The role of police is - in theory - meant to make arrests based on the notion that someone may be guilty of a criminal act.

Exactly. It's not to try to execute them on the spot for being suspects of a non-violent crime.

In any nation with Rule Of Law that police officer would've been sitting in jail right now for murder for having pulled and fired a gun in that situation.

Were I live (Portugal), merely pulling the gun out would've landed that officer in hot water. Shooting it and killing somebody would've landed him in jail (whilst there would have been a weeks/months long outrage on the Press for what he did and the police leadership that let such a person through the cracks).

Shit, the other day a small group of riot police charged some demonstrators against housing costs who had set up in a square in Porto a camp with some tents very lightly wounding 1 person and it was massive news and a formal Inquest has now been openned on it by the Public Prosecution Service (which can lead to criminal charges). Now, I'm not saying it will lead to criminal charges, I'm saying the level of what's considered acceptable police violence is WAY lower than in the US.

Always remember: HR is there for the company, always the company, never for you the employee.

Does this count include people running Linux whose copy of Libre Office comes from their distro repository?

Because if not, then there's those too in addition to these downloads.

More like "mob-controlled gambling den" than store.

I bought The Sims 3 a few years ago on Steam.

Had to get a pirated version because the official one didn't run in Linux whilst the pirate version runs just fine.

That's the full extent of my EA purchases since about 2006 - I've pretty much been boycotting them since they released a Battlefield DLC way back that gave more powerful weapons in multiplayer to anybody with the DLC than the base game had even in base game maps (thus forcing people to buy the DLC to be competitive in Multiplayer).

In fact EA was pretty much the first games publisher in my shit list since they started enshittifying even before the rest of the AAA part of the industry.

That's my general experience too since I moved my gaming PC to Linux about 2 years ago, both with Steam games and GoG games - very few games have problems and even fewer have unsolvable problems.

I bet the fault is in EA's DRM for that game, which was pretty bad when it came out, since Steam doesn't at all force them publishers to remove their DRM so there's going to be all kinds of evil shit in there especially in AAA games from a certain era.

I'm almost certain a GoG version of that game (if there ever was one) would work flawlessly in Linux with Wine, same as the pirated version.

I'm somebody who knows Mathematics and detests manipulation and deceit.

Yes.

Basically if you leave Alkaline batteries in the device for a long time (years) without using them they will loose all charge and there is a chance of them leaking.

Leakage is significantly more common with the Zinc-Carbon batteries (the tech in use for most batteries in that format before Alkaline) though those leak something that forms blueish crystals.

What I'm reading there is that there's going to be a 2008-style Crash (this time on auto debt instead of realestate) alongside a 2000-style Crash (this time on Generative AI instead of a Net bubble).

Mind you, it will be centered in the US and other countries will mainly feel side effects.

That Palestine would be better with Kamala is pretty much the one thing you can't claim since she promised to do the same as the previous Genocide-supporting US President who sent 2000lb bombs (know for their enormous collateral damage) to be dropped on an urban environment in Gaza.

There is a near infinite list of things Kamala would almost certainly be better at than Trump and you went and chose Supporting A Warmongering Supremacist Fascist Regime Abroad Killing Brown Kids which something that consistently has bipartisan support in the US to the point that the US Military itself often engages in a little (sometimes a lot) of brown-kid murdering abroad.

It's like the entire boundary of the entire fucking field is the goal and you chose to try to score by burying the ball.

I suggest you go read more about the Mathematical domain called Games Theory if you think casting one vote amongst millions once every 4 years in a Voting System Mathematically designed so that not all votes count the same, with the only information before casting the vote being what the people who can benefit from your choice say they will do (with no mechanism to enforce their promises), is anywhere near the same as an individual direct choice with guaranteed results between two actions whose possible outcomes the one making the choice knows upfront with absolute certainty.

There should be a special Falacy for pulling out the Trolley Problem for situations where it's Mathematically not applicable.

This was kinda the reason I went back to cycling to work when I lived in London (I had lived in The Netherlands before and there it was pretty normal to do so) - it turns out that it was faster to just cycle through half of Zones 1 and 2 than to walk to an catch the tube (at least London actually has a subway, by car it would've been even worse because of traffic, not to mention parking).

This was back when cycling facilities there were a bit of a joke and there were but a few people doing the same as I did.

Further, even though I was doing it in a big city (so air polution was a consideration), my health actually improved from it (more so when I discovered a site with a polution map of London and switched to a route that minimized time in big avenues with lots of traffic and polution).

Sorry mate but "sending to a nation comitting a genocide for use in an urban environment bombs so big and with so much collateral damage that your our own military refuse to use them because of that" is totally "being onboard with genocide" and "we’ll do everything in our power to help them".

Even the fucking Brits who have been arresting their own people as "Terrorists" for demonstrating against that Genocide weren't giving Israel the second largest conventional bombs in existence to drop in a very densely populated urban environment.

Unwavering unlimited support for Israel no matter what they do is the one policy that didn't at all change when Trump replaced Biden.

Literally the subset of American top politicians who are against this shit are the Democrat Progessives (a small minority even inside their own party) and some of those still voted to send arms to Israel as long as it was claimed they were "for self-defense" so the jury is still out on those specifically.

Europe is very much politically divided on the question Israel and its Genocide, but not so America were the anti-Genocide politicias are a small enough group to be called a "fringe".

That's why the techbros made sure to buy the politicians.

This will be like 208-2012 but this time around it's the techbros businesses which will be deemed "Too big to fail" and get saved with public money and the central bank printing money to buy their bonds, whilst everybody else pays for it with Austerity.

Well, the supposedly "temporary" ultra-low interest rates that were the "solution" for the Crisis following the 2008 Crash only really postponned the day of reckonning.

Further, those and other government measures rewarding Asset Owners (read: the rich) on the backs of those whose Income comes from Work, caused inequality to explode, which means more "unused money" around (every additional €1 of income for the wealthy goes almost entirelly into savings, every additional €1 if income for the poor and working class goes almost entirelly into consumption) and all that extra money was seeking investments, any investments, which was visible in the markets by lower interest rates on treasuries (for example, the famous negative German bund interest rates), lower bond yields (meaning higher prices for the same level of risk), higher stocks and so on up the risk scale, a pumping up of lots and lots of extra investment money which ultimatelly inflated several bubbles at the same time.

Further, the ultra-low interest rates also made it cheaper to leverage one's investments (i.e. invest with loaned money alongside one's own money), further adding money to those bubbles given the way money is created in the modern monetary system (mainly created by banks when they give loans, with only a small percentage actually created by central banks).

This, by the way, also explains things like the crypto bubble.

I really only mentioned the biggest ones I'm aware off, but I bet we'll have a lot of bubbles of all sizes exploding as soon as the first big bubble blows and causes a credit crunch and investment retraction.

No shit, Sherlock!

I believe in NOT being purposefully deceitful when trying to convince other people, which is what people misusing the Trolley Problem for this situation are.

This is especially so because the logic of the Trolley Problem is an hypersimplification which does not include the kind of things that might actually work in the totally fucked up anti-Democratic system in America - voting in Primaries and being part of Civil Society movements.

The Trolley Falacy is nothing more than tought closing political propaganda.

Those who really believe in harm reduction have been long talking about voting in Primaries and direct political participation supporting Primary candidates who are different in preparation for these Midterms, not parroting simplistic bollocks

Re-read the part about the cyclical nature of elections vs the one-off nature or the choice in the Trolley Problem.

Elections in a fucked up anti-Democratic power-duopoly electoral system like the one in the US are a lot more like a Cyclical Ultimatum Game between voters and the party supposedly closest to their own principles and very little like a Trolley Problem. A "punish now to get a better choice offered in a later round" strategy is not only viable but often the best choice in a Cyclical Ultimatum Game, i.e. when the side that has to accept or reject the candidate put forward is offered a bad one and they know they will play the same role (i.e. vote) in later rounds, but it is not at all a valid or even possible strategy in a Trolley Problem.

The relentless insistence in framing it as a Trolley Problem and thus as a unique once-in-a-lifetime choice which will result in a forever the same outcome that cannot be changed (yet another way it differs from a Trolley Problem - you can change the choice every 4 years), rather than a situation were punishing those choosing the available candidates in one round can change which candidates they put forward in the next round, is a self-serving piece of propaganda from politicians who don't want voters to punish them for always making available only bad candidates.

Used to cycle a lot, first in The Netherlands, later in London (Britain), but where I am now (Portugal) it's very dangerous because drivers here are in my experience some of the worst in Europe (let's just say that, for example, most won't signal their intention to change direction when turning right, which is very dangerous for cyclists), but in a way I'm in a priviledged position, so I chose to live in a small city close where I work, so I just walk to work (about 15 minutes each way) which even has the upside that I'm guaranteed my 30m+ exercise each day, which a study some years ago showed decreases the risk of cardio-vascular problems by 70%.

Also important that it bypasses Britain (from were there are cables directly to Canada) since the Brits do digital surveillance on everything that goes through cables that land in Britain and give that data to the Americans, as shown in the Snowden Revelations.