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MonkderZweite , in After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers

Did i pick the wrong century?!

RunningSpaces , in New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns

I need to make a meme about how Watch_Dogs was a warning not a manual.

nutsack , in Narcan — the opioid overdose medication — will finally be available over the counter

why in the fuck would it not be to begin with

arefx ,

Conservatives don’t want it?

nutsack ,

i don’t know. i think there are many inconsequential things you can’t buy over the counter in the united states. i have to wonder if it’s a health insurance complex thing.

arefx ,

I mean health insurance plays a part in it. Conservatives don’t want to pay tax money on narcan for people they consider valueless when they are already paying for their own health care. How do I know they think they are valueless? They don’t want them to have access to a life savings thing. Also plenty will just straight up tell you that if you ask.

playxdestroy , in Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police
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not very pro life if you ask me

FlyingSquid ,
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Not a peep from the anti-choicers on this.

NikkiDimes ,

That’s because they’re mostly racist bootlickers and see no problem here.

Chickenstalker , in Proud Boy convicted of helping spearhead Capitol attack ties Jan. 6 sentence record with 18 years

In many countries, the sentence would be the noose. Be thankful, chuds.

Sir_Kevin , in New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
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The government has already been doing this on a larger scale with higher altitudes. It’s funny nobody seems to care as long as they can’t see the drones but once they’re low enough to be visible watch everyone lose their minds.

Treczoks , in Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police

every country has cars and police

Yes, but they also have educated and trained police. Here, a candidate must meet the requirements for university, be fit, and psychologically stable before he or she can start a training of three to five years.

Being police is more than just be intimidating and knowing which end of a gun is.the business end.

Theharpyeagle ,

Hell, knowing your taser from your gun is too much to ask.

FlyingSquid , in Life on Mars? - Oops...!
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That’s ok. We recently left life on the moon.

So it’s a trade-off.

TDCN , in Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police
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Just the fact she has to shoplift probably also means she has very little money or is struggling to get buy on her sallery. She’s getting a baby soon and is maybe trying to save up because the US has no proper help to offer. Being shot and murdered by the police for a relatively harmles crime is beyond crazy for a society to accept. The policeman should be arrested for murder and abuse of power and Final put behind bars

AlecStewart1st ,

Just the fact she has to shoplift probably also means she has very little money or is struggling to get buy on her sallery.

As much as I don’t think this woman should’ve been shot, shoplifting isn’t usually done by people who “need/have” to and it’s also usually items that aren’t necessities. Ask anyone who works at an Ulta or makeup section of a department store. In fact, I watched a lady run out of an Ulta into a car that sped off who, according to employees, stole a bunch of perfume and they told me and my girlfriend they were likely going to resell the perfume online.

PopcornTin ,

Sure, sell it to be able to afford some meager amount of groceries for her and her baby. Meanwhile the fat cat cop, who probably ate a breakfast before work, is out there looking for some breakfastless person to shoot to justify the need for him to keep his job.

We’ll frame it however we want.

AlecStewart1st , (edited )

I think the cop should absolutely be fired prosecuted, but I don’t think police shootings are to “justify the need” for police officers to keep their jobs.

That doesn’t even make sense: police officers involved in shootings are likely to be investigated by IA, which is compounded stress ontop of a job that probably already sucks, who’s possibly even pushed out of the force by IA, and if the shooting an officer was involved in was in fact justified (not this one) you’re left with an officer who’s unfit mentally and will likely feel some guilt for the rest of their lives.

In the world you think we live in, encouraging police shootings because it “justifies” a need for police leaves you with a bunch of underperforming and mentally unstable bunch of police officers and a forever staggering rate of total police officers and their presence in neighborhoods where they’re actually needed; as people will resign and no new officers will replace them.

Jeanschyso ,

Excuse me, fired? They should be prosecuted. They murdered someone for no reason. That is a murder. Murder is not allowed. Killing someone in self defense isn’t a murder, but this clearly was.

This police officer deserves to be reprimanded the way any citizen would be for shooting and killing someone without just cause.

AlecStewart1st ,

Sorry, I agree. I don’t know why I simply said “fired.”

shiii ,

that’s a lie they resell because they need the money to survive

dutchkimble ,

But then they bought more perfumes with that money. Since it was a significant amount, they got a discount but then sold those perfumes for MRP. They kept doing this over and over and before you know it Bob’s your uncle and they started a chain of perfume shops globally. Now they are the fatcat CEOs of Global Perfumes Inc. and spend considerable resources per annum to make sure people don’t shoplift from their stores.

A_cook_not_a_chef ,

Hey we can’t all just partner with nazis like Coco Chanel to launch our brands.

AlecStewart1st ,

The car the lady was driven off in was like decent looking ~2020 model car. Maybe it happens the way you say it does, I don’t know. I’d like to see data that shows if either how you what you say is true or not, but generally when I’ve personally witnessed shoplifting it’s not done by people who seem like they’re truly struggling.

TDCN ,
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The reasons for shop lifting are many, but it usually boils down to needing money because their daily job isn’t enough to get by and live a happy life. Or they can’t get a job at all for one reason or another. Desperate people do desperate things.

PsychedSy ,

My brother in law spends it all on meth and my sister fills in with theft where she can.

Cabrio ,

Have you tried shooting them?

PsychedSy ,

Years ago I had a .45 with a suppressor priced out to take out BIL.

Cabrio ,

Just call the cops, it’s cheaper.

PsychedSy ,

With my luck my niece and nephew would be the ones that got shot. The poor dog, too, obvs.

SCB ,

She was falsely accused of shoplifting. She didn’t actually do it.

TDCN ,
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True point. The whole scenario is written in such a bad way in the article its completely glossed over, and even I missed that fact. It just makes the whole mess even worse. It could have been anyone that got shot here just for being scared by threatening police officers who are escalating the situation

Nelots , in The Startling Age Of A Suspect in Racially Motivated (non fatal) Drowning

Why do they capitalize the word black every time?

Wereduck ,

It’s an interesting grammatical thing. In English, proper nouns are generally capitalized. Where proper nouns are names of specific things, not generalizable ideas. Like Bob, England, The Tribune, Christianity etc are proper nouns, while cat or guitar or car are not. This is extended to proper adjectives, which are generally derived from proper nouns but not always. So like “the man was English”. We capitalize English because it isn’t just a descriptor of a trait, like fat or green, but because it is describing membership to a nation, and nations are proper nouns. Blackness describes a nation type relationship, and when you say someone is Black, you are not saying that the are literally the color black, but rather belong to a Black identity or nationality. In the same sense that you say someone is Jewish or Protestant or Welsh, not jewish or protestant or welsh. Idk English is weird.

Blamemeta , in ‘Heartbreaking’: Anti-Trans Healthcare Law Takes Effect in Texas

Good shit. Kids can’t consent.

dragonflyteaparty ,

Guess kids don’t get any medical care anymore. They can’t consent.

yyyesss ,

That’s the point. Transgender care for underage people consists of meds to hold off body changes (puberty) until they are old enough.

bobman ,

Are there any permanent effects on the body from this that will follow them into adulthood even if they stop taking them?

Aidinthel ,

But Hall emphasized that these forms of care are—contrary to misinformation spread by the state’s lawyers—not only scientifically proven to be safe and effective, they are also essentially identical to forms of medical care offered to cisgender (non-trans) young people. For example, puberty blockers, which temporarily halt the advance of adolescence, are commonly prescribed to young cisgender girls undergoing “precocious” puberty. These same drugs also allow trans kids to make more deliberate choices about their bodies as they age into adulthood.

The reason that this law exists is to hurt children, not protect them.

darq ,
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Denying children healthcare is child abuse. That is what you are supporting.

Chozo ,

Oh hey, it's you, spouting more transphobic bullshit again. Remember the other day when you were upset, thinking everybody was mad at you for no reason?

This is the reason.

Blamemeta ,

Oh i knew the reason. Yall are leftists and think consent doesn’t matter when its something you like.

Also, yall ignore science when uts convient. Theres already a guy claiming puberty blockers doesn’t block puberty.

Newsflash: they block puberty. Things like sterilization and lack of bone density.

Heres a peer reveiwed study on puberty blockers and bone density. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150228/

Chozo , (edited )

That's really cool.

That you can read, that is. Sorry, I should've clarified. It's cool that you can read. I was starting to have doubts, after you failed to identify what part of My Shadow Is Purple equates to self-harm. You know, a children's book that you seem to have been incapable of reading? That one. The one where I linked you to a video of the book being read aloud (just in case you couldn't read), and you still didn't provide an answer to. Remember that? I remember.

Anyway. Now here's a peer-reviewed study on the efficacy of gender-affirming healthcare:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9341318/

Transgender patients experience disproportionate disparities in mental health, physical health, homelessness, and violence. These disparities are not inevitable, however. Gender-affirming care has consistently been shown to improve quality of life, improve health outcomes, and reduce rates of SI and SAs.

Note from me, "SI" refers to "Suicidal Ideation" and "SA" refers to "Suicide Attempt". Figured I should explain this, since I know with 100% certainty that you won't bother to read the paper, just like you didn't read My Shadow Is Purple.

Or, here's another study specifically about puberty blockers:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073269/

After adjustment for demographic variables and level of family support for gender identity, those who received treatment with pubertal suppression, when compared with those who wanted pubertal suppression but did not receive it, had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation (adjusted odds ratio = 0.3; 95% confidence interval = 0.2–0.6).

Fuck off with your bad faith arguments, bud. Seriously. You're just straight-up objectively wrong in your beliefs, which are founded on misinformation and hate, and I will prove it to you every. single. fucking. time. if you allow me the opportunity.

Since you didn't read My Shadow Is Purple, here's a quote from a book you're probably more familiar with, judging from your deep-rooted hate:

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Blamemeta ,

Heres what we do for suicidal patients: we give them therapy and medication. So why is blocking puberty an exception? Because leftism is a cult?

And my beliefs come from peer reviewed studies. Sorry you’re so anti-science, maybe you should rejoin the anti-vaxxers?

Chozo ,

Heres what we do for suicidal patients: we give them therapy and medication.

What the flying fuck do you think puberty blockers are, you absolute necrosed gonad?

Blamemeta ,

The wrong medication, they block puberty. You want depression pills, SSRIs and the like.

Chozo ,

Puberty blocking is a form of therapy. Puberty blockers are a form of medication.

Gender dysphoria isn't depression (look up "comorbidity"; it's a big word, so I'll give you some time), you wouldn't treat it with antidepressants. That's like taking an antacid for a headache.

"My beliefs come from peer reviewed studies" is such obvious horse shit. You didn't read the studies I linked you to, clearly.

This conversation is done until you can prove to me that you've read and understood the studies provided to you. Since, y'know, that's what your beliefs are supposedly based on. You can prove me wrong whenever.

Blamemeta ,

Suicide comes from depression (or severe psychosis and a few others, but that’s getting on a tangent)

You don’t treat SI with changing the body. You fix the mind (or at least the hormones)

Chozo ,

Again, puberty blockers are not treating depression. They're treating gender dysphoria in this example. I can tell you still don't know what "comorbidity" means.

In your expert medical opinion, how do you think gender dysphoria is treated? Here's a hint: It's described in the articles you still haven't read.

RunningSpaces ,

Homie out here thinking they’re cooking.

Fondots , in 'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills

Anyone who genuinely believed that Trump was going to pay their bills could probably use that as a good starting point for building an insanity defense.

CaptainAlcohol , in It seems like everyone has Covid-19. Here’s why this wave is probably worse than official data suggests

I completed the cycle of jabs and now I don’t need another one for a while here, when it come to covid, and I suggest doing the same if you haven’t, this is Still a virus and it’s no joke. Now I’m waiting for the flu shot to be released here, cause after the experience of the last year’s flu I say never again.

Compactor9679 ,

Hahhaahaha here it comes another jab!!!

Burn_The_Right , in The Startling Age Of A Suspect in Racially Motivated (non fatal) Drowning

Conservatism is child abuse. Some kids become conservative monsters and other kids become their victims.

Conservatism has no place in a modern society.

Tatters , in Life on Mars? - Oops...!

I find it really baffling that of all the missions to Mars since Viking, none have had experiments to detect life. Did the negative Viking results really kill off all curiosity in the search for current life? It seems very short-sighted.

SkyeStarfall ,

They all are in search of life in some form. They look for water, they analyze soil, they analyze the atmosphere, and so on.

If life existed, it would create byproducts we could detect, or we could find water which is likely to be a pre-requisite for life.

All of these things, in some form, relate to life.

Tatters ,

So, what does the linked article mean when it says “In the mid-1970s, NASA sent two Viking landers to the surface of Mars equipped with instruments that conducted the only life detection experiments ever conducted on another planet.”? How does that differ from what you describe in subsequent missions?

I know a lot of them have looked for evidence of past conditions amenable to life, such as water. Have any of them tried to detect current life?

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