I agree about the name, but a well done Hot Brown is amazing and everyone should have one at least once in their life. Ideal circumstances are to have one at lunch on a gloomy fall or winter Saturday and then collapse into a food coma while watching college football or basketball.

Perhaps, but that assumes that the police are aware of the domestic violence, which is more likely in poorer households. In addition, this system seems to work on current associates, not into anyone’s past. That also brings up an issue with flagging people based on their parent’s misdeeds, which is yet another social/…

From the article at New Scientist, two of their most “powerful” predictors were crimes “committed with the help of others” and “crimes committed by people in that individual’s social group.” I don’t think either of those are likely to help predict domestic abuse. If this were in the US, I would say focus on known…

Seems like they aren’t focusing on the crimes that are most predictable. They already mentioned the potential to overly focus on people who are already heavily policed, which could lead to a feedback loop for all involved. On the other hand, child/ domestic/ spousal abuse is very likely to continue and escalate after…

I think the Armed Forces almost always have a better defined mission and use-of-force parameters than the cops when dealing with civilians. Given the recent track record for the police vs. the Armed Forces, the Armed Forces probably have fewer face-to-face killings of civilians (leaving out bombings and drone strikes)…

I used to live outside Colorado Springs, which is kind of the inverse of your “island of sanity” comment about SLC/Utah in that a lot of religious nuts flocked to that one town in an otherwise cool state.

I only reliably flew once or twice a year for the past 10 years until this year. Now that I’m flying more than once every 8 months I got pre-Check. The only reasons I didn’t get the Global Entry version is 1. my company never sends me to cool places - I don’t want to give them any ideas about sending me to another…

I have often gotten connections in DEN in the past 10 years and generally liked the airport. Then I actually flew to Denver (no problem there), and discovered that flying out of DEN is an Orwellian nightmare of long, winding lines for security alongside cheery posters telling you “If you were a real traveler and had…

Well, Don’t Look Back in Anger.

Same reason that it’s illegal to ship alcohol direct to anyone in Alabama - religion. The flavor of the obstruction is just a little different from one state to another.

I voted in Alabama this morning. Despite half of the scanners at our local precinct being offline, the lines were manageable at 7:30 this morning. I think the new ID scanner system made the check-in lines shorter than usual (even if the whole “you need an ID to vote” law is based on BS). Then again, I’m in not in the…

I’d imagine one problem with her self-perception is that almost* all of the men at the political gatherings she goes to tell her how pretty she is. This is probably a function of them all being 20-50 years older than her and not liking any women who would talk back to them.

I remember the P320 because I was looking at them a few weeks before the issue was reported. And when I was being taught gun safety, I had a very old single-shot, break action 410, so the safety was to not put a shell in until you were ready to fire. I don’t think I was allowed to touch a pistol for another 2 years…

This 100%.

Having been around a lot of people who have owned guns their entire life, I know that many of them start to slip on safety as they get older. It’s a lot like leaving their TV remote in the fridge or forgetting to turn off the sprinklers, except terrifying for those around them and potentially lethal.

I’ve been looking at this TV for a while, but haven’t been able to find one in the real-world to get a look at it. How would you say it stacks up against the Samsung QLED series (which is in a similar space on the high-end of the sub-OLED price range)?

My biggest issue is that some games make it difficult or impossible to play without sound. I understand that devs and other professionals spent a lot of time and effort to make a musical score, record voice actors, and incorporate audio cues, but I need to be able to play on mute sometimes (not to mention how shitty…

With the DMZ theory in mind - having captain’s chairs in the second row with two teens is so much better than having a shared armrest. Kids will fight over the dumbest stuff, especially when they’re both teenagers (no one is quite sane or civilized when they’re a teen).

My wife and I have a running joke about Derek Anderson. Years ago, when Anderson was with the Browns, the Chiefs (my team) had a comfortable lead on the Browns so I decided to turn off the TV and cook something on the grill. Somehow, Anderson had a monster comeback and beat the Chiefs. My wife said that she was on the…

I got it when I was doing hurricane clean up years ago. I got sprayed in the face with some kind of anti-fungal chemical. It was basically a choice between using possibly contaminated water to clean it off or letting it continue to burn my face and eyes. The main issue was that my university’s student health center…