runsWphotons

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by runsWphotons 2mo ago
This is completely a figment of your imagination.
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by runsWphotons 4mo ago
It benefits a few corporations in the short term but not America in general. And if the oil prices rise and stay high, there will be demand destruction. US sits on top of the capital food chain and will be hurt.
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by runsWphotons 4mo ago
Hawaii is rife with ethnic tensions, not some exception.
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by runsWphotons 7mo ago
No, we don't.
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by runsWphotons 7mo ago
Also the officer should believe this threat is imminent.
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by runsWphotons 7mo ago
When an officer has reasonable suspicion that a civilian poses a threat to his life, he can shoot them. Once police start shooting they are trained to continue shooting until the target is incapacitated. That's the law. Whether the rec
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
Younger generations are probably more racist than their parents but not their grandparents. There are a lot of reasons this probably happened, and it wasn't something done to infants, but transpired over the last 10-15 years.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
It wants Hyundai's investment and it wants to create American jobs and also have Hyundai follow the laws. The extremity of the right is fueled by an apparently prevalent reluctance to enforce any rules.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
I didn't say it would've been legal, just nicer.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
drive the fishing boat back to the submarine. harold holt swam to one it can be done
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
It would have been nicer to kidnap the fishermen.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
Just means they declined to put their name on it directly.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
Humbly, I think this thinking is part of the problem. The incumbents were crushed because they mostly all copied each other and are seen as part of the same system. There are Western parties which have behaved differently and were not crush
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
Many actually do not seem to know this, especially in the political/think tank class. There are highly placed Democratic officials who blame inflation and point to this research.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
I think whatever the surveys said, the egg prices/inflation actually had little to do with Trump victory and the left shouldn't be misled by this. People vote now for emotional reasons, reasons of identity, and these rational reas
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
The jobs probably aren't disappearing because of AI but because of previous over-hiring and a slowing economy. It seems like a cover story to push people into accepting underemployment.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
A politician disliked by the state facing criticism doesn't mean anything. What matters is when people say something the state doesn't approve of.
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
I commented about this on another thread, and probably most around here disagree with my general point there, but this fact amazes me. We have gotten all this tech creating a surveillance state but then it isn't even used to give bette
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
What fundamental freedoms are people in DC going to lose? See my other comment---I think this is much less intrusive on civil liberties than adding more surveillance. National Guardsmen may not find many guns if they arent searching people,
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
I think it looks like a normal venn diagram. Some things are similar and some different and it depends on what deployments or forces each has worked on. That's why NG troops are getting extra training in police duties and working toget
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
You can see my comment below for some facts about the Netherlands. They do, literally, have a militarized police (the gendarmerie) which has civilian duties while operating under the defense ministry (and having military duties as well). Th
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
I will add that in addition to my longer comment, I doubt that "wealth gap" has much at all to do with these differences in criminality. Yes, the US has a high gini coefficient. But the median income is very similar to the netherl
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
Bureau of Justice statistics says that the US has about 1,200,000 police across agencies. Given a US population of 340 million this is about 283 people per employee (it says this includes civilian personnel, idk how many): https:/&#x2
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
"Strict laws and licensing requirements mean nothing if it is still trivial to gain access." So have more police to enforce the laws? Why is there this belief that increasing police cannot do anything? Again, I bet this works and
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
Why should I live in a more dangerous society than the Netherlands (which isn't "nordic")? Or Australia? I fit in those places fine. Why can't we have that at home? Why is this level of crime acceptable just because it i
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
Is it really? It is not hard to go the hague and see gendarmerie. I see police all over Europe when I go. If they apply less force, it may be because the population is less criminal, or perhaps they get better people into their forces. I th
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
No, I think the answer is that is only different in that Americans in DC are more criminal. Both places have strict gun laws with licensing requirements. In both places you can get illegal guns, and these are the ones used in crime if a gun
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
How is this different from the netherlands?
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
DC has incredibly strict gun laws. I doubt many of the weapons used in crimes are legal. I don't think you will be truly any less free having national guard soldiers walking around. Actually seems better than the usual dystopian tech s
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by runsWphotons 1y ago
DC seems to have more murders than the netherlands each year despite being 25 times smaller. I guess what one considers safe is very subjective.

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