Reply With QuoteBecause we weren't putting careers at risk by thinking it.Originally Posted by Kitsuma
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You are at the very least onto something. I think that the behind the scenes conflict is in full swing. It will go on at least until the presidential election. We can only follow the breadcrumbs. The official line is not much more important than afternoon TV soap operas.
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Because we weren't putting careers at risk by thinking it.
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We've all seen how one funny guy from Texas can be so right about something, while the entire "exercise science" establishment gets it so wrong. The fallibility of "experts" was as clear as day to us before any of this started. No, more than that. We didn't just know they could be fallible, we knew the experts could be completely fucking retarded.
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Seems obvious. How would you like to be a "scientist" in Canada, where the government tells you what science is, and not the other way around? Or maybe "scientists" in Canada don't need to be told what they are supposed to do. That's the way it works here.
A very practical argument. At some point we have to stop being concerned with the country, because the country is no longer concerned with us.
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Related: Emails Show CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After Gun'-'Control Advocates Pressured Officials in Private Meeting | The Reload
So, there are 400 million guns in the hands of private citizens in this country, and we are the most heavily-armed society in the history of civilization. There are probably 40 million "AR-15s" in private possession, and they want to ban them.The Center For Disease Control (CDC) deleted a reference to a study it commissioned after a group of gun-control advocates complained it made passing new restrictions more difficult.
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The decision to remove a CDC-commissioned report from the agency’s website on gun statistics at the apparent behest of gun-control advocates may further strain its relationship with Congressional overseers, especially pro-gun Republicans who are set to take control of the House next year. The relationship between the two, already frayed over the Coronavirus pandemic, could reach new lows not seen in decades. During the 1990s, Congress put restrictions on CDC funding in response to officials openly working with gun-control groups to try and ban handguns.
“We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes,” Mark Rosenberg, director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention, told The Washington Post in 1994. “It used to be that smoking was a glamour symbol–cool, sexy, macho. Now it is dirty, deadly–and banned.”
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Bryant and GVA have gained notoriety for its count of “mass shootings” that uses a much broader definition, with any shooting where four or more victims are injured compared to the Associated Press definition of four or more killed. The difference in methodology results in a near-ten-fold difference in the number of identified “mass shootings.” GVA’s count, alongside its near-real-time tracking of shootings through media reports, has been widely cited by media outlets since it was launched in 2013.
Conversely, GVA uses the most conservative criteria for what constitutes a defensive gun use. Instead of attempting to capture any time a person legally uses a gun to defend themselves or others, it only counts incidents that make it into media reports or police reports (though it’s unclear how many police reports they have access to). The site’s methodology takes a strikingly dismissive tone towards any other potential defensive gun uses.
“Our policies do not take into account stories not reported, ‘I can’t believe this happened to me’ scenarios or extrapolations from surveys,” the methodology reads. “Our position is that if an incident is significant enough that a responsible gun owner fears for their life and determines a need to threaten lethal force it is significant enough to report to police so law enforcement can stop that perpetrator from harming someone else.”
No. Now, what are you going to do? Your move, children.
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I don't normally link to college shit, but this is how you get more bridges to fall down: "Decolonizing" Light
Finally, room in physics for people who can't do the math.
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I think DJT just put a massive damper on a chance of making it through the primaries with the insane NFT card move. It's not that I give a damn about them. It's that the magic is gone from the staff he needs to have a chance to win a campaign. Which is terribly sad. The whole reason I don't want Desantis running for POTUS was never because I wanted Trump instead. It's because I don't believe 2024 will be winnable for any Republican for reasons made obvious by everyone's favorite county -- Maricopa. Why tie up any state, or even local, semi-competent-office-holding Republican in a failed attempt?
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We're going to need alliances with a number of people that modern society would find déclassé. We need to think of the coming struggle like a bus route. We might not all be going to the same destination. But if we can, for a time, agree to go in the same general direction, we might find our numbers large enough to form a nice little rebellion.
I quite enjoyed that. I didn't realize wearing a dress wouldn't diminish my appreciation for that man's thighs.
This is a conversation I have with myself frequently. I hold more metal and weapons than my ancestors. I have retained my land and property in spite of my husband's death. I am arguably doing better than the generations who came before me in some ways but worse in others. Do I leave and become landless (at least for the moment) but gain other freedoms? Or do I hold my territory and fight if need be? My boy is off making his way in Texas, my girl is grown enough to make her way when she chooses. My future is my own. There may be other countries that are favorable. But I don't owe those who want to destroy this one an easy time of it. Why should we not fight for what is ours? Why should we have to move, to run? Make them run. We are right. We have the numbers if people are willing. People just want to live in peace and warmth and have food -- they aren't genuinely on board with all this woke globalism bullshit. We are Americans. We have the blood of generations of rebels in us. We are the descendants of privateers, rum runners, and tax evaders. Never mind the intrepid and poorly behaved explorers who claimed the place. And now we're just gonna hand it over? Bullshit. I want them to have to fight tooth and nail to bring this country to heel. I want them to have to lose every last bit of veneer and show who they really are. The harder they clamp down, the more they show their true colors, the more people will side with us and see what needs doing.
Then the other half of my brain makes the argument you do and reminds me that I have no idea where my destiny lies so I might not ought to get so uppity about it.
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Lookie here: My take: fusion "breakthrough" a total dud – HotAir
First, the net energy gain is a myth. It is true that the scientists ignited the fuel and the energy release was more than the energy put into the fuel pellet. But that is not what you should be interested in. The energy used to put that energy into the pellet was vastly more than what was released.
In simple terms the lasers delivered X amount of energy to ignite the fusion process, and the fusion process delivered about 1.5X coming out. But in order to deliver that X amount of energy (about 2 million joules) they needed 150X to generate it.
In other words, the net energy “breakthrough” was actually a huge energy drain. It took 300 joules of energy to get just over 3 joules out.
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I don’t think it’s as hard as you think. There’s far more ways to move the ball closer to “no guns” than there are to move the ball in the opposite direction.
First and foremost time is on their side, there is an anti gun position and this is not opposed by any institution, politically or otherwise. What there is, are institutions that legally defend encroachments against those rights. But you don’t win by playing defense, you either draw or lose. 9 draws followed by 1 loss is not a track record to be proud of. The trend is against you.
Has there ever been a time in American history where gun owner rights have increased? Automatic weapons will never be made legal again, bump stocks will never be made legal again.
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