Some do indeed. The one near me has a pretty ridiculous one that makes me sad for the academics that it is leeching from.

True indeed.

As long as it’s not thinly-veiled transphobia, it sounds like as good a reason as any.

I’d say that all 9 are corrupt, but to different degrees. Iirc, rejection of ethics oversight was unanimous.

You had a choice, you made the wrong decisions, now own it.

The pro-genocide protest (non-)voters have bought into the propaganda so thoroughly that I’m doubting that they’ll accept responsibility even on their deathbeds at this point. They didn’t give a shit about anyone or anything but performative actions to stroke their own egos and telling themselves that they are morally superior. There was one the other day who even admitted that they put their own SO’s life at risk but still see no fault in their actions and blame dems and strategic voters for their own choice to support making genocide worse.

Thomas Paine was right. It goes back to the founding of the country (at least) and the refusal to form a truly egalitarian society, embracing human slavery instead. This made the US Civil War inevitable.

It’s cheaper and easier to get higher quality by gardening for some veggies, like tomatoes. It is, however, more work than buying from a store. Part of the reason being the varieties and practices required for centralized, commercial agriculture. Mainly, varieties chosen for durability in transport rather than flavor or nutrition.

That’s the fun thing. They’re trying to make them gig workers so that they can be paid less and get no benefits.

So even if it’s 4mm away? 5mm? 6mm? 7mm? 8? 9?

If it were that far away, contact would not happen, and thus no injury. To be clear, a graze or tangential gunshot wound requires contact to occur. The hydrostatic shock occurs only when there is physical contact to allow a transfer of kinetic energy.

You argue as if you can be equally injured in a car crash by being a bystander because of the energy of a speeding car. Like, no?

A key part that you’re missing in that comparison is the area over which the contact occurs. So, it would be roughly like a 1956 VW Beetle hitting someone in the ear at 60mph. However, this also isn’t quite accurate or the full picture because it would require somehow getting an equivalent ratio of surface area contacting the ear, which would be much greater than ear-sized on the VW because a 5.56mm round is so small, as well as the additional forces exerted because of the sonic blast wave that the bullet causes.

Bullets work by transferring immense amounts of energy to a small surface area. High-velocity bullets (those flying at supersonic speeds, like all modern cartridges that are not specifically designed to be subsonic), have an additional effect of causing hydrostatic shock (some research suggests that this may, to a lesser degree, occur with subsonic rounds as well). What that means is that a component of the sonic blast wave participates in the transfer of energy to tissue (we’re big bags of water), causing a radiating pressure wave that evidence shows can cause fractures in bone not impacted by the bullet, as well as damage to nearby internal organs and nerves.

Another great way of understanding the importance of surface area to the damage inflicted by rapid kinetic energy transfer would be Blendo. A battle robot built by the MythBusters guys that, as a “weapon” used a flywheel weighing roughly 100lbs (45kg) that was spun up to around 400RPM. The energy in that flywheel was transferred to the opposing robots in a very small surface area, causing such devastating effects that they were asked to withdraw from the competition.

This is very similar to how bullets work and one of a number of reasons that even a graze from 5.56mm bullet that hadn’t first lost a significant amount of its energy is very unlikely. The wound being able to heal in a week with no visible scarring (not to mention suppression of any medical records from being used in the investigation or revealed to the public) makes that possibility even more vanishingly small.

Turns out that people don’t “grow out of” physiological differences in how their prefrontal cortex forms. Who would have thought?! /s

Ah man. This looks like it is likely the sort of electric motorcycle that I’d actually want. My favorite bikes have been in the 196cc (Yamaha TW200) to 649cc (Kawasaki KLR650) range and pretty no-frills. Most of them were even carbureted. The only change from what I see on their website that I’d want is a mechanical instrument cluster. It’s nice to be able to see what’s going on when the tank is empty.

Hopefully they release in other regions with similar price points. Having a nice electric dual-sport for fire roads that isn’t ridiculously expensive or heavy would be amazing.

Looks like we’re all going to have long-COVID.

Crust punk.

You’re playing with words. We have video of what happened.

Not playing with words. The 5.56mm bullet had around 1.8kJ of energy, mostly from velocity. Dumping even a fraction of that into human tissue can cause rather devastating effects, with additional effects from the pressure wave from traveling at supersonic speeds. It’s not like in the movies or video games where just getting “winged” is not a big deal.

A small laceration from a piece of plastic that had been, uh, acutely accelerated in his direction makes a lot more sense.

This or getting cut when tackled/ducking really make the most sense and match the injury characteristics the most.

It’s not like a video game where a glancing shot is going to send him spinning through the air like a top

Indeed. The only way that something like that is happening is the nervous system doing it (or tissue ejecting like JFK).

and rip his ear off.

Again, handgun, no, high-velocity rifle, pretty likely. The two act very differently when they contact tissue. An instantaneous transfer of even a fraction of 1.8kJ of energy to tissue is pretty devastating.

It is possible that he was hit but, the minute amount of contact needed to transfer enough energy from round as small as 5.56mm to cause a “cut” without any damage to the surrounding tissue is exceedingly unlikely. The fact that the medical records were not just withheld from the public but even investigators, after which he paraded around bragging about it really makes “he was hit by a bullet” the non-credible scenario.

Nah. They used to be Nreal but got a C&D from Epic.

The rounds used were high-velocity rifle, not handgun rounds. Were it a handgun round, it could be believable. The greater amount of kinetic velocity leads to much more devastating wounds, even with grazes. He may have been grazed by debris or indirectly by a fragment from a bullet that hit something else, but, that’s not the claim.

Source: I’ve spent a significant amount of my life learning about firearms and I’ve been next to someone who was hit by a .45 ACP that ricocheted at a shooting range after hitting a rock about 15-20m away. He was hit solidly in the meaty bit of the shoulder at an almost straight-on, vertical angle. Not a graze. The round did not penetrate, fortunately. The wound had minor, superficial lacerations or tears radiating about 1.5x the round diameter and a bruise the size of an orange. Bleeding was easily stopped with a single gauze pad.

Why does that matter? Well, the wound experienced was similar, if not more significant and visible, considering it’s a less vascular and bleed-y than an ear. A common .45 ACP FMJ round has about 1/4 the energy of a 5.56x45mm NATO round when it leaves the barrel. The reduction of velocity from the ricochet was extreme, likely below 200ft/s (60m/s), roughly 1/4 of initial velocity, but it still had enough energy to create a similar degree of wounding.

Kinetic energy (KE) is proportional to mass times the square of velocity, meaning that every time velocity doubles, KE quadruples. So, a .45 ACP round traveling at ~1/4 of its velocity posesses ~1/16 of its initial KE (supposing it didn’t lose any mass, which it did). That makes it around 1/64th of the KE of the 5.56mm round. The likelihood of a 5.56mm round making little enough contact to transfer less than 1/64th of its energy into a ear, without the pressure wave impacting the surrounding tissue at all is not technically impossible but it is about on the scale of the chances of Ghandi not pulling out nukes in the original Civ.

Add to that the suppression of any medical evidence and it’s a pretty clear picture.

When moving at supersonic velocities, barely nicking something is still enough to transfer enough energy into the ear to, at minimum, leave visible scarring, more likely, require reconstructive surgery.

This isn’t Hollywood. A graze wound from a 5.56x45mm round at supersonic velocities doesn’t leave a small, easily healed cut; it transfers a portion of the bullet’s kinetic energy into the tissue, in a radiating pressure wave that tears, shatters, and emulsifies the surrounding tissue. Even the slightest amount of contact transfers enough energy to cause wounds that take a substantial amount of time to heal, even more so with an ear that is primarily cartilage, which doesn’t, itself, heal.

A graze would have resulted in needing reconstructive surgery that would have taken months to heal and would have had visible bruising much longer than his ear bandage was worn. Graze from fragments or debris? Sure, that’s a lot different than his claim. And it’s at least equally likely that he cut his ear when tackled, which would be consistent with the seen wound as well as the lack of visible scarring or need for reconstructive surgery.