My very first statement - I’ll believe it when I see a video. Police don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
And he was pointing it at cops.
Allegedly.
It’s a common way people try to justify their actions. As if police are a force of nature. You wouldn’t stand in the path of a tornado, why would you expect police to act on more than the most superficial analysis of the situation and with less than the most violence they can justify.
Because if cops wait around, and figure things out first, you have Uvalde all over again. People were pissed, as they should be, that police showed up, and DIDN’T shoot a kid.
I don’t claim this is intentional on your part, but I believe you’ve created a false dichotomy. There is a spectrum of outcomes between what happened here and what happened in Uvalde.
(and again, I’ll believe he was pointing it at them when I can see a video proving he did so)
I laughed until tears came down my cheeks when I got to that part the first time. Which might be a little over the top, but that exact transition you describe really got me. The visual transition really drives it home, too.
Our Democrats would never let him win, and that’s before you even get to the Republicans. Republican heads might actually explode if we elected a progressive who dared to call themselves a Democratic Socialist.
Meanwhile, Democrats are also crushed under the thumb of all the money big business pours into bribery lobbying, and they have already made it clear twice that they won’t let him get on the ballot.
We’ll never get progressive policies or a progressive president unless the progressives infiltrate D to the extent maga has infiltrated R.
We’d just be disappointed again. The right would hate him more than Hillary and corporatist Dems still control the DNC. They wouldn’t let him win.
OTOH a common opinion I hear is that he probably has more capability for direct lasting change being where he is, and I can see that being true, so there is that bit of small comfort.
I’d give my life savings to see this from Sanders. Of course, then we’d lose him, so it would have to be part of his retirement announcement.
Maybe not but it’s a super fun video. :) Probably political to people who believe in lizard people. 😀
Wow you are a true fan, I’m more of a filthy casual. :D
Some of those I’ve heard, some I haven’t but I’ll check them out. Thanks!
Yeah, I somehow didn’t really get just how many kinds of genius he was until recent years. I always liked his stuff, but I somehow never paid enough attention to get that smidge of countercultury gen-x (He’s a boomer, but we’ll give him an honorary position) “I see your bullshit” attitude that sneaks in from time to time.
Edit: This is another great one. It takes a bit of a left turn or two… https://youtu.be/urglg3WimHA
I have servers on Digital Ocean and Linode and also one in my basement, and have had no problem. I do have all services behind NPM (not to suggest it’s a panacea) and use HTTPS/SSH for everything. (not to suggest HTTPS/SSH are either) My use case could be different than yours - my immediate family are my only consumers - but have been running the same services in those locations for a few years now without issue.
OK, correction accepted. I probably did conflate them with Broadcom. Someone should let those ubuntu folks know though… ;)
I’m sorry for leaving out the word “desktop”. I’m well aware that Android runs the Linux kernel and that many embedded systems run Linux.
Possibly I conflated them with Broadcom, but I feel sure I recall Qualcomm’s lack of openness being problematic in the past also.
Edit - yeah, folks jumping through hoops for their wifi at least as recently as Ubuntu 20.04. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1277359/my-qualcomm-atheros-qca9377-wireless-adopter-is-not-working-in-ubuntu-20-04-lts
When did Qualcomm start giving a shit about Linux? They’ve been on my “hardware and chipsets to avoid if possible” list for pretty much ever.
So many awful possibilities…
https://www.demilked.com/cartoon-character-skeletons-luis-rogerio-faria-rosa/
2007 was YOTLD for me. Yours, dear Windows-using reader, is 2024, if you want it to be.
Hey KDE Team: 😘 ❤️ Please don’t ever change!
https://apnews.com/article/utica-police-shooting-nyah-mway-myanmar-835e5c29eed93dc109108f668323d9f4
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2024/06/30/utica-shooting-police-bodycam-footage-nyah-mway/74262307007/
Neither suggests anyuthing in the footage showing he pointed a gun at officers.
But second link does say this:
Please find me where either of these articles corroborates that the bodycam shows he pointed a gun at police.
Here’s key bits of the video:
https://youtu.be/VpzfphvQIOA
Looks to me like he was trying to drop the gun, it’s pointed at himself if anything. Still is as provided by the newsteam in the youtube link, and if you listen to the audio, they are clearly accepting the police story and not disagreeing - so this is the best they could do to make it look good for them.
This isn’t even when they shot him!! They shot him ON THE GROUND.
edited - looks even worse for them here https://www.facebook.com/CBSEveningNews/videos/1188314849017274/