Septimaeus
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- Comment on hawt 2 weeks ago:
Threesome primes
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 2 weeks ago:
Cogito ergo sum gains?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
(Apologies, got busy at work.) Yes I’d have thought so too. There might be a list which jurisdictions where it’s available.
I suspect the lack of precedent for their incorporation among the amendments binding the states comes down to just the budgetary requirements for expansion. As long as it remains unreasonable or impossible to enforce without effectively being taken over by federal, these exceptions remain.
2A might be similar in principle, since there’s no one-size-fits-all doctrine that can be realistically applied besides either zero regulation or a complete ban, both of which would risk a great deal of legitimacy.
I’m with you re: gun control. Tools not toys. Many tools are dangerous enough to require proof of competency and/or purpose. Guns specifically designed to be dangerous, so it’s not unreasonable to expect those tools have greater oversight.
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
We already meet the requirements for 5th and 7th.
States do not because as of yet, 5’s grand jury requirement, 6’s criminal jury trial right, and 7’s civil jury trial right have not been interpreted as binding upon the states.
By default, it doesn’t render it unconstitutional. It means you can’t violate it by restricting rights.
I agree that’s the precedent, but I’m unclear where we should place that threshold of violation. Presumably somewhere on the scale of TX to NY? Perhaps… IL?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
Then we need to overhaul the court systems and multiply their bureaucratic size and process to satisfy the grand jury requirement of 5A and the civil jury trial right of 7A.
And assuming 2a renders state gun control unconstitutional, I presume then we read 2A as a carte blanche guarantee to possession of these weapons to citizens.
This is what we propose, yes?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
Just so I’m on the same page, we’re still talking about the first 10 (not 13-15, 19, etc.) and the question is whether 2A renders state gun control unconstitutional?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
Hmm maybe my information is out of date or I just need to review. Which case incorporated 2A? Was it more recent than DC-Heller?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
I don’t remember much con law, but I seem to recall using 7a to incorporate 2a is very much a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t prospect, and justices have historically leaned on stare decisis to avoid cutting the knot.
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
I’m no ConLaw expert, but AFAIK the doctrine remains that the Bill of Rights restricts only federal government, save for the apparently difficult case of part of 7A (due process). Using that clause to incorporate 2A by all accounts remains a jurisprudential Faustian bargain no justices have yet been willing to make.
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 3 weeks ago:
She’s right that states and municipalities have the right impose their own gun laws, since 2a is federal in scope, though it would have been more accurate to say “doesn’t apply” rather than “doesn’t exist,” obviously.
Honestly my heart goes out to the defendant. He could easily have easily been a coworker of mine, and if my coworker told me about his fun hobby making ghost guns without any kind of permit or license in this city of all places, I would have dropped everything to talk sense into him.
He sounds like any other gun nerd, but he straight up ignored gun law in a place with famously strict gun laws, and with serious gusto.
defendant’s 36 ghost gun arsenal
I’m kind of surprised he was able to make as many guns as he did before metro police came knocking.
- Comment on banaynay 3 weeks ago:
(sudden 3rd hand)
- Comment on Biden Wipes Out Another $7.4 Billion in Student Loan Debt 5 weeks ago:
No! Any less suffering is deprives the young of their birthright. We must ensure the heritage of adversity is preserved!
- Comment on What's the vaporization temperature of mouse urine? 5 weeks ago:
Most ducting in the dash of vehicles can be accessed with just a screwdriver, and there are usually only a handful of screws and plastic fasteners/snaps you have to remove. Downloading the diagram from a shop manual will show you where they are so you don’t have to find each of them, but it’s usually apparent in situ.
If you don’t remove the ducts to clean them, while you may be able to lessen the smell by removing vent covers and snaking cleaning materials through the ductwork, your car will still always smell. The only way to get rid of the smell entirely is to remove the affected ducts and properly wash them.
Before any if that, however: do you know which ducts are affected? It will reduce your workload considerably, especially if the affected duct is in fact your fresh air intake, as I would expect.
The way I would determine that is to
- run the fan on high with recirculate ON and all windows open for several minutes, then
- sit inside and close the windows. Is the smell lessened from before?
- If so, confirm the diagnosis by turning recirculate off. If the smell suddenly gets stronger, it’s likely the rodent never made it past the blower manifold.
In that case you’re in luck, as you may not need to disassemble the dash much at all. (You would be working mostly in the engine compartment and passenger footwell.)
- Comment on proof is in the pudding 1 month ago:
Identifier suppression, sequence termination, Amy Sherman-Palladino, etc.
- Comment on periodic tablets 1 month ago:
“True love,” if I’m not mistaken.
- Comment on a booty that makes it rain 1 month ago:
I wear Thunderstorm by Demeter for this: it’s the closest practical replica I’ve found that lasts more than an hour.
Even then, it’s closer to “inspired by” petrichor than a true replica, but the hint of ozone to invoke a storm on the wind is quite a nice touch.
- Comment on particool 1 month ago:
Prior to such observational collapse, we see by their exchange that both of them applied a controlled-not before diagonalizing, yielding a classic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosenburg pair.
Hence, the expected outcome is in fact two entangled blue balls, the girl’s pair of which are certain to be just as blue.
- Comment on the internet 1 month ago:
Useful corollary: smart people tend to overestimate others’ intelligence, sometimes drastically.
- Comment on Aubrey Plaza says what all the interns want to say #aubreyplaza #memes #intern #internships - YouTube 1 month ago:
Oh man, when the hiring manager says “not at first” with that sing-song lilt, the adrenaline hit was immediate. 15 years later and this still gets to me.
- Comment on Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? 1 month ago:
What if I CRISPR my tits for a better nutrient profile. Can I make money selling vegan dairy then?
- Comment on Why is there no true Progressive party in America right now? 1 month ago:
Long-short, it’s known as Duverger’s Law. Winner-takes-all (single member district majority) incentivizes competing interests to consolidate power into a unified party label to increase chances of winning. Any third party necessarily steals votes from one of the two main parties, which is why each party manages its label for maximal policy coverage and every issue becomes red vs blue.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
That one’s a refurb iLife v3s. Not sure of current price but I paid $62.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
One is just smart enough to set a daily schedule, no WiFi or cameras, but it’s bullet proof and easier to maintain than the others. It’s possible to not sacrifice privacy.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
In newer construction, especially high-rise apartments, there’s a lot less dust. But in older buildings, it’s just an endless torrent, and the solution has been…
Robot vacuums
While they must be maintained, and won’t work well if you’re not diligent about picking up and keeping obstacles off the floor, they make it far easier to keep the whole house clean by reducing the overall volume of interior dust and debris inside the building envelope.
To illustrate (this will be gross) I change the bags about every month and weigh them and it’s usually ~1 kg per bag, so each year they remove roughly 30-40 kg. And every time I’ve cut them open to see what’s causing all the weight (or make sure nothing important was eaten) it appears to be mostly dust and hair.
It’s freaky thinking how all of that would be floating around, settling on surfaces, collecting in corners and crevices, saturating carpets and upholstery, and of course getting breathed in constantly. Instead I don’t have to manually dust and vacuum very often and our indoor AQI is usually better than outside.
So yeah. Robots.
- Comment on What produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs? 1 month ago:
Likely a uniform white picture since the impedance of the input wire is too high for ambient noise on the line to result in any differentiated interlacing.
- Comment on How does data sent over the internet know where to go? 1 month ago:
Packet headers.
A packet is like a sealed mailing envelope. Its headers are like things written on the face of an envelope, including an address. Chunks of data on the internet are so many letters in these envelopes, carried and delivered by a network of other computers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Until one landlord defects to improve their occupancy rate.
Game theory
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Formally, market efficiency makes this impossible without price fixing.
Practically, UBI does result in mild inflation of consumer prices in most models, but it’s because the market changes shape slightly to meet new consumer demand, as opposed to a blanket price increase of everything.
- Comment on What's stopping people who lash out at the world from going after corporations? 2 months ago:
Places are symbolic, often institutions by which the perpetrator feels betrayed, excluded, or neglected: school, community, religion, government, society, etc.
As to why figureheads, authorities, owners/elites, and similarly logical representatives are less common targets, I suspect it’s the same reason why smaller acts of violence often target the innocent: primal dynamics behind the cycle of abuse. The hurt/abused are made to feel weak and associate abuse with strength. Unless the original abuser is perceived as newly vulnerable, a weaker target is then sought, and the abuse is perpetuated rather than reciprocated.
It’s helpful to bear in mind, because the most common forms of perpetuated abuse are subtle enough to go unnoticed by most, including various microaggressions, exclusive body language, backhanded compliments, contrarian and adversarial mannerisms, etc. More noticeable are things like verbal insults or threats, bullying, theft, vandalism, and the like, but these are often treated as isolated behavioral problems. Acts of physical violence are of course most noticeable, but are usually preceded by other signs. Anyway, if you notice someone is hurting, or you are hurt yourself, don’t ignore it. We must look out for each other.