cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Cake day: January 17th, 2022

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  • UC Merced annual training required only 7 rounds, while UC San Francisco used 7000 and UC Santa Barbara used 9000 🤔

    Shoutout to UC Davis for having the only police department on the list who “did not use any military equipment during this timeframe”.

    For some reason the linked PDF varies from the screenshot in several ways, though most of the numbers are the same. (UC Riverside’s number of rounds of .556-range ammunition used in training is 3000 in the screenshot but 6000 in the PDF now.)

    I was curious how much this launcher costs:

    screenshot of PDF linked by OP, saying Requests For Category 14 – Kinetic Energy Weapons and Munitions • UCLA is requesting to purchase (4) FN Herstal 303 launchers, (4) Pepper Ball VK-SBL, (3,000) FTC Pava Capsaicin Rounds, (100) Rounds of Def-Tec 40mm munitions (Model #6320) and (300) rounds of Def-Tec 40mm munitions (Model #6325).

    … over here I see this glorified paintball gun is normally $2400 but currently on sale for just $1850.















  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldDear America
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    Ah, figures. I should know better than to post quotes without checking if they’re attributed correctly

    jackie chan wtf meme

    Why don’t you correct it then? (Eg, either delete your post, or replace the linked image with an updated one that attributes the quote correctly.)

    This isn’t facebook; please don’t post years-old misattributed quote memes.







  • Upload bandwidth doesn’t magically turn into download bandwidth

    Actually, it does. Various Cable and DSL standards involve splitting up a big (eg, measured in MHz) band of the spectrum into many small (eg, around 4 or 8 kHz wide) channels which are each used unidirectionally. By allocating more of these channels to one direction, it is possible to (literally) devote more band width - both the kinds measured in kilohertz and megabits - to one of the directions than is possible in a symmetric configuration.

    Of course, since the combined up and down maximum throughput configured to be allowed for most plans is nowhere near the limit of what is physically available, the cynical answer that it is actually just capitalism doing value-based pricing to maximize revenue is also a correct explanation.