Only someone delusional would think otherwise.

Explains why Trump thinks he’s loyal.

My issue with that show was that the characters were prominent figures in like every universe they visited.

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Police firearms are used far more often as a threat to force compliance thannthey are to defend life. By disarming most on-duty officers like a civilized country we’d have a more peaceful society because the police wouldn’t feel as empowered to escalate conflicts.

Being a police officer isn’t a particularly dangerous job. Police have, on average, about the same odds as any random citizen of being killed feloniously. Yet they’re armed to the teeth and are given less-strict rules of engagement than soldiers sent into actual combat zones against enemy soldiers who are explicitly trying to kill them. I’ve seen my share of police encounters, and police make the situation worse 90% of the time. That last 10% doesn’t justify what they do.

I understand that police are individuals. Being a cop doesn’t make you a bad person. There are lots of bad people in this world, and most of them aren’t cops. But anybody who looks at the state of policing in this country and decides they want to be a cop cannot be a good person. It’s like saying someone’s a good Nazi or Klansman. Being a bad person is a prerequisite to becoming a police officer in the US.

I have several cops in my family. I know them as individuals. And they’re all bad people for whom I have no respect. But they think I like them because I’m polite to them. I’ll even laugh and tell jokes around them, because part of living in a society is not starting fights. But they’re still scum.

I’m sure there are people in your life who joke and laugh around you, too. How many do you think quietly hate you? I guarantee it’s an uncomfortably high number.

I was pretty happy with our senior song.

My sister graduated in 1998, when every high school in the country did “My heart will go on.” The next uear, everyone did “Party like it’s 1999.” I don’t even remember what the next 2 classes did other than they were some kind of flash in the pan pop song from the time.

In 2002, my class voted for “At Last” by Ella Fitzgerald. That’s some classy, timeless shit.

There’s been great stuff since the 80s. Even some of the stuff that became popular outside of the typical anime fandoms, you have things like Cowboy Bebop, which oozes style, and the 2 FMA series that have solid storytelling and complex characters with great music and animation.

99.9% of law enforcement doesn’t require the kind of police forces we have. Why are armed goons used to hand out traffic tickets? In decades of issuing building code citations, I’ve never needed to carry a gun. And my fees are WAY higher. If I can walk up to an unidentified guy with a running chainsaw and give him a $200,000 fee for clear-cutting a lot without being in danger, you should be fine writing a speeding ticket.

But the problem is you have an institutional attitude of cowardice. You’re like chihuahas who pretend not to be scared by being super aggressive, which makes people afraid of you, which makes them hate you, which makes everyone less safe.

Why should anybody respect institutions made of violent, scared little bitches?

People at the office, people at the school I teach nights at, people at the church I attend. They all have different groups that they talk bad about, and people talk bad about all of them.

The difference is every single place I go that isn’t a police station people talk shit about cops.

You’re hated, and it’s not the unjustified hate of racism, intolerance, or ignorance. You’re hated because you actively choose to drain society’s resources while stimping on people’s rights. You should be hated.

Yeah - you may occasionally do something useful, but you’re a net drain on society and you should be ashamed of yourself and your entire profession for what you’ve become.

I work in for a municipal government, and our City Hall and police station share a building. We’re polite to the police just like we are with anyone else, but ALL of us that work on the admin side of the building talk shit about the police behind their backs and think they’re a bunch of overpaid thugs who are a net negative to the community.

It’s no different for you. People who hate you will still smile and say hello.

All the pumps near me disabled the mute button years ago.

Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.

I like how the picture has a completely different seat that wouldn’t be able to travel with the suitcase. Also an entirely different design overall.

Okay, but for real the spring suspension could be great for a rolling cart or something in my garage for jumping over extension cords or standing mats.

“It’s like 8:30 in the evening. I really should be getting ready for bed.”

Home Depot near me clearanced out the Halloween stuff in September last year to make room for Christmas decorations.

Also SharePoint/OneDrive (the line between the 2 is getting blurry) for shared documents.

It was only domestic shipping.

The US also had a history of shipping people as cargo across the ocean for profit.

The showrunner of TLOU was also the head writer for the game.

Air conditioning will remove moisture from the air while cooling the cab, so the condensation can only form on the outside, where you have wind and windshield wipers to wipe off the condensation.

Only in America where there’s an exclusive service contract that forces franchisees to use a very expensive third party to fix the machines. The machines throw error codes that can only be cleared by a service visit for something that should be as simple as a clean and reset. It incentivizes machines that fail often and disincentivizes the franchisee from actually keeping the machine running.