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by jacobush 6y ago
What’s also bizarre is that it’s probably funding their local department and not some general state account, further skewing incentives. It’s like the Police has a letter of Marque to do piracy. [0] Except that means they are at war with yo
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by jacobush 6y ago
Funny you should mention medical errors. The US is not exactly a shining beacon in that regard either .
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What’s your point?
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Good
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It may be cruel compared to some ways, but not in comparison to torture for hours. I have read other accounts of "Halal" slaughter in industrial settings. Basically a big machine built to cut the throat, but in practice it's
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by jacobush 6y ago
I don't usually agree with this line of thinking, but just a thought experiment - if you equate 10 thousand pigs to one human being, these people just in cold blood tortured several humans worth to death, to make some money.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Not trying to equate pigs to humans people at all - however, see this as a parable: If these were people being tortured to death, would you say that monetarily incentivizing torturers to move away from this model is the only real way? It ma
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by jacobush 6y ago
The people behind this should serve prison time.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Bean filtered water, that’s what we had during the war. What is your war? :-)
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by jacobush 6y ago
Even if nobody in his position acted as unwise, it would barely offset, in society at large, the swaths of people who never had a chance. So to answer your question - in aggregate, fairly little.
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by jacobush 6y ago
That sounds illegal. But maybe not worth fighting for.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Yeah I forgot about that weird US thing. Funding local Police with tickets is quaint, almost absurd.
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by jacobush 6y ago
No, I didn't mean to imply it.
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by jacobush 6y ago
I can't really remember the case, but there was a standoff where a (white) person returned fire against law enforcement after they shot his dog. In the end I think one law enforcement officer was killed on one side, and that guys wife,
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by jacobush 6y ago
I wondered if it's inspired by Christiania? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania It's been a thing half a century now.
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There's precedent to say its legal to return fire.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Tickets should be proportional to income and wealth. Like in Finland. As of now, it's a disproportionate tax on poor people, and the cops know it.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Oh please, that's the least charitable interpretation possible of what I wrote. So, just in case you actually mean what you say, what I'm getting at: if your colleagues have a certain conduct, you follow suite. It's human nat
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by jacobush 6y ago
That is exactly how it works. The color of the Police is Blue, not black or any other color.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Mike Ruppert
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by jacobush 6y ago
You can have YT violate your privacy. And you can pay for it and still have them violate your privacy.
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by jacobush 6y ago
I preemptively removed the FB app for now. I don’t know if this is a fruitful strategy in the long run but I sleep better right now.
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by jacobush 6y ago
I thought it would be some sort of last stand of QUIC drives.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Paying for YT is paying for having your privacy violated.
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by jacobush 6y ago
Makes me think of the Netflix documentary "the Family". These guys take it to a whole new level.
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by jacobush 6y ago
You don't have buy all at once, you can't watch all at once. If buying old DVDs and bluray, you can get a lot of movies very cheap. If cancelling whatever streaming service(s) you had, it goes a long way. I'm much more worrie
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by jacobush 6y ago
Their logo also seems to be a tiger! :-D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_svensk_tiger
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by jacobush 6y ago
Swedish cognate djur
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by jacobush 6y ago
In Sweden, our agencies classify pellets as better than fossil fuels, but with problematic local effects, and it's estimated that each year 1 in 10000 die from its pollution. (1000 people in Sweden, in a population of 10 million.) One
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by jacobush 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436775

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