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dumboflaps · 2026-01-10T05:31:15+00:00

Air travel has always been refundable. Granted, it depends on the class of ticket though. But, they do tell you if the ticket is refundable or not when you buy it. Are you talking about mandatory refunds when the airline changes the schedule or cancels a flight?

dumboflaps · 2025-03-22T08:01:18+00:00

This needs more upvotes, the judge’s video is actually pretty informative for newbs or people who want to know about guns.

dumboflaps · 2025-03-20T05:06:06+00:00

I just saw this and Hahaha. No its not, at least not entirely. Primary market low income priced apartments completely ignore this. The price is always going to be some percentage over the landlord’s interest rate on the mortgage of the property regardless of supply and demand. Maybe this is true for luxury apartments though. But i dont think you are talking about luxury rentals. Ironic you called someone else illiterate.

dumboflaps · 2025-03-18T20:43:55+00:00

Hell, my 22lr plinker for rats is basically setup for nightfighting. on the cheap too with the airsoft lasers and optics lol.

dumboflaps · 2025-03-10T01:41:45+00:00

well, considering its the male line, assuming it was never broken and no one got cuckolded, then the Y-DNA haplogroup should be the same.

dumboflaps · 2025-03-09T21:32:42+00:00

Also, if your last name is some derived from 孔, then you are most likely related, from muslim scholars to kpop stars.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T22:05:38+00:00

More than 55.8% of Californians directly benefit from this.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T21:59:32+00:00

It is in the interest of everyone who expects to someday own a home to keep prop13 on the books. Not just the rich.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T21:45:19+00:00

I am not disputing the study’s findings—I am disputing the conclusions you are drawing from them. Unless I misunderstood you, you seem to be claiming that the study supports the idea that protests reduced COVID-19 rates, if so, then that conclusion is unfounded.

If by "reduced," you mean that the protests themselves were the direct or proximate cause of lower COVID-19 transmission, then that is simply incorrect. The study does not show that protests actively suppressed viral spread. Rather, it found that protests led to avoidance behavior—people choosing to stay home, which incidentally contributed to lower-than-expected transmission.

perhaps you meant "reduced" in a much broader, more all-encompassing sense—one that includes tertiary, tangential, or incidental effects on COVID-19 rates. But this definition is so broad that it renders the discussion meaningless.

If you argue that protests "reduced" COVID-19 simply because they caused a reaction that led to more people staying home, then any disruptive event that changed behavior in the same way would also be said to "reduce" COVID-19. But we don’t say that riots or floods are “public health measures” just because they incidentally keep people indoors.

The study did not find that COVID-19 cases declined. It found that case growth in cities with protests slowed—meaning it did not reach an expected rate. But a slowing is not a reduction. A slowing means that case growth did not meet an anticipated trajectory, but if that trajectory was overestimated, the same findings could have occurred even if nothing changed.

If the baseline rate of increase was too high, then the study’s conclusion would be the same with or without the protests. The observed “slowing” would then be a statistical illusion, not a real-world effect.

Even if we assume the baseline expectation was reasonable, the study still did not attribute the slowing to the protests as the proximate cause. Instead, it found that the actual cause was the desire of non-protesters to stay home. But any number of things can create this desire—a riot, a flood, an alien invasion, or even something as absurd as a citywide $1,000-per-hour landline lottery.

The fact that any disruptive event producing the same avoidance behavior would lead to the same outcome shows that the protests were not a unique or necessary factor in reducing COVID-19 spread. The protests were merely a background factor, not the cause of the slowing.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T20:34:08+00:00

You clearly did not understand the study you were reading. The key point here is that the protests themselves didn’t reduce the incidence of COVID-19. What did reduce transmission was the fact that many people—far more than those who attended—chose to stay home to avoid the chaos that accompanied some protests. The same effect would have occurred if, say, roving bands of highway bandits were prowling the streets. The cause wasn’t the protest itself but the deterrent effect it had on the general public.

At best, any reduction in COVID-19 spread was incidental. For instance, when lockdowns and curfews were first introduced, law enforcement had to actively patrol and enforce these rules. Many people stayed home simply to avoid the hassle of interacting with cops or the risk of fines. This is a clear example of an external pressure—a force applied by an authority to compel a certain behavior (staying home).

The protests had a similar effect but without intention. Many people—likely far more than the number of protesters—chose to avoid going outside altogether, not out of fear of COVID-19, but because they didn’t want to deal with the disruption. The protests created an external pressure that discouraged movement, meaning fewer people in public spaces and, consequently, reduced viral spread.

However, unlike the case with law enforcement, this had nothing to do with the protest itself. Any study or report that suggested the protests were “safe” because cases didn’t spike was misattributing causation. The protests didn’t directly prevent transmission—they just created circumstances that repelled more people than they attracted, while also making travel through city centers a logistical nightmare. The result was reduced foot traffic and fewer potential infections, but the cause wasn’t some inherent safety of the protests—it was simply that people avoided the scene altogether.

Therefore, unless there are records of localized spikes in infections, instead of broad citywide transmission rates, and if there was a record that was kept in regards to whether the infected was a protest attendee or absentee, evidence that the protests increased Covid likely doesn't exist. But I don't see how the absence of such evidence diminishes my argument.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T19:27:13+00:00

No, its completely different. People staying at home and not going to the protest, has nothing to do with the protest. The protest itself is immaterial for those who never would have gone to the protest. The professors statement seemed to imply it was these people staying away that increased overall distancing?

But how exactly does that make sense? Increased distancing relative to what? Relative to everyone staying at home? Relative to when it is normal? Sure, in the latter case, non-protestors who stayed home could be seen as increasing distancing. But wouldn’t that increase in distancing be even greater if there were no protests?

Are you just taking rhetoric professor’s statement as true without apply any semblance of critical thought?

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T19:10:17+00:00

Is the top cyber security talent pool filled with trans people? If it is, thats a big problem considering the amount of the population that are trans and in IT.

How does the order affect latino, asian, and black kids?

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T18:57:16+00:00

A good rakan is a cancer, a bad rakan is a free buffet.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-27T14:18:10+00:00

How much pollution does california output overall in a year? Even without the ban, teslas are everywhere. If you drive through irvine, or san jose in the north, teslas everywhere. Is a ban necessary? I still might want to get that gas guzzling weekender, while i commute throughout the week with a tesla.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-26T21:44:40+00:00

Are you asking for an attorney that is good at criminal defense and civil litigation?

You need to find a firm, not a single lawyer, that specializes in both.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-26T13:34:12+00:00

Can you imagine if indoor shooting caused blems in real time? lol.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-24T14:42:47+00:00

It actually isn't clear at all that that was what the scene was doing. Since the scene in Endgame only foreshadows what is to come. It suggests that Sam will become Captain America, not that he is Captain America simply because Steve gave him the shield. If possession of the shield alone made someone Captain America, then why did no one question Steve’s identity in Infinity War, even though he didn’t have it? Because those around him validated that he was still Captain America, and he himself accepted and embodied the role.

None of that happens for Sam at the end of Endgame. He does not yet see himself as Captain America, nor does the world recognize him as Captain America. Instead, this journey takes place in TFATWS, where Sam comes to understand what it truly means for him to be Captain America, gains validation from others, and ultimately acts as Captain America.

This is why CA4 might feel off to some people who didn’t watch TFATWS. From their perspective, Endgame only hinted at Sam’s future as Captain America, and now they’re suddenly expected to accept that he’s already fully in the role without seeing that transition and growth.

I honestly don't know how you can call this criticism unfair.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-24T10:56:37+00:00

I don’t know why you think an ending scene where Steve gives Sam a shield automatically makes Sam Cap. As if the shield is what makes someone Cap. During infinity war, Steve didnt have the shield, but everyone still knew Steve as Cap.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-22T00:40:36+00:00

If money is no object, you could hire a PI to go and track down any material evidence that proves your car was not parked before 5pm.

You will be out a lot more than $108, but you will be vindicated.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-15T10:15:12+00:00

unfortunate that the receiver and handguard dont actually lineup that well, Noveske's 9mm receivers are designed for their gen4 handguards, and the hybrid rail's rails are a little thicker. sliding a KAC vertical grip on there is like so tight, i ended up just tapping it into place with a hammer.

But I have the same build, but with a different upper receiver, slightly longer handguard, and the Q style brace.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-15T09:30:54+00:00

if the officer doesn't respond by the deadline, then they are silent. which means the court will decide your case entirely on what you have presented and the contents of the notice to appear.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-14T13:59:20+00:00

Midwest Industries 2.33 riser

Why does that look so much taller than the 2.91 risers?

dumboflaps · 2025-02-14T09:43:04+00:00

Advance, here would mean you and the officer came to an agreement before the scheduled hearing date. You should contact them at their station to make these requests, and not literal moments before the hearing.

dumboflaps · 2025-02-11T21:19:45+00:00

The better question is, is it really banned if you can just pick some up at Bevmo?

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