...until an actual crime has been committed, a police officer’s authority over the public is — lemme check — exactly nothing. And officers flexing authority they do not have is called — lemme check again — right, harassment, and harassment that leads to physical injury is called assault.

Things this rotten aren’t invisible. Either he knew and chose to do nothing, or he chose not to see it. Either way, he didn’t ‘fail’ them. He *chose* to be part of the problem rather than the solution.

I’m still pissed, to this day, that the studios basically gave away the most important part of Sixth Sense’s plot in the damned commercials. They took nearly all of the mystery out of the film before anyone even saw it. That’s like putting Luke and Vader’s scene reveal, “I am your father,” bit as the intro footage…

I mean, we’ve known for decades that some species of parrots are extremely intelligent, exceeding that of most large primates and even rivaling that of at least small children.

Damn you, take your star.

Exactly. There is simply no way the head of a department being investigated and approached by state officials is *NOT* going to know about it without gross negligence of his duties — like never being in the office, never reading his emails or answering his phone, etc, ie a ‘blizzard employee’ only by technicality.

I’ve often likened WoW to a sociopath’s playground. So many easily avoidable design decisions were inexplicably repeated that openly and actively promoted sociopathic behaviors among the playerbase. One expansion after another, the same kinds of shit would get added (and I’m not talking about the multitude ‘poop’ quest…

No, that’s also rain that’d fall some place else — it doesn’t ‘replace’ what was removed. In terms of absolute physics, rain that falls in one place absolutely cannot fall some place else without first re-evaporating, and evaporation requires energy. And I’m pretty sure rainstorms can’t spontaneously create matter. Sin…

Rain that falls in one place is rain that doesn’t fall some place else. So this isn’t really a ‘solution’ so much as it’s passing the buck onto some other country.

“Race played no part in the actions of the flight crew who were following established protocols.”

...but some don’t believe him

I would argue that it might better to, rather than change the name, change how the character is depicted — in chains, for example, or in stocks, with children throwing rotten vegetables at him. Changing the character’s name simply paves over past transgressions. Don’t try to erase history. Correct how people see and…

Even if CA gets favorable ruling in the state, it’ll get appealed and keep getting appealed, because Activision can stonewall the judgment almost indefinitely with the way the system is set up. Which means they can, almost literally, keep doing it with impunity right where they are. And if it goes to the supreme court…

And yet, the most likely result will be grand total of nothing. Because this has been going on for DECADES, across this and most other industries. And do you know how much has changed over that time? Almost. Nothing. It’s still happening. It’s still flagrant. It’s built right into the way companies operate and are…

*Probably*

And just stood around, watching it happen without intervening...like, dood...you guys just watched an assault happen. Did you just forget what your job was??

This is one small step in the right direction. But the FTC is probably not the right agency to handle the larger over-arching problem of eroding consumer rights, except there really isn’t an agency or authority dedicated to defining and protecting consumer rights in this ‘Your rights are what we say they are’ age of…

Yeah, that’ll be a problem soon enough, too.

Two scenarios:

As these are two of our closest remaining evolutionary ancestors, it also portends some very unpleasant days ahead for humanity. If they’re already stressed enough to start killing one another, after decades of relatively peaceful coexistence, what hope do we have 20 years or so when the world’s principle food…