Comment Re: Meanwhile In China . . . (Score 1) 53
What happens if you just disable 5G on your phone?
What happens if you just disable 5G on your phone?
Looking, I'm not seeing much. Can you name a few cases so I can see what happened?
I'm actually seeing more exonorations because of DNA. I did find one case, but that was a police lab contaminating a sample by not properly cleaning equipment, not a DNA database problem.
I've read write-ups where they find a relative of a suspected offender in the DNA database, but in those cases the officers DID go for collaborative evidence. More DNA from more relatives, for example, to nail down the actual suspect.
For example, my dad found a relative via DNA testing, she was the result of an affair. Having DNA from multiple relatives allowed him to narrow down the possible father to two brothers. That is enough for a warrant, but probably not an arrest.
'Too many officers' isn't a problem I think we're anywhere near yet, more the wrong type as officers.
The police can screw anything up, of course, and prosecutors are sometimes little better. However, I'm not aware of any actual arrests based 'solely' or even mostly on a cosanguinity comparison. Instead, they use the cosanguity match along with other evidence to get a warrant for the suspect's DNA.
My dad, before he passed, got big into genealogy and ancestry. A 4% match, while a low percentage, is still enough to reliably indicate relationship. We have stenography systems that can still make a match with less remaining.
I've read some write-ups on what can happen. They get the initial hit of a possible cousin or such. They can then hit up other people in the family tree in many cases. The parents, a different cousin, it can all help nail down what section of the family tree the sample matches. Eventually they get it down to a person.
At this point, they generally haven't actually arrested anybody, but gotten a warrant for a DNA sample.
Haven't seen any cases where they both arrested and took somebody to trial without a direct DNA match.
As for bail - you do get bail money back if you pay the bail directly. It is a bail bond, where you pay a 3rd party to put up the bail money, that you don't get it back.
For what is generally a 'cold case', they don't arrest people willy-nilly.
Okay, some thoughts on this:
1. The data has already been handed to the police. They've been using it to solve decades old rape cases and such.
2. Unless YOUR DNA turned up at a crime scene, it is unlikely that the police are going to arrest you over it. Unless you have an evil twin out there, it's not a very realistic problem.
3. The problem is also actually WORSE than you state. You see, YOU don't need to submit data to be found. In a number of the cases, a semi-distant relative, like a niece, submitted their DNA. This gave them a match with their suspect as a relative. So they go looking for family members who might have been in the appropriate area at the appropriate time. At least for now, only really used for rape and murder cases, where they're willing to expend a lot of funds to solve it. Between the relational DNA match and the location, they can often get a warrant for an actual DNA sample.
I've also seen video of where the suspect blew a 0.00 on the breath test and was promptly arrested for DUI despite it. Then a full test and workup at the police station, only for the police to have to release him because they found nothing. The teen was in high school sports and drug tested like every other week anyways. Of course, he ended up suing for stuff including the arrest after the 0.0 (what reasonable suspicion was there other than him being a snarky and somewhat cold teen?) and the police ended up giving him city money (because that doesn't affect the police budget at all) to go away.
I think it says something that despite the US invasion of Afghanistan, all the destruction and death of that, by reports most Afghanis still hate Russians more.
The US is "the assholes who don't understand us." Russia is "those fuckers"
If Russia invaded because they think the Ukrainian government was mistreating their own people, then why not invasions all over the world, including the USA and North Korea? Why not fix how they treat their own population before invading another country to tell them how to treat their population?
Don't forget that one of the first actions after the failed lightening strike was to conscript pretty much every man they could out of the Donbass region (where the mistreatment was supposedly occurring) and send them to the front lines to largely get killed.
If Ukraine had been mistreating them at anything near that level, the region would have been depopulated long ago. Russia managed to kill more in the area in a year or so than Ukraine would have managed with its supposed "mistreatment" in centuries.
Restoring relations with Russia was Petro Poroshenko's platform, the incumbent that Zelensky beat.
That said, as a powerful neighbor, militarily and economically, good relations with Russia is a good thing, remember?
The invasion was triggered by Zelensky getting too close to the west.
If he was so for Russia, why would Russia need to invade?
The patch is in the video.
Yes, a blurry version of it that we can't see the details of, such as his blown up version that doesn't necessarily contain the stuff he said.
Besides, I already acknowledge the Nazi link, while pointing out that the Totenkopf has an extensive non-nazi history in the area
If that's all you have to go on, it's not much.
It'd be like insisting the Nazis were nice people because they used the Swastika as a symbol, because it was traditionally a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
And Saddam threw babies out of incubators. Bad western propaganda is bad.
You know that comparing him to Saddam isn't doing you any favors, right? Saddam is widely held as evil in the West, right along with Hitler, Stalin, and such.
Snort. Yeah, because rewarding and promoting them is bringing them "under control". The Feds broke the Klan in the US, they didn't nominate their leaders to positions of power.
The Klan were already in positions of power. My understanding is that while heavily right-wing and nationalist, Ukraine felt they could be contained and channeled. It's a different strategy, but it seemed to be working.
FTFY. Famines happened on the regular under the Tsars but you DGAF about that because you weren't propagandized from childhood to hate it.
Well, if you're going to admit to being gullible, I'm not going to argue with you about that.
Again, why would I care about the Tsars? They're gone. Who are you going to pull out next, the Mongols under Ghengis Khan? This is what I mean about "whataboutism" - You keep pulling up other examples of bad things, as though that excuses Russia's actions.
Was England (and most of Europe) evil during colonialism? Yes. On the other hand, given that the 40 year period you mention ended in 1920, IE "over a century ago", that means that everybody responsible for that tragedy is already long dead.
That said, if India still had a policy of hostility against England for it, I'd completely understand, I might even bring it up as an example.
But England isn't the topic here - Ukraine and Russia are, because Russia is actively invading the Ukraine.
Heck, after Maripul, if it was really about Azov, Russia could have declared it "mission accomplished" and gone home. Instead, Putin's terms of surrender are basically "Ukraine becomes Russian again." It's blatantly obvious what his goals are, and it isn't "denazification." That's just one of a long line of excuses used to obfuscate the goal, and only the gullible (which you admitted being) believe it.
I went ahead and looked, but could not find any credible evidence of anybody associated with Azov threatening to assassinate Zelensky, who ran more on normalizing and expanding relations with the west, while relations with Russia was more a thing for his political opponent.
IE Zelensky was the more "anti-Russia" candidate available. Even then, of course, he didn't run on having any hostilities with Russia. That's a bit like a Mexican or Canadian politician running on being hostile with the USA.
I already addressed the Nazi symbology:
The Azov Brigade/Regiment, based in Mariupol, was indeed a far-right group, nationalist, that seemed to like Nazi symbology. To be fair, liking Nazi symbols isn't unusual, the Nazis themselves stole most of them because they looked cool.
For example, take the picture, which your video isn't actually a video of the patch, but a talk radio guy talking about the patch.
The Totenkopf actually predates the Nazis almost as much as the swastika does.
I mean, remember the skull and crossbones of Pirate fame?
Hussars were running around with it in the 1700s.
It's cool.
Obviously, they aren't very Nazi-like if Zelensky feels safe hanging around with them as bodyguards.
As for Wagnar: The difference here is that The Wagner group was named that by Prigozhin because he admired Hitler, but obviously couldn't name his mercenary group the "Hitler Group" so kind of like how 88 is special to neo-nazis, he went with Wagner.
It's the difference between naming your sports team the "German Shepards" because you like the breed and because Hitler owned a bunch.
And the wagner group didn't get folded into the military until AFTER the little revolt by its leader. Who everybody figures Putin had killed.
In either case, like I said, Ukraine had the group under control and was busily, if quietly and gradually, de-naziing them. Russia didn't need to invade.
Holodomor is a fairy tale for capitalist children you should have outgrown before Santa.
Ah, here we go, Genocide denial.
And you can't even keep your arguments focused. I listed it as a reason why Ukrainians might hate Russians. It isn't a reason for me to hate Russians, but I recognize that it might be a bit more personal to them. Why the heck would the Ukrainians care about a famine in a different country half a century earlier? It was their own people that starved because of the Russians.
1M Irish is a bit less than the 3.5-5M Ukrainions estimated to have starved to death during the Holodomor famine. 1932-1933 is a lot more recent than the Irish potato famine of 1845-1852.
While still exporting food is a problem, at least there was actually crop failures for the potato famine, while Holodomor was deliberate government action.
Basically, you're engaging in Whataboutism.
Yeah, let's give "removing Nazis" as the reason to invade a country that just elected a Jewish president, while having the Wagner group(named after Hitler's favorite composer) play a leading role in the operation.
The Azov Brigade/Regiment, based in Mariupol, was indeed a far-right group, nationalist, that seemed to like Nazi symbology. To be fair, liking Nazi symbols isn't unusual, the Nazis themselves stole most of them because they looked cool.
Seemed to substitute hating Russians for hating jews. To be fair, Russians actually pulled a lot of shit with Ukraine and the region (See Holodomor, and more)
Anyways, Ukraine was presented with a dilemma with their politics being problematic but being a dedicated fighting force in a time when Ukraine needed just that. Reading between the lines they came up with a very interesting and useful solution for it.
They integrated the Brigade, and promoted it to being a Regiment.
By being made officially part of the government, Azov obviously got a lot more support - resources, manpower, and such. But by being part of the government, they had to accept government rules for things like recruitment. Even the wiki notes this: observers noted a government strategy of integrating far-right militias into the regular military while attempting to limit ideological influence.
And Ukraine promptly expanded it from a few hundred to a couple thousand. Which with the new rules on joining, meant that a lot of non-hardline right wingers joined up, diluting the hard-right nature of the Brigade way down in the new Regiment.
As in, Ukraine through a "absorb and dilute" strategy had taken care of the problem already when Russia invaded.
And the Azov proceeded to sell themselves incredibly dearly in fighting against the Russians, leading to memes similar to the Spartan 300. There aren't many of the hardliners left, they died fighting against their favored enemy. Fairly gloriously, I'd argue.
Meanwhile, The Wagner group ended up revolting against Russia and Putin. Oops.
Funny thing about this, I remember seeing lots of paintings of landscapes including windmills back in the day.
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