If we prohibited cops from these substances, and piss tested them like the people they have been arresting after piss tests, I bet we would see an explosion of protect and serve to counter the current culture of enforce and dominate.
"I read an anecdote. Let me run off on a giant tangent about my life that has nothing to do with the anecdote".
I dont go to Portland anymore because there are no public restrooms. The private ones are guarded like knox. That's mostly because of the staggering amount of homeless in Portland.
If I worked in Portland and a cop asked to use a restroom, I'd say no and lock eyes with him as I invited a homeless person to enjoy an open tap and a dignified twosie.
We like Biden almost exactly as much as we liked Hilary. Meaning, the vast majority of us don't because they are soulless life long party politicians.
At least Biden doesn't need to overcome the fact that he was a life long Republican until his wife became president, then he was suddenly a democrat with no noticeable policy changes.
The American people are done with Republicans and Democrats (IE: The Party), and Trump has carried over a ton of Republicans into his currently non-party camp.
I think Biden is going to go up against a new dumbass, and Trump might get through to end America.
Bernie should have never kissed the Democrat ring.
California will double the taxes on guns and ammunition and use the money to pay for more security at public schools and various violence prevention programs under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Tuesday....
I love how "BuT tHeN tHeY wIlL jUsT uSe KnIvEs" rhetoric gets abandoned and a whole new more sophisticated ability to negotiate shows up AFTER effective action is taken.
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I did the Payday 3 beta. It threw up a LOT of red flags about the matchmaking system. I made a post reviewing the game where I basically said that if I were smart, I wouldn't be getting the game because based on the beta, matchmaking was going to be busted on release....
I have been sitting in matchmaking for over 3 hours at this point.
Looks like big streamers can access the game just fine, but I get spinning wheel that is occasionally punctuated with getting an error message and kicked out of the game.
The beta was like a week and a half ago, and matchmaking was crumbling under the small organized stress test. I KNEW that once the open internet hit the matchmaker the whole thing was going to implode.
It has further been suggested by Toriyama that "Kamehameha" in Japanese directly translates to "turtle energy wave", which inspired Master Roshi leading the "turtle hermit school" where he teaches students the "kamehameha" technique.
But ya. He has confirmed repeatedly that the Kamehameha is named after the hawaiian King Kamehameha.
Should I still isolate myself after a positive test? Is it ok to do my own shopping (with a mask) or should I call someone? Do I still wait for a negative test or simply to be free of symptoms? Since people around me don’t really talk about Covid anymore and my country doesn’t have any guidelines in place, I’d be...
Early waves had extremely high ICU/death rates because it killed off the most vulnerable.
That combined with vaccines reduced ICU/death rates, but they are still present. Infection rates have only ever been going up.
For POLITICALLY motivated reasons, not for public safety reasons, most areas have stopped collecting data, concealing infection, ICU, and death rates related the COVID, making it look like things have subsided, but we dont know, because we arent maintaining the reporting systems.
At present, I believe there are 3 new worry-some variants. They are EXTREMELY infectious, compared to earlier strains.
There is also a disturbing trend in the newer variants that they don't go straight for the respiratory system. You get infected, it incubates in some focused area of your body, you get a little sick for a day or 2, it continues to fortify its presence in the body for a week or 2, and then you get slammed with the full blown covid symptoms for a few weeks.
That means the new strains are spreading without symptoms for a MUCH greater period of time, and the Long Covid effects of those strains are more severe.
Here is a good metaphor. If Ukraine just got bored of Russia's invasion and decided that they were just going to return to their life as it was before Russia invaded, does that mean that the Russian invasion is over?
People just decided they were sick of masks and social distancing, and decided that it was over... but its not. Covid is now near endemic, and it is mutating at the alarming pace you would expect from Covid at endemic levels. Its only a matter of time until strains that REALLY go after the heart and the liver as well as the lungs surface, and when that happens, it will make Wave 1 of the pandemic look like child's play.
Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi (www.politico.eu)
Everybody knows that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on....
Monster hunter in a nutshell (lemmy.world)
Whoops! (lemmy.ml)
Store policy (slrpnk.net)
Trump edges out Biden 51-42 in head-to-head matchup: POLL (abcnews.go.com)
There was an article earlier about people smoking crack if they thing Trump is up 10 points....
Vacuum containing hundreds of hornets stolen from Philadelphia beekeeper's truck (6abc.com)
Whoever stole the shop vac is in for a very big surprise.
California governor signs law raising taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school safety (apnews.com)
California will double the taxes on guns and ammunition and use the money to pay for more security at public schools and various violence prevention programs under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Tuesday....
Man in mental health crisis shot police dog that was biting him, so eight Utah cops firing 51 shots to kill him were 'justified' (gephardtdaily.com)
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Elijah McClain told Colorado cops "I can't breathe" 7 times as they killed him, prosecutor says (www.nbcnews.com)
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Stay safe! (lemmy.world)
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Payday 3. I knew it...
I did the Payday 3 beta. It threw up a LOT of red flags about the matchmaking system. I made a post reviewing the game where I basically said that if I were smart, I wouldn't be getting the game because based on the beta, matchmaking was going to be busted on release....
Fired New York police officer arrested for raping 13-year-old girl (13wham.com)
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Goku? Never heard of that island (slrpnk.net)
How do you currently handle Covid infections?
Should I still isolate myself after a positive test? Is it ok to do my own shopping (with a mask) or should I call someone? Do I still wait for a negative test or simply to be free of symptoms? Since people around me don’t really talk about Covid anymore and my country doesn’t have any guidelines in place, I’d be...