Comment Re: here we go (Score 1) 834
I think the issue is that it is socially acceptable for men to be assholes but society finds it abhorrent when women are assholes.
WTF planet are you living on?
I think the issue is that it is socially acceptable for men to be assholes but society finds it abhorrent when women are assholes.
WTF planet are you living on?
Iirc, taxi drivers and overnight convenience store clerks have more dangerous jobs than cops. In fairness, cabbies are pretty aggressive. But the overnight clerks are generally super chill, despite being in an objectively dangerous job. So while the danger of police work may play some role in their confrontational behavior, clearly there are other factors at work too.
Its so shockingly one sided it calls into doubt the legitimacy of the court system.
FTFY
Petty harassment is still harassment.
Police don't seem to notice the bizarre circularity of the "arrested for resisting arrest" logic
Cops are mostly dumb, I don't expect them to have any grasp of logic. Problem is, the kangaroo kourts are packed full o' smart-but-evil lawyers and officials who know this kind of logic is irrational, but still think it's an a-okay pretext to destroy the lives of commoners.
...it can't even give efficient driving directions for light traffic in the suburbs. In the city with real traffic it almost always gives "bad" (worse than you'd get from knowing the streets) directions.
But who would possibly need multiple gears, much less brakes, in one of the hilliest cities in America?
In SF's climate, most days one doesn't really get sweaty from biking. (Please do not take this as an endorsement of craft beers and/or mustaches.)
Quick, get on board the hipster-hate train, before it becomes uncool!
Man, I think it's already been uncool for like 6 months. Get with the times already!
Wouldn't that be "wayleh"?
rule of law = rule of lawyers
Which of these represent something the US couldn't have done a half century ago?
A perhaps more interesting question is, which of these represent something the US could still do today? Sadly, I believe the answer to that question would be 5) None of the above.
A calamitous failure of the Colorado river dam system would probably cause the collapse of the United States as a single country. The entire western US is dependent on them for both water and power. Yet I'm fairly certain that we Americans couldn't currently muster the political will to replace (or even do major repairs on) just one of them, much less the entire system.
No, seriously!
OpenBSD tends to take some very conservative security choices (see OpenSSH) but then turns around and does stuff like LibreSSL forks of OpenSSL, instead of fixing the problem, they make their own version of the problem.
Maybe (pure speculation) the OpenBSD team considered the human processes around the OpenSSL code to be the real security problem. Heartbleed did seem a tad bit too convenient to be an accidental bug...
Interesting.. the moderation dropdown is missing from this comment, and only from this comment. It must be subject to some type of special censorship downmod from site operators.
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