your advice about using guns to de-escalate is literally illegal and dangerous advice, at least in america. see my other comments in this thread.
you should consider reading this article (warning: NSFW, CW: SV, SA), it has a slightly different focus than this conversation but has tangentially relevant insights imo. no one is saying not to train martial arts
most ‘street fights’ are either drunken brawls that could have been easily de-escalated, after which the ‘victor’ will face the worst legal consequences, or are otherwise ambush attacks (likely with weapons and multiple assailants) that you realistically have no chance of defending against since you will never see it coming (source: dad was a bouncer during cocaine days of the 80’s). when the mugger has you at gunpoint it doesnt matter if you know karate, just give him your stuff. if some gang is trying to kill you they will stab/shoot/garrote/kidnap/drug you before you realize you are in any danger, likely with at least 2 or 3 attackers. situational awareness is more useful than knowing how to punch/kick/wrestle 99.99 percent of the time and even in the 0.01 percent that it is slightly useful you will likely still be outnumbered and get your head stomped as you go for that epic takedown you trained for so long.
whichever one you will stick with and actually practice, there are not really ‘more effective’ or ‘less effective’ styles in general/as a universal measure, outside of specific contexts. boxers lose to MMA fighters in MMA matches, MMA fighters lose to boxers in boxing matches. its more important to know how to read a situation and de-escalate or escape than how to throw a punch or do a fancy flying spinny kick. make sure to study self defense laws in your area as well, you might be surprised at the standards you are held to in terms of responsibility to flee or de-escalate. for example in amerikkka it is a ‘bad look’ in a legal sense to draw a firearm and point it at an assailant without firing, with the intent to intimidate/de-escalate, because you are only supposed to draw your weapon when you feel your life is in danger, and the fact that you did not immediately mag-dump your assailant will be used as legally incontrovertible proof that you did not genuinely fear for your life, especially if your target survives after you shoot them after they refuse to back down from your hollywood intimidation check. also any sport martial art is going to habituate you into ignoring eye gouges and groin attacks and the openings for such, since they are universally against any boxing/mma rules and for good reason. ww2 combatives, such as Get Tough written by W. E. Fairbairn, inventor of the famous fairbairn-sykes fighting knife from WW2, will at least give you an idea of what kinds of moves are lethal, what kind of moves people trying to genuinely ambush/kill you might use, how people approach for an ambush, etc. however, as a legal civilian, you may want to learn something like judo or aikido to avoid legally (or morally) costly injuries to your assailants - good luck convincing the jury (or yourself) you were in the right when your malnourished desperate drug addict assailant who is half your mass ends up with his head caved in while you, the athletic larger guy with scary martial arts training, are unscathed. depending on your context you might want to look into self defense tools or weapons like stun guns, tasers, mace/pepper spray, or even firearms. as a side note, i recommend open-hand/palm strikes and chops over punches for people who have not seriously conditioned their hands for bare-knuckle boxing or muay thai or the like. even with perfect technique you may hit a harder area than you intend, and WILL break your hand/wrist on their skull/knee/elbow, and its better to ‘only’ break your pinky finger bones with a chop than the ones in your wrist/knuckles with a punch.
note: the following is a text i found interesting, seeming parallels to hegel and the concept of dialectics. i was led to this text by a vision/pseudo-hallucination of a white Hannya mask, with pointed ears and golden eyes, horns, and teeth, emoting as animatedly as a mask could, twisting and rocking back and forth and the like, in a black void. its hair, which would usually be carved into the mask and immobile, flopped around limply like a corpse’s wet hair as it swooshed about.
The Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
The noble Avalokitateshvara Bodhisattva, while practicing the deep practice of Prajnaparamita looked upon the Five Skandhas and seeing they were empty of self-existence,
Said, “Here, Shariputra, form is emptiness, emptiness is form; emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness; whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form. The same holds for sensation and perception, memory and consciousness.”
Here, Shariputra, all dharmas are defined by emptiness, not birth or destruction, purity or defilement, completeness or deficiency.
Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no perception, no memory and no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body and no mind;
no shape, no sound, no smell, no taste, no feeling and no thought;
no element of perception, from eye to conceptual consciousness;
no causal link, from ignorance to old age and death, and no end of causal link from ignorance to old age and death;
no suffering, no source, no relief, no path;
no knowledge, no attainment and no non-attainment.
Therefore, Shariputra, without attainment, bodhisattvas take refuge in Prajnaparamita and live without walls of the mind. Without walls of the mind and thus without fears, they see through delusions and finally nirvana.
All Buddhas past, present and future also take refuge in Prajnaparamita and realize unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.
You should therefore know the great mantra of Prajnaparamita, the mantra of great magic, the unexcelled mantra, the mantra equal to the unequalled, which heals all suffering and is true, not false,
the mantra in Prajnaparamita spoken thus:
“Gone, gone, gone to the other shore; Gone completely to the other shore. Svaha.”
Here ends the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra.
source: https://calendar.asianart.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/12/asianartmuseum_heart-sutra.pdf
roommates employer (a hotel) has had workers ‘soldering’ in the AC system for the past week, my roommate has asthma and has had to leave work early every day this week, while his boss and fellow employees gaslight him saying they don’t personally smell anything so it must be ok/his individual mental problem, which is maliciously ignorant since solder material has lead in it, and the fumes are very toxic. its not in my roommates head as i can personally smell the fumes on his clothes after he gets home and i don’t have asthma like he does. i’m in the US, is there any grounds to sue here? like i am concerned with the health of all the guests at the hotel, the entire building smells, no shot its good to sleep through that kind of fume exposure.
edit: also my roommate fell asleep remarkably early today, like right after work, and has been asleep all day. its like an hour past his normal bedtime now. i’ve kind of been panicking worrying he died from some kind of delayed asthma complications or something (we were supposed to get groceries today, but i got no responses via texting so i went alone) but i’m too socially anxious to check for fear of being needlessly obnoxious/waking him up unwantedly. so i guess i’m just going to marinate in existential terror until tomorrow no untimely demises this time, fortunately or unfortunately we both persist in the cycle of samsara for now
is it the same for ground drones? i want a rideable (driveable?) robo-dog SO BADLY
i thought the title was literally talking about large drones and i got excited at the prospect of attaching one to myself like an autonomous techno-parachute and flying around or riding inside of one like a helicopter.
good thing thats not what i recommended? did you not see the beginning part where i said ‘anything you will consistently train’ and later specifically mentioned judo or aikido if you are worried about legal issues harming your opponent?