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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Worth reading all of it, it's very well written.

And clearly explains this is about the genocidal actions of the Israeli government:

The atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification. Instead of reading descriptions mostly we watch them unfold on video, sometimes live. After a few months of rapidly mounting death tolls Israel had obliterated the capacity to even continue counting the dead, which has served its genocide well. At time of writing the Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force, at least ten thousand lie under rubble, and who knows how many thousands more dead of preventable disease, hunger, with tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine due to Israeli blockade, all enabled by Western and Arab government complicity.

It didn't even mention religion

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

I had to sign out to see those posts...

Which should tell you how effective the block button is when you have an issue with a single poster.

Waaaaay more effective than making a post about it.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 2 hours ago

Textbooks are a racket and not just for college students.

Most of the money spent on education involves grifts for stuff like that, not for actual important shit like schools or teachers.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

So many caveats it’s practically worthless.

For normal workers who make tips...

For a 14 year old masseuse who works at a golf course getting a "tip" to stay quiet...

Well, they'll get less from the person tipping them than they used to, but value it as more because they don't pay taxes now.

Rich people are going to tip less, and get treated better for it. That's the savings they've always meant, they'll be able to tip less and still get the treatment they want.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

It's not just Sig saying that...

No one, not even cops, can get stuff like this to replicate, even with the exact same guns that supposedly already did this.

People have looked into this before this article was written

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The man is 80. Everybody has to die of something.

Just acting like the US president dying in office wouldn't be a big deal so a blood draw is too much hassle to put him thru is fucking asinine.

He didn't get a PSA since he was VP according to a recent press release.

Thats either a lie or unbelievably stupid. Like, stupid enough that it calls I to question everything else we heard about how healthy he was in office, even if we didn't already know for a fact they were lying about it.

If they wanted us to trust them now, they shouldn't have spent four years lying to everyone.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Honestly it’s probably both at the same time.

The drops were 100% real, and an unacceptable flaw that was/is definitely a liability issue for Sig... (Edited to add: this issue was just on the very first ones and has since been fixed, but the required drop to make it happen was slightly out of spec for what is normally tested for. Like I think it would pass the standard test, but the test height plus an inch or two failed?)

But while this specific one sounds rare, a gun going off in their holster isn't really that rare and happens with loads of brands of guns.

Cops are strapped all day and "open carry" where the holster isn't just exposed it's on a cluttered belt with a bunch of other stuff.

Stuff falls in the holster and moving around can apply pressure which pulls the trigger.

After, the cop will likely see the object, and just discard it to avoid blame.

Like I said, a shit ton of people both involved and not involved did everything possible to try and make stuff like cops were claiming happen in a controlled environment, no one, not even police departments, could replicate it.

This was huge news at the time in the gun community

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

He wasn't sitting in a retirement home twiddling his thumbs, he was the fucking president.

There's no excuse for not running this test as part of an annual physical.

Like you're legitimately saying it wouldn't have been a big deal for him to die in office with no advanced notice or time for treatment.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

The reason they stop recommending it at 70 is most men that age are retired, have other health issues, and would likely die from chemo before cancer.

We were told Biden was the picture of health, so it would make no sense to stop checking if he had the strength for treatment and a long enough time left for it to be worth it.

For an average American further testing is expensive, the president of the USA can afford to do further testing after the PSA to see what was happening.

There's just no fucking excuse to not do this routine screening on the president.

And it's more plausible that they've known a long time then they really just didn't want to run a fucking blood sample for prostate cancer on an 80 year old US president.

You need a trumpian level disconnect from reality to believe this shit, and it's disappointing so many are.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 49 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

It was possible but only if dropped and landing at a very specific angle and hitting concrete...

The main problem is when cops hear a new excuse, they can't wait to try it out

So when this became news, every negligent discharge by a cop (they're very frequent) was blamed on this.

Shit like this:

Shortly after dark one day in September 2022, police officers Yang Lee and Charles Laskey-Castle arrived on Milwaukee’s west side to investigate a car abandoned on the sidewalk. Lee knelt to examine the driver’s side floorboard as Laskey-Castle stood behind him. Then Lee rose — and his holstered gun fired a bullet into his partner’s leg.

Has never been able to be reproduced intentionally.

Here's an article and body cam footage:

https://www.wisn.com/article/video-shows-unintended-shooting-injuring-milwaukee-officer/45015940

Sig says the only way it could have happened was if something snagged the trigger, and yeah...

Lots of people have spent a lot of time trying to make the p320 go off on its own like cops kept saying. And like I said the only way that was reproducible was a very specific angle drop on something as hard as concrete.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 40 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

Certainly plausible...

But I don't trust the police or embassy officials from a country that's spent years committing a genocide.

They're not trustworthy witnesses.

If anyone is upset about that and wants it to change, you should go tell the cops and Israel to stop murdering people and then claiming it was self defense.

When you lie about shit constantly, people just stop taking your word on shit

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Everybody is different, that's why the standard method hits the main three.

 

“Since the public can’t see or hear what’s happening in federal court firsthand, we’re using cutting-edge AI tools to bring these important proceedings to life, based entirely on official transcripts,” said Law&Crime President Rachel Stockman. “This is a pivotal moment in both popular culture and justice, and our goal is to provide accurate, transparent access to what’s actually being said in that courtroom.”

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by givesomefucks@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
 

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5613

There's two "full time" Lemmy developers, and one of them just added a repeating dialog box that will pop up regardless of instance asking for money to be sent to his and another lemmy.ml admin's personal accounts as a salary.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by givesomefucks@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world
 

There's an issue where trolls will "@" people who blocked them because it will still send a notification.

Sometimes it's just people who always do it, so it's likely unintentional.

But it's pretty obvious from a post history glance when they're only doing it with people who never respond to them. And definitely obvious after someone tells them about it

Example:

https://lemmy.world/comment/15711438

Is there anyway to make mention notification abide by the blocklist?

If not should we be reporting harassment to our admins or the admins of the account doing it?

 
 

So after the last couple years of seeing how protests get treated based on how much larping they're doing, I bought some plates and a carrier.

I'm fully aware the only thing it does is stop me from dying immediately from a body shot, and only covers like 10% of me.

But the only reason I got it was because cops have been showing for decades they won't start violence against protesters when even just a few are plated up and holding a rifle. And I got a feeling there's gonna be some protests again.

My issue is I look like a nazi's wet dream even when I'm not geared up, and it's not like someone can read a Tshirt under a plate carrier.

I wanted to grab some patches from SRA, but all they sell is stickers, and Etsy just has vague slogan patches you wouldn't be able to read from five feet away.

I did see some links where the reddit sub had been doing mass patch orders over the years. Is there any community not on the big social media doing the same?

Or any other methods to show you're an ally besides just facing the right way?

I'm also a little hesitant to slap something like an antifa rose on because I can't see trump not declaring them a terrorist group at some point.

 

Somewhat satire, somewhat actual investigation.

Pretty much same vibes as the Daily Show

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