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Why Oregon's Measure 114 is a bad idea

1 The facts show large capacity magazines do not result in worse injuries; the intent of the criminal with the gun is more important than the ability to spray bullets everywhere. Look at the science https://gunculture2point0.com/2017/10/25/are-semiautomatic-weapons-with-large-capacity-magazines-andor-other-military-style-features-more-criminal-andor-dangerous   2 Furthermore, it's the criminal, not the gun owner, who causes gun crime. We should focus on criminals, not legitimate gun owners, and better fund prosecution, public defenders, and the courts, all of whom are desperately underfunded. 3 The mechanism required by the measure was very ill thought out. It required the FBI to conduct background checks, which it does not do, thereby making ownership impossible.   4 It also required a mental health professional to advise, and Oregon is already desperately short of those doctors and counselors, which would be another impossible hurdle to clear. 5 It required a firearm proficiency
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How OneDrive can gum up the works in Windows

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/is-onedrive-moving-all-your-files-how-to-take-back-control-of-your-windows-storage-3-ways/
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Linux directory structure explained

https://www.howtogeek.com/117435/htg-explains-the-linux-directory-structure-explained
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Coffee: Cold brewed vs hot brewed

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-s-the-chemical-difference-between-hot-and-cold-brew-coffee    
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Assorted free futurism fiction

Each month, Future Tense Fiction —a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives—publishes a story on a theme. “ Affordances ”  by Cory Doctorow, a new science fiction story about how technical restrictions start with powerless people before coming for us all.  “ The Arisen ,” by Louisa Hall   “ The Song Between Worlds ,” by Indrapramit Das “ No Moon and Flat Calm ,” by Elizabeth Bear| “ Space Leek ,” by Chen Qiufan “ Zero in Babel ,” by E. Lily Yu “ What the Dead Man Said ,” by Chinelo Onwualu “ Double Spiral ,” by Marcy Kelly “ Mika Model ,” by Paolo Bacigalupi “ Mr. Thursday ,” by Emily St. John Mandel “ The Minnesota Diet ,” by Charlie Jane Anders “ Mother of Invention ,” by Nnedi Okorafor “ Domestic Violence ,” by Madeline Ashby “ No Me Dejas ,” by Mark Oshiro “ Safe Surrender ,” by Meg Elison “ A Brief and Fearful Star ,” by Carmen Maria Machado “ The Starfish Girl ,” by
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Keep a flashdrive loaded with a Live Linux Distro

https://www.howtogeek.com/why-everyone-should-have-a-spare-bootable-linux-usb-disk
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Elon's privateers

Elon's Privateers (with apologies to the late great Stan Rogers) Oh the year was twenty-seventy-eight How I wish I was in Phobos now A letter of marque came from Elon To the scummiest Tesla I've ever seen CHORUS God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the skies for Earthican gold We’d fire no guns, shed no tears Now I’m a broken man on a Martian pier The last of Elon’s Privateers O damn that Elon cried the town How I wish I was in Phobos now For twenty brave men all spacemen who Would make for him the Tesla's crew CHORUS The Cybertruck was a sickening sight How I wish I was in Phobos now She’d list to the port and her tires in rags And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags CHORUS On Elon’s birthday we put to sea How I wish I was in Phobos now Ninety-one days to Kuiper Belt Pumping like madmen all the way CHORUS On the ninety-sixth day we sailed again How I wish I was in Phobos now When a great big Starship hove in sight With our cracked RPGs we made to fight
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