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What'd that be in Kelvin? Asking for a ~~lord~~ friend

25 AVERAGE?! So like 15 at night and 35 during the day is considered not "heat" where you're from?!

Not fully, no. My understanding is that the available data of countries with and without general-citizen gun ownership, all else being equal, shows that normal issues (crime, personal conflicts, ...) becomes gun-involved issues a lot more frequently so apparently it does help

Fwiw, there's knives and there's knives. What you describe is a category that's afaik generally allowed. What's not is the kind that extends with the push of a button (spring loaded, as I understand it; I'm not a weapons person). Opening it from the state you carry in need to be a two-handed process, presumably to make it less accessible to go for as well as giving the would-be victim a second to get the hell out of there or call for help or whatnot

Dutch police aren't always I think (but often yes), and I seem to remember that Icelandic police almost never does. I don't know for most countries but afaik it's not as uncommon as that for them not to wear guns

Used to be 5km where I grew up in the Netherlands, nowadays living in Germany it's 1km but uphill (don't have those in NL!). In either case I don't want to walk it and there's not a chance I would if it's 30 degrees out: that temperature means it's probably in a month of the year where I burn within 10-20 minutes. I'd have to put on sunscreen for going to the store! They better have a sandy beach aisle

I don't know

(https://barrypopik.com/blog/three_logicians_walk_into_a_bar)

Unicode consortium stopped accepting new flags. Far, far from all current languages are in there. Don't expect there to be an emoji for every language, and fewer and fewer as the current version ages and flags change

And that's regardless of that flags are often a poor language selector (south african flag can mean a lot of things), but if you insist then SVGs of what regions you want to support might be a good replacement

Not sure if you're aware that tac is not a typo but reverse cat, as in, it works like cat but prints the last line first. I use this semi-regularly

sl, now, that's a typo. Nobody wants a free choo choo

I would expect that judges have a fine moral compass for which crimes are worse than others. Better if they don't need to follow some administration's counterscientific "tough on crime" whim

You make a compelling case for maximums though. I hadn't thought of it as being a way to reduce torture or death penalty in the countries where that's on the table in the first place

Then the prosecution brings case law where a person of color in a similar situation got a very different sentence, or someone without the rich parents etc.

I'm sure there'll be biases but minimum sentences won't undo those. I'd find minimum and maximum sentences very unfair for situations like described by the person you replied to. Case law and perhaps a blinding system (Justice is blindfolded after all) where at least one of the judges involved doesn't get to learn things like "white guy with rich parents" might be a better solution if that's the problem this is intended to solve

I'm not deep into this situation but my understanding is that no minimum sentence would have helped there. Nobody being above the law might have helped...