And this is why tenure exists!

Here as well security forces tend to act as violent bullies while facing no consequences… I think we have a four letter acronym for that as well.

What’s that story about eggs?

I agree regarding closet, but I believe most people have a skeleton inside their meatbag.

I don’t know, I didn’t read the article. I try to make as little assumptions as I can… It could just add easily be a native that trained in the UK, but then i suppose it would have been mentioned.

Which language do you think the government should use/expect from it’s employes in HK?

If the local language is Cantonese, but the government is forcing to use Mandarin in law and other official businesses, to me it sounds the same as forcing Ukrainians to speak Russian (in the old USSR), Catalans to speak Spanish, and French Canadian to speak English. It’s soft cultural assimilation.

I don’t know much about the local language usage in HK, so i could be wrong though.

That was not an article, it was just a list of overreactions by right-wing personalities.

They could try to compensate the imbalance by explicitly asking for the lesser represented classes in the data… It’s an idea, not quite bad but not quite good either because of the problems you mentioned.

It’s a trick to start creating a water market. It will slowly and subtly grow until any drinkable water that doesn’t taste like shit will be considered “fine water”.

Then, you’ll get capitalists assholes saying that anything better than shit water should not be considered a right…

You’ll get there only to find a bottle of Canadian whisky and some Danish vikings drinking it…

“No true homeless…”

Yeah, I suppose my second sentence is somewhat diminitive… The article itself is more of a “dossier” than a single article, and gatekeeping discussions only for those who read the full article(s) kind of discourages discussions on the topic.

The first thing I wanted to convey is that they’re trying to redefine something that already exists. Today I learned that “atheism” has such a loaded baggage to you and the article’s authors that they’re is a need for a new word!

Too me, that is quite the revelation: everything I read in the article is exactly what I understand to be “atheism”! I’ve known that in some places on the world, it can be worst to be atheist than to be of the “wrong” religion… I hope using “the none phenomena” will help these people be safer…

They’re taking about atheists. That’s it.

Edit: Basically, this is a click-bait title where they intentionally keep the title’s meaning mysterious, like it’s a new viral trend or something dangerous. They define:

These so-called “nones" — atheists, agnostics, or nothing in particular —

There’s also xlwings. The free tier does just that: run python code in Excel, and no cloud is required!

Akureyri is an awesome city. You should visit it!

It’s possible to flag an account you own as being a bot. A bot account that doesn’t enable this flag is suspicious in my view, but clearly marked bots should be ok

Thanks for the enlightening discussion! I still think it would be better to try anything but guns to try and protect against guns… Yet you made me understand that the situation is to far gone to just take a chance and go defenseless!

I mean, my next door neighbor is the closest to a “methhead” in the neighborhood, but he’s only a violent alcoholic and never displayed aggression towards strangers… He’s nice and shares his free run eggs with us, so I don’t fear for my life living next door!

It’s a chicken and egg problem, but your neighbor may not come at you with his gun if he didn’t feel threatened by the one he fears you own! From his perspective, don’t go knocking at the door of someone who might point a gun at you without bringing your own…

Imagine a defensive tool which would make you feel safe without making people around you scared of you!

Take care!

I was once advised never to discuss this topic with Americans because it’s impossible to have a normal logic discussion… But I’m a bit dumb so I’ll do it anyway! (Assuming you’re American, sorry if I’m mistaken!)

A couple of points:

1. You’re right, I’ve never actually seen a bulletproof vest in real life. Notice that your laser focus on the technicality of some vests is very interesting and explains why they are not very common. Yet it doesn’t really implies that it couldn’t work. For example, the slim-fit c’est you’re taking about would be an excellent solution to give a chance to run away. In a similar vein, ABS brakes on a car do not perfectly prevent collisions but still help reduce the severity of accidents.

2. Regarding your imaginary scenario, please re-read the thread… It seems to me that you’re the first one mentioning the “very frightening scenario”. I’ll skip this one for now since it’s a different topic.

3. In public, would a concealable vest be good enough against concealable guns? Would a concealable gun be effective against a non-concealable big gun? It seems to me that all your arguments against vests also applies to guns…

Replacing guns by non-lethal tools would probably be just as effective to disable an attacker, while at the same time being a good first step to detox from this gun addiction, hopefully leading to a reduced number of gun accidents.

Why not buy a bulletproof vest instead? Fighting fire with fire is not always the most efficient…

I remember seeing some sort of huge bulletproof blanket used by Japanese police to apprehend armed peoples. They hide behind that blanket and run towards the gunner to wrap them in it. The good side is that the gunner can be arrested alive for trial.

I don’t know if it was just a concept or of its really in use…

Growth hunting