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Comment Re:Trumptards are vandals and criminals (Score 0, Insightful) 147

Then again trusting the twitter information spokesman isn't really smart in the first place, they're the same people who said that no private DM's were accessed. But I guess the last what? 60? 70 days have been a love-in. I find it funny though, at just what constitutes "bot like behavior" for twitter. Especially since you can find 500-1k of them boosting various anti-Trump hashtags and other crap all with the same message, which then are latched on to. And those accounts just keep going on with that bot-like behavior.

Unfortunately, your premise that it's "majority alt-right" fails even harder then your screed. Since there are organizations like BAMN and various BLM directly linked accounts that have come out in support of this violence. Well whatever, if you want to believe that leftists aren't burning shit, assaulting people...that's your delusion.

Comment Re: People who have children (Score 0, Troll) 175

Not even Fox News says anything this stupid.

Prior to the Liberal's coming into power here in Canada, that the ice was increasing was considered scientific fact. The feds since CPC left majority status, has been to shred and obfuscate global warming information at a level that has never been seen before. Something for you to think on though, that "old" information is apparently now so dangerous that you can't get it through a AI request, that's a similar process to the US's FOIA law.

Remember how just ~6-7 years ago, here on /. there were all those articles decrying the conservatives "muzzling scientists" and all that? Wonder why you don't hear now that government scientists are told they will be fired with prejudice if they deviate from the government's current policy, and sharing information with any party even in a scientific setting is grounds for prosecution. It's not like there isn't a long list of people who've studied the arctic, and associated environs who've been forced from university positions, had federal grant funding cuts, and so-on because their research painted a different picture.

Well whatever I guess.

Comment Re:This should also benefit sleep. (Score 1) 117

Apparently you don't drive at night. A 18ft high diffuse light will blind the driver in a car or truck as they drive towards it at a wider angle and as they pass under it. You can see this with the high reflectivity-high diffuse LED lamps mounted at 30ft compared to the low or high pressure sodium lighting that was used(these had their own issues with fog and snow). The 36"x3bulb fluorescent light arrays used in some cities for street lighting suffered from the same problem.

Comment Re:This would be awesome news... (Score 1) 267

Was this the case with Floyd? Do people in such a state normally plead for their lives?

You mean the part where he was pleading for the police to restrain him on the ground? Did you miss that part?

In Floyd's case, he managed to kneel on him without shooting him at all, so how is this relevant?

ED is a 100% unknown, a person can be compliant and flip in literal seconds. Every police force and police service in North America and Europe are trained to deal with a person in that state in that exact way. Read up on it, since you've never seen it happen. Never experienced what it's like to deal with a person in that state either. If you think that's a bad option, pray you never have to deal with someone who goes from a "good boy" to a raging nut trying to squeeze the life out of someone in the span of 30 seconds.

The report doesn't actually state what the proximal cause of death was, just what he died of (heart attack). I read the whole coroner's report. Assuming the police actions were not a significant contributor would be a conclusion you may or may not draw from the report but it certainly isn't stated in it.

Yes. With a massive amount of drugs in his system that would kill the average person in minutes. FYI, speedballing(uppers and downers) kills people pretty good too, via a heart attack. The lack of a statement in the cause of death is a significant point, since it effectively absolves that it would have been a contributing factor.

To put simply: He had a massive amount of drugs in his system. Nalox likely would have done zero good at those levels. In the end he died from a heart attack. The polices actions were not significant in the cause of his death.

Comment Re:This would be awesome news... (Score 1) 267

So, you've never dealt with a person in a state of excited delirium huh? Ever wonder why there are cases where a cop will empty a magazine into someone and they keep coming? Now you know. Never mind that the autopsy report shows that the police officers actions were not a significant contributor, and there was no damage to airways or arteries. But I'm sure you'll quote the other report, which was done independently, without ever seeing the body.

Comment Re:This would be awesome news... (Score 0) 267

Sure I did. He was reaching around in his vehicle after being told to put his hands on the steering wheel. Guns were drawn. Later it's found out that he was hooping(that is shoving drugs up his ass). He had 4x the lethal dose of fentynal in his blood, along with meth. He was complaining about being unable to breath before he was placed on the ground. His actions show explicitly that he was in a state of excited delirium(ED). In cases of ED the police officers reaction were 100% by the book. To make you think it makes it look worse, simply means you're ignorant of what actually happens.

Comment Re:The brilliance...ze goggles do nothing! (Score 1) 128

Had an SW2 myself and loved that critter to no end. The biggest complaint with those engines of theirs is they ran hot, so very, very hot that they'd cause the rad intake side to start cracking. Since they switched to plastic end tanks years before hand instead of keeping with metal. 4 or 5 rads in that car, but amazing gas mileage too with the stick models. Major repair wise though? Alternator, new clutch and a battery over 20 years is nothing short of amazing. Regular maintenance wise it was light, the rear drum brakes lasted over 15 years but man did it chew through front brakes. They were always way overset on front braking too.

The real problem was GM itself. That little "hands off" division was sucking people out of the low-end pontiac and chevy lines too. Instead of making those brands better, they wanted to tank the whole experiment.

Comment Re: technologically impractical (Score 1) 135

That's not spinning anything, that's all cold hard reality. The part you fail to understand is that tik-tok isn't a kids app, far from it. Which is probably why you don't get why this is a problem, when you have an app that wants geo-location data and happily sends your phones unique identifier along with your account information.

Comment Re: technologically impractical (Score 1) 135

It's distributed in the US by a holding company. It however is still bound by the laws of China. The law in China states that any company must be partially held in trust by the CCP. On top of that the national security law in China passed in 2017 grants them the full right to demand any data held by any company, anywhere in the world regardless of who is distributing it without the requirement of notification for legal right or acknowledgement to the subsidiary or distributor.

Simply this, if the CCP says "give us all your shit and don't tell anyone" they have to hand over all their shit, and not tell the distributor that they've don it. In which case, your only chance of knowing if that happens would be a whistle blower. And in China they put those types of people either in prison and reeducation or in a grave.

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