Self-sufficiency
From an article in the New York Times called “The Boys Are Not All Right“: Too many boys are trapped in the same suffocating, outdated model of masc...
Month: February 2018
Analysis of gun laws and violent crime
I’ve done previous analyses on the Brady scoring for various gun laws and how they relate to suicide rates in various States. To briefly recap previous ar...
Analysis of waiting period laws and suicide rates
I think we’ve all heard the claim before that having a 24 or 48-hour waiting period on acquiring a pistol can curtail suicide. This is based on the idea t...
Analysis of background check laws and suicide rates
Do stronger background checks reduce the incidence of suicide? This hypothesis is based on the idea that suicide is largely a incident of passion, and someone w...
When Windows Defender says you’re mining viruses
This was a rather frustrating development. I have two computers dedicated to mining Ethereum, and I also mine it on Mira. All three machines had Windows 10 and ...
Analysis of gun laws and suicide rates
Shane Killian showed in an online video an evaluation of a correlation of gun laws to gun homicide rates, using the Brady Campaign’s scoring of gun laws. ...
Why police may not act on tips
After the recent tragedy in Florida, one question I’ve seen raised numerous times can be boiled down to this: why did the FBI and local police not act on ...
Admitting defeat
As you can probably tell, this hasn’t been a huge priority for me, given how many months it’s been since the last update. I haven’t given up o...
A prediction regarding language
With social justice warriors in the United States and much of the rest of the English-speaking world continually labeling words and phrases as being racist and ...