If police showing up to a stopped drunk driver kills him, they shouldn’t have gone. The point of responding to a drunk driver is to save their life. The taser never should have been relevant and certainly not a gun.

Can’t have it both ways. Either a Taser is a deadly weapon that counts as escalation equivalent to a gun and Rayshard Brooks was justified in doing anything to protect himself when the cops pulled the Taser, or it wasn’t (it probably wasnt, even though Tasers aren’t completely nonlethal) and there was no reason to esca…

Is all this even as profitable as it appears, in an objective economic sense? You pay out a ton of money to police to outfit them with equipment and keep them on the road, so that they can prevent people from doing their actual job. So the ticket is very different from a tax, since a tax is low overhead and doesn’t…

I feel like its adjacent to or actually impersonation of a police officer, right? He isn’t one when he clocks out.

And the candles are less out of control by orders of magnitude. Police budgets could be fixing so many fucking problems in more effective areas.

Biden has also absorbed Julian Castro’s police reform platform whole-cloth by bringing the man himself in to handle it. This is pretty much as good as Biden can get in terms of ceding ground to experts with substantiative plans.

Time Vault is the only thing comparable as it was directly changed for power level concerns to contradict the original text, but that was one card and is no longer markedly different from the original text. The widest large impact errata might be Substance, but that was restoring cards to their original function after…

Pretty sure its happening because of the politicians that pushed ‘legal to run over protestors’ bills. Doesnt matter if they didn’t pass, it gave a huge amount of fuel to facebook hate memes about running people over.

“Yeah, I pushed him towards the cliff, but he tripped. Must have been something wrong with his sense of balance.”

With a lot of experience at 0 or negative spoons, I’ve got an addendum to the theory. When you’re in spoon debt, you *will* have a coping mechanism. Not expecting this can leave you feeling trapped, not in control of your actions, and unable to stop because it’s adding stress instead of addressing the original spoon…

Yep. If we start with drug abuse being largely a coping mechanism, it isn’t hard to put the blame for epidemic level drug abuse onto the shitty governance that refuses to invest in the public (preferring yet another round of tax breaks for corporations) and slashing social safety nets that could help people cope…

First, why was it only a misdemeanor to use clearly excessive force during an arrest? Second, ‘Purposefully slammed own head on the pavement’ is the flimsiest excuse I’ve ever heard, might as well just say We’re Officially Sweeping This One Under The Rug, Good Job Boys. Third, fuck you Brad Lemon, you’re a piece of…

Can you not make this point without implying people who are dealing with drug use, who have been through prison, who are autistic *deserve* to be unemployed?

I don’t think they were arguing against managerial positions, but against carreerism and management being conflated. The first stage is obviously people getting promoted out of their own field which is just counterproductive, but above that management promotions being viewed as the Ladder of True Carreerists is really…

If you asked me who was more able to rob a construction site of the kind of heavy shit that's there, ten times out of ten I'd answer two people with a truck and a shotgun over one person on foot with no weapons.

Notably, that group of patients shouldn’t be lumped in with the specter of the detransitioner, who generally is either 1)pressured out of a desired transition by social connections/family (and potentially retransitions when able), 2) realizes they are nonbinary rather than binary trans and is just re-examining what…

Thank you, decgeek, for doing more to protect this country in its time of need than the entire trump administration.

Gotta specify a bit more on an article like this where blatantly political fuckery is afoot, but yeah. I feel like both "no-biggie" and "apocalypse" takes are excuses to give up on doing the work to fix things.

After 2015 we can donate through a year of celibacy. Prior to that there was no way to donate. Rule is dumb either way, tho.

The workers can buy out the business if they get bailed out and the business goes under. Throw in a ‘right of first refusal’ law to boot, if you’re worried that management would never sell to their underlings willingly.