I know what the groupthink around here is, but "...now, because of videos, we are seeing just how systemic and widespread it is" is an expression of a preconceived notion, not a valid inference from data.

Frank Serpico *still* gets death threats from LEOs he didn't even serve with, so yeah, I'm more inclined (as the video evidence increases) to think less Thin Blue Line and more Big Blue Klan.

"The French don't have a word for Entrepreneur." -- Village Idiot

US spies can now change their irises.

So at what looks to be the beginning of another Dry Epoch on the High Plains (REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE), we're still allowing millions of gallons of WATER to be thrown away instead of strictly mandating it be recovered and cleaned by any means necessary (and paid for by those that polluted it). Even setting aside their lies about the earthquake cause, this is the most damning proof of a corrupt Oklahoma government (though hardly the only one in the region).

"Otisburg?"

With the near Jonestown-like acceptance of systemd (controlled by one dominant company with lucrative NSA contracts, if not even deeper ties), the fait is pretty much accompli.

Much like the US itself, all we can hope for is a somewhat benevolent dictatorship in everything but name.

"Oh, hey, my passenger turns out to owe child support from 30 years ago! Recalculating for the nearest police station."

I think the real agenda is to turn scientific and engineering careers (and their usually* higher than average level of pay) into far more common cookie-cutter, factory-worker style 'technicians'. The goal: techs being paid far-far less than the BS crowd, and the real world pay falling as more and more H1-B folks are brought in to suppress wages even further.

The absolute destruction of unions (yes, they were never perfect, but...) and the 'Walmarting' of tech jobs all done to bring about Gilded Age 2.0.



* - I do hold out desperate, in-denial hope that the only ones that answer engineering salary surveys are boastful liars in the highest cost of living areas of the US.

In that vein, I see no need to boycott clothing produced in Viet Nam. That war was over long ago.

The war that the Vietnamese refer to as The American War.

Jobs touting the Humanities when he was far less humane to his low-level employees (perhaps sealing his Karmic fate).

"Ivan Gotyaovich" Hmm. 'Gotcha' to his friends, perhaps?