Lots or non-nerdy people were into Star Wars. But the nerds were the ones really into Star Wars. A hallmark of nerd culture is diving in obsessively to a particular fandom. “Normal” people watched the movies and maybe had the action figures when they were a kid, but they didn’t read the EU books or buy every single…

In OP’s defense, are you intentionally ignoring how the advent of the internet has made it overtly easy to deliver said death threats, where prior there had to be more tangible effort in delivering said death threats? Also... likely a tongue in cheek comment.

In Soviet Russia, girl gropes YOU!

Maybe she can run back to her roots as a “Christian” artist and pull the ol’ “HollyWEIRD changed me but now I’m born again (and ready for your money)” routine

She built her image around being an aggressively sexual, party-girl. It’s sad that this happened, but also very on brand for her. It’s a little odd to me that she’s sometimes championed as a progressive or even feminist figure when her work seems at best banal and at worst, fairly exploitative. But I’m just musing and…

Can we all take a minute to acknowledge trailblazer Katy Perry for bisexualizing sexual harrassment? Another civil rights milestone!

Wait... so you are wearing the dog while actively playing a battle royale match? People who shoot you in the back are actually shooting an adorable dog in the face? Why would anyone want this?

This article has some great stuff in it, like - “Colin Dowler was mountain biking on a remote logging road on Mount Doogie Dowler – named after his grandfather” nice random aside, and also the name Doogie Dowler

SWAT teams are a little different from beat cops. I agree that people patrolling neighborhoods should have done roots there or make an effort to get to know the people more intimately but SWAT teams are expensive and hard to train. You don't really have the luxury of representing a number of neighborhoods depending on…

i think the importance of the article is to say DON’T DO THIS, not that everything wound up being okay and police did a good job. people need to be educated on how dumb and dangerous doing this is because the outcome won’t always be “the situation was quickly defused”

That’s not true *at all*. The chances of having a cop being a close neighbor are slim to none. If that were truly the case that cops are supposed to recognize first own community we wouldn’t have the police violence problem we’re have now. Also Like is in the right, I doubt cops in Australia are any hiredany different…

Strong disagree here. As a Platonic ideal, sure, every cop should patrol a three block area where they live and know 85% of the residents, and as a deciding factor if all thing are equal, yes it should count. But it’s not realistic that police officers should be intimately familiar with their communities once a…

Because swatters say crazy shit that makes them believe there’s an IMMEDIATE danger? They don’t call and say “teehee a bad guy lives here!”, they spoof their location, call up in tears saying a guy just wired his house to explode and he’s now got their family tied to chairs with a shotgun in a baby’s face threatening…

My city — a small suburb of a very large metropolitan area — has 37 officers for 60,000 citizens. The department is much larger than that — but only 37 are actual officers out working the streets.

At any given time just 10 of them are on-duty.

10 officers are not going to recognize 60,000 citizens. Even if we divide…

I mean this is one way to report on a massive amount of the industry losing their jobs because of a company now having a monopoly 

The mouse killin’ everything! The mouse killin’ everything! Ya’ll best be good, because the beast wants his quarterly earnings to incrementally increase!  Green not red, up not down!  Ya don’t be delivering, and he gonna find ya and feast!

“Let’s hunt them down.”

And the conservatives are armed only with thoughts and prayers.

Because that’s the narrative: The rich, liberal elites (they actually use a different, shorter word) want to disarm you so that you cannot fight back when they begin the white genocide. This movie sounds like Alex Jones could have written it himself.

In the film, blue-blooded liberal meanies torture poor red-blooded country folks with universal health care, birth control, and education. It’ll make your skin crawl.