Unless you're salary. A wise man once told me "The longer it takes us to do this, the closer we get to minimum wage."

I don't know why q47tx uses it, but there are a lot of niche support communities that would be very difficult to give up. Subs that encourage sobriety, give basic legal or medical advice to those that can't afford lawyers/doctors, and subs with resources for domestic violence are just a few examples. I don't begrudge anyone for continuing to use reddit if they use it for things like that. I find myself there often because unfortunately, it's basically the largest resource for user-curated information and solutions, and a lot of my google searches for particular issues are only solved by going to an answer there. The part where I'll judge someone is if they continue to mindlessly browse reddit, as I used to until the API fuckery, but for all those things, yeah, reddit is still the best, as much as I don't want it to be. Lemmy could get there eventually, but the simple fact is, it's not yet.

I'm certainly no expert, but my guess is that working out 5 days a week, you're not giving your muscles enough downtime between workouts to heal. Try backing it down to 3 days a week and see if that improves anything.

The article says Cure was going at 100 MPH for 80 seconds after the officer put on his lights. Cure pulled over in the end, but that doesn't mean it's not a chase, which is why the cop ordered him out so quickly. 100 MPH is already more than just a speeding ticket, that's reckless endangerment. In general, 15 MPH above the speed limit is considered reckless. Add that to the chase, and that's why Cure was under arrest rather than just a ticket. I agree with you, the cop did nothing wrong here. He gave lawful orders, escalated force reasonably, attempted both his taser and his baton before firing as a last resort when he began to lose the fight and his own life became threatened, and administered first aid immediately.

Here's the full video. Please give it a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNIAozOIok

I'd start there, yeah. If the exercise is getting harder, not easier, as the weeks go by, what you're doing is too intense. Drop the frequency until it's easier, then work your way back up to 5x a week if that's your goal. If you really want to do 5x a week, then lower the weight/duration/whatever until it begins getting easier week by week. But remember- if you never rest, then your body can never recover. 5x a week is quite a lot to start out with.

He also fled and resisted arrest. Both arrestable offenses. If he would have promptly pulled over, it would almost certainly have been a citation at worst. He fled at 100 MPH for over a minute before finally pulling over. Also, how is an officer being choked out on the side of the highway defending himself with a taser, then a baton (while actively being strangled and bent nearly backwards), and only THEN a gun, "zero cause"?

Hell no. I've been salaried and I've been hourly. I am more than willing to put in a few 50-55 or so hour weeks a year in exchange for being able to come in late or leave early for appointments without trouble, working about 35 hours a week every other week at most, being able to work from home more or less whenever I need to, never getting flagged for not clocking in/out at the right time... the list goes on and on. My salary is for 40 hour weeks, and I hold to that when I need to. But the reality of my job is that when there's a crisis I need to be there. I'll take that for all the advantages any day.

What? Where do you work that you get paid for 40 hours while working and clocked in for 32 and also get to be clocked in while you're not there? I have a fantastic boss and do not let myself get pushed around.

A black man is dead because he was speeding, evaded the police, resisted arrest, and assaulted the officer.

A cop defended himself.

There you go, I fixed it for you.

Did you also flee, though? That's the other thing. He kept driving for well over a minute before finally pulling over. That was the reason for the arrest, and then when he resisted arrest, only then did the officer escalate.

They actually recently changed that name. They're the Cleveland Guardians as of 2021.

Explain to me the relevance that an English word came from an Italian man, then. The continent is called North America. That's what it is called in the language we are conversing in. The word's origin means nothing. What word should we use instead?

Give the full video a watch. It may change your mind.

https://youtu.be/tGNIAozOIok?si=957m9XDvuYryhM5D

I want to be crystal clear. The content I am talking about wanting to view does NOT include CSAM, which is illegal in practically every country on earth (I'm fairly certain it's actually all of them with any type of functioning government). At no point was I or am I advocating for the existence of CSAM anywhere in the fediverse. The only things I have ever advocated for is for fewer defederations, and dealing with those infractions as you would if it were posted to lemmy.world- namely, deleting the content and blocking the user. I am fully aware that mod tools on lemmy are very limited, and that your hands were tied with a fairly tight rope in regards of what to do about this as you can be legally culpable for content posted on other instances that gets mirrored to yours. I have only ever pointed out that punishing a group for the actions of a few can lead to problems with user retention by forcing innocent users to continue to instance hop, and that's if they don't give up and leave the fediverse. I would bet that very few of feddit's users feel as I do about defederation, and they joined that instance for reasons completely unrelated to that. This is essentially being banned from many communities all at once through literally zero fault of their own. The solution I want is unlikely to occur, nor is it feasible with what lemmy currently has for tools, but that does not stop me from wanting that solution. Many people do not see defederation as a problem, and that also does not stop me from seeing it as one.

But you didn't establish that he's a murdering son of a bitch. Did you actually watch the video you posted? All of it? Cure wasn't "pulled over for speeding", that's insanely reductive to the facts. He was going over 100 and refused to pull over for over a minute for no clear reason. In addition, when he refused to obey lawful orders and allow himself to be placed under arrest, he further escalated the situation. When he attempted to inflict severe bodily harm on the officer while taunting him, I'd say the shooting is extremely justified, especially when you consider the fact that the officer only fired after deploying two separate non-lethal methods to subdue Cure. He didn't deserve to die for speeding. I'd say he somewhat deserved it when he attempted severe bodily harm on the officer, though.

Relating the word "America" to "Amerigo Vespucci" is a HUGE stretch, don't you think? It's what the continent is called in English, which we're speaking right now. How far back through etymology do we have to go?

This is why I was asking how far back through etymology do we have to go. I do not give a fuck what the origin of the word "America" was. The continent is called North America in English, which we are speaking. It is the same way I would call my ancestry German rather than Deutsch, because we are not speaking German. The people who were here before the Europeans are native to this land (even though technically they are not native either, since we all came from Africa if you go back far enough, which again, how far back do we need to go?). Hence, Native Americans. They were called "Indians" for a long time out of ignorance and then willful ignorance, but how do we distinguish Indians from India and Indians from America? Hence, American Indians.

The term "Indian" is wrong. Just because Christopher Columbus was stupid and thought he was in India does not make this continent India. I'm also not saying Native American or American Indians are the sole correct terms, but it's better than a literally wrong one that has a lot of bad history behind it. A black guy who doesn't mind when his white friends call him "nigga" does not mean that he speaks for all black people. Same thing with "Indian" to describe someone who is indigenous to this land (a land that is decidedly not India). I don't care if someone wants to be known as Native American, or American Indian, or Indian, or Cherokee, or Navajo, or Sioux, or anything else. But I'm not going to call any person commonly understood to be indigenous to the Americas any but the first two without asking them. Some assume their tribe, the other is both factually wrong and used pejoratively for hundreds of years.

Buuuuuut.... you did say "Unless you're American indian", so that does imply that you or someone else CAN speak for all of a group. So I'm a bit confused here. I will call you whatever you'd like me to call you, including "Indian" on its own if that's what you'd prefer to be called (even though that doesn't make sense to me), but you didn't actually answer my questions. Let me try again- how is it bigoted to not assume that a group of people would want to be called something that is fundamentally incorrect by definition, has a turbulent history, and is not what most federal programs call them- you yourself say that the benefits go to "American Indians", not "Indians".

Thanks for the coloring page, is it one of your favorites?

Any fleeing is still fleeing. I don't understand why you think this was an unjustified shooting. He was putting every other driver at risk, refused lawful orders, and threatened the officer's life while saying "Yeah bitch, yeah bitch." Not exactly a paragon of humanity here.