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by Clubber 3y ago
>I have an issue with advertisers bullying platforms to remove bad guys, but that's the way it works. Yes, you'd think in 2023, platform companies could just disassociate advertisers with channels rather than just kicking someo
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by Clubber 3y ago
Sadly, if it were true, I wouldn't be surprised. Brand has made a lot of enemies out of powerful people with his political commentary. Assange did the same thing and IIRC, he was also accused of rape.
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by Clubber 3y ago
It's a pretty massive resource and logistical problem. Plus, having very little ability of being able to filter who comes in the country is pretty dangerous. https://www.nytimes.com/article/nyc-migrant-crisis-expla
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by Clubber 3y ago
I think most Americans are fine with immigration, it's the illegal immigration many take issue with. That nuance is clouded in most media takes on it.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Nothing will meaningfully change, it's mostly a money grab I assume. Politicians and media have built up this boogieman for years and now it's time to cash in. The kids supposedly negatively affected won't see any of that mon
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by Clubber 3y ago
Sometimes they do, sometimes they just buy companies to eliminate competition or future competition. Sometimes it's some of A, some of B. It really depends.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Ego usually.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Note that the officer said he got that from other officers, not from official training. Well under trail, that officer needs to name names and get those other officers on the defendant list.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>I can see the downvotes but no idea why. Would you care to explain? I dunno, but this has been taught in PM since PM. I remember learning it in the 90s and it still holds true. If you want it fast and a large scope, you have to throw bo
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by Clubber 3y ago
FWIW, all government records are by default public record thanks to the FOIA. The government can try to make exceptions and redactions, but even when they try to block it, they are forced to release related information in court in discovery
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by Clubber 3y ago
The full body cam footage is public record and has been widely discussed by cop watching channels.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>A police force that is not respected will lead to escalation of violence. Escalation by whom, the police or the citizens?
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by Clubber 3y ago
>It did so by enriching the private insurers who basically run our health care system. I might add at the expense of the middle class who now have much higher premiums with much higher deductibles.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Your points above boil down to "cities/voters are actually fine with the cops running wild". I mean sure, if you oversimplify things, but you do have a point. The strange thing is both Democratic and Republican districts
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by Clubber 3y ago
>So it's a matter of the city appointing/the voters electing better DAs? Possibly, but they work on the same team. >a cop can't be jailed due to qualified immunity Qualified immunity protects them from getting sued dire
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by Clubber 3y ago
Can you give some examples of what you consider legislating from the bench?
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Just like how, for Justice(hah) Thomas, same-sex marriage is a state's right/decision, but interracial marriage... isn't. Banning interracial marriage was deemed unconstitutional based on the 14th amendment. The 14th amen
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by Clubber 3y ago
The fraternities at the university I attended were required to hire police at parties too. This was in the 90s.
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by Clubber 3y ago
It depends on the police department. >They protect. They serve.. it's honestly very simple. Not all police are lazy/corrupt/ego-driven maniacs. Not around here anyway. They are not, but departments are unwilling to get rid
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by Clubber 3y ago
It happens in big cities just as much, perhaps even more. It's an epidemic. The only way to escape it is to have a decent amount of land in a rural area, and you still aren't 100% safe.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Because they don't face any repercussions for their actions. Prosecutors won't prosecute because the police are their colleagues. The police feed them cases. The other police won't do anything other than a slap on the wrist,
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by Clubber 3y ago
>you'll need to work pretty hard to say you have better sources than what I am reading every day. Is it some sort of competition? Honestly, you should really stop reading all of it. It's very manipulative. Stick to first hand a
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by Clubber 3y ago
> I think most HN users prefer the "old media" that abide by a set of ethic rules, have rigorous fact checking and have professional editing. Why do people still believe this? https://effectiviology.com/knolls-l
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by Clubber 3y ago
That's a really good point. If you are a vendor, you can sell to mom and pops, grocery stores, Walmart, Amazon, Costco, etc. Once mom and pops are gone, you are limited to who you can sell to. When that happens, the people you can sell
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by Clubber 3y ago
Any consolidation leads to redundancies (job loss). Instead of 2 director/vp/svp's of marketing and all their reports and their reports, you just need 1. Apply that to most business areas (accounting, finance, tech, etc) in a
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by Clubber 3y ago
>So it was sort of a cancer, but it was more of a symbiotic relationship That was the paid service. If you didn't pay, you were still tracked and your motor could still be shut down. So if you paid, you got tracking++. If you didn&#
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Is there any evidence that writing a cover letter means they will be a motivated employee? They're at least motivated enough to spend time writing a cover letter. FWIW, I haven't written a cover letter since 1997, but if it wa
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by Clubber 3y ago
IIRC, he gave it all to the press and gave them the burden of going over them and releasing them as they saw fit. He was concerned about sensitive material getting out that would harm other US interests / people on the ground, etc. Mos
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by Clubber 3y ago
> I'm unwilling to believe in the infinite goodwill of Amazon and the police. Really the only thing to deter it would be the fruit of the poisonous tree metaphor. A bad cop probably wouldn't know what that is, but the prosecuto
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by Clubber 3y ago
>had a private investigator request footage from Amazon? Not sequitur, PI's aren't police and don't have arrest or prosecution power. The concern in the article is about police. I would be against Amazon allowing just anyo

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