Red Squirrel
No Lifer
We need less laws for victimless crime, and more focus on victim related crime. Put the cops on crime that affects people.
I see FB posts of cops bragging about pulling over cars for tinted windows or other dumb shit when there's drugs, theft etc rampant everywhere.
I see FB posts of cops bragging about pulling over cars for tinted windows or other dumb shit when there's drugs, theft etc rampant everywhere.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Not so much the drug use itself but all the crime that surrounds it. That and all the needles, fentanyl patches etc that people run across are a hazard. Even in kids playgrounds.
IronWing
No Lifer
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Torn Mind
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Police fudging shit is something that exists because the process and system is arbitrary and "because I said so based on 'professional opinion'". It doesn't have to be for crime either. Death or accidents of extremely prominent figures can be met with silence, discarded data, false assertions of facts etc because there are no systemic checks like in science.
Heck, the police report for an incident that happened to me got the date wrong by an entire month. September 28 was the day but it said August 27. And this is a Democratic County Executive they answer to.
Covering up crime is for beneficial for the state because it increases property values by reeling the security-conscious into a place lacking in security.
The entity of government may not maximize profits but they do attempt to maximize revenue sources.
Torn Mind
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Automobile stops are a gateway for drug enforcement and sometimes "tinted windows" are precisely a sign of a drug runner. Auto stops are also a general revenue stream for cops.
Wage theft DWARFS all other types of robbery. By a lot. But there were piles of news articles about the smash and grabs in SF during shutdown, and yet the DA was recalled because people were up in arms about high profile but low-impact crime:
Wage Theft vs. Other Forms of Theft in the U.S. | Tompkins County Workers' Center
We have way too many people who come to us @ the Tompkins County Workers’ Center have been the victim of Wage Theft. This image graphically lays out the monetary costs, on a national level, of Wage Theft as compared to the combination of ALL: 1) burglaries; 2) robberies; 3) larcenies; and 4)...
www.tcworkerscenter.org
Torn Mind
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Must feel great for people like you to think that being threatened with some mechanism of force via robbery is the same as an employer not paying their fair share. Then at the same time, advocate for greater clemency for all for those who actually commit crime.Wage theft DWARFS all other types of robbery. By a lot. But there were piles of news articles about the smash and grabs in SF during shutdown, and yet the DA was recalled because people were up in arms about high profile but low-impact crime:
Wage Theft vs. Other Forms of Theft in the U.S. | Tompkins County Workers' Center
We have way too many people who come to us @ the Tompkins County Workers’ Center have been the victim of Wage Theft. This image graphically lays out the monetary costs, on a national level, of Wage Theft as compared to the combination of ALL: 1) burglaries; 2) robberies; 3) larcenies; and 4)...
AnitaPeterson
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60 years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
40 years ago, the IBM PC was launched, and computers were never the same again.
40 years ago, the IBM PC was launched, and computers were never the same again.
IronWing
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Wage theft isn't "not paying their fair share", it is employers literally stealing money from their employees and using their position of power to get away with it. It is a crime and the employers who engage in the theft aught to be treated as any other thieves.
I mean thats certainly one take on what i said...not a very good one though.
Exactly.
KMFJD
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Interactive App | Electricity Maps
Track real-time and historical electricity data worldwide — see production mix, CO2 emissions, prices, cross-border exports, and much more.
app.electricitymaps.com
a look at where your electricity's coming from....i was looking at it an hour or so ago and most of California's co'2 emissions were in the light green, now an hour later it's going yellow, very neat to see live
477 whales die in 'heartbreaking' New Zealand strandings (phys.org)
If this keeps happening, wouldn't the humane thing be to build some sort of fence at the very edge of the beach? Stupid to just watch these beautiful creatures die so unnecessarily.
If this keeps happening, wouldn't the humane thing be to build some sort of fence at the very edge of the beach? Stupid to just watch these beautiful creatures die so unnecessarily.
The Giant's Causeway, Ireland - The natural result of lava flow
sdifox
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IronWing
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Medieval metalsmiths fabricated gold-silver composites with gold layers 30nm thick.
www.mining.com
Ever heard of medieval zwischgold?
Zwischgold was used for gilding sculptures in the late Middle Ages.
www.mining.com
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Lost_in_the_HTTP
Lifer
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Miles Davis influenced the musical portion of White Rabbit. Oh, and Ravel too.
MrSquished
Lifer
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Medieval metalsmiths fabricated gold-silver composites with gold layers 30nm thick.
Ever heard of medieval zwischgold?
Zwischgold was used for gilding sculptures in the late Middle Ages.
the elves took it to another level
mikeymikec
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Ireland likes pubs.
I wonder how many people look at this map and believe that the UK has some kind of prohibition on drinking establishments.
Lost_in_the_HTTP
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There are parts of at least two states (that I know of - there may be more), that are not accesible by land without passing through Canada.
Captante
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HARD-drug USE is a "victimless crime". (unless you count the user!)
Hard-drug DEALING OTOH victimizes everyone living in the community because those "drugs" need to be paid for and crack/meth-heads don't often have above-board jobs.
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It's National Crazy Day!
National Crazy Day is a day for people to act crazy. The idea of the day is for people to have fun and be a little unhinged while breaking away from the normal rules and routines, and to do things a little bit differently than they are usually done.
www.checkiday.com
Any given day on the calendar is probably a big day for somebody.
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