What are the odds that you’re going to be shot in your own apartment by a cop who thinks you’re in her apartment? Well that happened once ever, so... approximately zero? What are the odds that if you call the police to report something and someone else, you will be the one who is shot, through your...

The actual numbers (as opposed to feelings) seem to indicate that there is not an epidemic of blacks being beaten or killed by police, and that the odds of a black man being killed by police (even when done justifiably!) are about the same as being struck by lightning. 0.6% of black men have police ...

I wonder how many serious gun owners there are in the US. Because the ones I have known have many guns and thousands of rounds of ammo. And there are a lot of them. There have to be hundreds of millions of rounds of ammo in private hands. There are enough of them to take on their police departments...

No one is condoning the looting? Colin Kaepernick for one, and until expressly disclaimed, Nike and everybody else who's been carrying his water are endorsing the looting. Don't see anything wrong with "when the looting starts, the shooting starts". I've read a lot of articles about suburban women b...

Right, these are all good points in a primary (in which I've voted against Trump every time) but in the general, your option comes down to him and one other person.

That scene was remarkable for another interesting reason: it was too complicated to animate manually, so the combatants' behavior was controlled by an algorithm. When they first ran a simulation, many of them (quite reasonably) ran away from the battle, so they put in an extra rule that nobody could...

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Wed May 27, 2020 7:32 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 3:59 pm

Nice picture, Mountaineer. Timely!

Not evident what this is in response to. Scrolled all the way back to April 18th but not seeing anything by Mountaineer.

Vinny

This is the avatar thread. He's talking about Mountaineer's avatar. (A picture of the Falcon 9.)

It is really nice to have something top-of-mind that isn't Trump or the virus. How long has it been since the big headline on Drudge was something other than those two? Well it is now, thanks to this. Not really a Musk fan in general but this is pretty spectacular.

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Wed May 27, 2020 10:51 am

BTW I am insanely jealous of Xan's 401K, which apparently allows him to invest in gold.

Hah, don't be! No 401k. Just an IRA.

I should also point out that his "I support A but not B, C but not D" discussion seems largely incoherent. If health care is a right, not a privilege, then how do you NOT support "Medicare for all"? Clearly he's saying whatever he has to in order to try to get both the left and moderate wings behind...

Mark, can you be more specific about the road he was warning you against going down? Too much medical intervention at end-of-life? Living so long that you need to be catheterized? A career in nursing?

Joe Biden is now also an expert on beating Joe Biden: https://youtu.be/s9k-MibU8RI It sure sounds funny to listen to! But I have to admit that he's actually saying "BE Joe Biden", rather than "beat". Him saying "beat Joe Biden" would require multiple simultaneous mental misfires (which he's probabl...