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by wl 6y ago
You assert that the groups responsible for the rioting were clearly differentiated from the BLM protests, but I don't see how one can differentiate them without making a no-true-Scotsman argument that the rioting somehow goes against t
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by wl 6y ago
It's only demonstrably wrong if you're going to insist on the very literal "almost none of the BLM protests involved violence" and ignore that that statement, in isolation, is rather misleading. Sure, most of the protest
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by wl 6y ago
The problem is most masks don't actually protect the wearer. If we had them in sufficient quantity, the public health advice would be to wear fit-tested N95 or better particulate respirators.
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by wl 6y ago
I shaved my beard at the beginning of the pandemic so I could wear a properly fitting particulate respirator. If something like this had been available, I might have been able to avoid that. PAPRs were about $1000 at the time and I figured
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by wl 6y ago
Carter was effectively offering a pardon to any eligible person who wanted it. Affected people still had to request the certificate for the pardon to have any legal effect. An example: https://www.dcourier.com/news/2019
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by wl 6y ago
Pardons don't work like that. They have to actually be delivered to the recipient to be effective. Pardoning everybody would be a massive printing and mailing operation.
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by wl 6y ago
> You’ll never see it translated as “sons of God” in a book translated by Jews. I just checked a few Jewish translations of Genesis 6:4. Jewish translations that use "sons of God": * The Septuagint 3rd century BCE * JPS Tanakh
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by wl 6y ago
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download They had a placebo arm and a vaccine arm. Look at figure 2 on page 30. You can see that new COVID cases in the vaccine group virtually stop on day 12 while the placebo arm
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by wl 6y ago
The Jews who wrote Genesis aren't the Jews who wrote the Midrash. The culture from which the myths concerning the Nephilim and Benei Elokim arose had no problems with God having sons, e.g. Mot, Yam. The Jews of Elephantine are document
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by wl 6y ago
You're going to see surprise raids in any country whenever the police believe there's evidence to be found that would be destroyed or tampered with if the suspect had advance notice.
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by wl 6y ago
If you have an Android phone, yes, I suppose you can backup. But I don't. There's no backup procedure for iOS. There's a migration, but the phone you're migrating from has to be working at the time. So if it's destr
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by wl 6y ago
The two biggest issues with Signal have been a) Using SGX (brushed aside) b) Inability to export and backup chats (ignored)
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by wl 6y ago
> dictionary is impossible I've got a Middle Egyptian dictionary in front of me right now. > cannot keyboard it. Manuel de Codage. I also use input methods for cuneiform. For a more modern example of this kind of thing, look at C
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by wl 6y ago
The National Popular Vote Compact still needs the approval of Congress. > No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with a
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by wl 6y ago
The only "alphabets" (quotes because Ugaritic is an abjad) that can be traced back to Mesopotamia are the Ugaritic and old Persian alphabets. Both are independent simplifications of the syllabic cuneiform script into "alphabe
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by wl 6y ago
And their writings have to survive. Look at Mesopotamia, where writing began with cuneiform impressions in clay. We've got lots of clay tablets because those survive well when buried. When Imperial Aramaic written on parchment began to
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by wl 6y ago
> Did materials influence the style of script? Absolutely. Cuneiform arose because the Mesopotamians had clay. It started out as stuff scratched in clay. Someone realized it was easier and faster to press a triangular stylus into clay an
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by wl 6y ago
Yes, an alphabet was used in Ugarit that may have been invented first. It arose from cuneiform and its ancestors died out long ago. The "Phoenician" alphabet used for archaic Hebrew and which later developed into the Greek and Lat
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by wl 6y ago
Even if section 4 of the 25th amendment were validly invoked, it would not end the president's term. Such a procedure only temporarily removes the powers of the presidency to the VP. Ending the term would require impeachment.
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by wl 6y ago
> First century Jewish historian Josephus Two mentions. One is almost certainly fabricated, or at least heavily rewritten by later Christians. > For eyewitness, you can find first person account in the New Testaments. The Gospels aren
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by wl 6y ago
It's affine. It's not linear because the offset means superposition doesn't hold.
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by wl 6y ago
More likely scenarios for the issuance of a dangerous weapons permit. * You're a Hollywood armorer * You develop or manufacture automatic firearms for government agencies * You're a security contractor who has been provided automa
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by wl 6y ago
They've been printing them on normal copier paper rather than the basketweave for awhile.
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by wl 6y ago
You're looking for the Weber model. You can model the spectrum of an explosion using a single variable—namely the distance the blast travels before it becomes subsonic ("Weber radius"). Convolve that with an impulse response
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by wl 6y ago
I was speaking specifically about California. Guards don't need CCWs to carry loaded and exposed. They just need a guard card and a firearms qualifications card issued by the BSIS.
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by wl 6y ago
The problem is you're looking at one statute in isolation and not how courts have interpreted it in concert with other statutes. Yes, sometimes you can lawfully open or concealed carry on your own property without needing a permit. But
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by wl 6y ago
You can buy such a thing off the shelf. They're called "Workstations on Wheels" or "WoWs" and they're everywhere in medical facilities.
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by wl 6y ago
Which solves the problem of needing armed guards.
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by wl 6y ago
It's not illegal to carry a firearm loaded and exposed in California if you have the proper license issued by BSIS, which is separate from a CCW.
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by wl 6y ago
That doesn't require a CCW. The guards could easily get exposed firearms permits. They need the CCWs to carry concealed and off duty.

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