My friends’ orange tabby — who is often called Bot (take a guess what I say it stands for) — is definitely the friendliest and most vocal cat I’ve ever met. He’ll stop *eating* just to get some attention. And if he wants something, he let’s everyone in the whole house know it (usually he wants to go play outside).

That’s the nature of systemic racism, like in the US — it’s so intrusive, so invasive and somehow so invisible to those who aren’t being victimized by it, that the people *perpetuating* that system can’t even see the harm they’re doing, that they’re part of the problem.

You’d think it’d be hard for Americans to turn a blind eye to this hypocrisy, but those are two things that the collective America really excels at — hypocrisy and turning a blind eye.

It’s about bodily autonomy — the right to dictate what happens to and with your body. All of your body. If medical professionals cannot demand that you surrender organs, blood, or tissue without your consent — not even if you’re dead, not even if it will save lives — why do fetuses magically nullify all of that? After…

Frankly, police-involved shootings should be one-and-done affairs. It doesn’t matter why cops fire their weapons. That should be the end of their career in law enforcement. No ifs, ands, or buts. Using lethal force is supposed to be an option of last resort. If it’ll permanently cost your job and your career, you’re…

It’s almost as if bad management doesn’t produce good results...

“He must have been guilty of something. Why else would he run?” — Cop apologists.

The Department of Education exists to mandate and ensure compliance with minimum standards of education throughout the US. One of those ‘minimum standards’ interferes with religious ‘education’ as demanded by conservatives like DeVos. So of course she wants to get rid of the Department of Education. It’s been a thorn…

A leopard doesn’t change its spots, just like John Riccitiello will always be a shitty person. It’s who and what he is to his core.

Cruelty *IS* the point.

“Protections for me, laws for thee.” -- Conservative America in a nutshell.

Agreed. Trump’s action might have been a bridge too far for Liz, but she still supported a lot of what he said and did and the GOP’s agenda as a whole. She’s merely the least awful of a horrifically terrible political party. She’s only ‘good’ when compared to the worst this country has to offer.

There was a nice line that I’m going to paraphrase that ‘describes’ this situation — the turd won’t flush itself.

Who could have possibly guessed that systems that reward the exploitation and abuse people attract horrible people to run them...

It’s called the Tolerance Paradox. Look it up.

No. The meaning of their specific “serve” is well defined as a part of the oath they take as an officer of the law — serving the public good. The definition you’re referring to — serving legal papers — law enforcement officers do not generally perform, outside of search warrants.

Similarly, we’d likely be safer if the point at which one can no longer be a cop tended to happen a lot sooner than the point at which one should be incarcerated.

“It can do everything.” That’s the problem. It’s the equivalent of using a full-blast firehose to water house plants. It doesn’t do *ANYTHING* well and none of them *SECURELY*. The only thing you *CAN* count on is that it will bite you in the ass spectacularly.

It was not an incrimination of the person who fell for the scam. It was about the provider — Adobe — and their wildly insecure document reader that is being used for everything, including things that *NEED* to be as secure as humanly possible. They keep bolting more ‘capabilities’ on top of the security dumpster fire…

If your document reader needs access to critical, system-level OS functions, you’re doing something terribly, terribly wrong. And if that same document reader then exposes access to those same critical, system-level OS functions, you have no business being a software developer. Period. End of discussion. That level of…