I don't remember if you remember that Hidden Tribes study, but the regressive left is a tiny little sliver of the Democrats, makes up something like 7% iirc, but they are very loud, mostly well educated, well off, and tend to pool in cities, so they tend to have a lot of influence in political and media areas, which is why I believe that the news is so out of touch.
@Shalvenay sure. James just had me double check my biases earlier, and I'm just reporting back on the results.
I really do like to be as balanced as my own personal convictions allow.
@Shalvenay it's also because they live in cities, where cops are only a few minutes away at most, and people with guns tend to be threats more often than not.
@NexTerren - It's better than asking what an anatomically correct strange woman in a pond distributing swords would look like, after having said it's an anatomically correct strange woman in a pond distributing swords.
@AndyD273 that is definitely a factor -- most of the pro-gun-control folks don't seem to stop and think about what you're supposed to do when 911 tells you the nearest cop car is on the other side of Cherry County from you
Outside of the city, say where I live, cops are 15 minutes away at best. So by the time someone tries kicking down the door it's pretty much to late. And I still live in a fairly safe area.
ah, worth a watch :) C&Rsenal (Othais and Mae) and Forgotten Weapons (Ian) did a collab where they put several WWI light machineguns through a series of tests, as if they all were in some sort of weapons-trial together
@Fermiparadox I don't really see the worldbuilding part. Are you looking for real world answers? If so, Politics might be better, but I don't know about their scope. Do they allow something like that? Maybe you could ask in their chat if they would allow it and look around their site to see if they already have something similar somewhere.
@Fermiparadox Also, if it should be closed here, it should be closed here regardless of whether it's on topic somewhere else. If it should be migrated, you generally only want to request such a thing (unless you're the OP) if it's closed here
Some question can be on-topic on many sites, so didn't know what to do. Neither did other people I asked. Seems to be borderline. Anyway.. i'll wait their response and flag for migration if needed
@Fermiparadox When its on topic for more sites, I approach it as if OP wanted to be posted here. So when answering, I keep in mind worldbuilding part of the question
Followed by a list of things that happened in the real world. That's no story, that's like saying "There are new laws in Europe: 1., 2., 3." just with a more "I don't trust the government" tone.
If you get rid of that people will downvote it into oblivion for lack of research. And it will get closed as "unclear".
Just seems weird that security thought it would be a better fit here. Granted, I'm not saying that it doesn't fit here, and so far no one has objected, it's just weird.
So just had a random thought about principals of particle physics in society; Antifa and Neo Nazies. It's a bit like a particle and it's anti-particle. Both are highly racist. Both are totalitarian ideologies. Both believe that violence is the best way to get results. Both are highly corrosive to society as a whole. And like a particle and it's anti-particle, when you bring them together they annihilate each other in a violent burst of energy.
Well, unfortunately they don't happen to meet in sealed chambers very often. It's less good when they meet in the streets in the middle of a crowded city (for one example).
I think everyone should read it, since if you watch the reporting on it almost no one talks about the content, just the reactions people are having to it.
It starts out semi promising, if slanted toward "we're killing the planet, and the US is the biggest culprit", which is very debatable, but whatever. Goes on to "we need to invest in new technology" which I agree with. Then proceeds to "and we need to give everyone free college and health care, stop all air travel and replace it with trains, renovate every building in the US, replace the entire power grid, etc, and we have 10 years to do it" which goes right off the rails into cuckoo crazy town.
I'm probably missing some details, but that's why I think people should just read it for themselves, instead of taking my word (and bias) for it.
It doesn't really matter all that much, as it is effectively dead. Senate had their vote on it, 50 against, no one voted Yes. Not even the people who wrote it. Mostly because then they would have to go on record as supporting it, and the biggest labor union has come out publicly condemning it, meaning a yes vote is essentially suicide.
@AndyD273 While a yes vote may be political suicide, I'm not sure if too many people would be willing to actually assassinate someone for voting for a doomed bill.
@Gryphon Hmm... Assisted suicide I suppose, but only if you pay the assassin yourself. And only if you actual intention is to commit suicide, as opposed to paying an assassin to kill you, only to really intend to kill them, burn the body in your car, and make it look like you died in a fiery car crash while you embezzle a lot of money and run off to some island with your secretary.
@James Did you know when making it, they didn't tell the owners of the golf course that they were going to blow it up? And the owners only found out after they did the deed?
@Hosch250 But how far away is it? There are times when that means 'a few miles down the road' in which case a decent train can make that journey a some small number of minutes, then there's the times when that means '50 miles away', in which case, you need a Japanese train if you want any improvement on things
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Reputation change of +1 (or more, I assume): 1,754 users
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Does that mean that the...
I'm not at all saying that people should stop using private transport, I'm saying that, from what I've gathered, the US needs to make a ton of new public transport and then the rest will start improving by itself
@Hosch250 You say that, but I've been in Vancouver with it's Skytrain. I've also been in Nottingham with its tram (they dug up chunks of the city just for this and it was so worth it)
Someone makes a mistake? They have 2-3 feet of safe-ish zone on either side before they leave the lane.
It's saved me many times, going both ways.
@Mithrandir24601 Partly possibly because we have more traffic. And partly because of higher speeds enabled by safer driving, so accidents that do occur are more fatal.
Not saying better public transportation wouldn't help--it would.
@Mithrandir24601 shorthaul ranges from "great" (NYC, Chicago) to "meh?" (most cities) to "barely passable"
intermediate/longhaul is a whole another can of worms
we're stuck relying on cars and planes for an awful lot of trips that would probably be carried out by train in UK (or anywhere else in Europe for that matter)
@Hosch250 I'm a bit confused here - is the 60mph in cities a multi-lane highway or whatever it's called? (otherwise, why would a two-lane highway have a lower speed limit?)
@Hosch250 Ahh, OK - so we have 30 or 40 in towns and cities (with occasional areas at 20), 60 outside of towns/cities and 70 in dual carriageways (which are different to multi-lane highways and may or may not have more than one lane per carriageway)
So, I'm over at the rep league page wondering how to keep my slim lead over Separatix... (OK, I was just curious. No, really, I was just curious....) and noticed two numbers:
Reputation change of +1 (or more, I assume): 1,754 users
Total reputation of 1+: 52,385 users
Does that mean that the...
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