American soldiers are taught to be thinkers, and reject unlawful orders!!!

-some patriot somewhere at sometime in some comment area

There are still places that ‘value’ those things, it’s just all bunk. I know of a local department that requires applicants to have a college degree. It’s just that (some) college(s) has both become a degree mill, and there are plenty of places ‘captured’ by conservative thought/material.

You could still be a fool, and a bigoted asshole, and graduate no problem. Even just going by intelligence, it’s not like being intelligent carries with it concern for your fellow man. There are brilliant individuals who are every bit evil.

I think that the overall push for why police are the way they are is that only certain types want to be a cop in the first place, much more so than intelligence, education, or desire to find truth in scientific ways.

The fact that two supervisor types watched a video, claimed that nothing was done wrong, and then the highest supervisor watched the same damn video and flat out said there needed to be an investigation… and then nothing was done to those supervisors? That’s some bullshit. Charges being brought against an officer should mean that everyone who tried to cover for said officer should be shitcanned as well.

Lol. That would be quite the head turner if I overheard.

Back in my day we just called that a double dutch rudder.

Thanks for confirming my initial thought. I had figured central park was much wider than what my brain was telling me from the picture and the car/building contrast.

Please don’t embarrass us both by pretending there was any logic to that comment.

Yeah, and in our current world, there are a lot of specific loopholes that are made to be exploited. It’s almost like the people ‘winning’ the game have written the rules of the game…

You can actually skip step 1 if you want. That’s what they did with toys’r’us. Those actions have long since convinced me anything financial is just a game played by the very rich.

The bonespur bitch, we call 'im round these parts. We jes put 'im in some of dem hai 'eels and bent 'im over a barrel to get all that nasty pressure off 'is 'eels. 'e came pre-lubed, too, which were a real nice touch from the factory, I tell ya what.

Augustine, thought war could be justified in certain circumstances, one of which was if the following peace created more good than the evil if the war wasn’t fought.

And don’t forget Aquinas, who literally sandwiched his one chapter on war between the chapters detailing mercy. If I remember the professors correctly, that was no mistake, and was very, very thematically intentional. Christians are downright fucked in the head as they try to cognitive dissonance their way into reconciling our species’ lust for war with high minded ideals of love and kindness.

Rice burner, riced out, rice boy… and referring to a badly customized sports car…

So nothing at all to do with what we’re talking about in this thread with linux setups?

I hated running then, and I hate it now. Everyone should take up better forms of cardio, like skiing, biking, rowing, or typing long replies on lemmy.

Lol, thanks. Now I know.

They were running the other direction. Also, no. I was just grumpy for a week or so.

What is racist about the term?

There are probably people who care about the idea enough to have it polished, but I’m not one of them, sorry. I think it was a weird fusion of the idea that the council must have known he was already ‘too old,’ that he was potentially the most dangerous being in the galaxy, that he trusted padme, and that he was clearly emotionally fragile. It’s not like anyone could have missed the moon eyes he was making towards her at all times, so something like they were trying to make the best of a bad situation, where if she had rejected him outright he was going to go all moody teenager but with a lightsaber instead of a guitar and badly written rhymes.

It just so happens that ‘whoops!’ It happened because of what they did rather than in spite of it.

I think they had backup plans for those cases. Just quickly find your chalk and the chalked name/symbol of the god, and rub one out and lay the other down.

We need to get you reading some more fiction! There are a lot of dystopias where the cold is coming! :D

I don’t even know what I use anymore. My distro seems to keep changing it when I reinstall.