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DOJ says police officer justified in killing 22 y/o over 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars.

The 22 y/o wasn't killed, "over 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars", he was killed because he accelerated his vehicle in an attempt to flee, and came somewhat close to hitting the officer.
However, before the victim accelerated, the officer who shot the young man jumped out of the passenger door of an unmarked police truck and drew his weapon, no audio in the video.
There's a very real chance the victim did not know he was a cop, and panicked. He should be excused of that, had he lived.
The officer fucked up hard, jumping out an unmarked vehicle with no emergency lights, waving a gun around?
Fuck, I'd run over anyone who does that to me, and I think most would do similar.
Then also not practicing restraint in firing his weapon after clearly no more danger existed once the car passed him, guy's a fucking clown.
The only reason the second police vehicle (which showed up from behind just as the victim accelerated) was even hit at all is because the victim had been shot and couldn't steer the vehicle.
The cop should be charged with second degree, or at minimum some kind of reckless endangerment resulting in death, and fired.

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Cyclist Rule

Pedestrians in Holland: I have to worry about getting hit by a Cyclist.
Cyclists in Holland: better get out of the way, fucker, because I WILL run you down.

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California becomes first state to join WHO disease network after US exit

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It'll never happen, as nice as it sounds.
So I'm Canadian and we have separatists in, now 2 provinces.
Whether the latest is a conservative US psy-op, is up for debate. But that is probably part of it.
The Quebec separatists have been angry for the total of my lifetime and being from BC I've mostly ignored their plight of "different culture" but I never wanted to lose that chunk of the country and to me it's part of the greater Canadian culture.
The Alberta "separatists" are different, they are more like traitors.
Citing stats like, "Alberta (oil and gas province, the "Texas" of Canada) contributes more in equalization payments to other Canadians provinces!", which is true, as a total sum.
But the morons don't understand that equalization payments are taken from federal taxes in a bracketed tax system, so it just means on average, Albertans are richer. The rich they cry that they're not getting fair share...
Epitome of greed.
They believe because they were simply born there, moved there, that all the mineral and oil and gas profits belong to them. They're even more idiotic to believe the producers will share these profits with them.
They're not taking that away from our country, and it's worth going to war over. I think California would end up falling into the same situation of belief, though reversed between conservative and left-of-conservative views.
They'd go to war over it. So bit of a dangerous play.

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Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report

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Helicopter Egress Training they actually have you keep your seat belt(s) on until the cabin is filled with water, pressure equalized, AND door/window opened. The reason is, to push a door or window open you need a solid "foundation" and if you're unstrapped floating in water you may only push your body away.
A road vehicle has a smaller cabin and more hand/foot holds, but I thought it worth mentioning.

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TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping

Pipe lay (etc) anchor barges do this today.
There are usually six to 8 anchor winches on the vessel. A tug comes to the barge, picks up the anchor and moves it out to some point while the winch unreels. Repeat for other anchors. Winch in to move the vessel.
This is used for precision movement/placement of the barge.
Many vessels use azipods and Dynamic Positioning System (DPS) these days.
But before DPS much of offshore infrastructure was placed by anchor barges.