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by chroma 4y ago
What? This decision doesn't change what guns people are allowed to buy. You can buy guns today, gain experience with them, and get a concealed carry permit later.
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by chroma 4y ago
US laws prevent this car from being sold to the masses. The vehicle lacks airbags, anti-lock brakes, and electronic stability control. I also doubt it would pass crash tests. You might be able sell it as a motorcycle, but then passengers wo
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by chroma 4y ago
> My state now has a hard 3 day limit and few Dr.s are willing to write even that. I don’t mean to de-anonymize you, but what state is this? I know state laws vary, but I haven’t heard of anything close to those sorts of restrictions.
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by chroma 4y ago
In the movie it's hand-waved away with one line about GPS jamming making the F-35 unusable for the mission. It doesn't make any sense, but I was fine with it. It's not like the original was realistic. As for why they didn&#x2
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by chroma 4y ago
Different states have different requirements for gasoline and that seems to work just fine. Gas in California has higher ethanol content than most states. Oregon requires that someone else pump your gas. All the states have different taxes
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by chroma 4y ago
It's hard to calculate how many charging stations will be needed. Most EV owners plug their cars in at home and wake up every day with a full charge. They only use charging stations for road trips. Also charging stations can be install
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by chroma 4y ago
Compared to CCS, Tesla made a ton of smart decisions with their charging setup: - All Teslas have their charging ports at the rear left side. This means that charging cables can be very short. Longer cables would cause tangles, cost more, a
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by chroma 4y ago
> It's still much more friction than simply going to a gun show or a state where there are no questions asked when you purchase a weapon. I really wish people would stop repeating this falsehood. If you live in a state that allows p
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by chroma 4y ago
It is comically easy to modify or manufacture magazines. A lot of 10 round magazines are just standard mags with a spacer. I used to live in California. Every time I went shooting in Nevada, I'd remove the spacers, turning my 10 round
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by chroma 4y ago
Hammer follow can easily cause a gun to go full auto.[1] Yes it's not as reliable as a sear designed for full auto, but it can work surprisingly well on blowback actions. The original comment was about handguns specifically, and was li
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by chroma 4y ago
Auto sears are illegal. Possessing one is a felony with a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. No legal civilian-owned full-auto firearm has been made since the 1986 ban.[1] There's really no way to make a semi-a
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by chroma 4y ago
I used to live in California. They have silly laws that require a "fin" on the grip (so you can't wrap your hand around it) and 10 round magazines. Once I moved, I fixed those annoyances.
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by chroma 4y ago
Yes I did slightly simplify. There is an exception for buying rifles and shotguns from a gun store, but that still requires passing a background check and everything. Also the rifle or shotgun must be legal in the state you reside. And it i
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by chroma 4y ago
Which ones? You can only buy guns in the state which you are a resident. You'd have to find a co-conspirator who is a resident of that state and who is willing to commit a felony to get you a gun. Or you'd have to live in one stat
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by chroma 4y ago
That is gun deaths , not gun homicides or mass shootings. Around 2/3rds of gun deaths are suicides. A suicidal person will choose the most effective and painless method available to them, so if they have a gun around, they'll use
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by chroma 4y ago
If the relationship were superlinear, then we'd expect to see much higher rates of mass shootings in places like Montana or Wyoming (where >60% of households have guns) and lower rates in California (where ~20% of households have gu
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by chroma 4y ago
It is already illegal for anyone convicted of domestic violence (or subject to a restraining order) to possess firearms. The ATF form 4473[1] includes these questions about domestic violence: > Are you subject to a court order, including
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by chroma 4y ago
The typical track is: First generation speaks their native language at home. Second generation is bilingual. Third generation is monolingual english. It sounds like the author tried to accelerate that process and it blew up in her face. I d
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by chroma 4y ago
If I go three generations back (great-grandparents), I'd have to learn at least three languages other than english. It can be rewarding to learn this stuff, but it scales about as well as hyphenated last names.
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by chroma 4y ago
I'm a multimillionaire and every single woman I've dated has said, "I'm glad I took a chance on you even though you're so short." I'm 5'6". Women filter on height the same way that men filter on
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by chroma 4y ago
The main issue with California is that they try to collect on everyone, and they require a ton of paperwork even if you did make an honest mistake. People who move out of California are often hounded by the tax board. Even something as inno
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by chroma 4y ago
Twitter hasn't released public APIs for many of their new features (such as group DMs), meaning Tweetbot lacks support for them.
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by chroma 4y ago
I think it’s a legitimate point. If something is a public square, banning certain viewpoints from it is a huge deal. Either Twitter is a private company and they can ban whoever they want for whatever reasons they want, or they’re a public
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by chroma 4y ago
He wants to control the new public square by... not banning as many people?
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by chroma 5y ago
> We restrict companies from outright lying about their products. These sorts of lies are usually covered under existing fraud laws. When such laws don't exist, companies use accreditation firms. Long before OSHA, Underwriters Labor
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by chroma 5y ago
I disagree with restrictions on speech for the following reason: - If you limit what people are allowed to write or say, you are effectively limiting what others are allowed to read or hear. - Censorship means delegating a censor. - That ce
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by chroma 5y ago
I'm guessing some of the details have been changed because a 2 year-old getting killed by a garbage truck (which then fled the scene) would definitely make the news. Obviously the $40B company is Waste Management,[1] but I can't f
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by chroma 5y ago
There's no way to compare them because the data sets are for different time periods. The losses are for 2001-2020 but the gains are only for 2001-2012. I don't know about specific regions, but forests worldwide are doing fine. In
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by chroma 5y ago
According to the paper, the amount of information that can be stored decreases as one gets closer to absolute zero. Our current information storage technologies and refrigeration technologies don't let us actually test this, but with a
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by chroma 5y ago
Looking at the paper linked to in the article[1], I'm having a hard time not dismissing this immediately. There are several implications to this theory: - Information has mass. - Information cannot exist at absolute zero. Does this mea

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