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BigBallChunkyTime posted:If this is true, I take back what I said. If this happened then this is Fort Worth PD following which way the wind is blowing. Ha! They're really throwing the (Police Union Hand)book at him!
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SocketWrench posted:You don't need that many digits. Just put a big 0
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Harrow posted:I'm sort of curious how PZ Myers is doing these days. Back in the late-00s when I was in my full-on "atheism is great and I need to tell people about it all the time" phase, PZ Myers' blog Pharyngula was my main stop for that, and I remember him being significantly more progressive than many others, including being one of the (very) few among the male New Atheists to support Rebecca Watson when she spoke out about her elevator harassment. (I still remember that as the first moment I realized just how misogynist most of the "rational community" was.) I also remember him speaking out against homophobia and racism, too. He's basically given up on being part of movement atheism. These days, his blog is mostly run of the mill good left-liberalism and research updates. He'll talk about atheist issues now and then, but most of the time it's attacking fascist New Atheist leaders. A few years ago most of his energy seemed to be waging war against those guys, but I think he decided it was a lost cause. Pharyngula is kinda boring now, but it's always in the right place.
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Disarm all police departments. There's no reason cops need guns, especially when they have proven time and time again that they cannot responsibly wield them even if their intentions are pure (they usually aren't).
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theflyingorc posted:it's me, agreeing with Prester Jane This kind of touches on something I've been thinking about a great deal lately, something that I really have no answers for: the degree to which our news and our entertainment media (and virtually every bit of information we are exposed to) is hand-tailored to our individual pre-existing worldview- by self-learning algorithms trying to sell us things. Unless you are the kind of individual who has been very deeply engaged with both the internet and politics for a long time, it's kind of hard to see what is currently happening to so much of our society. None of us are having the same shared experience of reality anymore, even if we're all sitting in the same room sharing and what is supposed to be a social gathering. Anymore when people aren't actively engaged in a conversation or some sort of activity, they are on their phones, on social media, being exposed to information that in subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways reinforces whatever worldview the algorithm has decided they want.
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Shifty Pony posted:That's some seriously unsupportable optimism there putting three digits in. Hell, you can make it "police shootings of black people without guns" and almost never need the second digit:  "Police shooting of unarmed black people" won't need that second digit ~a quarter to half the time: 
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https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1183786811916783617 https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1183505886343548929 https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1183809898859118593
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Harrow posted:I'm sort of curious how PZ Myers is doing these days. Back in the late-00s when I was in my full-on "atheism is great and I need to tell people about it all the time" phase, PZ Myers' blog Pharyngula was my main stop for that, and I remember him being significantly more progressive than many others, including being one of the (very) few among the male New Atheists to support Rebecca Watson when she spoke out about her elevator harassment. (I still remember that as the first moment I realized just how misogynist most of the "rational community" was.) I also remember him speaking out against homophobia and racism, too. for being an evangelical atheist meyers is pretty ok, he's pro-feminism and pro-social justice but iirc he dropped off from a lot of internet commentary and blogging because of an argument with TERFy old white atheists and more young online folks that he didn't want to moderate anymore. everyone reaches a breaking point eventually where you just want to stop using internet for a while Flip Yr Wig posted:He's basically given up on being part of movement atheism. These days, his blog is mostly run of the mill good left-liberalism and research updates. He'll talk about atheist issues now and then, but most of the time it's attacking fascist New Atheist leaders. A few years ago most of his energy seemed to be waging war against those guys, but I think he decided it was a lost cause. Pharyngula is kinda boring now, but it's always in the right place. yeah, trying to steer movement atheism means getting in constant online arguments with internet atheists and that'll wear you down over a long enough period of time Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Prester Jane posted:The three biggest red flags when someone is just introducing themselves are 1.) "I'm an atheist", 2.) "I'm a vegan", and 3.) "I'm a card-carrying member of Mensa". you forgot crossfit.
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Flip Yr Wig posted:He's basically given up on being part of movement atheism. These days, his blog is mostly run of the mill good left-liberalism and research updates. He'll talk about atheist issues now and then, but most of the time it's attacking fascist New Atheist leaders. A few years ago most of his energy seemed to be waging war against those guys, but I think he decided it was a lost cause. Pharyngula is kinda boring now, but it's always in the right place. luxury handset posted:for being an evangelical atheist meyers is pretty ok, he's pro-feminism and pro-social justice but iirc he dropped off from a lot of internet commentary and blogging because of an argument with TERFy old white atheists and more young online folks that he didn't want to moderate anymore. everyone reaches a breaking point eventually where you just want to stop using internet for a while I'm glad to hear he's still how I remember him, then. I recall looking up to him a lot back then, especially after he distanced himself from Dawkins once Dawkins started showing his true misogynist/racist colors.
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At the very least all the bullshit in the news lately from Blizzard and Apple's kowtowing to China, to Trump's impeachment inquiry and just openly admitting to crimes seems to be slowly waking some people up a little from their fanboyish stupors to what's going on or at the very least for the first time in years I'm seeing pushback against some of this poo poo. The fact that I find myself almost pleasantly surprised that people are coming out on the just objectively just side of these flashpoint incidents instead of just openly siding with the facist free-speech limiting ones like I figure would have happened even two years say a lot about how bad things have gotten recently, but that somewhere people still have the capacity for common loving sense. To, for the most part, put what's clearly right against their own personal enjoyment and hedonism in the heat of a moment. Gamer's no less,with how loving bad and full of right wing "SJW's are ruining my games" talking point shitheads that label has gotten, are coming out on the side of basic justice in the Blizzard debacle for example and don't appear to be having their poo poo. Anyway more and more as bad as things are and how people just seem okay with selling out previously held values I think we're finally starting to find a threshold and awareness of how far people are willing to go down the rabbit hole.....maybe, I'll come back to my nagging doubts in a moment. Right now though it's more than I thought people were willing to go down said rabbit holein 2015, but less than I thought in 2017 where I basically had little faith in humanity left if that makes any sense. Like it's just become so blatant to all but the fully indoctrinated braindead types online that these people that are currently under fire are 100% totally okay with selling us all out one way or another for profit or personal gain and that that cost outweighs anything they may promise or offer as a service, be it an addictive popular video game or political gains like overturning Roe v. Wade or whatever conservatism stands for in 2019. Still a tremendous amount of ground work to be done yet and a lot more loving up openly and blatantly by the powers that be to keep the momentum going in the right direction though and at the end of the day it still depends on humanity as a whole rediscovering it's collective backbone and what it wants to be as a society and species. Do we want some degree of compassion and greater justice for ourselves and others, or do we want memes and symbols and trends to just blindly follow that only benefit the already wealthy, influential and powerful? However, of course there's a chance that it's not entirely people consciously and with deliberate purpose coming out on the side of clear justice, but that things like the Blizzard thing have gone viral against them at the moment and that we are getting memes featuring characters from Overwatch trending on social media thus generating the usual bandwagon and momentum effect, but lets see what happens there. If a bunch of people just show up to Blizzcon in Mei and Winnie the Pooh cosplay, without a clear concise pro-justice narrative behind it all and just proceed to make loving asses of themselves and take selfies we'll know what's really at play there. Not gonna lie I'm kind of watching that one closely at the moment as an early litmus test about how much people are really waking the gently caress up or not weird as that is. Obviously the 2020 US General Election is "the big one" on the horizon so to speak. Sorry for all the walls of text, but this is something I've been pondering about for quiet some time and it feels like at last it's become a greater public topic as a whole due to a coalescence of high profile bullshit all happening at the same time. Basically the theory that when you break it all down there is no one magic once in a life time charismatic figure, ideology or belief system at play in all the once unthinkable horrors we've seen this decade, just social media momentum and clever exploitation and manipulation when we're still coming to grips with how integrated it's gotten with our society. Kale fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Ringo Star Get posted:This is true. Illinois starts legalized marijuana in January and all these towns are having meetings to opt in or opt out. Everyone in my town is all “weed is bad!!!!” and ignore all the benefits (taxes, less illegal drugs, etc) while at the same time being A-OK for alcohol and gambling. People are worried of people driving high even though people are already doing it, with the addition of drunk drivers. Get involved. The five of us who do GOONPAC will support you, and maybe more of SA will get involved if there’s a goon running for office/goon-led campaign for something worthwhile somewhere. Kale posted:I recall that guy that everyone thought was super charismatic and just the greatest human rights leader of our time ended up running stark naked through a street on drugs rambling about god knows what and nobody has heard anything about him since, but he had people in the palm of his loving hands in 2012. That dude was mentally ill and he was hardly considered “greatest rights leader of our time.” But yeah Facebook’s entrenchment and monopoly are a massive problem for workers, not just for what people were saying yesterday regarding hiring/HR at many businesses basically expecting a social media presence, but also for anybody trying to work independently or start a small business. It’s incredibly difficult to start or run an independent gig of any sort without being able to advertise on Facebook.
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Mind_Taker posted:Disarm all police departments. There's no reason cops need guns, especially when they have proven time and time again that they cannot responsibly wield them even if their intentions are pure (they usually aren't). I don't know why we don't. Maybe keep a response team, but at the very least responding to most calls should have an implied "lock the gun in your car" approach.
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HootTheOwl posted:I don't know why we don't. Maybe keep a response team, but at the very least responding to most calls should have an implied "lock the gun in your car" approach. Yeah my stopgap would be 'you no longer carry handguns, if you need a weapon, get the longarms out of the trunk'
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Prester Jane posted:The three biggest red flags when someone is just introducing themselves are 1.) "I'm an atheist", 2.) "I'm a vegan", and 3.) "I'm a card-carrying member of Mensa". poo poo, that's what I've been doing wrong all these years. gently caress.
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How about when introducing yourself with the words “As a parent” “As a home owner” “As a Christian” That never ends well
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Here's some good news I did not expect. https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1183782872467030016
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HootTheOwl posted:I don't know why we don't. Maybe keep a response team, but at the very least responding to most calls should have an implied "lock the gun in your car" approach. Arming them to the teeth, tooling then up on fear and trucker speed, and then working them 16 hours at a time is the cheap solution. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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And this is some sad poll unskewing bullshit article, if you didn't already know. THEY POLLED MORE DEMOCRATS!!!
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fool_of_sound posted:Yeah my stopgap would be 'you no longer carry handguns, if you need a weapon, get the longarms out of the trunk' This is a really good place to start honestly. If we just focused on handguns things would improve dramatically.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How about when introducing yourself with the words As a trombone player... Hey, why is there a comically large smoke cloud shaped like a person where my date used to be? But if you start anything with "As a X" you already screwed up.
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Dick Trauma posted:Here's some good news I did not expect. Wasn't Hungary going full fascist? This seems like a ray of light
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Rent-A-Cop posted:As a dude with a pocket full of monster condoms for my magnum dong... As a guy with a pocket full sand 
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Dick Trauma posted:Here's some good news I did not expect.
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Dick Trauma posted:Here's some good news I did not expect. Kinda buried the lead quote:A sex scandal in the western city of Gyor, in which videos surfaced of the married Fidesz mayor, Zsolt Borkai apparently participating in an orgy on a yacht in the Adriatic, appears to have damaged Fidesz in urban centres where independent media are still widely available.
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AceOfFlames posted:I wouldn't be surprised if he believes Napoleon is still alive. Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte. I wouldn't be surprised if he mixed him up with Napoleon Dynamite
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Willo567 posted:I wouldn't be surprised if he mixed him up with Napoleon Dynamite Pedro for president (of Turkey)
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