Seven officers getting rehired — at the ‘behest’ of the local police union -- in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

She’s basically a national treasure. Keep winning, Marsai. Keeping winning and show all those f***ers what REAL talent looks like.

Tessa Thompson has all the wins. All of them. If she doesn’t get her own MCU film after Love and Thunder, Kevin Feige must be sacrificed to appease dark gods for his blaspemy.

Only in regards to the white-society permission to use force in response any action they don’t like. In most other social aspects, black people *STILL* have fight to be considered even as much as 3/5th a person every single day.

I’m aware. That’s why I said I was thinking about it. And while you’re not entirely wrong about the outcome, I’d say it’s more a distinction without a difference — you’ll have China on one side and the US on the other, crushing the rest of the world between them. At least until they nuke each other....

There’s a reason I am strongly considering leaving the US. Immigrate, become an ex-pat. Whatever. The US is on an unstoppable downward spiral, and history is filled with examples of what happens to nations this divided. The best Biden will accomplish is slowing it down a bit. And that’s if the Republicans don’t…

Repulsive, twisted individuals failing upwards — it’s the American way.

Yes. But the term ‘socialism’ has taken a lot of baggage over the years that has nothing to do with socialism itself and everything to do with general corruption, cronyism, and the like — problems that exist just as much and are just as bad in capitalism, communism, feudalism, etc. But you can’t seem to get the…

I don’t know if I’d say ‘smartest’ but organized religion, in general, has blood-soaked, depraved history, that’s for damn sure.

Things to add to the list of things never explicitly condemned by Jesus: cannibalism, pedophilia, necrophilia, socialism, communism.

To which my response is “Sure...if you treat women the way most serial killer treats prostitutes.”

Bullies don’t, but their bosses sure as hell do understand the consequence of not playing ball when their entire empire is on the line. And if the union bosses refuse to play ball, then nuke away. They’ve made it abundantly clear where they stand — with criminals.

Gee, another instance where the nuclear option for the local police force is the only option, I suspect.

I don’t know if I’d call it a crisis, but it is certainly a serious problem. Constrained supply against a massive demand rarely results in good things for society. And that’s what we have. Demand is at least an order of magnitude greater than supply. And what makes it worse is that it comes in super-massive surges,…

And if that’s the route that has to be taken, then I have no problem with it. Because you’re right, some police unions have so much power to protect their members that the union structure is no longer beneficial to society. And that should *NEVER* be the case for any social servant or service.

It only “won’t work” if they actually believe nobody would take that route. There are plenty of people who would happy about it and plenty of hostility towards police unions that the ‘Nuclear Option’ would be, comparatively speaking, an easy one to take. When that dynamic is reversed, when the ultimate price, as it…

Absolutely, without question. The greater the power, the greater the transparency and accountability. And anyone who has a problem with that shouldn’t be entrusted with that kind of power.

And that may very well be the case, at which point, it has become necessary to dissolve police unions. I just don’t think it’s the best approach to start with the ‘nuclear option’ as it were. Put some effort into trying to fix unions before getting rid of them altogether. If most unions are beneficial to society,…

Oh, I’m not saying it shouldn’t go that far if necessary. It just shouldn’t be the *FIRST* step taken. Shake things up a bit, upset the status quo around identified problems, and gauge the outcome. Repeat until the desired outcome is achieved — all cops (or nearly all, because perfection is impossible) serving and…

Because object detection, from an overhead perspective, is FAR simpler and more accurate than object detection at ground level — every object is neatly distinct and without any overlap. So instead of learning how to crawl, walk, run, and fly all at the same time, while still working out how to see and understand, too,…