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Man it would be cool if Something Awful had a sub forum dedicated to pictures of pets and talking about pets and posting about pets Some sort of Penninsula of Pets
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that's a loving majestic turkey though
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https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/786682808571944960 the suspense is kill me dave
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ColdPie posted:This is all well and good, but you forgot the most important bullet point: pay for all of that. If you're removing police officers from cars, you're going to need to dramatically increase the number of officers employed as their patrol range is going to dramatically decrease. You'll also need officers on standby with vehicles for rapid response situations. I think one of the larger issues behind lovely policing is it's simply a lovely job. In St Paul, the average police officer wage is around $55k. That's significantly less than I get paid to sit at a desk and help nerds play video games on Linux. Policing is a lovely, dangerous job and it pays pretty poorly. As a result, your candidates are people who couldn't find meaningful employment elsewhere. Body cameras aren't free; time spent getting to know the neighborhood is time spent not patrolling (time is money); increased training for deescalation techniques isn't free. you know what would be a good start to help pay for a lot of that? getting rid of poo poo like this: 
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Trabisnikof posted:Man it would be cool if Something Awful had a sub forum dedicated to pictures of pets and talking about pets and posting about pets A Peninsula of Pets? That sounds awful. 
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ColdPie posted:In St Paul, the average police officer wage is around $55k. ... Policing is a lovely, dangerous job and it pays pretty poorly. As a result, your candidates are people who couldn't find meaningful employment elsewhere.  Being a cop pays over the median household income in this country and you're saying it pays POORLY? And it's for people who couldn't find meaningful employment elsewhere? What the hell!
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Whenever I see this I'm reminded of CJ Cregg trying to find out which turkey was more media-friendly.
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Gyges posted:People own 23 cats. No one owns 23 dogs. No... I know of a guy who got raided and 23 dogs taken away, exactly 23, big male, female, and two massive litters.
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Julio Cruz posted:Whenever I see this I'm reminded of CJ Cregg trying to find out which turkey was more media-friendly. And Bartlet drafting the other one into military service.
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FuzzySlippers posted:Isn't that an advantage in post Trump era? It'd be impossible for him not to be at least a little smarter than Trump. I get your point, but I think, if he could manage to get through a primary without accidentally walking on stage with a suit put on backwards, he'd be held to a slightly higher standard than Trump was. Despite being dumb as gently caress he's one of those "I am a very serious person" Republicans so he doesn't have the leeway of being an rear end in a top hat clown & showman. TheBigAristotle posted:What about Gohmert? He's the House's village idiot. Fair point, the competition is pretty tough. I might still give it to Cotton though because he's too dumb to even hold any opinions of his own, he just believes whatever the lobbyists signing his checks tell him to believe. Not like he's a cynical opportunist, he's just not smart enough to actually have positions.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:that's a loving majestic turkey though too bad most of the turkey's die within like 2 years since we breeded them into being huge breasted monstrosities.
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Nessus posted:
Cops get paid in a lotta places very well. NYPD pays their cops 100k a year after a few years on the force, with overtime, pension, and preferential selection in housing lotteries.
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Cats and dogs are both pretty cool, but for different reasons. For dogs, it's because over thousands of generations we have shaped each other's evolution to become emotionally closer and better at interpreting one another's needs. If offered the choice between hanging out with people and hanging out with dogs, dogs will choose people, because dogs are bred to love us forever. They are the closest thing we have to a symbiotic species (other than our gut bacteria, who are also really cool and deserve your love and respect but are not very cuddly). Genuinely, dogs are an expression of the absolute most effective survival strategy humans have, more important than tool-using and endurance hunting: cooperation and empathy. We're set up to like and work together with people who aren't us, and this is such a powerful response that it works on things that aren't people but are like people in some ways, like dogs. If we ever encountered aliens and I was asked to provide evidence that humans were worthy of taking part in a pan-galactic society, I would probably show them dogs, rather than nuclear weapons or whatever. Cats are kind of an accident, but it's an accident that worked out really well. Cats probably just started hanging around people's barns because they contained mice, and the presence of the people was completely irrelevant to the cats. But the most successful cats were the ones who minded the humans' presence the least, so eventually you got cats who, rather than freaking out about humans, just didn't give a poo poo about them. And then you got ones who thought that people using their opposable thumbs and weird wiggly fingers to scratch them was pretty cool. And... that's about as far as we got with cats, actually. They're assholes, and so are we, but we get along okay anyway.
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highme posted:A Peninsula of Pets? That sounds awful. It is. The real pet appreciation takes place in YOSPOS.
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Instant Sunrise posted:
You'll be pleased to know that's already happening. Not sure what they'll do with the APC tho.
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ColdPie posted:Policing is a lovely, dangerous job lol yeah if you consider those duty belts and all their gear hanging off them to be dangerous to their spinal health
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Trump's speaking at a middle school in Columbus, to a 'millennial' audience. He did a bit on how a Trump administration will guarantee free speech for students and end political correctness, and I think he just loving dogwhistled that he'll make it ok to say 'friend of the family' again.quote:In the past few decades, political correctness - oh what a terrible term - has transferred our institutions of higher education from places that fostered spirited debate to ones of extreme censorship where students are silenced for the smallest of things. You say a word somewhat differently, and all of a sudden you're criticized, sometimes viciously. We will end the political correctness and foster free and respectful dialogue.
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https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/786661595636170753 Late, but I'm glad we're getting a list of political prisoners already
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Trump also said at an earlier rally today, "Take a look at her" in defense of the accusations by the writer of him sexually assaulting her.
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Goatman Sacks posted:Trump really seems to be getting a bump out of that debate that every poll said he lost - just him energizing his base? Trump telling Hillary he will put her in jail pleased his supporters a lot. A LOT.
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Wolf Blitzer just mentioned that they'll talk about the fact that RT tweeted about today's WikiLeaks dump before WikiLeaks did (and maybe before they even posted them?). I didn't think this would make network news. edit: Wolf Blitzer just said that the RT tweet came BEFORE WikiLeaks posted the dump.
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https://twitter.com/foxnewspoll/status/786688187611639809 Hillary 45-38 in the Fox poll, up frp, 44-42 at the beginning of October.  Maybe that's why he cancelled the interview! Crooked Hannity polls! E: and 49-41 in the 2way! canepazzo fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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It was only a matter of time before they pinned a feliny on Hillary.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol yeah if you consider those duty belts and all their gear hanging off them to be dangerous to their spinal health to back this up with data: pre:110.9 Logging workers 80.8 Fishers and related fishing workers 64 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers 47.4 Roofers 35.8 Refuse and recyclable material collectors 26.7 Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers 25.2 Structural iron and steel workers 24.7 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers 19.2 Electrical power-line installers and repairers 18 Taxi drivers and chauffeurs 17.9 First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers 16.9 Construction laborers 16.4 First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers 14.4 Maintenance and repairs workers, general 13.5 Police and sheriff's patrol officers
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More likely to be killed than cops: janitors.
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Uranium 235 posted:Wolf Blitzer just mentioned that they'll talk about the fact that RT tweeted about today's WikiLeaks dump before WikiLeaks did (and maybe before they even posted them?). I didn't think this would make network news. drat, thats pretty massive and hugely damning towards WikiLeaks. Anyone who tries to take their leaks seriously now is going to have to have a much harder time of it
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Instant Sunrise posted:to back this up with data:
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WTF:quote:A beleaguered Republican lawmaker has sounded off on allegations that he sent explicit text messages with an underage boy in a bizarre video. Oh, it's Louisiana; that explains it.
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Instant Sunrise posted:
I wouldn't have thought being a garbageman was such a dangerous job. Is it the risk of being hit by a car?
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Nessus posted:
For the amount and time and importance of the work required? Yeah. You're not going to be attracting quality candidates with that kind of salary. Instant Sunrise posted:to back this up with data: I never claimed it was the most dangerous job in the world. I said they need to be paid more to attract quality candidates.
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FactsAreUseless posted:More likely to be killed than cops: janitors. also pizza delivery drivers but hey, police work is apparently more dangerous than being a US soldier
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If you look at the timestamps involved, it was 50 minutes earlier, too. Not some they jumped the gun by 20 seconds poo poo.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:also pizza delivery drivers
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Nessus posted:So you're telling me that for a job much less dangerous than roofing, farming, driving a truck or a taxi, I can make above the median American household income? And this is supposed to be specifically perilous? My God. I mean I'm all for everyone making a decent wage, but perhaps some of these other people should make as much as the fuzz, not vice versa. 
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Instant Sunrise posted:to back this up with data: I find it concerning that airline pilots are that high up. Does that include commercial too or what?
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canepazzo posted:Also, Finn Finn may not be the best character in TFA (Rey ftw), but Finn is further proving a close second.
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Instant Sunrise posted:to back this up with data: Are those stats for injuries or deaths?
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