jkf
1d ago
I am aware -- the ones I know well are quite a lot younger though, being the [early] kids of my GenX friends.
One guy who just turned 30 is kind of pressuring me to start a compound and supply weapons in case Trump invades [somewhere pretty near to the butthole of] Canada -- it's strikingly similar to the Facebook-addled Boomers in my life, except he's actually got a lot to live for (decent job, good girlfriend, etc) and no excuse around senility.
jkf
1d ago
jkf
1d ago
In short?
a physical checkup is mandatory
Unfortunately, you haven't given me enough information to make an informed choice.
Like I said, it's entirely plausible that he's just picked up the tics through hours of reading the output of these things (and thinking that it's good) -- which in a way is even more horrifying than the idea that he'd use one for a pretty simple question about a topic upon which he's somewhere in the ballpark of an SME.
It's not (only) about the lists tho...
jkf
1d ago
Cov19 the disease was eminently predictable -- we have novel seasonal respiratory virus outbreaks all the time, something like a 10%/a prediction would be not too bad.
The Cov19 response (which is the risk that bit cafe buyers' collective ass) would be pretty hard to predict, given that it was completely unimaginable in 2019 -- maybe a generalized "massive four horseman-related social disruption in my area" @ 1%/a would work, but this doesn't exactly seem like what we are after when talking about forecasting skillz.
jkf
1d ago
Man you are either an irredeemable slopmonger or spending so much time immersed in slop that your own writing is becoming indistinguishable.
jkf
4d ago
The point being that even when your focus is on blocking other people in cars, there will also be pedestrians around who might wander into the hazard zone of your antics -- it's quite a lot like waving a knife or gun around in public. Even if you aren't planning to shoot anybody, you are being reckless with a (potential) weapon.
jkf
5d ago
When you are repeatedly blocking/unblocking a street by moving your car back and forth across it, you are continually running the risk of somebody getting in your way -- for most values of 'somebody', the consequences of this risk will rest more on them than on you due to the physics of the matter; this can change quickly if they have brought their own weapons though. That's kind of the whole thing about weapons and self-defense -- it's all fun and games when you are the only one with a weapon.
jkf
5d ago
She was actually kind of using it as a weapon though -- more of a defensive weapon, but still.
If after you dropped your kids off at the school parking lot, you parked in front of the entrance and didn't let anyone but your friends through, I think it would be fair to say that you were using the car as something like a weapon? Certainly it's a tool of physical force.
jkf
8d ago
Much the same as someone pointing a gun at you though -- just because deadly force may not always prevent deadly force doesn't mean that you can't try it.
jkf
8d ago
I think rare earths are basically strip-mined? The environment in Greenland does not... seem conducive to this kind of extraction. I don't think even the wildest projections for AGW are thinking that it won't remain covered by an ice sheet with a thickness measured in kilometers for the forseeable future, just to pick the most obvious issue.
jkf
9d ago
Um, yeah -- like, definitely you shouldn't run into people with your car! Don't do that, 100% agreed.
"Unavoidable" is a tricky thing in a car though -- if you didn't have time to avoid something in the road, maybe it's because you were driving too fast for road conditions; there are a lot of potential traffic laws you can break.
jkf
9d ago
I mean if you hit somebody with a car you are always gonna be at least in jeopardy for "failure to yield to pedestrians" or something -- if that someone is a cop it's probably more like "failure to stop when directed by an officer or whatnot" -- 50 Felonies a Day may be an exaggeration, but 50 Traffic Violations a day really isn't.
jkf
9d ago
We got into the Milkbones as kids once -- as you might expect they are pretty dry, but more bland than anything else. Maybe with some dip?
I think once dogs get the idea that something is a treat they will consider it to be so whether it's truly 'tasty' or not.
jkf
9d ago
I mean they must have some way of confirming that it's tasty, right? They can't just say that!
jkf
9d ago
Apparently it can be kind of like a job title: https://www.nlg.org/massdefenseprogram/los/
Doesn't sound like a paying job, but the words do have meaning I guess...
jkf
9d ago
I'm also frustrated that they don't make Cosequin for humans.
It, uh -- doesn't look like it has anything in it that would hurt humans, and it says that the chews are tasty?
jkf
9d ago
what about the 2nd and 3rd shot .33 seconds later which went 6 inches to the right through the side window'
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4&t=16
He's pivoted more than 90 degrees since the first shot, and has pushed his gun forward almost to the point where it's within the vehicle through the side window -- there's some argument to be made that training/target fixation kicked in so he's not really culpable, but that argument is not "double-tap is standard procedure" nor "nobody could possibly have stopped shooting in such a short time".
jkf
9d ago
Maybe it's not over, (like, she might back up and have another go at you!) but it's no longer immediate.
Where are you going to draw the line on that? He had to pivot quite a bit to get the shot from the side, can he just keep tracking the target and shoot her in the back? It's a Glock, not a machine gun -- when you are no longer under immediate threat, you can just... not pull the trigger anymore.
jkf
9d ago
Like shaken says, this is normally pretty ironclad because normally they are defending themselves from a guy with a gun etc who is hard to cross-off as a threat -- so continuing to shoot if he drops the gun or something isn't too bad.
This time, the car was clearly past him, and he had to actively turn his body to get the shot -- you could argue about target fixation or something, but based on the video I don't think it's an easy sell to a jury.
jkf
10d ago
Particularly if it turns out that the first shot was non-fatal -- which actually seems kind of likely given the location of the hole + quickdraw; he might not have even hit her at all there.
If he doesn't exactly have self-defence for the shots through the window, this would leave him only with defense of others/the public -- which might fly for a normal cop in this situation with a normal (here meaning crazed out of his mind on liquor and drugs) fleeing suspect; preventing a dangerous high-speed chase, heat of the moment, etc.
In this case that seems like kind of a tough row to hoe.
jkf
10d ago
This is indeed department policy for most normal police organizations. (Blocking the suspect's vehicle in with a car where feasible)
I'm not against what these guys are doing or anything, but I will say that based on the first part of the video their training might not be the most modern; either that or they are all sick and tired of being yelled at and obstructed all the time...
Dude, I've been on here... I don't remember actually, but a long time before I saw you show up. Taking your word that you aren't just feeding questions into the machine for whatever reasons -- your writing has become super ugly over the past six months or so. Your bluster only confirms that you've lost the plot as to what good writing even looks like.
(and you might want to read better if you think it's the bullet points)
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