TropicalDingdong

No. The abolished it. They didn't reform it. They abolished it.

But the moment you go around saying “abolish the police”, you’re not talking about reforms, or at least that’s not what most people are going to hear.

Stop it.

Don't both misinterpret what I said and then put words I didn't put down into my mouth. If your balls shrink into your chest when you hear "abolish the police", thats a you problem. Likewise, if you are basing your decision making on "what most people want to hear", you probably are both a) not an effective strategist, and even further b) not a very good person.

Abolish the police. If you can't do that, de-fund them. Tip-toeing around the sensitivities of a deeply immoral people isn't a strategy that gets results. It only gets you halfway to no-where.

The most frustrating thing of it all: they gained nothing for collapsing inwardly on their morals. The gained nothing and cost us everything.

I think we're going to need to see a generational shift in compute before we see steam deck two. I have the original deck, and the OLED. Kicked down the original to a friend. Both are great pieces of kit. I've basically survived without a gaming machine for almost 4 years because of these devices. I've experienced almost 0 desegregation on either. Just phenomenal devices.

I've finally bit the bullet on a more serious machine (for both work and pleasure). I've got a Asus ROG Flow Z13 on back order, the 128gb variant. I think this is the direction things are going to go. We just can't make CPU's/ Video cards faster/ more efficient if we keep them separated.

My speculation: the next steam deck is going to take on this design, so long as the stryx halo generation proves itself. It might not be a "full force" variant like I've bought into, but the rub is the temperatures and power to performance relationship. The stryx halo design is the only thing I've seen that would warrant a generation refresh.

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The idea that things devolve into a lawless society because a lack of police is absurdist reductionism.

Firstly, we already live in a lawless society; see any of the actions Trump has taken since January. Its just a matter of "for whom does the law apply?"

Second, and I posted this to your other response, the idea that we can't "abolish a police department and rebuild it into something that serves its intended purpose" is also absurdist, in at least that we have the counter-factual of it actually happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750

These questions aren't being asked in a vacuum: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750. Maybe ask a Camdenite? I'm sure we've got a few laying about.

Its not a hypothetical to dissolve a department of a government which is dysfunctional and rebuild it.

Thats what we fucking told you. Its not just that its morally abhorrent: it also cost you votes. We've been building a set of moral and politically priorities within the DNC for 25 fucking years and then you fucking ran against them Harris. LGBTQ+ rights are at its fucking core. That's why you fucking lost.

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I mean they were openly fascist then, too. Its just that you had (more) liberals and centrists running interference for conservatives to defend the fascistic aspects of their own ideology.

I agree in principal, but the thing about bigger bubbles, is that it creates more surface area and an overall thinner crust that can be stretched further.

The bigger the bubbles, the thinner the dough, the faster the evaporation, the better the browning.

But yeah. Its a dance.

I mean, I agree entirely with the "abolish the police" movement. I don't think policing in the US is recoverable. Its rotten to the core. Its a remnant of slavery. In that sense I'm an abolitionist.

But I also think its a thing that "law enforcement" is a thing that will be expected to happen. So if you are going to abolish policing as we currently know it, you need to replace it with something different.

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