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I'm not sure, but I feel Trump may be upset about his latest poll numbers. -- nm - Mop Jun 8, 13:06 6
- wha hoppened? (I haven't turned tv on today) -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 13:11
- What should I not look at right now? TV or twitter? -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:08 3
  - Jezebel Barbie was on TV earlier and Trump is going for a new record of 200+ tweets in one day. Play your Ipod. -- nm - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 13:11 2
    - Much obliged. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:13
    - ugh. -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 13:12
- ya think? - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 13:07
Police in Minneapolis confirm slashing tires. But they have a good reason! -- (link) - Mop Jun 8, 13:06 1
- they were PARKED, why would they assume they would be driven at high speeds and dangerously. I guess its the only thing the could think of to say? - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 13:10
Luke Skywalker as a Female -- (link) - budice Jun 8, 13:04 4
- Milla Jovovich. Kristy McNichol would have been the right age and probably a decent fit in 1977. -- nm - Max Jun 8, 13:12
- no one would have stood a woman whining like that for 40 minutes much less 40 something years. - Diva Jun 8, 13:06 1
  - It's true, though. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:08
- Susan Dey? -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 13:06
We've been on 4 day work weeks for about a month (i have been off on Thursdays). Next week we go back to 40 hours. i am a bit disappointed. i didn't - Andie Jun 8, 12:41 10
- My WFH option is great. Save gas, dry cleaning, etc. -- nm - budice Jun 8, 13:03 2
  - Mine is so good it's not sustainable. -- nm - mara Jun 8, 13:07
  - Same. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:03
- Honestly, I've enjoyed my furlough weeks. Having to completely disconnect from work has been a healthy thing. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 8, 12:59 1
  - I was thinking a researcher could have a field day a year from now. Talking to people that stayed home throughout vs some of the time vs none of the - Spawn Jun 8, 13:02
- Scuttlebutt around here is that we're not going anywhere near our offices until at least Labor Day. -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 12:50
- It's gonna break my heart if Kim has to go back to the office. We've found such a great routine together. -- nm - David Jun 8, 12:49 3
  - yeah, I've loved having Heather and Abby around - prayformojo Jun 8, 12:52 2
    - This is another reason businesses should pivot. Employees are happier. -- nm* - David Jun 8, 12:58 1
      - If only they would quantify that. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:59
VF: “He’s going to broom Kushner and Parscale—the numbers are not getting better,” - mud Jun 8, 12:36 7
- Over the three years, he's had about four mistakes that had teeth to them. This one is probably right there with the travel ban with polling drops. - David Jun 8, 12:48 5
  - the pandemic was a golden opportunity to expand his support - Jovian Jun 8, 12:54 4
    - I can't reiterate enough how important it is that a country doesn't elect a stupid man President. -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 12:57
    - Well, his name was on the check I got, so that is something! -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:55 2
      - I put my treasury letter with his signature on it in the grill. It was used as kindling. - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 13:07 1
        
        ha-ha-ha!! -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 13:11
- I don't care what it takes or why or who - Just get Kusner OUT -- nm - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 12:40
lol the *thickest* skin! -- (link) - Jovian Jun 8, 12:34
Chris Cornell covers “Imagine” on the Howard Stern Show (2011) -- (link) - mud Jun 8, 12:23 [youtube] 2
- This is my favorite of his releases. - Spawn Jun 8, 12:30 1
  - Out of the rocks singers with big voices, I think he's my favorite. I like him more than Plant. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:04
oh man -- (link) - ty97 Jun 8, 12:23 3
- L4! that is fantastic -- nm - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 12:41
- I mean, based on the south's performance in that war, it's not unreasonable... -- nm - David Jun 8, 12:28
- *nods* -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:26
NBA - Will test for PEDs, not test for recreational drugs -- (link) - budice Jun 8, 12:05 3
- WEEEEEEED!!! -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 12:14
- But Disney will haul them off to the utilidors for violating WDW policy -- nm - JD Jun 8, 12:12
- Hookers and blow for everyone! - Ba'rona Beast Jun 8, 12:07
spamlet, the annoying thing about moving to Plex/Tidal would be rebuilding my tracks library - Reagen Jun 8, 11:59 6
- You used to be able to download *everything* out of GP as a file but I haven't used it in years. - spamlet Jun 8, 12:02 5
  - I think it just does your uploads now. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:05 4
    - I can see on the UI where it's album by album at best. Does this still work maybe? -- (link) - spamlet Jun 8, 12:10 3
      - (Hmm, less than I was expecting, to be honest) - Reagen Jun 8, 12:17 1
        
        And I honestly didn't think about adding by subscription. That's a big difference from when I last did it. - spamlet Jun 8, 12:36
      - I'm trying the Music Manager right now - Reagen Jun 8, 12:15
Okay, let's workshop it. If you want to join in protest of the police brutality aspect of Black Lives Matter, what's your slogan idea? - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:57 17
- Reimagine Policing -- nm - pmb Jun 8, 13:00
- Community Allocations of Law and Mitigation. CALM. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:34
- ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 12:32
- Snitch, Don't Bitch -- nm - Max Jun 8, 12:13 1
  - now flip that. -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 12:51
- COOTYS RAT SEMEN -- nm - Max Jun 8, 12:12 1
  - Too Many Secrets -- nm - budice Jun 8, 12:28
- End Policing - colin Jun 8, 12:11
- IA or the Highway -- nm - Ba'rona Beast Jun 8, 12:10
- Rebalance Justice - znufrii, silly old man Jun 8, 12:09
- Make Police America again. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 8, 12:09
- Make America's Police Great Again (on blue hats). -- NM - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:06 2
  - *conservative Marge Simpson sound* -- nm - Max Jun 8, 12:09
  - *gag* -- nm - colin Jun 8, 12:08
- Embrace Audit Culture - Max Jun 8, 12:05 1
  - "Oh Shit, It's Dr. Tran" -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:11
- I know a good place for that actually... -- nm - Robert Kraft Jun 8, 12:04
Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:51 2
- Related -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:10
- ... only one safety incident due to gravitational influences. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:57
While I'm being controversial - I don't like "Defund the Police." nm - John Murphy Jun 8, 11:50 68
- Police Reset -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:10
- Smash the piggy bank. -- nm - Loyola Jun 8, 12:07
- Fund the Populace -- nm - Max Jun 8, 12:06 1
  - Fund the Community (With Police Money) would work -- nm - colin Jun 8, 12:12
- Defund the Lawyers? -- nm - budice Jun 8, 12:04
- DeSting the Police -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 12:03 1
  - whoa -- nm - mud Jun 8, 12:07
- Demilitarize the Police -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:00 6
  - Ironically I thought some years ago ST had discussed how military police are actually much better at deescalation than civilian police. -- nm - Max Jun 8, 12:08
  - I don't know what this means. - groiny Jun 8, 12:01 4
    - Here's Patrick Skinner's take on demilitarization (former CIA counterterrorist, now a beat cop). -- (link) - mara Jun 8, 12:07 1
      - That's a VERY good piece -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:15
    - The police since 9/11 have become armed in almost a militaristic manner. I think some PDs have tanks or similar -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 12:03
    - Make them walk around in business suits for a year. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:02
- I agree. It doesn’t at all describe what the intent is. Some version of Police Aren’t For Everything would be more accurate. -- nm - Qale Jun 8, 12:00 1
  - I think it does describe exactly what the intent is, directionally, it just overshoots its target, imo -- nm* - znufrii, silly old man Jun 8, 12:01
- no need to defund anything, just fucking fix your recruiting and evaluation processes. - groiny Jun 8, 11:59 29
  - Eh, I don't totally agree with that. The chief of police in Dallas (I think he was the chief)...John Oliver showed part of his speech - John Murphy Jun 8, 12:04 12
    - you defund police, you can kiss those vest cameras goodbye. - groiny Jun 8, 12:07 11
      - Sure, if you write them a blank check. So you don't. -- (edited) - ty97 Jun 8, 12:10 10
        
        it was like what a year ago, they wanted dashcams on all cars, they wanted vest cameras on everyone. - groiny Jun 8, 12:12 9
        
        it's $1000/year/camera. that's not a crazy amount of money. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 12:14 8
        
        so, where was the 4 vest cam footage of the 4 cops who were involved? -- nm - groiny Jun 8, 12:16 7
        
        MPD has been withholding the vest cam video of the Floyd incident. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:25 2
        
        which is part of the problem IMO. -- nm - groiny Jun 8, 12:28 1
        
        Agreed. It should immediately go to a national database that is subject to FOIA requests. - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:56
        
        Pretty sure I have seen a lot of it. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:21 2
        
        I have not seen any of them. - groiny Jun 8, 12:22 1
        
        Looks like I saw dashcam and some bodycam from one officer. But yes, the rest was civilian. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:48
        
        i don't know. cams should come with immediate dismissal over missing footage of an incident. - colin Jun 8, 12:21
  - The current police unions just won't allow most of what you say here. -- (edited) - Inigo Jun 8, 12:03 5
    - I think that's a lot of the reason that change is needed. Unions have too much say on police matters. -- nm - David Jun 8, 12:06 4
      - the killer cop here had what 12 violations? - groiny Jun 8, 12:08 3
        
        Exactly. Btw, in re-reading old posts, you've been spot-on in several instances, particularly with Kaep and mental illness with cops. -- nm - David Jun 8, 12:14 2
        
        not sure what about Kaep, but I grew up in a police and fire dept neighborhood. - groiny Jun 8, 12:19
        
        WHAT!!!!!!! - groiny Jun 8, 12:14
  - we can tackle ALL of those, that's why I think defund is a good word - it's addressing many things at once. - colin Jun 8, 12:01 [Attachment] 3
    - I guess the problem is there's no one word that means "reduce funding." Downfund? Re-fund? De-escalate? -- nm - mara Jun 8, 12:04 2
      - Retrench the Police doesn't have the same ring ;) -- nm - colin Jun 8, 12:06
      - Pelosi came close with "rebalancing" today, I think. - znufrii, silly old man Jun 8, 12:05
  - I think it's worth evaluating if police are overfunded and if some things could be dealt with in a different manner. - ty97 Jun 8, 12:00 4
    - Police are asked to carry out a huge variety of tasks, it seems -- nm - con_carne Jun 8, 12:48
    - That's too long for a slogan though. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 8, 12:02 1
      - Certainly! I'm not a good slogan maker. But I know a bad slogan when I see one -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 12:05
    - All of this -- nm - JackDawson Jun 8, 12:02
  - And track everything nationally. The FBI can't even say how many people the police have murdered, because the data isn't tracked. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:59
- But then again -- (link) - Reagen Jun 8, 11:58
- Now I have to go back and figure out what you were actually being controversial about -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 11:57
- Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do - Spawn Jun 8, 11:56 1
  - commie -- nm - mud Jun 8, 11:57
- Rethink policing. Divert some police funding to more social services. Try new approaches to some things. Yes all for it. - ty97 Jun 8, 11:55 1
  - Better police for less money. Or something like that. -- nm - Inigo Jun 8, 11:58
- Totally agree. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 8, 11:54
- I'm just waiting for the inevitable progressive backlash against Biden and Pelosi, etc. for trying to distance themselves from it. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Jun 8, 11:53
- someone on twitter said " Police the Police" -- nm - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 11:53 2
  - One I saw was "Demilitarize the Police." I think funding is a huge issue, though. (And auditing overtime.) -- nm - mara Jun 8, 11:59
  - that's not enough. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 11:54
- I'm on board with "Abolish ICE", but you're right that "Defund the Police" is ambiguous. - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:53 4
  - They could use "Transform" or "Reform" but "Defund" sounds like "don't give them any more money. Ever." - John Murphy Jun 8, 11:55 3
    - too wishywashy. reforming the police can mean any number of different things, effective and not. - znufrii, silly old man Jun 8, 12:00 1
      - It's a loser as a slogan. Needs to be replaced. - ty97 Jun 8, 12:01
    - agree -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 11:56
- i responded on B2 to your previous statements. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 11:52
- I thought I posted on B2, but maybe not b/c I can't find it, that's it's a terrible slogan and Biden would be hurting himself by adopting it -- nm* - ty97 Jun 8, 11:52 3
  - Wouldn't? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:53
  - yess -- (link) - colin Jun 8, 11:52 [Backboard] 1
    - There it is! -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 11:53
- "Yo, Dre, I got something to say:" -- nm - Max Jun 8, 11:52
VW driver who drove at/through a protest turns out to be local KKK leader -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 8, 11:50 6
- I've read that the KKK and other radicalized conservatives advocate ramming protestors as a tactic. -- (link) - mara Jun 8, 12:49
- That's the face of a man who realizes he's made some bad choices. -- nm - Mop Jun 8, 12:42 1
  - It's always the worst people standing up for white supremacy. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:56
- And he owns a Volkswagen? - Spawn Jun 8, 11:59
- "Protagonist". He's comic relief at best. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 11:53
- he got cushy treatment during his arrest - sat in the front, reclined, passenger seat of the police car because "he has back issues." -- nm - colin Jun 8, 11:51
Kacey Musgraves, Bonnie Raitt, Bill Murray and Stephen Colbert Confirmed for John Prine Tribute - mud Jun 8, 11:45
Judge sets Derek Chauvin's bail at $1.25 million in George Floyd's death -- nm - budice Jun 8, 11:44 1
- "We 'lose' evidence all the time, surely you can 'lose' a prisoner." -- nm - police union Jun 8, 11:50
Clowns or midgets? -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:36 4
- Jokers to the right. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 11:47
- Yeah, I know - this station sucks -- nm - Epiphany- not ADAB Jun 8, 11:46
- midget clowns -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 8, 11:38 1
  - Shorty was scary as hell. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:39

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