Completely agree with the sane person pointing out the dog doesn't know what's going on other than head pats and belly rubs. Completely disagree with the fools claiming the dog's blood was stolen. Sheesh, people, they just borrowed it with no intention of return.

Yeah, but you can still get pretty close to the same idea with the normal, I'd say. Good on the creator for making it a bit better.

The fact that two supervisor types watched a video, claimed that nothing was done wrong, and then the highest supervisor watched the same damn video and flat out said there needed to be an investigation... and then nothing was done to those supervisors? That's some bullshit. Charges being brought against an officer should mean that everyone who tried to cover for said officer should be shitcanned as well.

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Waaah, waaaah, participation medals!

-some conservative fool somewhere

Lol, I feel bad for anyone new to the pc building community. At least those of us with 10+ year old computers at this point can play most of the indie games coming out. I AM still surprised by how intensive some games can be when they look like minecraft downgrades.

That'll be fun. If I know I'm going to die overseas, with my skin peeled off or bones shattered, or I can die at home with a few bullet holes, I know which one I'll be choosing. Easy enough to make sure bullet holes magically appear in assholes, as well.

Luckily it's all hypothetical for me. Too old, too sick, and too busy not even having a permanent address :/

Ooof. I still remember when I was wearing as little as socially acceptable to go for a run because it was blazing hot... and some other folks running past me commented loudly enough for me to hear it that I (paraphrasing because it's been a while) wasn't in shape enough to show that much skin.

It's just a symptom of the fucked up system we're in. Something like >70% of the americans want universal healthcare. Having a representative instead of a direct democracy already neuters the population's power, and then you throw in everything else like the first-past-the-post system that ensures two parties, and rich fucks controlling both parties easily, and thus both parties having no incentive to meaningfully help the population, and so on and so forth ad nauseam.

Blaming the population as a whole is accurate, but also denying the way the system is set up.

Beat the rap, but not the ride. Fuck these bastards. Anyone who has ever been to court, whether criminal or civil, knows that it will fuck with you. Even if you're completely innocent, the possibility that you will face the worst consequences of your life looms over you for months and years. I wish we had some way of getting justice against 'bad' arrests. Sure, a domestic violence case may fall through if the victim doesn't want to testify, and the cop there doesn't need to be thrown out of his job, but when a case is dropped or prosecution doesn't even take the case? If a cop arrests someone for protesting, and then they're simply released after 24 hours or so? That cop needs to go. And if most of a cohort of arrested folks have charges dropped, there needs to be ejections all the way up the chain of command that let it happen. We can reform the system by swiftly throwing out every cop like that, and I bet it wouldn't take more than a year or two in this environment.

Never going to happen, but let me dream.

Just remember that newsom is the epitome of the neoliberal. He is perfectly willing to throw any supposed principles under the bus to gather support and votes. Just look up his publicly made remarks on gender dysphoric folks, his vetoes, and his bootlicking of billionaires.

Ear infections definitely are some of the worst pain I've experienced. I would put them up there with really bad burns.

It's been a long time since I studied octopus anatomy (well, it was really just an overview of the [three?] cephalopods), but don't they have eight arms, of which only one has the sperm tube? So it's not like they have a 'favorite' arm, it's just the one arm that can do it, so it's their favorite arm.

post search: Yeah, it's called a hectocotylus.

Ah, have we gotten to the reddit 'reference another popular post I just read' level now? Sweet.

I had a family member in that 'arena.' The worst part of it is, the idiocy doesn't end. He's years out of it, retired, fat, and happy, and still talks like he's trying to impress a thesaurus lusting dictionary.

I wonder if you couldn't start hiring social workers and garbage collectors under the police's budget. Pitch it in some ridiculous but slightly connected way. Garbage collectors could be 'gathering evidence' as the law allows garbage to be searched without warrant, and social workers could be some sort of 'post-incident contact follow-up-ers.' Hell, expand it to wildly mildly connected things, like roadwork and bike paths, you know, to make the cops able to get around faster.

Holy hell, that abstract is written like an undergrad with a thesaurus trying to expand its length. I know theoretical physics has a lot of specifics that call for precise language, but god it was a pain to read through.

The title for the paper is radically different. From my understanding, the title (on lemmy) is misleading. People often forget that a 'thing' is different than an image of a thing. The classic example is this:

Imagine standing in a perfectly circular room, dead center. The room has a radius of one light-second. If you have a flashlight, point it at the wall, and then spin the flashlight so it rotates 2pi radians in one second, the spot of light on the wall has just traveled approximately 6.28 light-seconds on the wall in one second, breaking the speed of light, ooooooh! Except nothing has actually traveled faster than the speed of light. The photons from the flashlight all traveled at the speed of light to hit the wall.

Unless the article has a lot more information on the massless, not energy, no information 'thing' they are describing, it sounds like the "holes" in the light are more akin to the image of something than a thing themselves.

The reason the PIT maneuver works is physics. Cars are typically heavier on the front end, steer from the front, drive from the rear, and the tires are 'stationary' in reference to the ground so they are using the coefficient of static friction rather than the coefficient of kinetic friction (an aside, if you're trying to use a pickup line on an engineer, hit them with the 'ole 'Is there ever a case where the coefficient of kinetic friction is greater than that of static friction? No? Then the hardest part of this conversation is over, eh?').

What that means is everything is in favor of the car using its front end to push the rear end to the side. The front tires are turned in the direction of travel, so they have the static friction still going in a manner less likely to lose it. The rear tires will lose the higher traction from the static friction and suddenly be 'drifting' as they switch to the friction forces using the kinetic friction coefficient, whereas even if the front tires were to momentarily lose traction, they wouldn't have the driving force of the engine keeping them in the lower friction state. The heavier weight from the front is more likely to be able to push the lighter rear.

There is also another factor, slightly less important to the pit maneuver itself (the tactic) and more along the lines of the overall goals of the chasers and the runners (the strategy)... and as a matter of fact, why cops don't typically use the pit maneuver much anymore. Even with the specialized bumpers they once had, damage to the cop's car is pretty typical. Damage to the fleeing car is very likely, and damage to people that might be around is common. Cops nowadays are pretty happy to just chase you, keeping a moderate distance, until you make the mistake and wreck or give up, either on the car and try to flee on foot, or by heading towards what you think is a 'safe' spot. In fact, if they get a helicopter up, you might not even see the cops anymore as they maintain a distance back and turn off lights. That one is pretty rare, but it occasionally happens, and more often than a pit maneuver. Anyway. If you tried to 'reverse pit' them, you'd be slowly taking your one advantage away. They have a lot more cars than you. They can afford to take a little damage if it means slowing you down if you want to start playing the nascar bump game.

Hundreds of homeless people versus the thousands of people that the system has set up against them. Police, judges, pencillers, city councils, the fucking accountants and data entry types and secretaries all just 'doing their job.' Then all the locksmiths and plumbers and electricians/linemen and construction trades... and the hundreds of homeless people aren't even really 'hundreds.' They're isolated from each other as much as from the rest of society; targets just sitting for the rich fucks to pick off.

The system fucking sucks.

You can actually skip step 1 if you want. That's what they did with toys'r'us. Those actions have long since convinced me anything financial is just a game played by the very rich.