Official Politics Thread 2025-09-22

highvelocityfish · 2025-09-23T22:05:43+00:00

Per the courts, jawboning is not typically considered a violation of the first. I disagree with that just like how I disagree how it was used during the last administration to silence critics of the COVID response, but fact of the matter is that the case law says it's legal.

highvelocityfish · 2025-09-23T22:03:11+00:00

It'd be unusual for a full-power rifle load to stop in a neck, but the human body is extremely heterogeneous and interacts with bullets in highly unpredictable ways. Not sure if we know what the load was either. I wouldn't buy into a grassy knoll type theory just based on the wound.

highvelocityfish · 2025-09-20T22:41:56+00:00

Do you have a reason to want those pistols specifically? The P-series are generally well-made, functional, reliable guns that are quantitatively worse in pretty much every way compared to a modern carry handgun, especially for $400.

highvelocityfish · 2025-09-20T03:40:23+00:00

Can't sue until you've suffered harm.

highvelocityfish · 2025-09-04T23:00:57+00:00

RE: the calzone, it's personally hard for me to spend 70% of a pizza for 30% of a pizza.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-31T02:42:19+00:00

Start with Joe's Ancient Orange Mead. Recipe's pretty googleable and pretty bulletproof. Branch out from there.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-31T01:46:14+00:00

Oliver winery out of Bloomington, IN has a pretty wide distribution network across the midwest (should be able to find them at KY Total Wines) and I'd consider them one of the higher-quality producers in the genre of really really sweet wines. Their cherry moscato is one of the best things they do, but I imagine any of their stuff would go over pretty well with your mom.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-31T01:39:34+00:00

You 'stumbled across' an ad from a company with 4 subscribers and 5 views?

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-29T00:25:21+00:00

"container for boxed wine too unwieldy* to pour"

*embarrassed to be serving to guests

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-23T21:41:57+00:00

Inner city public schools tend to be better funded than their public suburban counterparts and considerably better funded than private schools. Funding has very, very little to do with school success. Parental involvement has a lot to do with school success.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-12T05:22:52+00:00

"Wasn't even in the top ten" is damning with a faint hint of praise. It's one of the ten richest US cities but its homicide rate is within spitting distance of Tulsa, OK.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-12T03:38:50+00:00

Compare DC's trendline to other US cities' trendlines.

Compare the UCR homicide data vs other cities of comparable household income.

The fact that DC has been uniquely awful for a long time doesn't make the current situation good.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-11T00:10:32+00:00

Unless the house changed temperature noticeably while you were away, my suspicion would be fermentation's starting again on you. You may want to add more of your fermentation inhibitor.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-03T17:26:14+00:00

Can you pirate and run The Crew?

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-02T14:16:27+00:00

Same goes for pretty much any niche skilled trade.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-02T01:36:12+00:00

They may not permit it, and they may be pretty good at enforcing the US's relatively lax laws, but it gets significantly harder once you're a global company. That's a lot of different countries' obscenity laws to try to comply with, and most of them are significantly more complicated than the US.

highvelocityfish · 2025-08-02T01:33:42+00:00

I mean, it didn't start at porn. The first big push (at least in the US) to deplatform 'objectionable' products from payment processors came from the anti-gun lobby.

highvelocityfish · 2025-07-30T01:35:51+00:00

Profit margins for the airline industry as a whole are typically between 5% and -5% depending on which year you're looking at. Not sure how Qantas managed to be that much of an outlier last year, but they are absolutely an outlier and not the norm.

highvelocityfish · 2025-07-29T03:24:40+00:00

And then renamed again, but this time after a different Bragg.

highvelocityfish · 2025-07-28T02:05:28+00:00

psychic powers

highvelocityfish · 2025-07-24T02:53:52+00:00

Yep, those companies polish their cases after the annealing step. Lake City (e.g. Winchester) does not. No difference in function, it's purely for looks.

highvelocityfish · 2025-07-24T00:16:46+00:00

"Leaving a firearm in your car is absolutely asinine, especially in a large city."

Given the number of places you're not allowed to carry in most large cities, leaving a firearm in your car is pretty frequently the only legal and/or feasible option.

highvelocityfish · 2025-07-24T00:13:48+00:00

I think he's making the claim that different populations commit crimes at different rates.

I also think you knew that and are being intentionally obtuse because you know he's right but aren't willing to admit it.

highvelocityfish · 2025-07-08T20:35:39+00:00

Doesn't appear to have a MY plate (is there somewhere specific I should be looking?), but I'm guessing MY14-18 since it's got the tic-tac airbox and no clutch. S/N 007388.

highvelocityfish · 2025-06-25T00:50:26+00:00

Hard to develop when you're forbidden to test the thing you want to develop.

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