May 20, 20224 yr Author 18 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Yea, I think we keep talking past each other at this point. Not sure there's another way to drive home my point about how perception is directly related to public trust. It’s simple. Musk isn’t worried about perception. He’s worried about reality. So in reality he won’t be banning just one side and will treat each side equally.
May 20, 20224 yr Just now, 20dawk4life said: It’s simple. Musk isn’t worried about perception. He’s worried about reality. So in reality he won’t be banning just one side and will treat each side equally. Well he should be because perception and trust are inextricably linked. As a public figure, if people perceive you to be a hypocrite or petty or just a deceptive person in general, they're not gonna trust you regardless of how trustworthy you may be in fact be in reality.
May 20, 20224 yr 10 hours ago, TEW said: Little bit of everything in there The replies I've also seen people in the UK have "America parties" wearing hip hop style clothes, Nike and drinking from red solo cups.
May 20, 20224 yr Can confirm that my european colleagues would view things like blue jeans, bbq ribs, and red solo cups as being uniquely American things they would want to see first hand when they came for a visit.
May 20, 20224 yr 4 hours ago, Talkingbirds said: Most jobs were created in Red States with Florida and Texas leading the way, and we're still about 1.5 million jobs below February of 2020 levels
May 20, 20224 yr 30 minutes ago, iladelphxx said: Most jobs were created in Red States with Florida and Texas leading the way, and we're still about 1.5 million jobs below February of 2020 levels Com’on man give to dog a bone.
May 20, 20224 yr 2 hours ago, iladelphxx said: Most jobs were created in Red States with Florida and Texas leading the way, and we're still about 1.5 million jobs below February of 2020 levels Pretty mixed if you go by percentages.
May 20, 20224 yr while anecdotal, in the past 3-5 years there seems to be more women who I know have now chosen to get a CCW Permit, vs men who have openely expressed they have done so recently. Some of my women friends go to the range together to practice. Almost all have taken courses. Encouraging, they likely wont end up a statistic.
May 20, 20224 yr 2 minutes ago, Ipiggles said: while anecdotal, in the past 3-5 years there seems to be more women who I know have now chosen to get a CCW Permit, vs men who have openely expressed they have done so recently. Some of my women friends go to the range together to practice. Almost all have taken courses. Encouraging, they likely wont end up a statistic. Hit.
May 20, 20224 yr I approve of this message - I suppose there could be a third door, though fairly rare, could be listed as such : X, XXXY, XXY, XYY,
May 20, 20224 yr 13 minutes ago, Ipiggles said: while anecdotal, in the past 3-5 years there seems to be more women who I know have now chosen to get a CCW Permit, vs men who have openely expressed they have done so recently. Some of my women friends go to the range together to practice. Almost all have taken courses. Encouraging, they likely wont end up a statistic. There are stats to back that up. Gun ownership among women and minorities in particular black owners has increased in recent years. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/more-women-are-becoming-gun-owners/ https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_gun-ownership-steadily-increasing-among-us-women/6207787.html https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/more-women-especially-black-women-are-becoming-gun-owners-ownership-firearms/531-49622eec-5ac8-4793-ab89-cfa0213ebff4 This one is behind a paywall but the relevant portion is in the preview: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/01/22/gun-ownership-in-america-is-diversifying-because-of-safety-fears Quote More gun-owners, especially new ones, look like Ms Evans. Of the 7.5m Americans who bought firearms for the first time between January 2019 and April 2021—as gun-buying surged nationwide—half were female, a fifth black and a fifth Hispanic, according to a recent study by Matthew Miller of Northeastern University and his co-authors. The share of black adults who joined the gun-owning ranks, 5.3%, was more than twice that of white adults. That is new: in a previous survey, in 2015, new buyers skewed white and male, though they were more politically liberal than long-standing ones. Overall, today’s gun-owners are still largely white (73%) and male (63%). But they are diversifying.
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