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Witnesses: Man with gun threatened protesters in Lafayette anti-Trump rally; police: man was defending self

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That’s most likely why the police changed the order of events around:

"During the event, an adult male driver attempted to make a lawful turn at the intersection of Third Street andColumbia Street when his path was obstructed by protesters standing in the roadway. A verbal altercationensued between the driver and protesters," the release said. "The situation escalated when the driver exited his vehicle and was subsequently pushed and battered by individuals in the crowd. The driver then retrieved a firearm from his vehicle in what he described as an act of self-defense.

"He did not discharge the weapon and promptly returned it to his truck. Shortly after, a male protester approachedthe driver and head-butted him, causing injury," police said.

Even though multiple protesters described it otherwise. ACAB.

Edit: punctuationification

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Can I add to this.

There’s a lot of people that aren’t able to get the vaccine who otherwise would be vaccinated.

Immunocompromised, allergy to MMR, chemo, steroids and other meds. The list goes on. These people are now in danger of suffering from hearing loss, brain damage, going blind, lung damage, learning disabilities seizures…and death.

All because Tinfoil Totin Tammy wants to be a Facebook Pharma Fighter but wound up putting the “no” in immunology” instead.

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The University of Zurich has been running bot accounts on r/cmv and I'm just enjoying the popcorn

The big problem here is that while the university acknowledged they violated ethics they said “meh, it was worth getting the results” (my words).

Other researchers can use their results and be emboldened to bend or break ethics rules.

Shame on them. That’s the best I can say. Shame on you so called academics. I’ve deleted ten other versions of my remarks. This will have to do.

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Remember remember...

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I reworded my response to this four times, but settled on this.

I guess this insane turn to fascism and cutting off all economic ties to the world might seem like a “normal progression” but I wouldn’t call swerving into oncoming traffic a normal progression. (He’s here we are I guess)

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The University of Zurich has been running bot accounts on r/cmv and I'm just enjoying the popcorn

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Maybe I’m wrong but they seem to have chosen to allow the study to be published saying the data was worth breaking ethic rules so I’d say neutered is far too reserved.

Edit: Might be wrong. See below. Seems weird that a university can’t restrict its own studies. If anyone can add to the info below I’d love to hear it. (Thanks for the added info !)

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Tesla’s phantom braking nightmare: lawsuits surge as drivers lose trust in Autopilot

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Same experience with autopilot. How are you able to use the limited autopilot?! My single downclick on the right stick on my Model 3 takes me straight to full auto and the limited lane keeping and passing is greyed out for a year now.

I was excited to be part of the beta that was going to bring in a new era of safety with autopilot driving back when it was finally released. I stopped using it a couple years ago with the increasingly poor changes and more and more limits to options. With other manufacturers making superior autopilots and safer cars it seems pointless now.

Side note: I have always found it frustrating hearing the autopilot haters especially at the beginning (now with the bad updates I have to agree with them). They bought it expecting a fulling function system that would flawlessly get them from point A to B like Musk promised. It was a beta release for the first mass autopilot service. What were you expecting?? All these people crashing for the most part were letting the car drive. You had to treat it like a 10 year old kid was at the wheel and be EXTRA attentive to everything because you not only had to watch out for outside dangers but your car possibly wanting to take on oncoming traffic. The second autopilot chose to turn sharper or start to do anything I wouldn’t do I took over. The audio feedback they had added was a great idea too. Hearing why I took over is important to know where the defect in the system is. I’m sure they have text to speech then AI scan the data to look for enough common responses so they can focus on the bigger issues.

Elon really ruined such a great thing by going drug addled insane. My plate holders say “SORRY! Bought it before he went crazy”. I feel bad for all the engineers stuck working there who signed on excited to bring in the new era of driving. There’s still good people there which is why I’m not a huge Tesla hater necessarily but absolutely a Musk hater. I wouldn’t buy another Tesla, and the fall from innovations and safety offsets this but the one thing they did that I’m glad for is they forced other manufacturers to take EVs seriously as a mainstream option. They finally decided to dump money on the ”risky world of unknowns” that would open them up to possibly countless recalls and class action lawsuits for anything they took a chance on and got wrong. They’ve been scrambling to catch up ever since.

I dumped my Tesla stock a long time ago and suggest anyone still holding on to do the same. I feel with the more unhinged Elon becomes the more likely it is the board will replace him and his tie to brand identity will tank the stock the second it’s announced. They know this which is why they continue to hold on. Profits over everything, including safety as always.

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democrats got this

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Uhg. This is why I left Reddit. Whataboutsims and strawmen. Can we talk without an argument being the first thing out of our mouth?

Yes we are at red alert, we need to be organized to fight a coup. “But don’t you know” is the phrasing Russian bots use to get us to argue with each other here??