First enough people need to accept that there’s a problem, but it doesn’t require a majority. It only takes something like a 10-25% committed portion of a population to create social change.

There are many formerly pervasive problems that are now behind us.

No. It goes deeper than that. The right thinks you can’t support law and order and accountability for police at the same time (because everything here has to be dumbed down to black and white). The unions aren’t responsible for the “warrior mentality” training philosophy.

Then the unions think their first job is to…

Only when there’s no accountability through independent oversight. When you have qualified immunity, internal oversight, and a culture of protecting your own, you get the 2nd-rate policing the US has.

How about spending the money on highly-effective de-escalation training instead? The kind that has been proven to be highly effective for decades in several other countries.

He’d already been working on the book for 8 long years before he got to see that reaction. If it’s a motivation issue, it had hit years earlier.

This is science working. It’s also known as the Rhythm Method of scientific publication. You put it in and then withdraw hoping it’s not too late.

If that is the photo, then I agree with BrotherOwl. That photo is blurry. Specifically it has considerable motion blur, and a low signal to noise ratio. Low contrast edges have been obliterated by the motion blur and denoise algorithm.

I’ve lived in America for 21 years, and it is possible to find good cheese here, but the typical quality is really bad. It’s kind of the same as coffee several decades ago.

Stilton is not a spread. It’s a soft hard cheese (I know that sounds strange, but it is categorized as a hard cheese due to its low water content).

If that is the actual photo, full res, then I doubt the claims that they were able to match palm and fingerprints from that. This sounds like a smoke-screen for the real story of how they caught him.

I just did a search on the topic of cops working in Apple stores, and according to commentators on Quora, they are off-duty police being paid by Apple. That removes one offense (tax payers paying for private security), but creates another. If they are off duty and working as private security, they should not be…

Of course the police are in favor. They want to be able to moonlight for private security companies, or work for them once they retire from The Force.

I honestly forgot I’d seen the Karate Kid remake, until you just mentioned it. That’s how memorable it was(n’t).

I’m waiting for the protests by teenage actors complaining about age appropriation. There are teenage actors who can get jobs because of adults being cast as kids. Stephanie Sy is 44, BTW!

Cicadas do not sleep for 17 years. They burrow, feed, grow and torpor (insect sleep). They are really a subterranean creature that has an above ground reproductive cycle. How would they grow if they were asleep all that time?

Shouts to the wind about battle axes never. ever having heads that big!

Subsidies are meant to encourage good behavior

The screen creasing remains an issue (albeit a largely cosmetic one). The durability of the screen surface can be enhanced by a very thin layer of foldable glass. I’ve seen this demonstrated and can attest to it being able to be subjected to a small radius of curvature bend. While the devil is always in the detail…

That is simultaneously true. There is no doubt that China shares blame. They took the money for the economic growth using dirty coal power (pulling hundreds of millions of people out of crushing poverty in the process, they would say). However, that doesn’t take away from carbon being emitted outside the US to feed…

The USA is responsible for more emissions that those that originate from the continental US. Since the last decades of the 20th Century, the US outsourced a large portion of its CO2 emissions to China. All that stuff made for American consumers in China has a carbon footprint. Without the consumer demand, those…