they didn’t take him anywhere. They simply put him in handcuffs until they could do their cop shit because he was walking away, not being cooperative, and up until that point they had no idea whether or not he had a weapon on him (they did a pat down after he was restrained to make sure). The whole encounter sucked, I agree, but dude could have made it really easy simply by showing ID or otherwise proving who he was. A simple “I don’t have my ID on me but my house is right there and you can go get it” works. Walking away from the police and acting confrontational for no reason is not what innocent people *generally* do. I believe this man to be the exception, not the rule.
Yeah, except police don't determine guilt or innocence. That's like...the judge's job. It's in the name, like..."judge" whether they are guilty or innocent. Walking away from police and acting confrontational when cops interrupt your day is how people with rights are generally entitled to act when there's no reasonable suspicion of them committing a crime or acting against the public interest.
the cops got a call of a suspicious person, showed up, and that person started acting suspicious. I’m assuming that the dude had some previously negative experiences with police and that influenced his response. Regardless, how else would they determine that he had a right to be there up until that neighbor confirmed it (at which point they released him). From the way I saw it, they temporarily restrained him for their safety and until they could figure out the facts of what was going on. As soon as they did, they released him. don’t get me wrong, I’m generally in the ACAB camp. I just don’t see anything super wrong here. More of a case of “everyone sucks” at worst, but mostly “just do the basic shit they’re asking and it’s fine.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/technology/twitter-whistleblower-security.html The idea that any of this might be true gives me anxiety just thinking about it. All engineers having access to a production environment with no monitoring, 500k servers with missing patches or EOL software, almost no encryption of data, etc. They probably wouldn't even know if they had an actual breach.
What who uses their private information to make a Twitter account to shitpost anonymously? That and apparently they have a ridiculous amount of fake accounts. Let Chinese bot farms get hacked.
I mean some people might care, plus they’re probably violating a bunch state and national privacy laws depending on what they collect from users.
I'm curious if any of y'all have insight on the flooding in Pakistan? The shit I'm seeing on Reddit and general news is fucking bananas.
Flooding? meh. What I'm really impressed with is the fact that India fired 3 missiles into Pakistan and nobody went nuclear as a result. They actually handled it insanely well... Pakistan basically said, "hey, guys? did you just fire 3 missiles at us?" India: "Uhhh... what? hold on a sec... oh shit, yeah, we did..." Pakistan: "Why?" India: "because we had 3 idiots that did something stupid... we're really sorry... are you OK?" Pakistan: "yeah, we are" India: "we'll handle those morons who did this, again, really sorry" Pakistan: "all good... see you at the crazy border guard change tonight" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/asia/india-pakistan-accidental-missile-launch-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
Maybe it's because I live in a desert, but I still can't wrap my head around parts of the world where they're just like "oh, it's August, time for the heavens to pour rain for the next few months." I watched Ron Howard's new movie about the Thai cave rescue and had the same thought. Rain not being weather, but a season, is fucking wild. Earth is a crazy place.
I live in a place with 4 well-defined seasons and I still think the idea of a monsoon season is strange. It just rains for months? That’s wild.
this. We can go inside during the heat of the day or just stay in the shade. As long as your AC is functioning properly you're fine, then we have the other 9 months of perfect weather. That snow shit can just fuck right off. Though I could use some of that monsoon season right about now
https://news.yahoo.com/horrifying-photos-videos-capture-utter-172423545.html "Nearly 33 million people have been affected. And almost 1,000 are dead." This is probably the worst natural disaster to affect a single country in history, certainly in terms of scale, destruction and number affected. It will likely create millions of climate refugees. That 1,000 dead number is complete horseshit, by the way. It'll take months to calculate precisely how many, but it's going to be 10x that number.
I think the 2004 Tsunami was worse, even counted as individual events on a per-country bases. 170,000 dead in Indonesia alone.
And then you have this going on in China. But Climate change isn't real you know. https://www.news.com.au/technology/...s/news-story/9e6c5dfb0b58b291bffb8c2706a34628