While most are primarily armed with “America’s Rifle,” the AR15, the weapons are as varied as the people, from pump-action shotguns to FN Scars and expensive NFA items (such as machine guns). Similarly, the level of personal equipment sophistication ranges from walkie talkies and flashlights to encrypted radios and night vision.
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US Protest
i didn’t see any signs demanding that police unions be destroyed.
Frontline medical worker
it is the pride of our world class-healthcare system
COVID-19 HIPPA scapegoating
It is true that HIPAA rules are (often overly) strict, and that does limit what healthcare providers can share, but this seems like trying to pin a false HIPAA violation on what is actually embarrassing whistleblowing in the midst of a pandemic.
At War with the Truth
US officials constantly said they were making progress during the war in Afghanistan. They were not, and they knew it
Rolling Stock Costs
Despite this conservatism, costs are very high, consistent with a factor somewhat higher than 2 on commuter rail and somewhat lower than 2 on the subway. But perhaps the conservatism is what increases costs in the first place? Perhaps the reason costs are high is that the world market has moved on and the MTA and some other American operators have not noticed. In Chicago, Metra found itself trying to order a type of gallery car that nobody makes any longer, using parts that are no longer available. Perhaps the same kind of outmoded thinking is present at the MTA, and this is why costs have exploded in the last 10 years.
Owning elections
Last week at DEFCON 26 in Las Vegas, 11-year-old Emmett Brewer hacked into a replica of Florida’s state election site and changed the voting results. That’s scary enough. What’s even scarier is that it took him less than 10 minutes. An 11-year-old girl was able to hack into the same site in ~15 minutes. And more than 30 kids were able to hack into replicas of other states’ sites in less than 30 min.
SSA scams
The letter the Eckensteins received from the SSA indicated that the benefits had been requested over the phone, meaning the crook(s) had called the SSA pretending to be Ruth and supplied them with enough information about her to enroll her to begin receiving benefits. He and his wife immediately called the SSA to notify them of fraudulent enrollment and pending withdrawal, and they were instructed to appear in person at an SSA office in Oklahoma City.
Solar regulatory burdens
The regulation comes in 3 un-American guises: permitting, code and tariffs — and together they are killing the US residential market. Modernizing these regulations, primarily at the local and state level, is the greatest opportunity for US solar policy
Rooftop solar in the us costs 2x as much as in developed countries due to inconsistent, super-local “regulations”. why we can’t have nice things.
Collective Action Kills Innovation
More and more the sphere of individual action shrinks and that of collective action grows. Thus, I do not laugh at the Oregonians and their fear of gas pumping freedom. We are all Oregonians in one form or another.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 