When Coast Guard officers told Baluchi they were cutting short his “manifestly unsafe” voyage, Baluchi threatened to kill himself with a 12-inch knife if anyone tried to apprehend him, and claimed to have a bomb aboard, which turned out to be fake, according to the complaint. Three days later, Baluchi—who authorities have intercepted in his Hydro Pod at least three times previously—finally surrendered
If only there were some well-established type of business, one with lots of rooms available for short periods of time that don’t share those hallways of rooms with full-time residents. Something you would pay a fee for and they would let you stay in one of those rooms. I wonder what we would call it? Maybe an AirbnTel?
The pro-gun community love to blame Ulvade police. “The problem isn’t dogshit gun laws that allowed a teenager with a history of death threats and animal abuse to buy two rifles on a whim from a company that targets edgelords, it was those darn cowardly cops!”
So to get the obvious out of the way first, brave cops don’t make much difference. During Sandy Hook, police were on the scene in minutes and breeched within minutes of that. The shooter still killed more people, he just didn’t get to mutilate the children beyond recognition with his cool guns.
But the less obvious thing the pro-gun community doesn’t seem to realise is that they themselves are one big Ulvade PD.
They too promised us public safety but stand around doing nothing while other people suffer the consequences of gun violence. They too get to dodge the consequences of their failures and joke about it with their buddies months later. They too leave it to everyone else to clean up their mess.
Frothily blame the police all you want, but gun owners are just as spineless and useless.
Yes, the parents. How many gun-owning members of the public without children inside volunteered to go in shooting, since they promised everyone they’d be safer if we kept the dogshit gun laws that armed the murderer in the first place?
The reality is that for all their flowery rhetoeic, gun owners only care about their own self interests. The middle-aged, morbidly obese man who wouldn’t even wear a mask is not going to fight a tyrant for you. He just wanted to keep his toys.
And if they don’t care about people being murdered with legal guns, why should I care about them being murdered because they didn’t have a legal gun?
I mean yes, sorta. The selling point of guns is that you can defend yourself. The good guy with a gun part is secondary.
The good guy with a gun is also a lie. If you want to strip out the flowery rhetoric and promises that are never delivered, sure, go ahead. You’re left with a group of people who are happy to put other people in danger for their own (often false) sense of security.
Also this us vs them mentality doesn’t seem good for productive discussion.
Nope, fuck that. They’ve had 20 years of polite discussion and potential compromise and they’ve done nothing. It clearly is us vs them.
the art makes it look crowded - residential and commercial areas are right next to each other, no fences - designed to get the most out of the space - with a park somewhere off in the distance?
I think we should create a global rule that if you want to live far from people in a “rural” setting or something, you must live exactly like indigenous peoples hundreds of years ago.
No technology, just in harmony with nature.
If you drive a truck, you are forbidden from nature. If you want a TV, fridge, modernly constructed house, you can’t set foot into a single blade of grass outside of metropolises.
sorry if you weirdos want to live like medieval free-peoples, that’s ok as well
I lived in Los Angeles for 10 years. The pollution gave me bad acid reflux, which is actually a symptom we asthma sufferers can have. I moved to a semi-rural place and that reflux went away. So you’re basically saying I should either be forced to be ill or live like I’m Amish.
You can live in a nice city with a lot of parks, good public transit, minimal cars, nice architecture etc.
It’s just a fact we must accept, living in a rural or semi-rural way just won’t be possible anymore. Climate change is really gonna fuck things up way too much and people don’t seem to get that.
If we want to survive as a technologically and socially advanced species and not regress to the Stone Age, we have to give up old Medieval ideals of living in the country-side.
There’s lots of those in my part of the world, maybe not yours.
But just because the cities around you suck, it doesn’t mean the idea of cities suck. That all cities suck. That we’d all be better off living in semi-rural suburbs or some other American hellscape.
It seems your perspective on this is 100% based on your individual experience and it includes 0 big-picture thought.
I never said that all cities suck. I was talking about the ‘anyone who doesn’t live in a city has to live like it’s the 19th century’ thing. I’ve told you that multiple times. I’m not sure how to be more clear about it.
But how can REALITY get more clear? We’re going through the very early stages of global cataclysm. We will only survive as a social and technologically advanced species if we concentrate in a few small spots, and basically abandon and work to rehabilitate the other 99% of the Earth. For a long long time probably.
I don’t understand how living like you guys even slightly looks like a good idea unless you’re extremely self-centred and don’t give a fuck about the world. Which I guess makes sense, we’re in this shit situation because most people are like that I guess.
Can people please respect others’ religions? Please? There’s a lot of hate in these comments and it makes me really sad to see this frequently on Lemmy.
What do you expect from a predominantly left-wing social media platform? Respect isn’t in their nature. Being a centralist means seeing both sides of hypocrisy, and whoo boy does the left show a lot more.
I don’t really see it as hypocrasy. While people reporting it are most likely against religion, why woudn’t religious text be a part of the nudity ban?
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