robin21

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by robin21 5y ago
If Chauvin is not convicted of murder then BLM will most certainly still campaign for him. Therefore “killed” is more accurate.
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by robin21 5y ago
People are called “racist” for things many would disagree has anything to do with race. I’m pretty sure if you insisted on not renaming master branch to main, people would call you a racist.
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by robin21 5y ago
> murdered by police *killed by police
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by robin21 5y ago
> then disperse them This is more difficult than you expect. Police are drastically outnumbered in any crowd control situation. You can watch videos from Minneapolis riots where police just watch windows being smashed and shops being loo
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by robin21 5y ago
I wish all this moderation would be flipped around. Just allow people to filter the content they see. We should have a system similar to movie content ratings to make it easier instead of manually muting keywords like on Twitter. Then ther
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by robin21 5y ago
If the assembly is deemed unlawful because of threat of violence then they ask people to leave and if people refuse to disperse they can arrest them. What would you change about this process?
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by robin21 5y ago
I would say it's a tactic that police are aware of. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-19/donald-trump-us-capit...
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by robin21 5y ago
- someone in a crowd smashing windows (police can't identify who) - encircle the crowd and ask who is press - person who was smashing windows (unbeknownst to the police) claims they are press - person is escorted out - person goes smas
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by robin21 5y ago
“Peaceful” gatherings are not illegal as long as they follow the rules. https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/ In every country in the world the rules of protests are legislated. Peaceful protest
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by robin21 5y ago
The vast majority of people never have negative interactions with police and actually are thankful for them keeping their communities safe. The ones that do have problems are those that resist arrest and detainment in a society where every
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by robin21 5y ago
Only comment on the entire thread that makes sense. It’s amazing that every comment seems to imply sinister motives to every action by every police officer, when the more obvious answer is that most police actually do their jobs well and th
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by robin21 5y ago
> Do cops think there are thugs cloaking themselves in fake press gear ? Yes. Everyone has phones now. Everyone can claim they are press or they have a YouTube channel. These people don’t wear press gear. A lot of the time the police are
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by robin21 5y ago
They do. > Law enforcement quickly identified media and escorted them to a line where they were asked for credentials and identification. Law enforcement took pictures of journalists' credentials and IDs as well as photos of the jou
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by robin21 5y ago
What’s your solution to people claiming they are press to escape detention after unlawful assembly? Someone could be smashing windows one moment and then claiming they are press the next.
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by robin21 5y ago
You ignore the facts of this specific case. Anecdata indeed. > Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington says throughout the night, and particularly from 8 p.m. onward, officers came under threat from a variety of new indi
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by robin21 5y ago
I wonder how an order like this can be implemented. How do you know who is a journalist without detaining them first to verify credentials.
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by robin21 5y ago
> it’s not clearly unacceptable How do you prevent anyone saying they are a journalist to avoid getting arrested for unlawful protest.
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by robin21 5y ago
> While law enforcement leaders say they had hoped to continue facilitating the more peaceful elements of the demonstrations with a more distanced approach, there were pockets of aggressive behavior that posed a threat to officers, as we
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by robin21 5y ago
Peaceful != Legal Assuming you are not right-wing, imagine having endless Trump people on the street protesting - there is no way you would reach the same conclusion.
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by robin21 5y ago
Thanks for the insights. I like the more nuanced spectrum you present. I find myself too often in a simplistic left/right divide. I think there is great value in a more fine-grained spectrum coming into common usage. The conundrum that
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by robin21 5y ago
Mm it’s a tricky situation. Ideally the free market would solve it by coming up with another service with an alternative moderation strategy. Which may yet still happen. In 50-100 years maybe Twitter and Facebook will no longer dominate and
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by robin21 5y ago
74MM ppl voted for someone who used to be President and is now permanently banned from all social media platforms. This article agrees with that. If you were one of those people, you would not want to associate with this company.
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by robin21 5y ago
This is the reason I don’t like this whole “everyone should do therapy” movement and also the “mindfulness/meditation” movement. It creates this hyper-awareness which creates more problems by making everyone over-analyze each other and
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by robin21 5y ago
This really needs a tl;dr summary. And I think especially so given that they want to make things “simple”.
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by robin21 5y ago
This is a great idea. Hit this so many times.
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by robin21 5y ago
> data structures Spending too much time upfront thinking about the perfect data structure is a bad idea. Long walks on the beach and fasting is not going to deliver your perfect data structure. People (other than yourself) using your pr
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by robin21 5y ago
> BSL-4 level lab put into operation in January 2018 And only 2 years later we have an outbreak
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by robin21 5y ago
The only war with China is a trade war and that is only fought by convincing the public to endure the pain. I think everyone would welcome the ability to cut China out of the global supply chain if they could, it’s just about getting the pe
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by robin21 6y ago
As you get older you can clearly see the effects of lack of sleep on friend’s faces who burned the midnight oil (work/party). This made me always get the right amount of sleep no matter what. This is why flexible/remote work time
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by robin21 6y ago
It’s more about creating a new enemy in the people who still use master branch. Some people always need someone to hate on.

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