A statistician explains why most studies on the effectiveness of gun control laws are garbage, and only a small percentage are valid.
Sep 132022
Sep 122022
An unmanned test flight of the New Shepard suffered a catastrophic engine explosion. The capsule seemed to successfully separate and landed normally, but that would have been a *damned* rough ride, with a bunch of eyeballs-out G’s for a few seconds.
On other launch matters: Firefly is gonna try to launch again today, not sure what time:
WHOOPS: scrubbed.
And NASA wants to try to launch Artemis on the 23rd.
Its maiden flight is now tentatively scheduled to take place on:
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- Between 6:47 a.m. EDT and 8:47 a.m. EDT on Friday, September 23, 2022.
- Between 11:37 a.m. EDT and 12:47 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
Sep 112022
Entertaining as always, but with a healthy dose of WTFery when he discusses the condition of the Moskva prior to being attacked. It’s… kinda astonishing. A ship that on paper was damned impressive, capable of dishing out heaps of violence, and able to defend itself from heaps of violence, turned out to be almost wholly inoperable. With an unforeseen diversion into the One True Cross, because apparently a chunk of it was on the Moskva. Whoopsie.
Sep 102022
It seems like anytime anyone mentions the new “SAFE-T Act” in Illinois, some reference to “The Purge” is made. What the Act will do, among other things, is end the cash bail system. There are good arguments for and against ending cash bail, where someone can pay a chunk of change to be able to go home and begin work on their defense. But what the Act does is *not* to end bail so that everyone arrested for a crime has to stay in jail, but instead to send a lot of violent offenders straight home. This is part and parcel of the “defund the police” movement and the “abolish prison” movement. It’s a step towards legalizing violent crime.
Sep 102022
They’re going to try tomorrow, September 11, starting at 3PM Pacific time.
Sep 082022
“Rings of Power” is – so far – bad television, worse politics and *terrible* Tolkein. But what it’s good at is inspiring humor.
Sep 062022
Project Veritas filmed another assistant principal talking proudly about how he gets rid of teachers based on their politics. But this time, not only are his actions criminals… so are his speech patterns. This guy does that wretched “uptalk” thing that the smugwoke do regularly, and it makes him difficult to listen to.
Sep 052022
… it doesn’t actually point to specific solutions. Such can of course be inferred, but it would be nice if some candidates or such ran this ad with “And vote for me or something, I dunno, let’s try something different, anyway.” It would also be a good lead-in to The Labor Day AR-15 Sale at Big Jim’s Gun Emporium.
Sep 042022
Well, this is weird:
Not the sort of headline you tend to expect out of Canada.
Sep 042022
As rants go, this one is both entertaining and on the mark: