I went under and then next thing I knew they were wheeling me back to my room. No pain. No fear. I was simply transported from one instant to another.

Never an argument about the merits of the proposal, just some trite hand-wringing that somewhere somehow someone might be able to use it to their political advantage. Never even an explanation of why this one thing would be so dangerous when governments already by nature have vast authority to control pretty much anything they want.

Worst of all you can't reason against it, since it's not a position of reason. Regardless of what point you make they'll just dig in and ignore them. :(

You're mistaken, but this is a complicated subject and it's entirely reasonable to not know this. I had to look it up at the time to learn it as well.

Chauvin was found guilty and sentenced to 22 years for second-degree unintentional murder, which would be the crime you're aware of, third-degree murder, which is a catch-all for special circumstances that does not ascribe intent, and second-degree manslaughter, which is when you act negligently in a way that you know will cause death.

Ed: oh, it occurs to me that reconciling one charge of unintentional murder and a another of intentional murder when there is only one victim is probably confusing, so just to clarify the way I understand it is that it's two different intentions that both result in death. In the former case, it's like if you were to find out your wife was cheating and you shot her in a crime of passion. In the latter it's like if you set a spring gun.

[1] https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Agreed. I'm noticing this idea floated throughout this thread and it's extremely alarming. There's nothing to suggest that any of the officers died under suspicious circumstances, nobody ever supplies any evidence supporting that theory, they're "just asking questions."

After years of watching as ostensibly reasonable people get mired in ever-increasingly insane conspiracy theories I'm incredibly worried to see them introduced to an already dangerously volatile situation. The Jan 6 riots wouldn't have even happened if not for the pervasiveness of the lie that the election was stolen. I really, really wish people would think more carefully before speaking this way.

If you disagree with the conclusion then okay, go ahead and make an actual counterpoint. That's the whole point of discussion. Don't go accusing people of such outrageously ridiculous things as thinking that they have telepathic powers. You know perfectly well that sort of hyperbolic nonsense won't sway anyone.

It makes sense though that the regulations would be about air quality, since that's a significant issue in a state with such densely-populated areas.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140816134507/http://www.turfma...

I rather suspect the real reason gas cans suck now is that this is the cheapest design that satisfies the requirements and nobody cares enough about gas cans to bother ordering one that works better.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/11/29/1917234/internet-arc...

Still there are resource constraints you have to account for when you're using these things, plus getting them to interface with modern infrastructure and devices is its own challenge. Maintenance and refurbishment is also a factor, since components fail no matter how lovingly cared for the machine has been in its life.

All in all, it's not precisely a better or worse experience than you remember, just a somewhat different experience.

That said, I agree that being aware of this is important if you're emitting JSON. You'd think nobody would ever address a JSON object by its ordinal position, but programmers are lazy and worse, think they're clever. :)

> An object is an unordered collection of zero or more name/value pairs, where a name is a string and a value is a string, number, boolean, null, object, or array.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-1