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Quote from: Maximum Spin on September 13, 2020, 04:30:33 am

Quote from: hector13 on September 12, 2020, 11:02:35 pm

‘tis illegal for a minor to openly carry a gun in Wisconsin.

Further research revealed that this doesn't apply to rifles. (Or shotguns.)

Only if the minor is hunting, though I will concede the legislation is not very clear on that point.

His defense team (and so many commentators) consider that important because if that law doesn’t apply, he was breaking the law and thus can’t say his actions were self-defense, all other things aside.

The law, 948.60(3)(c), only says that he must be in violation of the 941.28 short-barrel law (which he wasn't since it wasn't a short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun), or non-compliant with 29.304 (only applies age 16 or younger) or non-compliant with 29.593, in order for him to be guilty of possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor.

29.593 requires one to have a certificate of accomplishment in order to obtain hunting approval. This more or less means 29.593 only applies when hunting.

So seeing as he wasn't in violation of the short-barrel law, nor can he be non-compliant with the other mentioned laws, then that means it was legal for him to possess the firearm.

Not that that has any bearing on his self-defense claim.

2 dead, 1 injured, in Wisconsin protests over shooting of Jacob Blake

EDIT: I've been trying to piece together the events.

• BLM protesters and home defense militia meet up, there's a bunch of argument. Protesters may have been herded by police (unconfirmed).
• Argument flares up and someone gets shot in the head. NSFW video. The video is spliced, so I don't know if the events in the video are linked. Different NSFW POV, a molotov a plastic bag containing something (NSFW) is thrown at the shooter before the shots are fired. The timing of the shots match, so I assume they are of the same event.
• Shooter gets chased down by the mob, eventually stumbles or is brought down to the ground, and opens fire again. NSFW POV 1, NSFW POV 2. The timing of the shots match, so I assume they are of the same event. Audio suggests there might be more shooters in the area. Not sure if these two videos are related to the first two videos, though.

Wisconsin is not a stand-your-ground state. It looks like the shooter did retreat, but may have used excessive force. Either way, it's a clusterfuck.

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You can pretty much expect your ISP to be strip mining your activity here, though, given the lack of HTTPS.

Twitter is banning BitChute links now. Us plebs can't be allowed a YouTube alternative, apparently.

I fucking hate this war.

Leaked bodycam footage from George Floyd incident.

Systemic police problem confirmed: Incorrect and insufficient training, as well as bad police policies, leading to tragedy.

I expect at most manslaughter and a reenactment of the LA riots.

Coronavirus recovery fund tentatively agreed upon. I say tentatively, since it still needs to go through both national parliaments and the EU parliament.

It's a clusterfuck of a compromise that will leave a lot of people angry: 360 billion € in loans from the capital market collateralized by the commission (i.e. the common man in the end), 390 billion € in grants (straight up wealth transfer).

I personally hope that it gets voted down, since not only is it ceding more power to Brussels (possibly even beyond the Lisbon Treaty if the rumors of EU taxes is anything to go by) but it also puts member states dangerously close to losing control of the national purse since we'd practically be forced to become guarantors.

Oh, and this also includes slashing into climate funds et al., effectively a US-style debt ceiling (we all know how that will play out), and a laughable rule of law "emergency brake".

All the frugal four really got out of it is an inconsequential increase in the rebate.

Abortion is such a philosophical conundrum.

Fetuses are biologically human, biologically alive, and thus should have a right to life.

A woman also cannot be forced to donate her body for it.

(Except in all the ways the state already does force people *cough*parental responsibility*cough*child support*cough*)

Let's look at it from a practical matter, though. Is banning all abortion feasible? No, of course not. People will find a way as they had before, with disastrous results. Is allowing all abortions feasible? Well tossing late-term infants into dumpsters seems harsh and cruel, and by that point you ought to have already decided whether to keep it or not, barring physical health risks to the mother or infant.

So we need to draw a line somewhere. An arbitrary line of personhood is a rabbit hole (and being legally consequent even more so). There's no universal consensus and there is little science to "detect" personhood.

What we can do is let technology answer it for us: how soon can you take out a fetus and put it in the latest artificial "womb" and expect it to survive to term? And how early can a mother reasonably detect with certainty a pregnancy with the current technology?

We have two scenarios: regular and irregular pregnancies.

Irregular pregnancies are all the pregnancies where there is a risk to the mother's physical health by X standard deviations above the mean, or where the fetus is already dead or is sick enough that survival is unlikely.

Abortion of these ones should be always be allowed, and all efforts should be taken to rescue the aborted fetus, if possible.

Regular pregnancies are all the others, including rape (regular from a biological standpoint) and incest (barring sickly fetus). Abortion of these ones concern more about the consent of pregnancy than anything else.

This is where technology comes in. Abortion for any reason should be allowed if the decision to abort is made before the abortion deadline, and all efforts should be taken to rescue the fetus, if possible. That deadline is 30 days (or whatever is standard for a legal document sent to court) after the earliest possible time that the fetus can be put in an artificial womb, or 30 days after the earliest possible time a mother can reasonably detect with certainty a pregnancy with current technology. Whichever date is later is the deadline and is updated every Y years following a technological assessment.

This is less a philosophical and more a practical and future-proof version of abortion law. As technology develops, the deadline creeps closer to conception + 30 days. Which is just fine since that technology gives you enough information in time for you to make up your mind on whether you want to keep the baby or not. Naturally, the law should ensure that access to said technology is possible for everyone at little cost.

I'm concerned about the speed of that battleship. You might find it difficult to get/stay in range. I don't remember the typical Magneto-Plasma speed I use but I think it was around 7500-10000 km/s.

Armor level might be overkill at your tech level. At that tech level, I expect penetration depth to be no more than 6, usually 4-5. Combined with shields, you could probably convert some of that space into a more powerful engine. Granted, brawlers do need more armor than usual due to lasers (and later particle lances). But at that speed, you probably won't be brawling much.

As for the reactors, it's redundancy vs space efficiency (with explosive risk). I haven't gone crazy on high-powered weapons, so space isn't usually the biggest issue. I usually just stick to either having one reactor per weapon or a bunch of small standard power reactors.