Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
If you subtract the suicides and the gang bangers (who, evidence has demonstrated are not affected by gun legislation) there's actually very little gun violence problem. Certainly not enough to dictate all these restrictive laws.
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Yup.

And the anti gunners skew the numbers to frame their narrative.

“The number one cause of childhood deaths now, is gun violence”. Yeah, they’re counting ‘children’ to the age of nineteen to make up those ‘statistics’, and not mentioning that the greatest cohort of those are in the 14-19 group related to gang violence and criminal activity. Omit the criminal/gang shootings, and the leading cause of death in children is still vehicular accidents.
 
Moorik said:
Sometimes you walk into a place (caffe,shop,anything else) and literally right away you see an air conditioner on the wall…

but it’s switched off.

Everyone inside is absolutely drenched in sweat.

I turn around and walk straight out.

If there’s no AC somewhere, I leave immediately.Instantly.

I need to check who invented air conditioners.

The dude who invented this should rule the world.
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People who know me know that I'm a little bit of a prepper

But really not in a conventional sense

I have primary generators and backup generators and hundreds of gallons of fuel reserves

And all of it revolves around making sure I can take a shower and I have air conditioning

One of these days an American adversary might figure out how to turn off our lights

Or we can have a hurricane knock power out for weeks

Solar flares

Idunno

But I have invested in an enormous amount of energy preparing for the day that I need emergency power for my air conditioning

As I sit here, I have an emergency backup mini split unopened in the box sitting on the floor next to me...
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
People who know me know that I'm a little bit of a prepper

But really not in a conventional sense

I have primary generators and backup generators and hundreds of gallons of fuel reserves

And all of it revolves around making sure I can take a shower and I have air conditioning

One of these days an American adversary might figure out how to turn off our lights

Or we can have a hurricane knock power out for weeks

Solar flares

Idunno

But I have invested in an enormous amount of energy preparing for the day that I need auxiliary power for my air conditioning

As I sit here, I have an emergency backup mini split unopened in the box sitting on the floor next to me...
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People laughed at me a bit when, right from the start of the war, I started methodically buying gasoline little by little, from 2022 onwards.

That way I’ve accumulated quite a lot of fuel for my car and diesel.

One more thing… something that is genuinely needed and useful in the context of any crisis that is happening right now.Speaking from the thick of events:

In any crisis or disaster, the very first thing you’ll need is FUEL.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Yup.

And the anti gunners skew the numbers to frame their narrative.

“The number one cause of childhood deaths now, is gun violence”. Yeah, they’re counting ‘children’ to the age of nineteen to make up those ‘statistics’, and not mentioning that the greatest cohort of those are in the 14-19 group related to gang violence and criminal activity. Omit the criminal/gang shootings, and the leading cause of death in children is still vehicular accidents.
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I believe they also excluded deaths of anyone 0-2 years of age, likely to keep out infant mortality due to SIDS, accidents, and other afflictions. You could argue it is a technically correct distinction but it is deliberately misleading as I think most people would correctly associate the term "children" with anyone from 0-18 years of age. If they are going to make distinctions between the cohorts then they should be consistent and break numbers down between infants, toddlers, children, and teens. But they did not.
 
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