Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (2/2/22)

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We don’t have a racial quota in my office. But I’ve had a number of African American employees,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (RINO-KY)

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"Youth deserve to know the facts about the risks of oral sex," Dr. Tammy Chang, an associate professor of family medicine at Michigan Medicine-University of Michigan

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“In order to protect the safety of our customers and the quality of our water, the RWA does not allow activities of any kind on the ice at our reservoirs, which serve as the source of drinking water for some 430,000 consumers in Greater New Haven,”RWA Police Captain Paul Ruggiero

No ice fishing? That's just wrong.

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“I've been in tears. I've had migraine headaches, which I don't usually get unless I'm under stress and I'm getting them every day right now," Annette Kriete

They are lepers. Send them away.

A resolution to remove Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from the House GOP conference is gaining momentum at the Republican National Committee‘s winter meeting this week in Salt Lake City.

The resolution, which has picked 50 co-sponsors, intends to punish the lawmakers for participating as the only two GOP members on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. If the resolution passes out of a committee meeting Thursday, it will go to a vote by all 168 RNC members on Friday.

Jonathan Barnett, an RNC committeeman from Arkansas, is spearheading the resolution and expects it to pass.

Novel electric motors are fascinating to a point. I'm still waiting for a world that can provide enough electricity on demand for all of these pipedreams.

Swedish hypercar maker Koenigsegg has long been a home for novel engineering, and that's evident in its new electric motor. Developed for the Gemera four-seater, this electric motor, dubbed the Quark, is a tiny powerhouse. In a package that weighs just 63 pounds, the Quark develops 335 hp and 443 lb-ft of torque. For scale, that's a 330-mL energy drink in the pictures seen throughout.

The Quark, announced Monday, combines both radial- and axial-flux constructions to offer a good balance between power and torque. Rather than explain the difference between the two, I'll turn you towards this article from EV trade publication Charged. All you really need to know is that this is a best-of-both-worlds solution—Koenigsegg claims the Quark has an industry-leading torque-power-weight ratio. Those peak power and torque figures are only available for 20 seconds, which is common among EV motors. After 20 seconds, the figures drop to 134 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. That's fine for the Gemera, which has three electric motors and a 600-hp three-cylinder.

A funny thing to consider. The bad guys never miss but the good guys do?

While the Arizona State Senate sells their idea of enhanced safety by allowing persons with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun on a college campus, they're oversimplifying the reality of possessing a CCW permit.
What’s missing from the emotional and public discussion about allowing students to arm themselves on college campuses is what actually happens in a shooting. Bullets can and do go everywhere.

On average, police officers hit their target half of the time or less.

In a Mesa officer-involved shooting I investigated in the late 1980s, two officers fired at a stationary target. The man was 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighed more than 200 pounds. He’d thrown a knife in the general direction of one officer 20 feet away. The other officer was in the opposite direction 25 feet away.

The officers fired 17 rounds. One hit the subject, while the rest ranged vertically from one inch off of the ground to 6 feet, 1 inch high and horizontally over 12 feet. I can only imagine where the 16 rounds could’ve gone if the shooting happened on a college campus or in a congested neighborhood?

Police shootings, Shannon's Law highlight the risk
In a Tolleson officer-involved shooting I investigated in the 1990s, the bullet traveled through the armed robbery suspect, through an outside stucco wall and into a person’s bedroom where it lodged in the wall.

Words have consequences. For the leftists, finally.

Wisconsin cooking spice company Penzey’s Spices is desperately asking liberals to help them rebuild since the company lost tens of thousands of customers after its CEO began publicly calling Republicans racists.

The repeated outbursts by the company’s CEO caused customers to quit the spice company en masse, but Penzey’s still went 100 percent all-in with its “all Republicans are racists” theme.

Fat, ugly and racist is no way to go through life.

Whoopi Goldberg apologizes on The View for Holocaust comments, but that doesn’t erase her Colbert interview…

A large number of parents have raised nothing but whiny pussies.

"I'm optimistic that Georgetown's investigation will be fair, impartial, and professional, though there's really not much to investigate," Shapiro said in a statement.

Georgetown's Black Law Student Association disagrees. Student protesters held a sit-in at the Law Center on Tuesday morning. Treanor attended and was questioned at length by the students, who want Shapiro fired and perhaps the entire center eliminated.

National Review notes that the students' demands include that they be provided with a place to cry:

At another juncture, a student demanded that the dean cover for the classes that the activists had missed as a result of the sit-in, suggesting that the move should be part of a "reparations" package for black students. She followed up by insisting that students be given a designated place on campus to cry. "Is there an office they can go to?" she asked. "I don't know what it would look like, but if they want to cry, if they need to break down, where can they go? Because we're at a point where

Wow, who knew Ohio was a great place to relocate to?

The Orange-based hydrogen fuel cell and transportation company Hyperion Companies said Tuesday that it will move its global headquarters to Columbus, Ohio.

Hyperion in a news release said it will create 680 new jobs over six years and invest nearly $300 million in a headquarters, research and development center and manufacturing operation in the city.

The company, founded in Columbus in 2011 before moving its headquarters to Orange in 2014, will keep its offices open in Orange.

“It is transitioning from research and development to manufacturing in its next phase of growth,” a company representative told the Orange County Register on Tuesday.

Hyperion said its transition to manufacturing will “not have a major effect on jobs in Orange except for 10-20 leadership positions relocating. Those roles will be replaced with new leadership as the Orange facility refocuses on advanced design, experimental research, and product development.”

Current employees in Orange will remain, Hyperion said

Probably not a good idea to piss off independent hacker who goes by the handle P4x.

North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet30

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands. From a report

For the past two weeks, observers of North Korea's strange and tightly restricted corner of the internet began to notice that the country seemed to be dealing with some serious connectivity problems. On several different days, practically all of its websites -- the notoriously isolated nation only has a few dozen -- intermittently dropped offline en masse, from the booking site for its Air Koryo airline to Naenara, a page that serves as the official portal for dictator Kim Jong-un's government. At least one of the central routers that allow access to the country's networks appeared at one point to be paralyzed, crippling the Hermit Kingdom's digital connections to the outside world.

Can we name any professional sports teams with a cool name? Apparently not.

The Washington NFL franchise has decided on its new team name, as the Washington Football Team will now go by Washington Commanders.

Earlier this month, the franchise teased its new uniforms as well as two different helmets: one burgundy and one black. In the video posted by Washington, team president Jason Wright ruled out the "Wolves" and "RedWolves" in their search for a new name, saying that they were, "not viable options because of existing trademarks held by other teams."

"We are on the brink of starting a new chapter, but our history, our legacy cannot be lost along the way," Wright said last month. "Now, more than ever, it's important that we stay connected to our roots."

More pussification of the US.

On this day: 2 Feb 2007
American singer Billy Henderson, one of the founders of US soul group The Spinners, died aged 67 after complications from diabetes. They had several hits in the 1970s, including ‘I'll Be Around’ (1972) and ‘Could It Be I'm Falling in Love’, ‘Then Came You’ (with Dionne Warwick), and "It's a Shame". The Spinners also scored the the 1980 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'Working My Way Back To You. via thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this day: 2 Feb 1963
Eva Cassidy, US singer. She is the only artist to score three posthumous UK No.1 albums: 2001’s 'Songbird'; 2002’s 'Imagine' and 2003’s 'American Tune'. In 2001 she also had a UK No.42 single with ‘Over The Rainbow’ and the 2007 UK No.1 single 'What a Wonderful World' with Katie Melua. Eva died of skin cancer on November 2nd 1996, aged 33. via thisdayinmusic.com

He certainly is building a solid resume as a Democratic candidate and Genius Award Winner.

Man Jailed On Ramen Noodle Battery Charge
Cops: Florida woman attacked following dispute over dog in bed

Good on him. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Nick Brown has been at the helm of Nikwax and Paramo for 45 years. Now, on the cusp of retirement, he’s turning it all into an employee-owned trust.

It’s a move we don’t see often in the outdoor industry, especially now that the market is experiencing unprecedented demand. Mergers, buyouts, and reformations of the little guy by megacorps or VC firms are now commonplace. And concerns over how that will impact business, adventure culture and, ultimately, the world, are raised each time a new deal goes through.

That’s why one well-established outdoor industry CEO, Nikwax and Páramo Clothing founder Nick Brown, has decided to pass his companies — and arguably, his life’s work — to the folks he knows he can trust. Brown, who is based in the U.K., will hand the reins over by transforming both businesses into employee-owned trusts (EOT).

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