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> If this is correct, then I would correct my wording

You should want to correct it regardless of the outcome of that "if".

The fact is, (a) you are carelessly speculating about details when we are right in the middle of a mess that was caused by rampant speculation—the fact that contradictory testimony and video happens to exist is not what made the claim unkosher—and (b) even if you weren't wrong and were recounting pure facts, you are derailing the discussion.

> this is discussion of the evidence

You (and by now, others, too) are derailing the thread from the topic at hand by trying to make it one, but no, that's not what this is.

this thread is about the meta issues of epistemology in the age of social media echo chambers and the contributions of traditional media to it, and we're best served by staying on that topic

There is no shortage of places to discuss the night of the Kenosha shooting. This is not one of them.

> a year ago when you formed this opinion

This is a nonsense sentence. It's not even clear what you're even trying to say here, but it's certain that whatever it is you are making even more bad assumptions about things that you don't actually know to be true.

> please show it [...] I was not able to locate any other claims for where the unspent round came from

It's like you ignored the entire message and homed in on the sweet temptation to muse further about the events of the night of the shooting itself, as if this were exactly the sort of trial-by-Reddit thread that I said I would not take part in here.

After the response you just received, do you really expect that the person who wrote it would meet your challenge, which would require an about-face, throwing everything just said out the window, and willingly contributing to derailing the discussion from the topic at hand?

In other words: no, and furthermore, since you're all over this thread trying to turn it into exactly what it shouldn't be: please stop.

> * This implies that Grosskreutz re-racked his gun at some point--something he claims is a threat to kill.

It doesn't imply that. It would be nice if, in a thread about the media misreporting the facts of the case and feeding the biases of the folks who are supposed to be benefiting from the coverage, we wouldn't make other assumptions. You might think it's reasonable to make this assumption, but (a) the people leaping to conclusions—many of which turned out to be wrong—and repeating them ad nauseum over the last year also thought their assumptions about Rittenhouse were reasonable, and (b) as it turns out, the source of the ejected round is knowable/known since it was also caught on video (and it wasn't Grosskreutz doing as you said).

[I'm not going to actually delve into the details on that, since as far as I'm concerned this thread is about the meta issues of epistemology in the age of social media echo chambers and the contributions of traditional media to it, and we're best served by staying on that topic and not straying into the details of the case, which provides us a vehicle for the discussion but other than that is really just a tangential third rail.]

> Removing this is going to waste peoples time.

The term of art is ‘increase engagement’.

> intensive purposes

What

U+005C is REVERSE SOLIDUS, it always has been.

Surely you mean the programming languages of the future are scripting languages? Written the other way around doesn't make sense.

For anyone who's been burned by these:

Why aren't you equally as mad at the personnel at your child's school? It's one thing for a national or semi-national rollout of broken enterprise junk, it's another thing for your child's instructor to go along and demand that you use this broken system instead of providing reasonable affordances (e.g. low-tech, paper-based notices/forms that get sent home with your kid).

For that matter, how do your school systems handle the situation where no one in the household is able or willing to install the damn thing because e.g. you don't own an iOS or Android device, or you have no smartphone at all? Is there an actual legal requirement for you to contribute on an ongoing basis to the bottom-line of select tech companies like Apple and Google in order to participate in public life—as if it's on par with the necessity to pay for e.g. renewing your government-issued ID?

> Saving 10k is unbelievably difficult unless you're making extremely good money to the point where it's out of reach for the majority of Americans. Most Americans can't even stomach a $500 emergency [0] so I don't know where you think these people can work such that they can have 10k set aside after six months.

I have contradictory anecdata on this. Two modifications to your premises, though:

- I did it all in the US, in an "expensive" area (Austin)

- For me, it was closer to 7 months of saving, but it was also closer to a year off than half a year (between 10 and 11 months, rather than 6)

Some more facts behind these numbers:

- I went out to eat during this 10.5 + 7 month period about as frequently as (probably more than) a normal household in 1970 would have, which is to say not often but also a not number that is zero, and I also splurged on craft beer and (cheap) wine and convenient/tasty food and unhealthy snacks from the store often enough

- There was no inherited property or parents' money or someone else otherwise taking care of me or any other tricks up my sleeve involved here (all different types of safety nets that I just didn't not use but that don't exist, so I wouldn't have been able to use it even if I wanted to)

- I was single during this time (so no "other half" to subsidize expenses)

- I cancelled my car insurance a few months into lockdown and was at the disadvantage of doing all this with no car

- I rent, and I have roommates, but I cover my share (I'm usually subsidizing e.g. their utility usage)

Saving 10k was difficult, but I was also bleeding money for other reasons during this time of savings, so anyone not subject to the circumstances I was in should actually be able to fare better. I also wasn't making "extremely good money". The I-hate-my-job company I was at hires for some-college experience to do monotonous, stressful work at <$20/hr. That's less than $45k per year, which is greater than your individual contribution to your half of the gross national average, assuming a two-person household, but it's nowhere close to even being a six figure job, let alone $200k or $500k.

I agree with everything in your final paragraph.

> We’ve had the HTML <video> element for over a decade. Yet, everyone still defaults to embedding YouTube frames instead of hosting their own videos. The underlying problem is that the <video> element isn’t suitable for embedding short video files on webpages.

The reason small websites prefer YouTube embeds is because they want to avoid bearing the storage and bandwidth costs of serving it. And the logistical costs of transcoding it to N different resolutions times M different codecs. No amount of improvements to HTML alone will change that. (Not that the changes are entirely worthless, but they still do not and cannot address the real issue.)

This article refers to TLDs as domain "extensions" in a few places, which is not really a thing(1). Please don't make it a thing.

1. Or at least to the extent that it is currently a (small) thing, it's the wrong thing.

Joke’s on you, Google search results are already atrociously useless as they are and nobody cares.

Icons clearly come from Windows 95 (some, I think, from Millennium even). Not in itself a bad thing (I do actually think 9x icons were an improvement), but if it’s advertised as mimicking Windows 3.11, it better stick to that promise. Flat toolbar buttons are also out of place. The spacing of buttons on the title bar matches neither version. It’s also weird seeing the theme with Ubuntu fonts instead of System and MS Sans Serif. Scroll bars do look pretty faithful at least.

What I’d like to see someday is a theme with a kind of remastered Windows 3.x/9x look: icons upscaled, cross-hatch Bayer dithering smoothed out into flat, solid surfaces, dotted lines replaced by semi-transparency, bitmap fonts remade into vector fonts while maintaining all the character shapes, so that they maintain the look and feel while taking advantages of high-DPI, high-colour screen. That would be a joy to look at, kind of like watching an episode of Star Trek TNG in 1080p.