Compared to poor white people maybe. (And not even always then, as @daneel notes.)
Compared to rich white people, not so much.
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Actually I think there is evidence he may be a Brit, which would make Texas seem even stranger.
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Anyone north of 39.7167Ā° N, 75.7833Ā° W is considered a Yankee. They could spearfish whales in ancestral waters or huff yak aquavit on Novaya Zemlaya, but to a Texan: thatās a damn Yankee.
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Reinforces the point. Thank you.
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One important question I havenāt seen addressed: now that crude digital clocks count as ābombsā what are we supposed to do with @nixiebunny ? The only proportional response would seem to be declaring him a rogue state or giving him a security council seatā¦
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I was going to reply with the exact same thing. That lack of gun safety is about 10000x more dangerous than a homemade clock where the biggest danger is probably an electrical shock from careless handling if itās using mains power to the transformer.
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Perhaps they got confused with another āPublic Enemyā
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Iāve never had a cap explode with anything more than the force of an anemic firecracker. To get anything even remotely bomb like youād need something positively massive:
ā¦ and even that wouldnāt work well as a bomb. Besides, thereās far more pedestrian ways to create explosions.
Hopefully nothing like BART Policeā¦
[image of a cop writing on a blackboard,
I WILL NOT OVERREACT IN ENFORCEMENT
I WILL NOT OVERREACT IN ENFORCEMENT
I WILL NOTā¦
]
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So this looks like it wasnāt even something that was built from components, but basically just the guts of a commercially manufactured digital alarm clock put into an aluminum pencil case. I would imagine the beeping while it was in the backpack was the AC power outage warning since it wasnāt plugged in (assuming there was a 9V battery still connected at the time). Not necessarily a sophisticated project, but still something Iām sure I would have been proud of at that age.
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McCainās concession speech in 2008 was pretty classy, actually.
And perhaps even relevant to Obamaās tweet.
A century ago, President Theodore Rooseveltās invitation of Booker T. Washington to visit ā to dine at the White House ā was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time.
I keep in mind that heās 14. For him to be doing something else besides sitting there like a lump watching endless minecraft YouTubes is a momentous occasion.
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Wait - those two Irish guys are fantastic!
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omg youāre killing my brain
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Good thing he knows what to do:
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I was wondering about this, I took apart a lot of stuff when I was a kid. Itās an important part of learning about electronics, lets just not all get carried away calling this kid the next Elon Musk just yet.
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Mechanics, too. I learned respect for the wound up springs in mechanical clocks, the hard way (ouch, the cogwheels can bite into fingers rather fast when you release the top plate, one of the smaller wheels jumps out, and the big ones can spin freely), in a single-digit age.
Mechanics is pretty important. Tends to be neglected in the electronic age.
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So Texans are soft Southerners by Northern English standards then?
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