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@ HCSOThrowaway @lemmy.world

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  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • Apologies - didn't realize I was talking to someone who has bouts of nihilism mixed in with their political activism like rocks in a salad.

    Enjoy the block!

  • My little state violence

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  • Yeah, Invidious went down due to YouTube breaking their API yesterday and apparently they're still working to get it back up.

    You can either plug that ?v= code into your YouTube, plug it into another YouTube alternative, or patiently wait until Invidious comes back up.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • True, but your implication that I'm not doing enough while I'm sitting here complaining is just as well-served to the mirror.

  • I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will.

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  • I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others

    Speaking of making assumptions…

    How is that an assumption? You were looking down on Redditors for having less sex than Lemmings, were you not? Or was that a different /u/Almacca?

    defended [sic] by me telling you off for being dumb

    Are you asserting I made a grammatical error? By all means, point it out. Don't be coy.

    Haha [sic]. Sure [sic].

    I mean, we're equally affected if you want to play that game. You've replied to every one of my comments.

    Honestly I don't know why I didn't block you sooner. It's clear you take pleasure in shitting on and getting a rise out of people. Bye, Felicia!

  • I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will.

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  • I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others, especially if the target is objectively higher up on the matter in question.

    You can guffaw at your own assumptions about me based on who's defended by me telling you off for being dumb if you want. Doesn't really affect me and it appears to make your day better. At least that way you never have to work on self-improvement!

  • Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties

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  • Administrative Leave starts when a formal investigation begins. You're basically calling for Chapter 10 of a book to be over when Chapter 1 barely started.

    In other words, your question amounts to:

    "An investigation started? Shouldn't it be over before it began?"

    No, that's not how investigations work.

  • My little state violence

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  • I’m not aware of any definition of “less dangerous” that involves the more dangerous job having less deaths and injuries than the less dangerous job.

    I personally think "likelihood of being attacked" and "ability to defend themselves" should also be included in the definition we're working with. Like if Person A is attacked 5 times a day and defends against them without injury 4/5 times, but Person B is attacked 3 times a day and is not trained or equipped to defend themselves so they're hurt 3 times a day, which person is in the more "dangerous" position?

    Want to slow your roll and figure out if you’re talking to the same person before going off?

    Fair enough, I didn't (and routinely don't) check usernames before responding. Sounds exhausting. Pedantry accepted though; feel free to redact the part of that comment that involves my asking if you realized you were wrong and replace it with something about you realizing they were wrong. Better? You ready to respond to my pointing out that you're doing a Red Herring now, or is there some other pedantic thing you want to focus on to distract from the broad strokes of you screwing up?

    Not at all. If your argument is that cops should get to have guns and shoot people because their job is dangerous, so should pizza delivery drivers, who are more likely to get assaulted than cops.

    Yep, I also believe delivery drivers should be allowed to carry a gun. Same with taxi cab drivers and other people who are more likely to be (successfully) attacked and hurt or killed than cops are.

    See how using a straw-man argument can make for an awkward situation where you fleshing out your attack into a(n implied) question about their real position can make you look like a fool?

  • My little state violence

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  • Cops have a less dangerous job than pizza delivery. Yes, per capita. And COVID or a cop’s own bad driving is more likely to kill them than someone with a gun.

    Depending on your definition of "less dangerous," yeah. Doesn't really refute my argument, though. Did you want to divert the discussion with that Red Herring because you realized you were wrong or did you just want to talk about something else today and didn't realize that's outside the scope of this discussion?

    If you wouldn’t accept a pizza delivery kid blowing someone away because they reached into their pocket, you shouldn’t accept it from a cop.

    Straw-man.

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar's State of the Union guest removed, arrested during speech

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  • I have no idea if "Fire!" in a crowded theater is covered by a different statute or not in my state without looking it up, but yes, Disorderly Conduct would be what I would use in that scenario too. Getting too specific with a statute can result in the defendant getting off on a technicality. You make the arrest for F.S.S. 69.420 "Fire In A Crowded Theater" and then in trial a year later it turns out "crowded" per case law is 100+ people, but the theater only had 99 that day.

    Involuntary psychiatric holds tend to ruin people's lives much more than a simple non-violent misdemeanor arrest, not to mention you have to demonstrate there is an imminent risk of harm and they appear mentally ill.

    • Imminent Risk of Harm - Kinda? I'd call it probable risk of harm in the next few hours or days.

    • Mental Illness - Certainly not, they were just angry at each other.

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar's State of the Union guest removed, arrested during speech

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  • Actually no, both were very much "This person definitely needs to be removed from the public before someone gets hurt" and (virtually) all we had was that catch-all statute.

    TLDR:

    1. Lady kicks open a door to a church with 300+ people and screams "None of you are getting to heaven on my watch!" Panic, chaos, everyone assuming she was a mass shooter and went running for the doors.

    2. Roomate vs. Roommate increasingly tense arguing and 911 calling on each other "fearing for their lives." This being Florida, both had guns "and weren't afraid to use them." The last call was them arguing at each other on their porch and a neighbor called 911 because it seemed like it was getting heated to her.

    You can read the post I made about my termination. I'd sticky it on my profile like I did on Reddit, but I don't think lemmy.world has a "sticky" feature:

    https://lemmy.world/post/43267939

  • U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

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  • I want to get off Mr. Reagan's Wild Ride.

    I want to get off Mr. Reagan's Wild Ride.

    I want to get off Mr. Reagan's Wild Ride.

    I want to get off Mr. Reagan's Wild Ride.

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar's State of the Union guest removed, arrested during speech

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  • Used to be, yeah. Got fired about 6 years ago now.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • Build a large enough catalogue of bulk data and anything can be used to track you.

    We bought "It's just so we can catch the terrorists!" hook, line, and sinker post-9/11.

    But when "terrorism" is redefined as "making people in power upset," we're in big trouble.

    So don't say anything rude about Donald Trump or the FBI will seek you out:

    https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=QS4bVx74nxU

  • My little state violence

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  • So intent is the main thing, for you? One malicious murder is worse than a hundred negligent manslaughters?

    Is there not more intent to murder involved in a mass shooter than a cop shooting someone trying to shoot the cop? Or are you one of those people who thinks that cops only sign up to be cops because they'll have a better chance to kill people, and every single death-by-cop is murder, even in self-defense?

  • My little state violence

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  • I haven't heard a single person call for doctors to be abolished, despite them being 50-100x more deadly, and yes, despite them being just as bigoted as cops, as you rightfully point out.

  • My little state violence

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  • What question are you answering with that?

    How do you feel about XYZ?

    "it means you're an idiot."

    or

    Do you XYZ?

    "it means you're an idiot."

  • My little state violence

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  • Look up Tamir Rice.

    I'm well aware of Tamir Rice. You're completely unaware of how statistics work.

    Unless you think Tamir Rice is 100% of black children holding things, and no black child has ever held anything before nor will hold anything again? That's your position here?

    Rread this article about how the police works internally by an ex-officer. There is nothing that can be done at this point to reform the American police other than a complete do-over.

    So your counter to my statement of fact that law enforcement has been reformed over time is some interview with a single guy, and your re-statement of an impossible to prove or disprove position?

    M8, are you intentionally wasting both of our time? What are you trying to accomplish by such obvious bad faith tactics?

  • BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace

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  • My little state violence

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  • How do you feel about doctors killing 50-100x as many Americans per year as cops do?

    Do you make the same calls to abolish medicine and hospitals?