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The Maine house just passed mandatory background checks for personal firearm transfers. Gun owners have a choice: go through a dealer, or let the cops handle the transfer. Can cops transfer firearms without an FFL? Call it what it is- universal firearms registration.

I wrote a paper that discussed why body mass index wasn’t an accurate measurement of anything.

To get an idea of why I feel this way, let’s use some professional athletes to illustrate why BMI is not an accurate measurement of obesity:
This is a link to the roster of the Tampa Bay Lightning, a professional hockey team made up of athletes from all over the world, most of whom are also on their country’s respective Olympic teams. They are provided, as part of the team, with a full time nutritionist, the best medical care available, and they each work out 6-8 hours a day, every day. In other words, they are in the 99.9th percentile of health and fitness. According to Body Mass Index, every one of them has a BMI higher than 25, meaning that all of them are overweight.

In science, if you can prove that a hypothesis isn’t always correct, then it must be rewritten or discarded. BMI isn’t correct.

Now the American Medical Association now agrees that BMI isn’t accurate. Not because of its inherent issues, but now because they claim it is racist.

Back in April, you will recall that my sister had a meeting where she was going to have to face a parent that was, I suspected, going to accuse her of racism. Now that the school year is over, we can close the books on that.

During the meeting, the school would not allow her to have union representation. The representative was there, but the school said that since the meeting was not going to include discipline, the union could not be there. As soon as the meeting began, the parent began with the racism accusations.

The good news here is that the parent was hated by administration, because she keeps complaining and demanding a new teacher for her little hell spawn. This is the fourth teacher that this parent has made racism complaints against. This time, it didn’t work. My sister finally wound up not getting in trouble.

Just testing out some stuff. Most of you can disregard.

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There is a tale being circulated through various blogs and news channels about a man who was locked out of his home for six days for supposedly making a racist comment. When I read this story, I thought that it must be bullshit. The reason that I didn’t believe the story is that Alexa can’t be used to unlock doors. This is a simple security precaution to keep someone from yelling, “Alexa, open the door!” and gaining access to your home. Alexa devices can be used to LOCK doors or even check their status, but not to unlock them.

The second reason that this can’t be true is that most smart locks have PIN access, so even if Alexa won’t lock the doors, you can unlock them with the PIN pad. Now I am willing to admit that there are door locks out there without pin pads, so I decided to investigate. The original story appeared at Medium.com. It turns out that yes, the story was blown far out of proportion. The author of the story even states it in the story:

 I only lost the ability to use Alexa. My home was fine as I just used Siri or locally hosted dashboard if I wanted to change a light’s color or something of that nature…I was not truly in the dark for a week. My smart home runs mostly locally and Alexa really is just a polymorphic interface. I was just able to use Siri. Though out of habit I’d sometimes say “alexa” only for her to remind me how stupid I was.

No, this is simply a case of luddites who don’t trust that new fangled technology and are gleefully willing to believe any negative story about anything new without bothering to question it. This article should have focused on the poor customer service that Amazon delivered in this case, but instead the story became one about distrusting technology and convenience features.

I have a smart house, and many features in the house can be controlled by voice. It’s fucking cool to be able to say, “Alexa, turn on the ceiling fan,” or “Alexa, turn the thermostat down to 65 degrees,” when it gets hot in the living room. It feels like living in the future. Instead of being afraid of technology, learn to understand that you can get up and do it yourself if there is a failure there.

No, this is purely about providing confirmation for people who are opposed to any sort of technology.

The rich are upset that people aren’t buying the bullshit when a rich guy tells you to stop riding in your car right before he takes off for the Riviera in his private jet. So now they are claiming that owning three dogs is just as bad for the environment as owning and flitting around the world in your Gulfstream IV.

The city of Dallas is mandating that all employees use a person’s chosen name and pronouns. I would love this. My new name is “Big Daddy Longcock” and my pronouns are “my nigga” and “sup bitch.” Per the published HR policy, all of my coworkers are now required to use them.

Let HR sort that shit out.

I was just sitting here remembering the time when I was asked to leave a publicly owned gun range because my rifle fire was too rapid. They said that no one was permitted to fire more than one shot every ten seconds. Oh, and my AR was throwing brass too far, and this was a safety hazard. I was firing a shot every second at 100 yards. I pointed out that every one of my shots was on the paper and within the 8 ring, so it wasn’t like I was unsafe. The response was that my rapid fire disturbed hunters who were trying to get sighted in for deer season.

The place is run by volunteer range masters. They all have different rules. Some say 2 seconds between shots, some say 10. It shouldn’t matter how fast I am shooting if I am doing it in a safe manner. They require all shots with rifles to be seated bench- no standing, sitting on the ground, or prone.

One shot every two seconds is much slower than needed to qualify for handgun. That doesn’t matter, because Fudds only care about hunting. They aren’t gun people.

Don’t think that deer hunting Fudds will hesitate for a minute to report you to the ATF, if they believe that this will allow them to keep hunting.

In case you were wondering, the gun range was Tenoroc in Lakeland, which is a government owned range that is run by volunteer Fudds and owned by FWC (Fish & Wildlife Commision) .