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That's rule number one on the shooting range, It's not quite the same in film or on stage.

In those cases, actors have to trust their prop master or armorer.

Those are the people specifically hired to make sure the gun or the bullets are fake.

Baldwin was handed a gun, and specifically told that it was cold. The person handing it over even called out for the entire set that it was a cold weapon. The director then immediately called places. Because that's how it works.

But the gun was not cold.

Now, the person whose job it was to maintain those weapons was incompetent. Baldwin didn't hire her, he didn't hire anyone. He was one of 10 producers and mostly handled fundraising and script changes.

But he made fun of Trump a few times, and was involved in a gun death in a Trump friendly area. In California the armorer would be facing these charges, and would have faced them as soon as the initial investigation was over, not several years later.

Baldwin was one of 10 producers and was not the hiring director. He, in fact, hire her.

I've heard that there were live fire practices on set, but could never back that up.

What I did find the last time this came up was a write-up about how there were reloads intermixed with the dummy rounds, re-loads that had been used on a completely different film shoot, where the actors of that film were walked tough some target practice with live rounds, so that they would better understand how a gun firing live rounds would kick.

Then a coffee can full of mixed live and dummy rounds ended up kicking around for a couple of years before being sent out to the Rust filming location, and the armorer didn't know how to check the bullets. Or didn't know that she had to. She was told that everything sent was a dummy round.

There were a bunch of live rounds found mixed into props, including Baldwin's ammo belt.

All of them looked like the standard dummy round.

The thing is, he's not the one who hired her.

He was one of 10 listed producers on that film, and was not the hiring director.

40 is the same in C and F... I know this because I grew up in Wyoming. I've seen -40.

At that temp, you can do this neat little trick where you take a pot of steaming water (not boiling, that's a safety issue) and throw it into the air.

It will be snow before it hits the ground.

Again, don't use boiling water, and don't even try it if the temps are above -10 F. Don't throw the water into the wind, that will just splash it back onto you, and if you ignored the "don't boil" instruction, you'll be splattered with boiling water.

Those are the exact sort of people who idolize Ayn Rand the most.

"Cracking down on crime in cities" is code for cracking down on minorities.

Cities are huge, so there's a lot of crime in aggregate, but if you calculate an average crime rate per x number of people, you find that small towns are often way worse.

Basic used "else".

It's nice. "if", "then", and "else". I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, "else" is nice.

Pot as a word for toilet actually comes from the chamber pot.

There are a bunch of other words for a toilet, but tracking down their origins is hard.

For example, calling it a John could refer to the inventor of the flush toilet, John Harington, or as a corruption for an earlier term the Jakes/Jacks. (Kit Harington is a relation)

Jake and Jack were very common names in medieval England, much like John is today. So if you were a noble, your chamber pot would be emptied by a commoner, and the stand in name was Jake.

Other toilet names like bog or loo come from the smell.

The head was traditionally located at the front of ships, especially in the British navy...

There are dozens more (in English alone), but origins are hard to track down for most of them.

That's the coin flip.

The problem is, you can't trust ChatGPT to not lie to you.

And since generative AI is now being used all over the place, you just can't trust anything unless you know damn well that a human entered the info, and then that's a coin flip.

There was a podcast I listened to some time back where one of the people was describing exotic pets, particularly lions and tigers, and how their uncle had kept some, and they were told to never let the cats play bite, because they would keep doing it into adulthood, and then you'd have a dead owner.

This is why Joe Exotic's "Tiger petting zoo" had such a high body count. Turns out that meth and tigers shouldn't mix.

CNN was bought out by a right wing billionaire.

They were barely centrist beforehand, and now they're sliding subtly further and further right-wing in their reporting.

https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/10/objective-cnn-rightwing-week-in-patriarchy

The main reason why ICE vehicles struggle to start in the cold, is tied fairly closely to the battery.

There are some other parts that don't like the cold, but the battery is by far the most sensitive.

They were difficult to administer together?

Both had slavery, but South Carolina was a shipping hub for the British in their exploitation of the Caribbean. They had a huge slave trade.

The north on the other hand was poorer, and was mostly populated with farmers. (many of whom used slave labor).

So the colonies were split apart in 1712. The split was completely peaceful. After all, a colonist was considered a subject of the crown first and foremost. At least until some got a bit uppity about 50 years later.

The split you were probably thinking about was Virginia and West Virginia. That one was 100% a split over slavery at the start of the civil war.

Committee assignment is via seniority. So yes, they can add shit to bills, but they can also do so much more.

For assholes like Grassley, that equates to being able to do a lot of damage.

What's there to be confused about?

Ron is a soft-spoken man who stood firm in his convictions, and was quietly friendly with white nationals and other horrible people. He's retired now.

Rand is a bit of a blow hard with no convictions, and is loudly friendly with white nationals and other horrible people. He's a sitting senator.

The main downside to an electric vehicle. The battery cannot handle cold (or extreme heat).

We do need a cold weather capable, green option.

Hydrogen fuel cells might just be the answer, but hydrogen is extremely hard to handle and store. Unless it's not stored as raw hydrogen...

Anhydrous Ammonia is liquid while under pressure, and is extremely energy dense, we have a shitload of infrastructure around making and transporting it, and it only kills people who are exposed to it.

Which would never be a problem in a personal vehicle.

It is an amazing option for container ships.

Now, making ammonia is still somewhat carbon intensive, but there are ways to control that and capture at the source...

Yeah, the author seems to be a complete dipshit.

Yes, you can argue that the death penalty is bad. I often do just that.

I don't make up bullshit that's so easy to disprove in order to push my point.

The author is doing more harm than good here.

Yes, that's the power that needs to be stripped away.

The government should not have the power to kill its own citizens, not under any circumstances. This includes police. They should face actual, external investigation for every bullet fired, and if they kill, that's it. They're not a cop anymore. If the death was justified (a big ask) they can get free retraining and a small stipend for a few years. If not, they get a full trial for murder.

All deaths in prison should also get a full investigation, with murder charges possible.