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iospace
Jan 19, 2038


A Man and his dog posted:

I have a date tonight.

I think I'll take her to sushi.

Ive, known her for a while

She's super Italian, so her nephew will probably kill me tonight...

Eat the wasabi whole.

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Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

Leperflesh posted:

In my opinion people getting beatings is actually not the biggest problem, although it's what gets press. The biggest issue is police giving false testimony in court. When it comes down to it, most cases never go to trial in part because of the huge advantage the state has in any given arrest. Defense attorneys know that if a police officer takes the stand and says "I saw the suspect doing X," almost all juries will believe them regardless of other testimony including eyewitnesses.

I was in a long, dragged-out murder trial jury selection a few months ago and one of the consistent questions asked of panelists was whether they gave police officers' witness testimony more, equal, or less weight. Almost everyone said more, usually because in their opinion, police are "trained to notice things better" or something. The reality is that police officers are also human beings who have very faulty memories and in addition they have a huge incentive to say whatever they need to say on the stand to get the perp convicted.

I think putting cameras on cops just to record their day to day interactions with the public and especially their normal, routine arrests are going to go a long way towards keeping them honest on the stand. And in turn, defenses having access to that video will give public defenders the ability to actually assess whether their client did what the cop says they saw them doing. And on the other side of things, when police really do witness people committing crimes, they won't have to rely on just a cop's testimony.

If we can also eliminate the regular beatings of minorities, homeless people, and people with mental health issues, that'd be great too.

Yeah you're gonna need a "white cop to get gang raped and murdered by some black guys who get off on some technicality and we could have prevented all of this with if we just had body cams!" scenario to get this stuff done, IMO

Cops hate the idea of being held accountable and public sentiment is still mostly positive toward law enforcement so it's just a hard sell right now.

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

I mean I can't even really blame the cops for not wanting to be constantly recorded at all times at work. I wouldn't tolerate that at my place of work. But cops are given an extraordinary privilege that has to be carefully monitored, and in the end, the recording is actually to their benefit as well - most complaints filed against cops can be rapidly dismissed once the recording of the actual incident is available and it's clear it's just yet another drunk complaining about a cop who wasn't cool with their wildly inappropriate public intoxication or whatever.

Anyway yeah I think like tons of other problems in the world, better batteries will make this possible.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Leperflesh posted:

I mean I can't even really blame the cops for not wanting to be constantly recorded at all times at work. I wouldn't tolerate that at my place of work. But cops are given an extraordinary privilege that has to be carefully monitored, and in the end, the recording is actually to their benefit as well - most complaints filed against cops can be rapidly dismissed once the recording of the actual incident is available and it's clear it's just yet another drunk complaining about a cop who wasn't cool with their wildly inappropriate public intoxication or whatever.

Anyway yeah I think like tons of other problems in the world, better batteries will make this possible.

Clearly you've never worked retail or similar, because cameras are everywhere, and corporate can watch you remotely.

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

somebody keeps peeing all over the urinal at work and it's ruining my life

FUCKFACE MORON
Apr 23, 2010

by sebmojo
its you

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Ehud posted:

somebody keeps peeing all over the urinal at work and it's ruining my life

I like to imagine the dude's penis has an impressively powerful level of water pressure and when he goes its like trying to hold on to a firehose

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

iospace posted:

Clearly you've never worked retail or similar, because cameras are everywhere, and corporate can watch you remotely.

Oh yeah. I did work at a burger place for a couple years as my first job, and I remember the boss would sometimes sit upstairs and watch the camera so he'd know if it was getting busy and he needed to come down and help.

It was a little different, though, in that it was 1993 and the camera was just recording to a looping vhs tape so there was no permanent record unless some incident happened that would prompt him to save the tape. Like a burglary, or if he thought an employee was stealing from the register?

But you're right, being constantly monitored and recorded at all time is just another of the huge pile of reasons why working retail is a nightmare.

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







so in black mirror se02ep01, did she just leave him locked in the attic or what

A Man and his dog
Oct 24, 2013

by R. Guyovich

FizFashizzle posted:

so in black mirror se02ep01, did she just leave him locked in the attic or what

Yes. She was like gently caress this. And locked him in the attic.

RIP Attic man.

Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH

Ehud posted:

yeah I have used this mousepad since my wife got it for me like 7 years ago

It is disgusting and I love it

A MOUSEPAD OF POOP WITH A SUN MADE OF PEE

No Irish Need Imply
Nov 30, 2008

SHOAH NUFF posted:

What would everyone's last meal be, mine would be a great grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup.
Carne asada on yellow rice.

Filthy Casual
Aug 13, 2014

Leperflesh posted:

But you're right, being constantly monitored and recorded at all time is just another of the huge pile of reasons why working retail is a nightmare.

Corporate never got back to me when I requested Boss Cam.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
This is the first week of doing things a fundamentally different way at work and I want to loving strangle whoever thought of this because the base premise is built around lazy people being proactive and not lazy.


It doesn't loving work and I want to die.

FUCKFACE MORON
Apr 23, 2010

by sebmojo
Don Rickles :smith:

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
I work for a major auto insurance company and it used to be like this:

Say there's a two car accident with no injuries. One person resolves liability. they then "channel" the vehicles to the correct department. Direct repair, obvious total loss, estimate in hand (provide us an estimate and photos from the shop). Only a certain segment of hits went to the field.

In theory, they would exhaust the avenues and be a good employee and try to sell non-field inspections, because they require less overhead. Instead, they found every reason they could to get claims to the field. I got a "non-drivable" vehicle because the claimant didn't want to drive it with a sideswipe damage. It drove fine and was perfectly street legal, but it was ugly and the person was an rear end in a top hat. The centralized liability people are lazy and they knew the field would just fix all the stuff they didn't want to deal with.

Now these people are in charge of the file from beginning to end and I'm supposed to just do poo poo in the background. The idea is that the customer has only one person to speak with. The only problem is the centralized people just... don't do anything. I get pissed off people calling the shop who give them my number and they're mad I never called them.

Because I'm not supposed to.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Louis CK's latest special is out on Netflix. It's very good and I suggest all of you watch it. I saw him perform it live back in January in Portland. Sadly, the Netflix special doesn't show his encore where he tries new jokes on the crowd to see how they do, which when I saw live had me out of breath because of how funny it was.

A Man and his dog
Oct 24, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Spoeank posted:

I work for a major auto insurance company and it used to be like this:

Say there's a two car accident with no injuries. One person resolves liability. they then "channel" the vehicles to the correct department. Direct repair, obvious total loss, estimate in hand (provide us an estimate and photos from the shop). Only a certain segment of hits went to the field.

In theory, they would exhaust the avenues and be a good employee and try to sell non-field inspections, because they require less overhead. Instead, they found every reason they could to get claims to the field. I got a "non-drivable" vehicle because the claimant didn't want to drive it with a sideswipe damage. It drove fine and was perfectly street legal, but it was ugly and the person was an rear end in a top hat. The centralized liability people are lazy and they knew the field would just fix all the stuff they didn't want to deal with.

Now these people are in charge of the file from beginning to end and I'm supposed to just do poo poo in the background. The idea is that the customer has only one person to speak with. The only problem is the centralized people just... don't do anything. I get pissed off people calling the shop who give them my number and they're mad I never called them.

Because I'm not supposed to.

Look man. Just relax ok. Breath.

I got your back if shots get fired.

:dukedoge:

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







I've got oxycodone and hydrocodone and neither of these really do the trick anymore. :/

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

It's in the five-hole!

FizFashizzle posted:

I've got oxycodone and hydrocodone and neither of these really do the trick anymore. :/

Looks like it's a one way ticket to herointown for you!

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

A Man and his dog posted:

Yes. She was like gently caress this. And locked him in the attic.

RIP Attic man.

I assumed she would take him out occasionally when she needed a good banging.

A Man and his dog
Oct 24, 2013

by R. Guyovich
:vince:

JIZZ DENOUEMENT
Oct 3, 2012

STRIKE!

seiferguy posted:

Louis CK's latest special is out on Netflix. It's very good and I suggest all of you watch it. I saw him perform it live back in January in Portland. Sadly, the Netflix special doesn't show his encore where he tries new jokes on the crowd to see how they do, which when I saw live had me out of breath because of how funny it was.

That's good to hear because I've been less enthused by his most recent specials. Same with Gaffigan and Aziz. I didn't watch it but apparently Amy Schumer's netflix leather special had over 80% 1-star reviews.

Chappelle's new stuff is great though.

Shangri-Law School
Feb 19, 2013

gently caress you Kalli.

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret

Eli Wiggum posted:

Don Rickles :smith:

God drat it. :(

At least I didn't find out from PYF this time...

7 RING SHRIMP
Oct 3, 2012

I can't wait to ask my grandfather what he thought about Don Rickles. Nicest guy you could meet but true irrational hatred for Don Rickles and firefighters.

7 RING SHRIMP
Oct 3, 2012

I wore my glasses to work today instead of my contacts. My dad straight up smacked them off my head with a dope slap and then pinned me to the ground while I was looking for them and rubbed my face into the carpet like a bad dog. Brutal day

Blitz of 404 Error
Sep 19, 2007

Joe Biden is a top 15 president
I met a dude in a bar in Belize 2 years ago named Pinky and he was wearing a mohawk and a pink thong and pink fishnet top and he told me he was a DJ from Denver and San Diego and that he always got a ton of rear end at Burning Man and I told him he was full of poo poo.

I just stumbled across a picture of him on reddit getting a blowjob at burning man

god works in mysterious ways

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

I didn't watch it but apparently Amy Schumer's netflix leather special had over 80% 1-star reviews.

I didn't watch it either but this is probably an organized trolling thing more than honest reviews unless she was like Carrot Top bad.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

That's good to hear because I've been less enthused by his most recent specials. Same with Gaffigan and Aziz. I didn't watch it but apparently Amy Schumer's netflix leather special had over 80% 1-star reviews.

Chappelle's new stuff is great though.

Yeah, CK's previous special wasn't great, and Gaffigan's last one was more of the same with him making food jokes. Amy Schumer's latest special got targeted by r/the_donald for everyone to go and vote 1 star on it. It got so bad that Netflix is going to come out with a new reviewing system to avoid that sort of thing from happening again. For what it's worth, her special has a 72 on metacritic.

Chromatic
Jan 21, 2005

You guys ready to hear a satanic song?

Grittybeard posted:

I didn't watch it either but this is probably an organized trolling thing more than honest reviews unless she was like Carrot Top bad.

people just straight up hate her.

edit: I watched 30 minutes of Louis CK's new special last night and wow is he kind of bad now. Burr's was pretty bad too.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Amy is pretty much getting the gamergate treatment by internet males.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

It's in the five-hole!

5 RING SHRIMP posted:

I can't wait to ask my grandfather what he thought about Don Rickles. Nicest guy you could meet but true irrational hatred for Don Rickles and firefighters.

How do you hate Don Rickles? Unless it's because you're the sort to take insults super personally and he specifically laid into you, the dude was amazing.

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/850133679326285824


I'm going to go watch tebow play when the fireflies come to town

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

swickles posted:

For real though, I have seen loads of heartbreak in the hospital. A father literally took a bullet for his son during a home invasion, got shot in the jaw and it hosed up his face real bad. At least both survived. Have also seen mothers die during childbirth, or the baby not make it, those are particularly hard. Normally, if you make it to a trauma center with vital signs, your chances of survival are really really good. If you arrive with a pulse and are completely conscience, the odds of survival are even better. Still, its always the ones that say "I'm dying" that end up dead, its weird, like they know for sure and this is their last utterance. Once had a guy come in after a motorcycle accident completely awake and aware. Start screaming that he was dying, he clearly needed surgery so we sent him to the OR. Controlled the abdominal injuries, but had major bleeding in the pelvis. The pelvis is a really hard area to access surgically, so usually we pack them full of pads to help clotting, then send them to the angio suite in radiology, where they embolize to control the bleeding. Anyways, this guy was fully conscience, put him under for surgery, which he survived but ultimately crashed and died in angio. That was a tough one. But one of the hardest cases ever was a trauma one I worked a while back, I was still a student at the time, but a senior so they let/trusted me to do more than usual. Anyway, we normally don't get a lot of backstory with the patients when they come in, usually its figured out later from either the patient, the family, or even the press. We get a patient thats been shot and we go to work. The presence of police sometimes helps inform us of the nature of how the injury was sustained too. This story was remarkable because the fighting involved managed to spill over into the resus bay (where we do the initial evaluation and make the decision to send straight to the OR, or off for testing to see if surgery is necessary). Anyways, a young kid comes in, looked to be 17 or 18 (later found out 19, still, he looked super young) after an assault. He was worked over real good, this was no fight, it was a beating. Like 12 seconds after he is rolled through the doors, they burst open with some guy and police in tow. Apparently this guy was the one who put him in that state, but the police didn't know it and were only pursuit because he was bursting into what should be a secure area (since we get a lot of shooting/stabbing victims, plus we handle the prison population, we have a full time police and sheriff presence aside from hospital security). Anyways, it turns out this guy was the father of the beaten dudes girlfriend, who was only 14 or 15. He was screaming at him for being a pedophile and deserved death and all kinds of things you expect to hear from a father whose daughter has been raped. The police manage to subdue the guy and take him elsewhere, not sure if he was ever charged or arrested. Keep in mind that in a trauma situation, you don't have time to learn all the facts and info, you just have what you have and need to make decisions based on that. At this time we had a kid looked to be about the same age as the girl he was dating, so there wasn't any judgement to be made. Anyways, we work on the kid and he is fully awake the entire time, we don't think there is internal bleeding, just the external cuts made from not a knife, but some rough, blunt metal, maybe like a crowbar edge or something. Eventually we realize the problem (a clotting factor deficiency combined with what was likely a pulmonary hemorrhage. He goes from ok to poo poo in seconds, he is struggling to breath and clearly about to die. He is trying to say something, maybe anything, just so he has some last words. I took off his oxygen mask and leaned in, asking him what he was trying to say. Through bloody breath, he spoke those words I will remember forever, the last words of some poor teenager beaten to death by his girlfriends father: "Actually it's called ephebophilia and..." And with that, he was gone.

7 RING SHRIMP
Oct 3, 2012

Thaddius the Large posted:

How do you hate Don Rickles? Unless it's because you're the sort to take insults super personally and he specifically laid into you, the dude was amazing.

you'd honestly think he ran a train on my sweet grandmother with every firefighter in the greater boston area the way he talks about them

Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH

5 RING SHRIMP posted:

you'd honestly think he ran a train on my sweet grandmother with every firefighter in the greater boston area the way he talks about them

Is Don your real grandpa? Should you be 5 Rickles Shrimp?

Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF
We just fired 60 cruise missles at Syria

gently caress

Shangri-Law School
Feb 19, 2013

It's OK. Hillary would have fired 60 billion cruise missiles.

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Qwijib0
Apr 10, 2007

Who needs on-field skills when you can dance like this?

Fun Shoe

Hot Diggity! posted:

We just fired 60 cruise missles at Syria

gently caress

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/373581528405905408

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