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While I have my own comments to the contrary elsewhere, I'm also in agreement that everyone should arm, which is also contrary to me 8 months ago. The military aren't cyborgs and hopefully wouldn't kill their own people, other countries would step up if our country truly tried to kill us, and if we dropped a nuke on ourselves, everyone's dead across the planet anyway.

The numbers don't look good, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to live and be free, if we can't escape. Even escape isn't an end, per se, if the evil spreads, it will eventually be everywhere, and no nation will be safe. Might as well destroy the cancer before we need chemo.

that ignore safety in favour of driver convenience

How about one better? Municipalities that ignore both safety and driver convenience in favor of feeling good about helping the environment, or so they perceive. The end result of more pollution, more hazardous navigational conditions for everyone, and more problems.

Example, a state law that made it so bicyclists no longer have to come to a stop at intersections. It was a feel-good measure to make things easier for bicyclists so they're not having to come to a complete stop over and over. In implementation, it just means a car driving 55MPH comes up to a green traffic light intersection that would ordinarily be safe, except one of the cross-directions has trees blocking the side road, so a bike comes chugging down the hill at 35MPH and blazes through their red light right in front of the much heavier and slower to stop car. (C.R.S. § 42‑4‑1412.5)

Now, couple that with another law that allows large trucks, buses, and RVs preferential treatment at roundabouts. All other vehicles must yield to the large vehicle no matter what. And going back to... the bike doesn't yield to anything. (C.R.S. § 42‑4‑715)

Welcome to Colorful Colorado.

People think the pandemic invited driver chaos, we were bold, and asked the universe, "hold my beer?"

The backscatter x-ray body scanners are the only scanners to be concerned with, that and improperly shielded luggage x-ray scanners you stand next to, which run at a much higher power level. The newer luggage scanners that do a CT scan are still using x-ray, it just spins around the luggage.

mmWave scanners use non-ionizing radio waves, in the same spectrum area as mmWave 5G, in fact, but at a much lower power level. Radio waves have over a century of evidence and science showing that non-ionizing radiation can't mutate cells, which is necessary to cause cancer.

Ionizing radiation like x-rays, can. Likewise, flying in an airplane at an altitude above the protection of our atmosphere, and being exposed to the sun, also exposes one to ionizing radiation at much higher power levels. That being said, why would anyone trust humans in a mediocre security organization to properly maintain their machines? Especially now with the current admin gutting everything to the bone.

STIR/SHAKEN should have resolved this. Unfortunately, telecom carriers didn't do the last step of banning any telco (mostly VoIP providers) prone to allowing scammer accounts in. They'd also have to filter US numbers calling in from other countries to validate and ensure they are real.

All of this being work, and telecoms, especially those in the US, hate doing work.

If nothing else, they should consider that they are just wasting their money, money spent on the mod, and money spent on wasting fuel / engine / exhaust damage. Money they could use to buy more beer.

I appreciate that, it is a thin line to ride, social comments can be whatever they want, do you want a free dopamine hit? Or hope to share information even when you end up being wrong in the process? It can even be affected by current moods.

For whatever it is worth, I just try to hopefully post enough helpful stuff to overall average being useful versus accidentally spreading disinformation. Although everyone trying to be their own truth filter alone is very exhausting. Especially without inducing bias. Not looking for credit in this either, just, I hope we could all aspire to be better-er, even if only a tiny bit.

Also, just human, so not all posts are gold, or bronze, hahahaha...

Stay safe!

It still is, it's a standard for imaging devices. Honestly aside from it being annoying, it was and is a decent attempt at a standard for scanners coming from an era of driver standards as a pipe dream. Try that with printers, ever. And also a nightmare.

Some early Fords around the Model T era had a switch on them to flip between running on ethanol or gas. The idea being that farmers would brew their own fuel as needed. Big Oil didn't like that, and so it went away. Where we are now isn't thanks to science and technology, just pure greed off the backs of everyone.

I'm going to neg on my own comment, I don't trust Snopes anymore, but many news services also discredited what I mentioned. So at this point, because we know their reality is mutable and transient, who knows if it really happened or not. I'd still bank on yes, but I have no actual evidence to back it up.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-roger-stone-guns-memo/

The national weather service is defunded and not even sending out weather balloons anymore, and is losing access to a military satellite used for hurricane detection. (Facts.)

So, there aren't hurricanes anymore, just freak random storms that come out of nowhere for some reason. We did it everybody! /s

The real problem will likely end up being that civilians can't own the firepower the US military/police have, legally. No full auto, no giant drums, no grenades, no missiles, no fighter jets. Even if it were a "well-regulated militia" one fighter/bomber could take them all out, and be marketed on some made up news articles as, "we stopped the terrorists, you're safe now."

If it really came down to it, such a battle would be very one-sided, so it would have to be more strategic guerilla tactics.

Oh, and the SS just got a huge budget increase, so that won't help. (As seen above.)

There were already talks in the p2025 circles about ceasing civilian firearms in some fashion and then allowing "permits" at some future time for "loyal" gun owners. Wouldn't be surprised if they'll still try it.