spouse of scouse

I'm a bit surprised that these much vaunted freedoms include being permitted to DIY a rocket and launch it.

Lion in Winter

I'm ok with the lunatic flat-earthers being allowed to kill themselves though. It's the killing of other people I object to.

spouse of scouse

On that, I'm sure I heard some kids squealing on the video. Hey kids, today we're going to see someone launched in his own home made rocket, he'll probably die and the rocket might fall on your heads but it'll be fun!

kimilseung

He was an amateur rocket scientist, he claimed he wanted to prove the Earth is flat, by seeing for himself from space, a lot of his financing was crowd sourced. His publicist is now saying he only claimed the flat earth for publicity.

Pulaski

No! Really? Some "flat-earthers" would do that?
Everything is permitted if it isn't explicitly prohibited.

robin1234

In terms of freedoms, I was accused more than once by friends and colleagues in America of being Bartleby the Scrivener. "I would prefer not to."

Hiro11

A Japanese car being shown in Singapore: WTF, America?

Former Lancastrian

Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.

The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation and after dozens of similar efforts were defeated.

The measure was approved 410 to 4 on Wednesday.

WTF and who were the 4 that voted against it

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ears-Till.html

scrubbedexpat091

Ted Yoho of Florida, Louie Gohmert of Texas and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.all republicans & former republican now independent Justin Amash of Michigan voted against it,

This article includes a bit as to why some were against it, mostly states rights and feeling the federal bill is redundant.

https://www.newsweek.com/four-federa...rreach-1489313

lizzyq

Are you pleased to see me or is that a gun in your pocket?
https://www.newsweek.com/man-acciden...y-bill-1490943

robin1234

Hmm.. first sentence of the story states that this happened in upstate New York. No, it didn’t, Cheektowaga is in western New York.

scrubbedexpat096

i think anything out of the city is generally referred to as 'upstate' for New York.


Tbf any further directly north of cheektowaga is Canada

robin1234

Not so. “Upstate” is North to the Mohawk valley, and west to the finger lakes or so. Most of New York is Northern New York, or Western New York. I live in St. Lawrence County, and no way is that “upstate!” It is Northern New York, or the North Country. Similarly, Buffalo and other western areas are not “upstate.”

Pulaski

That is obviously your perspective, from the far-northern fringes of New York, but when I lived in Westchester County, everything to the north of Westchester was referred to as "upstate" - I suspect that some people in NYC included Westchester County in "upstate". "Western New York" was sometimes used for clarity, but that was just a part of "upstate".

Oakvillian

I suspect local usage sides with Robin, but to anybody outside of NY state the distinction, as Phatmaster suggests is between "New York City, Long Island and the immediate surroundings" on the one hand and "the rest of the State" on the other. Wikipedia (which I know is not the be-all and end-all of sources) suggests that Upstate refers to everything north of Westchester County...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_New_York