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Re: The Difference Between [Chat]s and Dogs
It was some high teenagers, on my street, with a candelabra
Organichu
+6
Re: I finally got a [Job] but still post here
Surprisingly, the only time I ever had to deal with someone methodically reshelving the creationist books in the fantasy section was when I worked at Hastings. I guess the Dewey numbers on the spine intimidate people in a way that the organization scheme of a regional bookstore just doesn't.
Jedoc
+5
Re: The Difference Between [Chat]s and Dogs
why did they record a rap song about wireless access points?
"why would I need a bucket and mop for a wireless access point?"
"clearly you haven't worked IT at a hospital"
Aioua
+5
Re: The Difference Between [Chat]s and Dogs
Wtf chanus why is your backyard a breathtaking monument to natural beauty
MrMister
+7
Re: I finally got a [Job] but still post here
Nothing like some nice tidy windrows to break a drought.
Jedoc
+6
Re: The Difference Between [Chat]s and Dogs
When Roko's Basilisk finally gets me, he's gonna run me through a slow-mo sim where it takes one million years each time for Ben Shapiro to say the phrase "wet-ass p-word"
MrMister
+5
Re: The Difference Between [Chat]s and Dogs
RiemannLives wrote: »RiemannLives wrote: »anyone know if it is possible to have a bluetooth device such as headphones hooked up to two devices at once? Right now I have to re-pair the device whenever I go from the Code Cave in the basement to upstairs.
On the face of it I would guess probably not as it would introduce problems if the headphones were in range of two active devices at once. But thought I'd ask just in case.
Yeah, my headphones are paired to my phone and my work computer. It just chooses one if they're both in range
Interesting. I will have to tinker with this.
"Go to the one you love the most, headphones."
VishNub
+6
Re: [Police Brutality] Has Caused Ongoing National Protests
Dismantle DHS for utterly failing to live up to its own stated mission. Oppressing peaceful protesters with violence and putting refugees and children in cages does nothing to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and makes a mockery the values we supposedly honor.
GONG-00
+6
Re: [Police Brutality] Has Caused Ongoing National Protests
I mentioned in the SE thread how many cop shows really need to be axed. They give the clueless and impressionable children the wrong idea of things are and how the police should work. I don't recall many getting into how there is a fair bit of corruption and racism in the PD. if it does get touched, it ends up be handwaved away as just a few rotten cops. Then there is the very problematic case of many cop shows having the perp getting gunned down. I'd argue that lazy ass style of writing, which is what it is because it's the writers making sure they never have to revisit the story, has normalized a perception in too many that it's okay for the police to be trigger happy. If there is one more thing I could get changed with TV involving policing, other than the fact that COPS got axed, it would be that style of writing getting axed as well and the vast majority of police show episodes ending with the perp getting arrested. Second thing would be a more honest portrayal of how dysfunctional most PDs are and the third be court dramas touching on how bullshit a ton of things are if you're poor and a minority and how easy wealthy white shits have it at evading justice.
Also would live to see abolishing the DHS get traction. It's a shit department that shouldn't have been created. We only really needed an agency to make sure intelligence agencies did a better job of sharing information so that if they each have pieces of insight on what a criminal group is up to; especially, one that goes out of it's way to cause mass violence, action can be taken quicker to prevent them from carrying shit out. IIRC besides the Bush admin being fucking dumb, part of the issue with 9/11 was that a few agencies did have pieces of the puzzle and if they had shared, people would have grasped the nature of the threat far earlier and might have been able to stop it. Problem was, no one wanted to share for agency rivalry bullshit reasons. In regards to civil liberty concerns, some of that could be addressed by stipulating which specific organizations sharing is required and scenarios where it's warranted to get judge approval to start sharing. That way the FBI, ATF, CIA and whoever else can't all start keeping tabs and coordinating intel they've gathered on some random BLM activist.
Hell, nuking DHS would be the first step at probably purging ICE from the government and running a bunch of shitty fascists out of government jobs. IIRC it's widely believe that the department is full of tons of fuckups that wouldn't be able to otherwise get a government job.
Also would live to see abolishing the DHS get traction. It's a shit department that shouldn't have been created. We only really needed an agency to make sure intelligence agencies did a better job of sharing information so that if they each have pieces of insight on what a criminal group is up to; especially, one that goes out of it's way to cause mass violence, action can be taken quicker to prevent them from carrying shit out. IIRC besides the Bush admin being fucking dumb, part of the issue with 9/11 was that a few agencies did have pieces of the puzzle and if they had shared, people would have grasped the nature of the threat far earlier and might have been able to stop it. Problem was, no one wanted to share for agency rivalry bullshit reasons. In regards to civil liberty concerns, some of that could be addressed by stipulating which specific organizations sharing is required and scenarios where it's warranted to get judge approval to start sharing. That way the FBI, ATF, CIA and whoever else can't all start keeping tabs and coordinating intel they've gathered on some random BLM activist.
Hell, nuking DHS would be the first step at probably purging ICE from the government and running a bunch of shitty fascists out of government jobs. IIRC it's widely believe that the department is full of tons of fuckups that wouldn't be able to otherwise get a government job.
Mill
+5