Regalingualius posted:

https://twitter.com/oneradchee/status/1586583677445632000?s=61&t=Rjmt88tpSsTlrKLk030afA

S.J. posted:

he was right

Pennywise the Frown posted:

We had a cool thing a decade ago called Citizens United.

Citizens United Explained

Here's some fun stuff about it!

Time_pants posted:

Yeah, I'm not seeing the controversy here.

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I also just saw that the Supreme Court will take another look at affirmative action.

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I also just saw that the Supreme Court will take another look at affirmative action.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Yeah there's basically no other reason than to keep people afraid. I mean, I don't think it's some conspiracy or anything, just that people are incredibly stupid and reactionary. Also it gets views.

It's very unlikely that you'll die by a semi-truck hitting you while roller skating naked down I-94 the wrong way... but you need to remain alert.

sebmojo posted:

Perhaps we should get ahead of the curve and ban the I-94, just in case

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Wikipedia posted:

SFGH is rare in that its emergency rooms do not have agreements in place with private health care insurance providers. Until 2019, privately insured patients were often billed the balance of their care, which could be sizable. This practice was changed after media attention regarding the hospital's billing practices.
…
Through early 2019, SFGH did not participate in any private health insurance networks and practiced balance billing. A Vox analysis (derived from a database of more than a thousand emergency room bills) characterized the hospital's billing practices as "aggressive" and "surprising": one privately insured patient arriving at the hospital after a bicycle accident was billed more than $20,000 for diagnostic scans and treatment for a broken arm; the bill was 12 times the Medicare billing rate.

Regalingualius posted:

https://twitter.com/oneradchee/status/1586583677445632000?s=61&t=Rjmt88tpSsTlrKLk030afA

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I'm not going to watch that video but the comments are inspiring.

CPL593H posted:

I saw yet another story about people sneaking expensive drugs into Halloween candy. On the news report the anchor very quickly said "There has never been a report of this happening in Rhode Island but..." then they cut to a cop saying how totally dangerous it is and that people buy edibles that come in packages that look like regular candy. Said cop also added it's highly unlikely BUT YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WATCH OUT THEY WANT TO GIVE YOUR KIDS FENTANYL. It reminds me of when the DARE officer use to tell us that drug dealers totally give out free samples to get you hooked on drugs.

They're just using all the same dipshit arguments about it being "unfair" for decades. To everyone's shock and surprise.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

Yeah it is actually worth a watch. The kids a hero and grannie seems delusional. https://mobile.twitter.com/makhno_fan/status/1586695131222122496

The Butcher posted:

Ah good throwback thought to the DARE cop who showed us boards with all the different drugs taped to them, for easier identification, and how fun some were.

Then the firearms demonstration. Here is how you load and disarm a handgun. Managed not to shoot himself in the leg at least. But cool, now I know how to use a gun and what the best drugs are.

InsertPotPun posted:

you guys saw the behavioral problems, right? the fire lighting? kicked out of school?

InsertPotPun posted:

the article keeps calling the shootings being "blasted"? "he was blasted in the head" "he was blasted in the buttocks".

InsertPotPun posted:

the article keeps calling the shootings being "blasted"? "he was blasted in the head" "he was blasted in the buttocks".

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I didn't read the article but the headline is super

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1587550146488844288

Bad Purchase posted:

classic trolley problem

CPL593H posted:

I saw yet another story about people sneaking expensive drugs into Halloween candy. On the news report the anchor very quickly said "There has never been a report of this happening in Rhode Island but..." then they cut to a cop saying how totally dangerous it is and that people buy edibles that come in packages that look like regular candy. Said cop also added it's highly unlikely BUT YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WATCH OUT THEY WANT TO GIVE YOUR KIDS FENTANYL. It reminds me of when the DARE officer use to tell us that drug dealers totally give out free samples to get you hooked on drugs.

They're just using all the same dipshit arguments about it being "unfair" for decades. To everyone's shock and surprise.

InsertPotPun posted:

the article keeps calling the shootings being "blasted"? "he was blasted in the head" "he was blasted in the buttocks".

Read After Burning posted:

deep dish peat moss posted:

There has only ever been one recorded case in the history of the entire US of a child being harmed by Halloween candy that was tampered with. His own dad laced his pixie stix with cyanide to collect a life insurance policy. There has never once, ever, in the entire country, been a report of a child being harmed by candy that a stranger tampered with, lmao.

CPL593H posted:

All the people who run the country are bought and sold by corporate interests who also hire a bunch of people to scream fascist talking points at deliberately uneducated and willfully ignorant audiences all day.

deep dish peat moss posted:

There has only ever been one recorded case in the history of the entire US of a child being harmed by Halloween candy that was tampered with. His own dad laced his pixie stix with cyanide to collect a life insurance policy. There has never once, ever, in the entire country, been a report of a child being harmed by candy that a stranger tampered with, lmao.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I didn't read the article but the headline is super

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1587550146488844288

PokeJoe posted:

Deliberate propaganda to make fun sized candy acceptable

CNN posted:

CNN obtained the calls from a source and is using excerpts with the approval of Khloie’s parents. CNN also informed families who lost people in the massacre that this story was coming.

“Please get help. I don’t wanna die. My teacher is dead. Oh, my God.”

The dispatcher sends out the message to the dozens, soon to be hundreds of law enforcement officers swarming to the school in Uvalde, Texas.

It’s more than 30 minutes since the teenager entered the school and shot his way into classrooms 111 and 112.

And it takes 40 more minutes from Khloie giving details to authorities until a strike team burst into the room, challenging the gunman at 12:50 p.m.

“I need help … please. Have y’all captured the person?” the fourth grader asks at 12:12 p.m. And a few minutes later, “You want me to open the door now?”

Time and again Khloie is told by the dispatcher to stay quiet, to keep her terrified and injured friends quiet, and to wait.

“I’m telling everyone to be quiet but nobody is listening to me,” she tells the operator. “I understand what to do in these situations. My dad taught me when I was a little girl. Send help.” She tells the 911 operator that her teacher – Eva Mireles – is alive but has been shot and asks for an ambulance at 12:15 p.m.

Outside, a final total of 376 armed law enforcement personnel are gathering.

Inside the classroom, Khloie starts her third call to 911.

“Can you tell the police to come to my room?” she asks. And again, minutes later, “Can you send a policeman in now, please?” She is told to stay quiet, to keep her classmates – some apparently moaning in pain – quiet, and wait. She said to the dispatcher she thought she heard police in the hallway and was again advised to stay quiet.

Later, Khloie tells police how she was using her teacher’s phone, how she knew how to make the emergency call without having to unlock the phone as it was like her dad’s.

She also told of how she had time to try to help her friends while the gunman was in the adjoining classroom, where he killed all the students and wounded the teacher. “I stood up to look for Band-Aids ‘cause my friend had a big cut.”

Read After Burning posted:

Big load of here...some more 911 calls from Uvalde have been released.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/uvalde-911-classroom-call-delay

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Then you can just ggiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt out! There's the door!




Oh wait, you're not from here? well GOOD! We don't want no liberal foreigners here anyway!

Pennywise the Frown posted:

"Do you want Wisconsin to be a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary State?"

Bondematt posted:

What the gently caress does that even mean

quote:

Second Amendment sanctuary, also known as a gun sanctuary, refers to states, counties, or localities in the United States that have adopted laws or resolutions to prohibit or impede the enforcement of certain gun control measures which are perceived to violate the Second Amendment, such as universal gun background checks, high capacity magazine bans, assault weapon bans, red flag laws, etc.[1][2]