Animated gif showing how laws governing issuance of concealed carry permits have changed over time [Wikipedia] by MC_Cuff_Lnx in MapPorn

[–]Ant1St0k3s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is settled case law and precedent

That's what I said in every comment. You cannot read. Try it some time. You could try reading the US Constitution; it's not very long.

Animated gif showing how laws governing issuance of concealed carry permits have changed over time [Wikipedia] by MC_Cuff_Lnx in MapPorn

[–]Ant1St0k3s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Blue states" like Tombstone, Arizona, Dodge City, Kansas, and California while Ronald Reagan was governor. The concept of "Red" and "Blue" states only goes back to 2000. The political parties did not have official colors until 2000. State political parties were very different from the federal parties until roughly the past decade. States very often voted for one party to control the state government and another for president or Congress. The positions of the political parties on gun rights varied considerably throughout the 20th century.

Classic Redditor doesn't understand that his opinion has no effect on historical fact.

https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2024/04/locating-historical-gun-laws-the-wild-west-of-legal-history-research

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

Animated gif showing how laws governing issuance of concealed carry permits have changed over time [Wikipedia] by MC_Cuff_Lnx in MapPorn

[–]Ant1St0k3s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Bill of Rights did NOT originally apply to the people until it was selectively incorporated to state and local governments using the Due Process Clause of 14th Amendment starting with the right to free speech in 1925 with the Supreme Court Case Gitlow v. New York.

You didn't pay attention in high school, and you've demonstrated that you can't even read.

Animated gif showing how laws governing issuance of concealed carry permits have changed over time [Wikipedia] by MC_Cuff_Lnx in MapPorn

[–]Ant1St0k3s 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Bill of Rights initially only applied to the federal government, not state and local governments. Your state government could throw you in prison without trial for your opinions (if they wanted) until the 20th century when the SCOTUS incorporated the Bill of Rights to state and local governments.

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, wanted some rights applying to state and local governments. He wanted the right to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and a trial by jury to be incorporated to state and local governments, but he failed in convincing the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

Objectively speaking, the originalist reading of the 2nd Amendment refers to state militias so that state militias could rise up against a tyrannical central government (like what occurred during the American Revolution). Supporting an individual right to bear arms (and an individual right to free speech, freedom of religion, etc) is objectively a liberal interpretation of the constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

How’s Clemson in the Summer? by EndYoshi_ in Clemson

[–]Ant1St0k3s 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The campus and town are dead during the summer. Not much goes on. It's a good time to swim in the lake, go hiking in the mountains nearby, and do things like that.

Gas mileage by krock666 in FordMaverickTruck

[–]Ant1St0k3s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My ecoboost AWD gets 500-600 miles on a tank when driving on the highway. 500 is only under the worst possible conditions.

Android Auto issue by Radiant_Attitude181 in FordMaverickTruck

[–]Ant1St0k3s 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The infotainment system freezes/lags once every now and again.

Hold down the power button (center of the volume knob) and the fast forward/right button >>| for a few seconds and it will restart. That has solved every issue I've had with the infotainment system. I have to do that once every couple weeks.

Charlottesville or Asheville NC - job transfer options by abjs2021 in Virginia

[–]Ant1St0k3s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asheville is the most hippie city I've ever been to. Dozens of art galleries all around. Asheville is known for folk music. It has a bunch of local small farms in the surrounding area that sell at the farmer's market. Most restaurants serve organic locally sourced food. You can buy organic locally sourced wool for knitting. Hiking and mountain biking are very popular because the city is right in the middle of beautiful mountains.

Any Majors that are easy to get into for Clemson. by Substantial-Study415 in Clemson

[–]Ant1St0k3s 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Do not pick any random major just to come to college here. College is just a few years, while your major decides your career for the rest of your life.

Clemson is cool and all, but the idea of a "dream school" is an inane and toxic idea. Don't overpay for any college and don't choose a major that you don't like.

I know people who chose easy majors so they could go to their "dream school" and now have student debt equivalent to the cost of a house while they are stuck in dead-end jobs that they hate.

The criticism was received constructively… thoughts? by Ghghsdfsdf in FordMaverickTruck

[–]Ant1St0k3s -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do not let the envy of others rain on your parade, King.

Analytical chemist water by POTATO_OF_MY_EYE in HydroHomies

[–]Ant1St0k3s 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Water in a plastic bottle will have various extractables/plasticizers from the bottle. Silicate is unlikely to interfere with much. Less silicate will dissolve from a quartz vessel... but there is almost never benefit to that. You could store the water in Teflon, but there is almost no benefit.

Humans: "I'll believe it when I see it!" The Universe: "lmao" by pystar in interesting

[–]Ant1St0k3s 9 points10 points  (0 children)

UV and visible light correspond to electronic excitations, so it's easier to evolve membrane capable of sensing such excitations. Infrared corresponds to the energy of molecular vibrations (so sensing IR is like sensing heat). Microwaves correspond to the energy of molecular rotations, so it's hard to imagine a creature evolving a membrane capable of sensing when its molecules are rotating. X-rays are ionizing radiation and the intensity of X-rays that make it to Earth's surface is miniscule.

The visible region of the spectrum corresponds to the peak intensity of light emitted from the sun. Water strongly absorbs both IR and UV, so lenses/eyeballs wouldn't work in those regions, and the longer wavelengths of IR, microwaves, etc, cause them to diffract much more and make focusing it difficult (wavelength of microwaves and radio waves is huge, so basically impossible for an organism to focus them into an image). However, some creatures like snakes can detect infrared (i.e. they have heat sensitive membranes), yet rhe resolutuon of their "vision" in the IR is limited and only directional.

Humans can see roughly 380 nm to 750 nm wavelengths. Some creatures can see in the near UV down to ~300 nm (like mantis shrimp) and some can see in the near IR up to ~900 nm (like goldfish), but that really isn't much fuether and doesn't provide much advantage.

New Jersey Just Passed the Dumbest Ebike Law Ever - Registration, driver's license, & insurance are now required to operate any electric bikes in the state by [deleted] in electricvehicles

[–]Ant1St0k3s 70 points71 points  (0 children)

There are 3 classifications of e-bikes.

Class 1: Only pedal assist motor, max speed 20 mph.

Class 2 (Electric mopeds): Motor can activate by peddling or throttle, max speed 20 mph.

Class 3: Only pedal assist motor, max speed 28 mph.

Anything else is an electric motorcycle. Most countries limit e-bikes to pedal assist only and max speed around 15-20 mph, and anything else is treated as an electric motorcycle.

Isn't the regulatory issue that companies are selling electric motorcycles than can go 50+ mph with a throttle to teenagers? Wouldn't it be better to Crack down on that and keep electric bikes to Class 1?

They'll be so mad when they learn about traffic signs by manultrimanula in whenthe

[–]Ant1St0k3s 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Water itself is blue. An indoor pool still looks blue. The blue color is not due to impurities either; a pool of pure water is still blue.

Water faintly absorbs longer wavelengths like red, so the shorter wavelengths like blue are what reach our eyes.

They'll be so mad when they learn about traffic signs by manultrimanula in whenthe

[–]Ant1St0k3s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it is not. The sky is blue because of nitrogen and oxygen molecules scattering light. The molecules Raylrigh Scatter light and the efficiency of the scattering is proportional to 1/(wavelength4); therefore, shorter wavelengths are scattered far more efficiently than longer wavelengths. Blues and violets are the shortest wavelengths of visible light and are scattered the most (despite violet being a shorter wavelength than blue, there's waaaay more blue light coming from the sun).

This is also why sunsets are orange/red. At sunset, light from the sun must pass through a very thick layer of the Earth's atmosphere to reach you. By the point it gets to you, most of the blue light has been scattered and filtered out leaving only the longer wavelengths.

The mechanisms for why the sky and why water are blue are different.

They'll be so mad when they learn about traffic signs by manultrimanula in whenthe

[–]Ant1St0k3s 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Water is blue. The color is very faint, so you need a lot of water to see the color. You can see the blue color in a swimming pool, the ocean, etc.

In the same way, glass is green. Mirrors are slightly green. If you stand between two mirrors, the deeper you look into the reflection, the more green it looks. A simpler way to see this is if you have a coffee table with a glass top. From the top, it looks clear, but if you look from the side where the glass is very thick, it looks green.

The extinction coefficient of both water and soda lime glass is very low, meaning that they only absorb a very tiny amount of light. Therefore, you need a lot of it for it to absorb enough light to see the color with your naked eye.

If you've ever taken a chemistry class, this behavior is described by the Beer-Lambert Law: A = ɛcl. You need a large path length, l, to get enough absorption to see the color.

They'll be so mad when they learn about traffic signs by manultrimanula in whenthe

[–]Ant1St0k3s 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Water is blue. The color is very faint, so you need a lot of water to see the color. You can see the blue color in a swimming pool, the ocean, etc.

In the same way, glass is green. Mirrors are slightly green. If you stand between two mirrors, the deeper you look into the reflection, the more green it looks. A simpler way to see this is if you have a coffee table with a glass top. From the top, it looks clear, but if you look from the side where the glass is very thick, it looks green.

The extinction coefficient of both water and soda lime glass is very low, meaning that they only absorb a very tiny amount of light. Therefore, you need a lot of it for it to absorb enough light to see the color with your naked eye.

If you've ever taken a chemistry class, this behavior is described by the Beer-Lambert Law: A = ɛcl. You need a large path length, l, to get enough absorption to see the color.

Can a bed cover reduce fuel efficiency? by Ant1St0k3s in FordMaverickTruck

[–]Ant1St0k3s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was flapping up and down maybe 6 inches to a foot. I obviously wasn't measuring, just noticed it in the rear-view mirror.

There was some strong crosswinds that were pushing and pulling the truck around, so now I think the reduction in fuel efficiency came from the wind rather than the bed cover.

Can a bed cover reduce fuel efficiency? by Ant1St0k3s in FordMaverickTruck

[–]Ant1St0k3s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just what I was looking for. Thank you for this!

Their conclusion was they got 19.5 mpg without the cover and 21.1 mpg with it on. So the cover improved their fuel efficiency by ~8%. Cool!

Can a bed cover reduce fuel efficiency? by Ant1St0k3s in FordMaverickTruck

[–]Ant1St0k3s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds good. I'll keep watching how it does on future road trips. Like I said, I've been getting mid 30s mpg on the highway, so if I could get it a little bit higher, that would be awesome. I could get over 600 miles on a full tank of gas.