I am convinced “best dog” generally comes down to proximity. Both figuratively and then literally.
Never met a dog who wasn’t the best., at least in that moment.
Including one that kept trying to set me up with her human. Betsy was an ancient basset and wouldn’t leave our office building without saying goodbye. If I wasn’t in the office, she’d literally hunt me down. And if her human tried to pull a fast one, the entire building would hear Betsy howling bloody murder.
Her human is lesbian, but she’s a good friend now. All because Betsy’s ears caused immediate and uncontrollable giggling when the dog walked by.
A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.”...
Unless the judge has some knowledge that Baldwin either had intent, or was negligent in such a way as to contribute to the death, I’m not seeing what purpose it would serve to have him stand trial. He must feel absolutely terrible as it is, and my understanding is that it was not at all his fault.
Oh yes. He’s reaaalllly sorry. so we should give him special consideration. You know. he’s rich, famous and white. this totally entitles him to special consideration…
nah. Fuck that.
leniency is to be determined during sentencing; not before the trial ever takes place.
he did. You hold any weapon in your hand, and use it in an irresponsible manner, you’re responsible.
yes, even if an ‘expert’ tells you it’s safe. he had enough wherewithal to know it’s a weapon inherently designed to kill. and to be perfectly blunt, it wasn’t even necessary that he carry a real firearm with dummies. they weren’t filming. they were setting up shots, checking angles and such…
and he should have had enough professional experience to know, you don’t pass guns around like that on a set. it’s controlled by a single person whose responsible for it, and it’s either locked up, being held by that one person, or being actively used by the actor.
The person who handed him the gun entire job was to make sure it was safe to use that gun as prop on a movie, to simulate danger, but in an utterly safe manner.
he was handed the gun by an assistant producer. the armorer- Gutierrez-Reed- handed Hall the firearm, who turned around and handed it to baldwin.
Gutierrez-Reed was likely specifically hired because she was inexperienced. Movie sets are chaotic, the work is fast paced and rushed, and safety protocols slow things down. As they say: Time is money. She may not have specifically been hired by Baldwin, but she wasn’t really in a position to push back against it. (she should have, and she’s every bit as negligent.)
However, Baldwin has had a long, long acting career, much of it handling firearms. He- as a professional actor- should have known what the protocols should have been, and should have said something like “hey, you’re not the armorer”, when Dave Halls handed him the pistol.
What a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding is that more than one person can be responsible. Gutierrez-Reed, Halls, Baldwin were all negligent in a variety of ways.
The simplest of ways to have prevented this was to not be using a functional fire arm. There are movie props that are near-perfect replicas (and, on film, would look perfect.) without being capable of firing. This is particularly true considering they weren’t doing live shoots. they were doing blocking, which is a process by where they set up the cameras and check for issues. One of the issues they should have been looking for is, “is this a safe direction to point the gun”.
if you need any more reason to realize you can’t ever assume a firearm, or any other weapon, is “100% safe”, I suggest you give Anna Hutchin’s family a call.
as for his “headspace” do you really think it’s normal for actors to be totally, completely and wholly unaware of what they’re doing? that in fight scenes they’re actually fighting, rather than following a script in perfect choreography? that they’re allowed to not pay attention to safety? No. Every one is always most concerned with safety. Or they should be. yes. that includes the actors.
A little curious as to how you make 2-3 pounds of sword-shaped steel “safe”.
It doesn’t matter if it’s not sharp. It’s still going to brain a person if they get hit the wrong way, and any one older than a 10 yo would recognize that the moment they picked it up.
So if your hypothetical weapons master were to say “no no really, it’s safe, just hit them upside the head,” as a rational adult you kinda have to stop and think about it.
And again? My suspicious nature says they hired her specifically because she was inexperienced, and wouldn’t know to push for those more strident safety protocols. Which cost time and energy and get in the way of “artistic” shit.
Knowing that, and knowing that there were prior incidents of accidental discharges… you’d have to be an idiot for taking these people’s word that it was safe.
(Wasn’t Hutchins organizing the Union to strike because of those safety problems? I also dont think it was an accident, but I don’t have more than my gut feeling on that.)
A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive....
They are not your friends. They are not there to help, protect or otherwise serve you.
They are there solely to build a case against you, and if they can, they will charge you with anything they find.
They will lie about the law- if they even know what it actually says- lie about what they know. They will twist you up and get you to say anything.
Demand a lawyer and shut the fuck up. Do not consent to a search, do not let them inside. Do not fall for the “if you’re innocent”. demand a lawyer and shut the fuck up. You have no obligation to talk to them. you have no obligation to answer their questions.
Probably won’t get into trouble if you tell a cop at a traffic stop that you’re going home from work, unless you’re drunk off your socks, but generally it’s best to politely not answer.
ACAB because even if they’re not “bad cops”, they protect the bad cops with their silence. Any cops that breaks the blue line gets fucked over until they leave. Or worse.
A group of Palm Beach residents are suing the Florida county over its $700 million investment in Israeli bonds. “The people here are the grittiest, most powerful organizers I’ve had the privilege of seeing,” a local activist told Mondoweiss.
Meet Sherlock. He’s about 1½ years old and weighs 70 pounds. This guy spent two hours bouncing all over the four-acre dog park, and still wanted to play once we got home....
Atlanta Young Republicans executive questions what purpose MTG serves in Congress (www.rawstory.com)
Good Boy comics 2: RIP dear Kabosu :( (sh.itjust.works)
Found a couple more, and thanks to those that contributed. RIP to Kabosu; she was indeed a good girl....
A matter of perspective... (lemmy.world)
Man insults judge who sentenced him to 12 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot (apnews.com)
A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.”...
More House Democrats Say 'No' to Netanyahu Speech to Congress (www.commondreams.org)
MAGA’s Lies About a Deep State Conspiracy to Assassinate Trump Will Endure (www.thedailybeast.com)
Judge Orders Alec Baldwin to Face Trial for ‘Rust’ Shooting (www.thedailybeast.com)
Texas is letting a maternal-mortality skeptic investigate maternal mortality (www.motherjones.com)
CR 6 Max extruder issue
I have a CR 6 Max and I took apart the extruder and now whenever I put it back there are always problems....
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive....
Republicans Now Until Election Day (tesseract.dubvee.org)
Radar was looking forward to our weekly post-work nap all day (lemmy.world)
Every Friday, I work from home. Immediately after clocking out, my dogs and I take a nap. Radar was looking forward to it the most lol
Palm Beach residents sue county over its Israel investments (mondoweiss.net)
A group of Palm Beach residents are suing the Florida county over its $700 million investment in Israeli bonds. “The people here are the grittiest, most powerful organizers I’ve had the privilege of seeing,” a local activist told Mondoweiss.
Biden’s vanishing red line: White House silent as top UN court orders Israel to halt Rafah attack (www.independent.co.uk)
Biden had promised to reconsider US support for Israel if it launched a major operation in Rafah. He has not followed through on his words
Here's my dude. I have no idea what he is. (lemmy.world)
Meet Sherlock. He’s about 1½ years old and weighs 70 pounds. This guy spent two hours bouncing all over the four-acre dog park, and still wanted to play once we got home....