Cethin

No Idea. My university did a yearly celebration as well and we for sure had snipers and guys with rifles walking around. If you know where to look, they’re at most large events. I can’t tell you about this location specifically, but it’s common.

They are a part of the same police force. I’m not saying they’re good people. I’m saying this role is not one doing harm, and is actually useful until we get our shooting issue under control. You’ll see the same snipers at sporting events and anywhere else with a large gathering. They’re obviously not there for the protesters, but in case someone decides to do something to start killing others.

I agree it’s insane what they do, but the sniper is needed with the direction we’ve gone. The sniper is there in case someone with a gun comes to kill protesters, not to kill protesters or they would have done it by now. They really are there for everyone’s safety. Now the guys on the ground who attack people or the guys firing pepper rounds/spray at protesters, they’re the ones we should be complaining about. The ones who are actually applying violence to protesters. The sniper may appear worse if you aren’t paying attention, but they’ve yet to actually shoot anyone, while protesters have been assaulted.

It’s much more mint shaped now, so I guess that’s correct…

Yeah, he wanted to move the democrats further right. That’s an issue (or benefit maybe) of primaries is that you can vote in the “opposition” primary to attempt to move them closer to your views. It does not make you a member of that party (except in the states where membership is a requirement, but that still doesn’t mean you support them).

Voting against Trump definitely doesn’t make you not a conservative/republican. Personally, I’d argue voting for him does that.

No, it’s a comic.

Yeah, I’d just do it on whatever machine I’m developing on. You’ve got to transfer stuff from it anyway, so just include the compiled binary.

Many capitalist nations have failed without intervention. No communist nation has failed without the US (and many others) interfering to make them fail (because none have existed where this hasn’t happened).

If communism were so bad and guaranteed to fail, why would so many resources be spent on destroying them?

She did perform great, but honestly I’d say a large part of that would be her reactions in the side-by-side while he spoke. There’s not way someone could have told her through an ear-piece how to react quickly enough for that. It’s just a really stupid lie, but that’s pretty normal for this gross weird old man.

So they should only pander to the political class? That seems great…

Yeah, go ahead and have extra-genocide. I’m sure everyone being harmed appreciates that your maintaining your morals by instead doing nothing.

In the trolley problem you get a choice to pull the lever or not. Choosing not to is still a choice. In this one you can choose to divert the trolley to kill a fraction of the people, or choose to keep the trolley on course where it’ll kill the people on that other track and a bunch of others. Make your choice. You don’t get out of making a choice by abstaining. That’s still a choice.

No, it isn’t for them. It’s to bring attention to the subject and have other people pay attention, and hopefully rise up and demand change. The political class will do what’s convenient. It’s up to everyone else to make the most convenient choice the moral choice.

Seeing someone choose to die in what must be the most painful way possible indicates there must be some reason they feel so strongly. It then forces anyone paying even a little attention to confront what that reason is (assuming they did their messaging g well). Once they confront it, the hope is that they feel even a fraction of the conviction of these brave people.

Edit: I want to add, if you feel like taking this extreme action, make sure it’s truly the best option. There are so many ways to make your message heard and I’m doubtful this is the most useful. There are groups who could use your time/knowledge/conviction/money who are trying to creating change.

Yeah, I normally avoid and hate all the superhero stuff, because it’s generally all the same. Legion was not though. Legion was different and we’ll executed. I wish we could see more like it.

She has apparently been spending some nights at Mar-a-Lago IIRC, and has also been traveling with him in his jet. Theres also quite a few pictures of them being really close. Sure, we don’t have video of them having sex, but it’s about as obvious as it can be without that. We all know how much Trump likes to take advantage of women and also likes sycophants, so it’d only make sense that he takes her in.

The problem is she just is trash. Somehow that’s gotten her a following. She doesn’t know anything else. Most other Republicans know you’re supposed to not say certain things, but she has never known anything but saying the worst things.

The same was said about the SCOTUS until recently, where it’s become very obvious it is political and has a ton of power to enact their political goals.

I’m curious if the system being confusing, annoying, and not notifying you if you made a mistake is enough of an excuse to get out of this. I know I’ve been really frustrated by self-checkout (and hence never use them if I have a choice, unless I’m checking out with like one item), and I’m a pretty intelligent and technologically advanced person. I can see plenty of accidents happening with people walking about without having paid for something. This could add up fairly quickly. Is it still illegal if it’s because of choices the store made?

Yep. That means you should get your value worth. If you accidentally don’t scan an item once in a while you shouldn’t worry about it too much.

EVs have plenty of advantages that it wouldn’t kill them. No gas tax, for example. They should still pay for the damage they do to the road. Drivers have had far too long ignoring the costs they put onto society by driving massive vehicles.

Also, if this kills EVs along with other heavy vehicles, I don’t care. EVs are better than ICEs, but they aren’t good.

Edit: Also, taxing by weight effectively taxes pollution due to tires, which we should have. Ideally this would be a tax on the tire by weight, but that’s another tax that would need to pass. Negative externalities need to have a cost associated to them. Ignoring them for convenience is how we got into these issues to start with.

It’s easier to believe something when you’re looking for an excuse and want it to be true.