That is an amazing shot.

Oh, ya I could only imagine the shit storm if you just walked up to one and tried to lower it. That would be an easy assault charge against you, but I imagine that’s going to be the least of your worries if you tried.

Not that I’d recommend flying with them again anyway, but don’t fly with them until 2027 at the earliest or risk suffering

The overhaul will likely be completed by year’s end, he said.

I wonder what ratio of protesters + guns is enough to deter ICE.

Like if there was only 1 person there with a semi automatic shotgun, how much more likely are they to attempt something illegal than if there was 20.

If that ratio could be figured out, then it’d be easier to coordinate and ensure enough armed people are everywhere.

If you’ve already made the decision to not fully comply with them when they are trying to do something like remove you from a vehicle, or cuff you, maybe an attempt to lower the mask wouldn’t add anything to whatever they think they’re going to try and charge you with.

I posted this elsewhere and got a lot of flack, but I’m pretty certain that there was nothing illegal with Ross stopping to see what was going on as that would have been a consensual encounter.

It’s when the 2nd ICE vehicle arrived 30 seconds later that shit went sideways and became a detainment, illegal and murder.

Had he pulled her over that would be another story as the pull over constitutes a detainment, but she was already sitting there. At the start he also didn’t order her to do anything or prevent her from leaving, and didn’t turn on his police lights while stopping, which likely makes the whole thing a voluntary consensual encounter.

Petty much any law enforcement officer can approach/talk to anyone as long as its voluntary and no detainment/search/seizure happens.

Edit: Just as an example, Ross could have seen the vehicle stopped in the road, and decided to see if she needed any assistance. He could have approached the vehicle, and said something like, “Hello ma’am, is everything okay? Do you need any assistance moving your vehicle off the roadway?” If she refused and said no, assuming there is no case for impeding/obstructing, the correct answer would then be, “Okay, I’ll have to call this into the local PD, but you’re free to go. I can’t guarantee what will happen once they arrive though”

That gives me an idea…

You take their ashes, seal it in something, and then install it it public toilets.

Then people can be pissing on it all the time without having to go to a cemetery and risk some public urination thing.

It probably costs 2x as much to make today from when they started planning it just from the ram.

If they had contracts in place though that could insulate them for some number of years.

Serious question…

Is stealing a gun worse than burning the car?

Like is it already so bad they may as well burn it, or does that clearly make it worse, but at least protect them from things like fingerprints.

I mean, I wouldn’t be opposed to it continuing after death if there is anything after death… so how about for eternity?

I… did not know it was that high, and the reason was that stupid.

Wow.

And these are the people who then have children.

It’s absolutely bonkers the gear PDs are being given and the lack of proper training for it.

I also know one couple who had a kid because neither bothered to check with each other about birth control… no condoms, she wasn’t on it, he didn’t ask, and she got pregnant.

Utterly baffling to me.

damn, no I had never seen that. Thanks for sharing it.

Men have to deal with women lying (edit and honest mistakes with forgetting) about being on birth control as well. Women have the physical consequences, but both parties suffer the lifetime consequences of having to care for a child if either lies.

Even if we had a reversable birth control for men that was readily available, I’d be shocked if women just blindly trusted the man that they were on it.

There’s a lot of trust going both ways and I imagine because of that both women and men would want to be on birth control until they trusted their partner sufficiently to make the decision for one or both to stop.

Edit: like I’ve never had a 1 night stand, and even if STDs didn’t exist, I’d never trust that she’s on birth control if she said she was, I’d still use a condom.

Haha ya when I read that helmet comment, my first thought was a helmet would definitely help.

You’re never going to convince everyone to wear a helmet when driving though.

I don’t think there were gifs back then when I was on BBS’s, that was more just a reference to how long I’ve been using the internet and pre internet things.

I didn’t spend a lot of time on usenet though, but I did spend some.

More IRC than usenet

How the fuck did I never see this. I was gaming on BBS’s and 300baud modems.

I’ve never seen this before, it’s fantastic lol

Yes, they’d become a thin client.

The concept isn’t new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporate servers to run the software, but he wants that to become the norm.

A chromebook is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.