist activists, but the CEO was not.
Being aware of what happens in your company is the single most important job of a CEO.
wlxd
1yr ago
Great post, I didn’t learn much new stuff, but it was a very enjoyable read. You have a very good point about high potential for grid instability on very cold days. I have a natural gas cooking range that can do something like 30-40k BTU combined, should be good enough for emergency situations, assuming regular air changes to avoid annoying high CO2 build up.
wlxd
1yr ago
Your own link literally says that huge majority of illegals is processed under Title 8, which is not immediate expulsion.
wlxd
1yr ago
Do you think that the above will not happen? If the above actually happens, exactly as described, is the above comment still against the rules?
wlxd
1yr ago
And out of those who do work, huge fraction actually works jobs that are totally made up by the government, either directly or by regulatory requirements in things like civil rights, financial law compliance etc.
wlxd
1yr ago
That having high skin melanin content improves your income, all else (most importantly, ability) being equal.
wlxd
1yr ago
Okay, millions will die, but so what? These will be overwhelmingly old people dying. Nobody really cares a lot about old people dying: indeed, millions die every year for reasons other than Covid, and nobody gives a shit.
It would have been hugely different if, for example, children were at risk; I certainly know I’d approach Covid much differently if that was the case. Huge death toll of old people, though, simply does not have similarly big emotional appeal and practical impact on society.
wlxd
1yr ago
If you read the actual immigration policy, as set by the Congress in the actual acts it passed, you’ll observe that Trump’s actions were very much in line with what the immigration laws actually are. For example, he made some moves to enforce the public charge rule, for the exact reasons this rule was passed into the law in the first place. His problem was not so much that he was blocked by the Congress, which passed different policy, but instead by judiciary and lawfare, which instituted policies contrary to what the Congress passed into law, and the Executive actually tried to enforce.
No joke, I saved $700 last year by replacing brake pads in my car myself, as three different shop in my west coast city quoted $900+. Took me 2-3 hours because I was doing it for the first time, will likely take less than 1 hour next time, and I won’t have to rebuy the tools I bought for this, so I’ll save even more.
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