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by splitrocket 6y ago
The research has been done. It's largely a solved problem, and has been since the 70's. The cops in the US just don't use those tools and tactics. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/de-escalation-keeps-
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by splitrocket 6y ago
They also cleared a priest out of the church by force (who also corroborates tear gas usage. https://religionnews.com/2020/06/02/ahead-of-trump-bible-pho...
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Australian journalists corroborate the use of tear gas. https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/us-ambassador-res...
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by splitrocket 6y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair.
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Tear gas is a chemical weapon and as such is banned in war according to the Geneva Conventions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/1...
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Meanwhile.... > [GOP Operative] Leslie McCrae Dowless, was charged with three felony counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiring to commit obstruction of justice and two counts of possession of absentee ballots, according
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Mongolia: The best COVID-19 response in the world.(medium.com)
4 points by splitrocket 6y ago|1 comments
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Frankly, if you value stuff over people's lives, well, I don't know how to teach you that you should care. Secondly, this is a single, solitary reason out of the myriad of other reasons, why we, as as a species, invented insurance
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by splitrocket 6y ago
"I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of th
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Yes, extrajudicial murder to protect physical property, that's justice. When you care more about stuff than you do about actual human lives, your evil is showing.
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Layout Shift is one of my biggest pet peeves. Especially in search interfaces.
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by splitrocket 6y ago
This is deeply dystopic.
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by splitrocket 6y ago
It is entirely appropriate. One person died from ingesting hydroxychloroquine[1]. Perscriptions for hydroxychloroquine increased 46X. [2] It turns out that taking it killed more people than the control group. [3]. The Maryland Emergency Man
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Read about stochastic terrorism. Also, in a crisis situation like this, it is deeply irresponsible to be even slightly confusing. And now, we have this: https://twitter.com/MDMEMA/status/1253721510570844162
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by splitrocket 6y ago
I'm curious, how much does the Internet Research Agency pay these days?
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by splitrocket 6y ago
It's entirely too close for the leader of the free world. It's also remarkably stupid. Like astoundingly dumb. To quote Craig Manzin: 'One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they’ve found grea
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Perhaps you could demand that first of the president of the united states, and then perhaps, secondarily of some random poster on hacker news?
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by splitrocket 6y ago
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the ligh
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Listen to experts, have highly competent leadership, run a coordinated response. Incompetency kills.
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Everything you need to know about the wisdom of the stock market can be easily discerned from this single, simple fact: They believed Donald Trump when he claimed Saudi Arabia and Russia would cooperate to raise oil prices. They did not.
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by splitrocket 6y ago
We are also not counting deaths due to overwhelmed health care systems. In Madrid, in 2019, 794 people died total in March. In March 2020, it was 1318, with 192 COVID-19 deaths. 542 more than 2019 due to an overwhelmed medical system. In Ca
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Can I run my own WARP server? If not, I'm not that interested. If I'm trading one centralized service for another, there is no net gain.
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by splitrocket 7y ago
Your premise is incorrect: it originated in the US and is the single most effective, lowest cost method we have to address homelessness[1]. It is, in fact, cheaper than shelter [2]. "People not contributing to society"? Really? Pe
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by splitrocket 7y ago
Logically, your argument is baffling on its face: homelessness is literally the condition of not having a home. Giving someone a home literally solves the problem. All that said, "Housing First" is the most effective, lowest cost,
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by splitrocket 7y ago
The 2018 annual "point in time" count done by the federal housing administration: https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5783/2018-ahar-part-1-...
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by splitrocket 7y ago
Correct, and generally speaking, economic of scale should apply to social sector programs. In theory, it should be 60x easier for the US to house everyone, simply because we have more resources to aggregate. Even when you compare per capita
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by splitrocket 8y ago
Well, the key element, I’d imagine in such a suit would be knowledge of and active approval of such behavior. If the executives knowingly and willfully continue to allow white supremacists and people like Alex Jones, then enterprising Twitt
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by splitrocket 8y ago
I wonder if there’s a case to be made that continuing to provide a platform to Alex Jones effectively creates a toxic working environment for Twitter employees. Could be a great deal of liability there.
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by splitrocket 8y ago
The sha1 doesn't live in the DNS request. DNS exposes the hostname requested, not the parameters of the URL.
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by splitrocket 8y ago
Profit is the measure of inefficiency in a market.

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