chiliedogg

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I can't see any problems with that. They certainly wouldn't murder the cleaning staff at Mar-a-Lago for being Latino.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

If Google takes money to host an ad that's malware, they should be able to be prosecuted for it.

This is different than simply hosting community content that they can't reasonably moderate. They're being given money to distribute these ads, so they can afford to moderate them.

Which should be easy anyway. Ads shouldn't be able to install third-party shit from the advertisers on user computers. Google can easily restrict what can be included on an ad package.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

I'm torn. This is a bad look, but when my Mom ran for council we had the list too because we wanted to collect the signs afterwards. They're most of the cost of a local election campaign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, they are. He's got a pretty serious security team that doesn't fuck around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Force. Brain fart.

Was working on the tractor this weekend.

I'm not sure there's an ethical way to kill a deer with torsion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They tried to nickel and dime me on a $4000/yr product, but I'm just giving them the nickel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think Trump and the secret service keeps getting lucky that his assailants are idiots regarding their weapon choice. This guy was 300-500 yards away and had an AK.

An AK is a 4-5 MOA rifle at best, so even with perfect optics, a perfect shooter, no wind, and a steady position, you're looking at a precision of 2 feet at 500 yards, and that's ignoring that precision gets progressively worse at range.

At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 round has gone subsonic, lost 80% of its muzzle energy, and dropped 30 feet.

Anything under 1000 ft/lbs of ~~torque~~ force isn't considered powerful enough to ethically hunt a whitetail deer. At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 has less than a third of that energy. It's enough to be lethal, but not consistently.

And all that is the starting point for the first shot. It gets worse firing semi-auto.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I will give ESRI credit for their online stuff. It's expensive, but it's also pretty great. We're actually thinking about getting an online subscription but no software licenses.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I didn't discover it this uear, but I started using QGIS professionally when the small city that hired me to, among a lot of other duties, be the new GIS department.

Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn't budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

Anyway, I've gotten pretty good with QGIS, and we're sticking with it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can still pull stuff from most REST servers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

If they were shoved in the mailbox without postage it's definitely illegal.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

If you have reason to believe someone is in mortal danger, your response shouldn't be to mail a letter giving them 30 days to respond.

You send police to the scene where they secure the potential suspect and make sure there's nothing going on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a mini cargo van as my everyday car that can move quite a bit of cargo, but I also bottom out if I go on a road that's too bumpy.

The family truck has the clearance to go off the pavement.

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