I think the last movie I read about of his that was supposed to be good, most definitely wasn’t. That was quite a few years ago.

I can’t help but feel that part of why all these actors are regretting working with Woody is that he just appears to be making crap movies at this point. It’s like the actors are thinking, “Shit, I threw away my moral integrity to make that? It totally wasn’t worth it!”

Except he’s obviously not 6' 3" - when clearly attempting to stand as straight as he can muster, next to someone of that height (e.g. Jeb Bush), he’s at least a couple inches shorter. He appears to be shorter than Obama (6'1") when they stand next to each other, but that I can chalk up to bad posture. He’s 70, he’s…

The thing is, Trump is very clearly not either the height or weight that his doctor has reported. (We can directly compare him to people who are actually that height who stand next to him, for example, and he’s several inches shorter.) Something weird is going on. Those basic statements of supposed fact are clearly…

Yeah, Jeb Bush is 6'3”. They are not the same height. Obama is 6' 1,” and he still looks taller in their pictures together.

Also, you know who is 6' 3"? Jeb Bush, apparently. Guess who isn’t...

Which is why I’m trying to be careful to specify that I’m talking about proportions in the head to body/limb length sense. Something that’s generally different in children than adults (in the opposite direction of the difference between models and everyone else).

“all our girls are healthy. They’re young, they’re thin, but that doesn’t mean they’re ill.”

“You guys have cards?”

It’s systemic problem in the US, with cops getting very little training (sometimes literally none), and having no accountability if they screw up (legal charges are very rare and cities/counties end up paying lawsuits, so even police departments are insulated). It’s not a problem that’s going to be easily or quickly…

“He’ll get fired”

I don’t get why they went with manslaughter, because that’s not necessarily true. If, for example, a cop shoots someone in the process of committing a crime, it’s possible to charge the accessories of the criminal who was shot with murder. The shooting could have been perfectly lawful, but since a death came about…

Oh, they should show up, but with the understanding that what they’ve been told is suspect because the number wasn’t actually local. (And if hoax callers knew they couldn’t fool 911, they’d be less likely to make those calls.)

The thing is, it’s trivially easy to spoof a particular phone number, or at least a number local to the area, so 911's approach of treating calls as true becomes highly problematic. And since those calls are difficult to impossible to trace currently, there can’t be any consequences without a whole lot of work…

When someone calls up the cops, tells them that they’ve killed a bunch of people and are now looking to die while taking out some police officers, it’s pretty reasonable to assume the cops are likely to shoot the person they think is the caller, yes. (Particularly, talking about US cops, who are notoriously…

I’m not talking about that cop - although given the circumstances, he was absolutely trigger-happy. I was actually talking about all American police officers. It’s simply accepted that a suspect moving their hand vaguely in the direction of their midriff is an acceptable reason for the police killing them, even if…

They should be getting charged with attempted murder - this wasn’t one “retarded” police officer, this was someone deliberately and maliciously creating a dangerous situation using a militarized, trigger-happy police force that routinely kills innocent people. That’s swatting. It’s no different than throwing bricks…

It is quite telling, actually. Calling the police can be very dangerous - people routinely get shot as the result of calls about minor incidents, including when they were the ones that called the cops (especially if the caller wasn’t white). But this is more than just “calling the cops” - it’s a fraud deliberately…

Yeah, the cops can get away with being so trigger happy precisely because of the expectation that the populace is armed.