Just down the road from me is Floridatown

There’s a YouTube guy who cameras up and slings his AR over his chest while fishing mainly to school the local cops who inevitably get called by some freaked out member of the public and he puts it online.

That is the armed fisherman,cool guy,and the cops
are on him like stink on shif ,he is involved in multi law suits over this

I read an interesting book, "The Death of Expertise." It is interesting, and I think it needs a re-read.

A quote from the book:
“The death of expertise is not just a rejection of existing knowledge. It is fundamentally a rejection of science and dispassionate rationality, which are the foundations of modern civilization.”
― Thomas M. Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

It's a shame this superficial knowledge people are satisfied with. I am no expert on many subject, but like to think I have an awareness of what I don't know...

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Originally posted by ElToro:
Just down the road from me is Floridatown

Let us not forget Florida City.

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Originally posted by katndog:
I read an interesting book, "The Death of Expertise."

Thanks for that reference. Although I don’t need to be discouraged about the subject any more than I am already as it seems to continually get worse, it would be good to get the author’s (presumably) more detailed perspective.

Sigfreund, I hope you find it interesting...

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Originally posted by katndog:
Sigfreund, I hope you find it interesting...

Thanks again. Have it on order.
An excellent book that may be somewhat similar was Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Gross and Levitt (1998).

As a firearms instructor for 51 years, I have been attempting to ward off ignorance about firearms for most of a lifetime. Some of the ideas people have about the law come from Nonsenseland. Sometimes it seems I am shoveling sand against the tide. Sometimes people are just nucking futz and looking for an argument.

I often note that conversations at gun counters are fraught with ignorance. Sometimes on both sides of the counter. Rule #1 should be if you don't know, be quiet.

The arrogance of ignorance is stunning.

I apologize for the appearance of having "jumped on you". In truth I was only kidding....FredT

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by katndog:
I read an interesting book, "The Death of Expertise."

Thanks for that reference. Although I don’t need to be discouraged about the subject any more than I am already as it seems to continually get worse, it would be good to get the author’s (presumably) more detailed perspective.

Here's the original article that the author later expanded into the more comprehensive book, if you want to check it out while waiting on the book to arrive:

https://thefederalist.com/2014...-death-of-expertise/

The death of expertise is seen every day in an auto parts store when Joe Consumer demands a warranty replacement on his battery and returns in hours demanding another. We told him it was the alternator and now we stand firm. Even calling the other stores. Comply or do without. Some go to the competitor and trade in spending another $150 and lather rinse repeat until enough cash trades hands forcing them to accept the reality.

And expertise can come from odd sources - my truck wouldn't start. Arrange with son to help take the battery out, we get it tested, it's ok. Then wife drives me to the scene of the crime, I install it, still won't even make a click. Call a tow truck and directly after I hang up she suggests I just rattle the gearshift - check to see if there's an electrical connection.

Yup, that was all it was. Cranked right up.

Don't be too fast assuming that someone doesn't have a clue, when they tell you something and it doesn't compute, follow up. Like being told you're blood sugar is 400 - ASK. We spend most of our life not studying the other 87% of the things we deal with daily in life, it's impossible to know it all.

If you do, good luck with that.

Yep. That's the thing about the dems, they're wrong but they're unified in being wrong.

We had gun owners who support bans and magazine restrictions because "no one needs to hunt with an AR15" or "we don't need more than 7 rounds to hunt."

We are destroying ourselves.

One old manager at the first manufacturing plant I worked in insisted that hot water freezes faster than cold water.

I asked him if I put boiling water in the freezer and 33 degree water in the freezer, which will freeze first?

The older I get, the more I realize that giving myself permission to “go ahead and shut the fuck up” around gun people is a gift that keeps on giving. It’s also useful when the topic of the military, military service, etc. comes up. Most of the time it’s not worth it.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
One old manager at the first manufacturing plant I worked in insisted that hot water freezes faster than cold water.

I asked him if I put boiling water in the freezer and 33 degree water in the freezer, which will freeze first?

Hmmm. Which do you think will freeze first, boiling water or 60 degree water?

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
One old manager at the first manufacturing plant I worked in insisted that hot water freezes faster than cold water.

I asked him if I put boiling water in the freezer and 33 degree water in the freezer, which will freeze first?

Hmmm. Which do you think will freeze first, boiling water or 60 degree water?

https://www.livescience.com/32...than-cold-water.html

Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?

Determining whether or not hot water can freeze faster than cold water may seem like a no-brainer. After all, water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius. And wouldn’t water hot enough to kill E. coli bacteria (about 120 degrees Fahrenheit or 50 degrees Celsius) take a longer path than cooler water at a fall New England beach (about 60 degrees Fahrenheit or 15 degrees Celsius) towards a frigid future as ice? While a logical assumption, it turns out that hot water can freeze before cooler water under certain conditions.

This apparent quirk of nature is the "Mpemba effect," named after the Tanzanian high school student, Erasto Mpemba, who first observed it in 1963.