

They’re nothing like that; you’d think they’re just ordinary people at a glance.
They’re nothing like that; you’d think they’re just ordinary people at a glance.
“Anyways working 40 hours a week MORE THAN DESERVES food, shelter, health care and education”
Obviously not; I wouldn’t be posting here if I were. I wouldn’t encourage spontaneous violence at protests either. There’s more ways to have consequences than just violence though. Simply closing off streets in downtown business districts could be part of that, although not sure how doing these on a few hours on a single day on a weekend would contribute do much - still better than what I’m doing with my day. Weekdays would be far more disruptive. Especially since a lot of people would have to skip work to go (of course I’m a hypocrite on this given I’m skipping today because I’m at work). But yeah; I’m a coward who certainly wouldn’t actually commit any violence even if I’m though I think what happened to United’s CEO was cool. And I don’t think many other people have been pushed to the point where they’d consider that a viable option. Nor do I think many people in the US would be willing to be disruptive in other ways (such as general strikes). So I expect things to get worse, regardless of the behavior of protestors today.
And if they don’t face real threats and consequences, they’ll continue inching closer and closer to that goal.
Are you referring to the “3.5% rule”? Would require a little over 12million to reach that supposed target.
🤷♀️ Not sure. None of my business.
Even 10 years ago, disc drives seemed to be out of fashion. But if you laptop was 5 years old, it likely have one anyways.
My gangster neighbors are cool people. Certainly better than your average neighbor.
Don’t forgot you are in a country were police bombed a rowhouse (both with surface level explosives and dropping a bomb from a helicopter on it), starting a fire that they allowed to burn that killed 5 children (all children of the ~7 people they were targeting) and burned 61 homes, damaging over 100 more homes (making 100’s of people homeless) within the lifetime of almost all non-local elected officials and then re-elected the mayor responsible: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-largely-forgotten-history-of-philadelphias-police-bombing-of-black-organization-move https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol7/iss1/3/
Yet, after the bombing, Mayor Goode and the Philadelphia Police Department received support from around the country. The Los Angeles Police Chief at the time, Daryl Gates, defended the use of an explosive device, declaring it “a sound tactic.” Gates also stated that Mayor Goode had “provided some of the finest leadership [he had] ever seen from any politician” and that he hoped Mayor Goode “ran for national office.” Michael Nutter, then an assistant to a city councilman, said “[MOVE] is a group of people whose philosophy is based on conflict and confrontation.” Roy Innis, who was the chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), called Mayor Goode’s handling of the crisis “heroic.” Tom Cremans, the former director of Accuracy Systems Inc., which sells munitions to police departments, said “the police exercised remarkable restraint in not using the device earlier.”
While there was lots of negative media, there was also a lot of positives:
The New York Times referred to MOVE as a radical group, focused more on the complaints from the neighbors against MOVE, and framed the incident as a city reacting against behavior that was well out of the norm for a working-class African American neighborhood. In the Times article, Dee Peoples, the owner of a store two blocks away from the MOVE house, said that “all you hear is aggression. You sleep with it, you wake up with it, you live with it.” The San Francisco Chronicle wrote about the group’s strange philosophy and how while it was, in theory, a “philosophy of anti-materialism, pacifism and concern for the environment,” in practice “its history was replete with violence, obscenity and filth.” The Chronicle article stated that former MOVE member Donald Glassey had testified John Africa “had planned an armed confrontation with police and had MOVE members make bombs and buy firearms.” The Lexington Herald-Leader, like the Times, described MOVE as a radical organization and defined the cause of the siege as MOVE refusing “to leave the house under an eviction order from police.” The Herald article also discussed neighbors’ complaints of “assaults, robberies, and a stench at the house.”
People justify state violence, even when it harms 100s of uninvolved people, based on how negatively they can portray those the violence was targeted at and call the their actions “law and order” and point to the aftermath of their own actions as a warzone to justify additional violence.
The police were doing it during BLM every day as well. They’d flood residential areas with tear gas that would seep into random people’s homes with immunity. Local police is one of the most left-leaning areas of the country, and they still let their gangs get away with that kind of violence.
Of course! The celebrity lemmies have them at least. I hope I don’t have one, because then maybe people would recognize me.
If antifa is the one responsible for the chaos in portland, she must think portland police and ICE are “antifa.”
Making comments on here.
Seems like a pretty clear answer though. Just like asking if you asked if free will exists, the only response I could give is “WTF is a free will?” Even if my answer ended with a question mark, I know you know what I mean.
Still seems pretty solid. The background and UI could be more interesting, but the skeletons don’t need improving still.
Even with millennials, I feel like there’s a big chunk who still barely have any understanding. At least I assume most know a file system exists (ie know of folders and such), but most would think it’s synonymous with the gui software they use to explore it and would have no idea how to even start navigating it by command-line or even imagine it’s possible to using an alternative interface to the one that came with the OS. Whereas younger gens that grew up on iPhones that hide the file system would have no clue. And the older generations frequently just used the desktop for everything.
Seems like a really good font. Would look nice next to the “hope you brought urine” welcome mat!
my sister had commented, “He’s so weird.” Strangely, that was comforting to hear. It’s not that I see being different as a bad thing - it’s more about that unanswerable question of whether I truly am different, or if I’ve just always felt that way.
Seems like other people think my weirdness stands out as well. In particular, things like friends either asking or asserting that I’m autistic, for example.
and I recently asked if they feel normal. They said yes.
I wonder how much the person asking the question affects that answer.
Crashes can precipitate from small points of failure that are intertwined with bigger investments. The market is like a powder keg with people wanting to keep money in as far up as possible and wanting to pull out to avoid being the bigger loser holding the bag, so it makes sense people will look into points of critical failure where such starts.