@LouisIngenthron ahh, you're right. My mistake. I thought he was based out of DC. However, DC is the nation's capital, gun violence is an issue that affects the entire nation, and several people were shot. It qualifies as national news just as much as any of his other posts, if not more, and this is a platform where he can post as many articles as he wants. It's not like posting it means he couldn't post something else.

Perhaps there are better ways to spend your time as a pro-gun-control person than discouraging the reporting of facts that support your belief? People might think you're actually pro-gun and only pretending to be pro-gun-control so your criticism of the level of reporting doesn't seem as much like an effort to silence the truth.

@LouisIngenthron you're complaining about local news becoming national news by writing a comment on a post about a local shooting in DC written by a local news reporter on a local news website.

Yeah, I guess I did miss your point.

@LouisIngenthron it also wouldn't be possible for the national news to report on every medical procedure performed in the United States every time it happens.

However, if you remember from biology that a fetus is not a baby and an abortion occurs only when a fetus is draining the life out of an actual living, breathing human who either does not wish to be used or would die without the procedure, you might think of it more like removing a tumor or evicting a murderous guest. You are okay with stand your ground laws, I presume?

@LouisIngenthron @w7voa There are about 57 gun homicides in the United States every single day, and that number doubles if you include suicide. They literally can't all become national news, but it would be irresponsible to pretend it isn't happening. Meanwhile, self-defense with a gun is also reported as national news. Attempted self-defense with a gun, however, is usually just reported as a gun homicide because guns don't make you bulletproof. If that fact is so inconvenient to your politics that you have to complain about reality being reported, maybe reevaluate your politics?

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

@jk the toxic attitudes in that thread make it incredibly unproductive.

However, this got me curious: aren't inter-frames reversible? Aside from rounding error, why can't the previous inter-frame simply be used to undo the transformation of the current frame? Then, the only challenge is locating where it starts in the data stream, but that's not nearly as computationally intensive as the brute force method.

Still, I don't see any reason to oppose the implementation of the brute force method: just automate the process of seeking back to the previous i-frame and stepping forward to the requested one. They could easily set a practical limit on how far it will attempt to go back before refusing to do it. That limit could even be a customizable setting. It wouldn't work for some codes, but that rationale didn't stop VLC from supporting seek operations generally for codecs that are capable of it.

It's a fun thought exercise, if nothing else.

@uspolitics “We’re opening up Pandora’s box. I think the system in this country is getting off the rails. We have to be careful not to use the legal system as a political tool,” Mr Graham added, echoing a familiar complaint among Republicans of calling the judiciary “weaponised.”

Everything is political, but not everything is criminal. They keep claiming politics are the reason for the prosecution, but they allegedly broke laws that have been around to protect the country long before they tried to subvert the will of voters. They're calling the judiciary "weaponized" even though the effort to hold them accountable is clearly bipartisan.