Yeah... You know what happens when you call the police about gang activity down by i-drive or fruitvale BART?

1) They'l not show up in time to help. They pretty much never do. Either it's "All officers are responding to other calls." or a single squad car's "officers" simply refuse to go without a second or even third car along with them because they're too chickenshit to show up except with overwhelming force.

2) Since they won't be there in time to stop whatever gang activity they were called for; they'll be pissed off that you wasted their time and made them drive into the 'hood, and they're more like to arrest you for calling them than they are to go chase down and arrest the gangbangers who were the actual problem.

I saw both happen multiple times when I lived there.

Lower the score? Fuck that noise.

Any cop who decides it's he is prerogative to stop, arrest, "detain", interrogate, approach, or otherwise darken the day of anyone who did not, in fact... and I mean objectively true FACT, not some made-up narrative or demented fever dream... commit the crime, should a instantly on a one-way trip up the river for assault and kidnapping. And any DA or judge who goes along with an attempted frame-up should join them on a conspiracy charge.

"Close enough for government work." and "Whoopsie! Can I get a do-over?" don't cut it when you're talking about taking away someone's freedom and, potentially, life.

Chicago? LOL... I used to live in Oakland. And yes, even in high-crime areas, the police are part of the problem more often than they are part of the soluiton. And no... letting them stomp all over peoples' civil liberties and the constitution in general does NOT make for a safe and civil city; otherwise Oakland would have been a paragon of law, order, and prosperity for the last 20 years.

They were just brown people anyway. So far as peety, alexi, peety, and donnie are concerned, that's just a bonus achievement unlock... more points to score from the base and a nice bronze trophy icon to go with their gamertags.

My grandfathered-in HBO Max account was the last thing keeping me on AT&T. So now I can bail to T-Mobile for their more international-friendly plans and their willingness to actually support ALL of the new iPhone's features.

Unfortunately, if that were true, the likes of Cellebrite, NSO Group, Anduril, and Palantir would all be long-since dead and buried.

While that is certianly a very nice thought, I don't think it's accurate. If self-interest were the determining factor, we wouldn't be where we are in the first place. The fact that the man was elected even once, much less the second time, demonstrates quite clearly that there are vast hoardes in this country who hate brown people, immigrants, and LGBT people far more than they love their bank accounts, IRAs, and 401ks.

Cripes.

Just what IS it with the GOP's obcession with silencing Talarico anyway. I watched the Colbert interview they also tried to suppress. And the guy is hardly a progressive and barely liberal at all. Before maga, the guy would have been running as a republican or; if he claimed to be Democratic; he'd be denounced as a DINO.

That's absurd. It's an app designed to find the optimal route from point A to point B. This is just a feature flag to determine if this method works in real life as it does in simulation. It's nothing different or unusual from any gated feature flag that any company uses to roll out new features to a subset of the user base first. That's not "unethical experimentation on human subjects", it's bog-standard app development, the way everyone does it.

Because latitude doesn't matter to xenophobes who think the rest of the world doesn't matter. Those same people with such a myopic image of Africa will also usually look at Scandinavia and stop at: Swedish bikini team, Muppet chef, Volvo, and Vikings. Or, mention Hokkaido and Ainu and you'll get a blank stare.

And let's be real... it's not just Americans who tend to be incurious about the world. See, for example, Denmark's little subterfuge with the naming of Iceland and Greenland, and the fact that it WORKED.

How much of that is due to the map projection? And how of that is due to the fact that most Americans are very poorly educated about Africa; and we tend to compress things with which we're not familiar in our minds. Even I'm guilty of it. Just this year I re-discovered the fact that not every country of okay with endless suburban sprawl. So they build their cities BIG; such the population of San Francisco, which is "the" city to me, could be a mere neighborhood. And no amount of studying the map and photos so I'll know where stuff is prevents me from being startled at the actual scale when I get to what the rest of the world calls a city.

And let's be real. There are more than a few Americans whose entire concept of Africa is: ancient Egypt, The Lion King, Sally Struthers, the Sarah desert, Busch Gardens, if they're a particular chest-thumping sort they'll know about the "great white exlorer/hunter" era and Patton's North Africa campaigns, and terrorists.

Until you've actually been to a place, that place compress in the head very easily even if you know better and try to fight the tendency. A lot of people neither know or try. To them, the whole continent probably fits on a largish GTA map.

But still... inflated poles notwithstanding, it is clear that Africa spans something like 70 degrees of latitude. That's frikkin huge, and quite obviously so.

Switzerland or Italy. He's no more a Panamanian citizen than he is American.

> That will not protect him from Swiss law though.

Which is 100% A-OK and entirely as it should be. As an Italian citizen in Switzerland he should never, under any circumstances, ever have been expected to follow, care about, or even know about, any US law. Literally the only laws he should be subject ther are Switzerland's and maybe Italy's. That's it. He should no more be obligated to follow any US law than I am to follow Saudi laws abor drinking or being gay or Chinese laws about advocating for democracy or mentioning Tiananmen Square or Singaporean laws about chewing gum, whilst sitting my butt down here in California.

Yeah... he had a fine legacy until he turned coat and reinvented himself as a maga stooge. Steve would never have done that.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass in the way out, Timmy.

Did you miss the last year and a half of the news where dear leader has had his ICE brownshirts rampaging round the country? Did you miss all the news where the scum have NOT been limiting their presence and interactions solely to darkening the days of immigrants; but have also targeted, approached, tried to question, attacked, detained, "deported," and even murdered CITIZENS for refusing to bend the knee and love big brother? Did you miss the news where they didn't even wait a whole week, but were going after inconvenient citizens as early as that first raid in Newark the Saturday after the inauguration?

Perhaps YOU are the one who should try watching the news.