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The linked hiring page has a junior react/python position listed at $250k/yr

The rest of the piece makes a lot more sense given the context that the author is temporarily divorced from the broader economy

The first paragraph of your comment and the rest of what you’ve written in this thread are in conflict with each other.

What Google services are broken on Firefox?

My anecdata is that GSuite works completely fine daily driving Firefox.

> Federal funding is less than 10% of public school education funding

As I stated above, this greatly depends on your school district. Some schools receive <5% of their funding from the DoE, others receive as much as 75%.

Some of this funding is explicitly for general operations and other funding like that through IDEA is for assisting students with disabilities.

Some of these public schools are already hanging on by a thread and having trouble paying high enough wages to fill positions.

There are absolutely actors who wish to privatize education.

And, depending on the district, those federal resources provide a significant chunk of the funding for schools.

In my local district in Kansas, it’s about 13% of public school funding, in the district next door it’s about 44%. Without that funding many public schools in the area would close with no alternative.

By cutting off those resources, there is no “choice” or “control” being given to local communities unless you mean a certain family in Wichita…

> This is kind of absurd, I have been on busses all over the country, a metro bus, is a metro bus. There are not really differences based on topography or climate.

That’s because your job was passenger.

From the drivers perspective: configuration should absolutely match the terrain and the expected route. For example: an Allison AT545 transmission without a lockup torque converter will be hell in the mountain and hill climbs of Colorado, possibly even dangerous. Whereas it may serve perfectly fine in Nebraska.

Busses without AC drive kids to school everyday out here in the American Midwest.

Do you have a specific citeable example of unnecessary “custom requirements” driving up the cost of city buses in the US

That’s not my claim. I don’t really trust Sig’s ass-covering on the numerous reported issues.

But in the case of the demonstration in the Wyoming Gun Project video, it is literally the case that an object is being jammed into the trigger until all internal safeties are disabled, then flex and sympathetic movement is applied until the gun goes off.

There may exist a more damning explanation of what has caused the reported uncommanded discharges but that video isn’t it

> Are you aware of any demonstration that shows another modern handgun being put into a state where this same amount of input on the slide can cause an actual discharge

Yes actually. see the video I linked above: https://youtu.be/r1KoSBcn2bY?feature=shared

If you pull the trigger far enough to disengage the drop safety and firing pin safety block, then it is entirely possible to discharge the weapon by applying force to the slide, shaking the weapon, or the like. Pulling the trigger disables the internal safeties that would prevent this.

This is not unique to the P320, Sig, or even striker-fired handguns in general. This could just as easily apply to a CZ-75B. There is no magic that keeps the striker from dropping until the shooter has their heart set on discharging a round.

There is a reason that rule #3 of firearm safety is to not put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to shoot

For the XM17 program that ended up adopting the P320, the military skipped their normal production verification testing.

See: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/07/05/glock-says-be...

OEM trigger pull weight on most all Glocks is about 5.5lbs (the G34 has a different connector and gets down to about 4.5lbs)

That is fairly average across the market for other handguns.

Unless you were shooting a Glock with one of the infamous NYPD 12lb triggers…

Both guns have a bolt carrier, rotating bolt, and similar amounts of fire control group components. Both need to be headspaced within a spec of a few thousandths of an inch.

The biggest difference is about 20 years of industrial development (moving from stamped/milled steel to aluminum)

There were no standard trials for the M18 so Sig didn't even need magical sample guns.

Pulling the trigger deactivates the firing-pin safety and drop-safety on a Glock as well. And by the time you have pulled the trigger to the wall you've already disabled the trigger-blade safety.

This holds true on basically every modern handgun that has such a mechanism (striker or hammer-fired).

The Sig P320 probably has more issues than the originally discovered drop-safety deficiencies, and Sig US has been very quick to deny-deny-deny. But firing when you pull the trigger is not an issue.

Having owned both a P320 and a Glock and handled multiple, "slop" in the guns out of the box are comparable. They're both mass-produced, polymer frame, striker-fired hand guns, not hand-finished 1911's.

If you put a few thousand rounds through either it will generate slide and frame rail wear. After this, either would have slightly more "slop" between the frame and the slide.

The glock trigger-dingus can make unintended discharges less likely because it requires an object to go into the trigger guard. But the WyomingGunProject video shows someone putting something in the trigger guard, pulling the trigger past the wall with sympathetic movement, then firing the gun. Not the result of "jostling".

This isn't to say there aren't P320's that couldn't fire uncommanded but the WyomingGunProject video is not the proverbial "smoking gun". The exact cause is, at this time, not publicly known.

Sig Sauer Inc in Exeter, NH is a completely different company than SIG Sauer AG in Switzerland.

The Swiss Sig's have a sterling reputation. The P226 that entered the XM9 trials (against the Beretta 92) was imported from Switzerland by SAKO.

The US company didn't really start manufacturing until the 90s with the P229 and the Sig Pro series (where they were only tasked with making the plastic frames, not the more intricate lock work).

There's also no good reason that there wasn't standard testing before adopting the P320 to be the M18. Sig undercut Glock on price and the DOD said "eh... good enuf"

This particular video doesn't quite show anything out of the ordinary. If you pull the trigger past the wall then force it into firing with sympathetic movement of different parts of the pistol.

The P320 has had many reported issues but having it go off when you pull the trigger is actually intended behavior.

More information available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1KoSBcn2bY

Given the current state of many car companies (Nissan, Stellantis, Mitsubishi) a 7-year loan may be a bit over-optimistic about the future of the car and the manufacturer

Do they really? I've seen plenty of surveys that say American consumers are _keeping_ their passenger cars for longer and longer periods (12.8 years in 2025 https://www.spglobal.com/automotive-insights/en/blogs/2025/0...)

But is there any study that says the components or designs are needing less repairs or are getting cheaper to maintain over that 12.8 year period as opposed to, say, an econobox sedan from 2005?

Is a modern family car with GDI, CVT, plastic oil pan, infotainment system, and litany of safety sensors going to last as long without bankrupting its owner as an equivalent product from a comparable market segment 20 years ago?

The Gestapo simply detained people who were breaking the law.

Anything in my home, any traffic on my home network, and any sounds in my home that aren’t me directly talking to a coworker about work matters.

IBM / Dehomag was a place for business as well. Good thing management ignored calls for boycott and told employees to leave their personal politics and support for “the current thing” at the door.