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The Finnish Defence Force just put out a movie called Battlefield 2020 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmWCbcYwb8 (It has english subtitles). It's about how a possible conflict might develop and what it might look like, it is shown to conscripts during basic training. They also made one in 1998, it's a bit dated nowadays:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB9ny9SR9Qs Edit: pagesnipe, here are the best bits of the Saimaa Grey Seal live camera: https://wwf.fi/luontolive/norppalive/ Ataxerxes fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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Random aside, but I’m trying to update the OS on my wife’s old Mac and I keep getting this screen. Anyone run into this?
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Random aside, but I’m trying to update the OS on my wife’s old Mac and I keep getting this screen. Anyone run into this? https://youtu.be/RfiQYRn7fBg
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facialimpediment posted:The 2020 election was previously Not Close and over the past week it has got Not Closerer. Hot take; the only thing that matters is what the headlines say about 72 hours before the election. Hair furor hasn't sunk past his traditional lows yet and there's likely a whole bunch of people looking for an excuse to "reluctantly" be forced to vote for him. Granted I'm real pessimistic about the US electorate. Realted current event https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-recruits-army-poll-watchers-fight-voter-fraud-no-can-n1217391 quote:After the Democratic National Committee sued the RNC for allegedly sending armed, off-duty police officers to patrol the polls in minority neighborhoods in a 1981 election, a federal "consent decree" put in place a year later sharply curtailed the Republican Party's ability coordinate poll watchers by requiring prior judicial approval.
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Porfiriato posted:Feature, not bug yeah they want protesters to be able to break it down and if they get hurt doing so even better
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Random aside, but I’m trying to update the OS on my wife’s old Mac and I keep getting this screen. Anyone run into this? All the bullshit 2020 has fired at us and you're summoning aliens with big gently caress-all lasers? 
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Erghh posted:Realted current event https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-recruits-army-poll-watchers-fight-voter-fraud-no-can-n1217391 Which is a sideshow compared to the GOP's actual "saying the quiet part out loud" voter suppression efforts anyway.
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stealie72 posted:A month ago, this would have made me worry, but unless the current zeitgeist changes dramatically in the next 5 months, some armed proud boy shitheels standing outside of minority polling places looking for "voter fraud" feels pretty firmly in "I wish a motherfucker would" territory. I firmly believe these motherfuckers will shoot people at at least one polling station because they won't accept someone's ID and there will be a scuffle that leads to shots fired.
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they may have caught that guy who did a drive-by on the Oakland courthouse https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/06/07/alleged-santa-cruz-mountain-gunman-may-be-connected-to-oakland-federal-officer-slaying/ quote:A Travis Air Force Base airman is under arrest and facing charges for the murder of a Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy on Saturday. But the FBI announced on Sunday that the agency is investigating whether he also killed a federal protective service officer a week ago in Oakland.
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Some doofus in a Facebook Group I was invited to which is a repository for local protest information was adamant a mall in my area was lit up blue to say "gently caress BLM"...quote:Hey everyone! (Mall) has up blue lights all over their main station building...one can only assume that it’s to support blue lives. Very disappointed and will be sending an email to mall management about taking them down. ...and spent time imploring people the mall was being racist via his own confirmation bias... quote:so do I, but the colors are charged in the current environment. They can choose something different, that’s my point. ...in spite of being told by multiple people who work in stores there the colors default to blue except for certain times of year, before realizing... quote:I heard from the Sr. Director of Brand and the lights default to blue if the system glitches, which happened this weekend. She informed me that the lights had been set to rainbow for pride month and the system has been reset after the glitch was taken care of. ...he'd blown it out of proportion. At least others in the group said "Don't share this until we know for sure". CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:I firmly believe these motherfuckers will shoot people at at least one polling station because they won't accept someone's ID and there will be a scuffle that leads to shots fired. This is kind of the direction I was thinking too. I remembered Roger Stone had a plan like this in 2016 and I figured the gop was going to for it, all official like this time. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/20/citizens-for-donald-trump-exit-poll-roger-stone-rigged-election-claim https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/07/donald-trump-poll-watcher-voter-fraud-roger-stone-steal-the-vote quote:Stone told the Guardian that around 1,300 volunteers from the controversial Citizens for Trump grassroots coalition would conduct exit polling in Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Fort Lauderdale, Charlotte, Richmond and Fayetteville – all locations in pivotal swing states. Admittedly it's just one layer of poo poo that's going to get laid down in all this. Quiet part loud etc.
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LingcodKilla posted:Will it though? Apparently the stock market is happy with him. Not making GBS threads on you, but the stock market was happy with Obama and a presumed Clinton presidency and that didn't pan out well in 2016 for either of them. I feel like the lesson people were correctly shouting about post-2016 that just because the stock market is doing good doesn't mean everyone else is doing good, is still applicable here. I have no idea what the gently caress is gonna happen in November but the stock market doing good means fuckall to a lot of people right now.
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its almost like running on Obama's economic legacy was a disaster and we shouldn't repeat that oh.
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 https://www.cbr.com/us-military-lose-space-force-trademark-netflix/ quote:The United States Space Force was only announced two years ago and has yet to engage in any military operations, but the latest branch of the U.S. armed forces already stands to lose its first battle -- to Netflix's Space Force.
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If anyone wants to donate to an aid station in Seattle, here's donation info eta: this is for the Aid Station at Rancho Bravo, which the cops have been routinely loving up when they push the lines at night UP THE BUM NO BABY fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:they may have caught that guy who did a drive-by on the Oakland courthouse Boogy boy hid his tracks well. Looks like a true lone wolf.
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Erghh posted:This is kind of the direction I was thinking too. I remembered Roger Stone had a plan like this in 2016 and I figured the gop was going to for it, all official like this time. Win, lose, or draw, Trump's response is going to be a complete shitshow.
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Oh no a “fine” person had an oopsy daisy.
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"attempted malicious wounding" gently caress you, he drove his car into a crowd of protesters that's attempted murder
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:"attempted malicious wounding" gently caress you, he drove his car into a crowd of protesters that's attempted murder That's not how Virginia law is written. Attempted malicious wounding, depending upon circumstances and if considered aggravated, could actually have a higher associated penalty than what a lot of people think of as 'traditional' attempted murder.
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The last true journalist is out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPeD2miyF8
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Untagged posted:That's not how Virginia law is written. Attempted malicious wounding, depending upon circumstances and if considered aggravated, could actually have a higher associated penalty than what a lot of people think of as 'traditional' attempted murder. Doesn’t matter anyway, he’ll probably get it plead down to failure to yield or something similar.
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Midjack posted:Doesn’t matter anyway, he’ll probably get it plead down to failure to yield or something similar. I highly doubt it considering the shithead who did this in Charlottesville is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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oakland pd lit up a guy and his pregnant girlfriend last night, but they were in a stolen car, so i look forward to hearing ghouls either try to turn the crime on them directly, or blame protestors for somehow forcing the police to make a tragic mistake.
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Wasabi the J posted:The last true journalist is out there. god bless this man
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Handsome Ralph posted:I highly doubt it considering the shithead who did this in Charlottesville is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. If dude was a cop he wouldn't have even been arrested.
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Probably not a very hot take, but I'm beginning to think that most support for the police and opposition to defunding the police is based entirely on people thinking that the police act like they do on TV and movies.
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Fister Roboto posted:Probably not a very hot take, but I'm beginning to think that most support for the police and opposition to defunding the police is based entirely on people thinking that the police act like they do on TV and movies. John Oliver made this exact point in a recent segment covering police. It's on YouTube and very good
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Also “defund/abolish the police” is confusing to people who aren’t engaged with the movement. Most people using the phrase don’t literally mean we’ll just have zero law enforcement and see what happens. But it’s not a great term if you have to follow it up with an explainer on how it would work.
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mlmp08 posted:Also “defund/abolish the police” is confusing to people who aren’t engaged with the movement. "Demilitarize the police" I feel like would get the point across without making people think you're advocating for zero law enforcement period.
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Fister Roboto posted:Probably not a very hot take, but I'm beginning to think that most support for the police and opposition to defunding the police is based entirely on people thinking that the police act like they do on TV and movies. Pretty much this yeah, a lot of people have the "TV cops do good things, so it's only a couple bad cops" but the reality is that it runs deeper than that, especially in the upper leadership of many PDs, and police culture in the US in general. People who may be good cops are highly discouraged from restraining bad cops, and police unions do their damnedest to prevent bad cops from seeing repercussions from bad actions, which further discourages cops who may try to correct problems in their departments. Basically the entire structure is rotten because of over 40 years of pushing the police into a mentality of Us vs Them and that they're at war with the American populace. Watch the John Oliver piece, its good. orange juche fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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mlmp08 posted:Also “defund/abolish the police” is confusing to people who aren’t engaged with the movement. My initial reaction was  because, as you and others said, it sounded like "If we get rid of the police, then there can't be any police VIOLENCE anymore and so everyone will live in peace and harmony forever!!!!!" and my reaction was "Uhh...look, certainly things need unfucked, but boy, that's optimistic.".Demilitarize/Unfuck the Police makes more sense.
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mlmp08 posted:Also “defund/abolish the police” is confusing to people who aren’t engaged with the movement. Yeah I had an old coworker quacking about anarchy and I dropped the article about that NJ town that started from scratch and he at least said “ huh that’s interesting” so I hope he got something out of it but who knows
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I have a friend who is convinced that the only thing between her and her house getting overrun by meth heads is the police. I feel like it’s usually insensitive to suggest that someone move, but I really didn’t know what else to say.
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orange juche posted:Pretty much this yeah, a lot of people have the "TV cops do good things, so it's only a couple bad cops" but the reality is that it runs deeper than that, especially in the upper leadership of many PDs, and police culture in the US in general. People who may be good cops are highly discouraged from restraining bad cops, and police unions do their damnedest to prevent bad cops from seeing repercussions from bad actions, which further discourages cops who may try to correct problems in their departments. Internal Affairs
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"Defund/abolish the police" is the starting position for negotiation. Starting from "reform the police/make a bunch of laws that won't do poo poo" means you'll get nothing because the Republicans treat any position to the left of them as a vile communist plot.
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Yeah Biden doesn't want to refund the police because he's a rich white groper that fought for segregation and increased policing. They all only want one thing, and it's you to get back to work.
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