Buelldozer

“You don’t rise to the occasion, you fall to your level of training.”

The point of the article is clearly the unacceptable behavior of the officer but damn does it make my teeth itch when Journalists fail basic fact checks like Pistol / Revolver. I always wonder what else they got wrong.

Depends on their wealth.

The kid was driving an Audi S4. I suspect they have some spare $$$ available. (assuming they haven’t spent it all on repairs)

Hard to say. The kid was driving an Audi S4 so they likely have money.

This has absolutely nothing to do with “Stand Your Ground”. SYG only applies when you or someone else are in real and imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death, neither of which were true in this case. That’s why the guy was arrested and has been charged with a number of serious offenses. He’s going to end up in prison.

Since you aren’t from the United States I should also tell you that SYG isn’t a National thing, its only legal in the States in that have passed laws allowing it.

I keep wondering if a legal framework like the US where you weren’t legally punished by attacking a thief in your house wouldn’t be fairer but then there’s news like this.

That’s called “Castle Doctrine” and like SYG it isn’t National. It only exists in the States that have passed a law to allow it.

It CAN work but there’s at least a few States that have Castle Doctrine and a Duty to Retreat so you end up having to flee a home invader until or unless you have no other choice.

We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.

The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why Democrats never talk about it?

It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,

One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties. They make it extraordinarily difficult to get ballot access at any level whenever possible and on the odd occasion that a 3rd party candidate does make it into office they pull out all the stops to make sure they lose the next election.

Flagged under Saint Kitts / Nevis.

https://archive.ph/POl10

Archive link of that source.

One was supposedly delayed from CA to OR because of “weather” which is odd as it has been sun and mostly mild temps over the last week.

Not to defend UPS too much but enormous wildfires probably go in as “weather”.

California.

Oregon.

Only 2nd, not 3rd?

2nd best is a turn of phrase, an old one. It’s an insult. You must not be very well read.

Tiedrich? Blech, tired old has-been who, like Trump, should have disappeared years ago.

Firewire was good for high bandwidth devices like external hard drives and video cameras because it didn’t require the CPU to do any heavy lifting. These days USB is mature enough and CPUs are so fast that we (mostly) don’t notice any performance impact but in the Core 2 Duo days you could easily max out one of your two cores with a large file transfer over USB.

You think the people who brought us Stuxnet aren’t fucking with Russia?

100,000 rides a week. Impressive.

Nah, Starlink doesn’t reset the Wi-Fi SSID for a firmware update.

They didn’t, the commenter is making things up.

Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?

I don’t know. I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I’m only on FB once every couple of months.

It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.

Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?

I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.