Though Portland protesters are growing smaller in number, a deadly clash over the weekend prompted Oregon's governor to call on outside law enforcement agencies to rein in demonstrations. Two Portland-area sheriff's departments said Monday that they will not deploy deputies.
Despite Gov. Kate Brown's announcement on Sunday that three neighboring law enforcement jurisdictions and Oregon State Police would help the Portland Police Bureau respond to the protests, the Clackamas County and Washington County Sheriff's Offices said Monday they will not send deputies due to what they said were policy disagreements and a lack of political support from Portland officials for law enforcement.
this other dude made it out okay, despite the fact that he was passed out drunk when the cops called him and mixing booze and ketamine is dangerous as hell, but it did land him in the ICU for a couple days
i'm looking forward to somebody proposing a law banning police from holding people down while medical people drug them against their will for no other reason than "the fuck you gonna do about it." it also seems to me like the medical people definitely get some share of the blame in this shit too
It is scarily common to just put a person in crisis in a k-hole. I brought it up with a paramedic friend and they didn't even seem to care about the ethical ramifications. I found it disgusting.
that is just so fucked up
i've never done the stuff myself but i used to hang out with some folks who did semi-regularly. i'm ambivalent about people willingly subjecting themselves to that shit, to say nothing of just doping people up rather than dealing with whatever's actually wrong with them
like okay i'm not a medical professional so maybe i don't get to have a say in shit like this, but jesus
unfortunately neither are EMTs and paramedics
they aren't qualified to administer ketamine or rather shouldn't be qualified to administer anesthetics that have risk of death in the field
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you're hella right about the north vs south thing. we have no hope until we can stop framing it like the benighted hill people in the south are doing all the racism while we enlightenedly tut tut at them, meanwhile last i heard the north was still more segregated than the south
It is a serious issue with the education (both formalized and non) that you receive in the area.
I spent a long time talking about my partner (who is from a similar sort of upper middle liberal town in New Jersey) about it last weekend.
And we both had the experience that we learned about some of our country's nastier history. Not all of it, of course, and not necessarily in school in the way that you think about learning about such things. But the way that we learned about such things were presented in a way that... well, quite honestly, it was presented in the way that world history was.
For an example, sundown towns - overall small and specific, and it was something that both of us learned at some point - I believe it may have been in school for me, but my range there broadens a bit as a history major. They are something that, from that Northeastern education, we learned was a part of our history, but they were also something that were implicitly a Southern problem. Whether or not that implication was taught (by teachers strictly using examples that were located in the South, for instance) or something that we both just picked up from all of our regional background radiation, I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think it's a particularly uncommon problem regardless. This was something that happened elsewhere, either because racism just happens elsewhere, or because yes, individual peoples might still be racist in the Northeast (and boy howdy, they are), but it's not as much of an institutional thing.
And like, all of that is wrong. I'm glad I knew about sundown towns or whatever the hell else, but there's so much of it that I learned in a way that was not accurate to the way the world actually works, and I'm not sure sometimes if that is actually better, y'know? That slanted view of history, that idea that the rest of the country is effectively a foreign nation with foreign nation problems that you might visit but don't actually exist in, that's all very not good!
As a career firefighter in the Northeast (and generally I think this applies all over the US) there's a rough hierarchy in the civil/emergency services and top to bottom it kind of goes:
Police/Fire: in locales where both services are paid they make the same money and have the same "prestige" amongst the people looking for these jobs. Fire is typically only paid fully in cities so in most places police officer is the "top" jobs. Fuck cops.
EMT/Paramedic - Not paid in a ton of places, occasionally paramedics are also firefighters, both of these jobs are typically paid less and in most cases you work for a private entity. Usually a stepping stone for people looking to move up a tier. The nicest thing I can say for sure about these folks is that the medics at least graduated high school and the EMTs graduated grade school. Medics oscillate between good people and people with god complexes. Both of these groups should be paid more like nurses should be paid more.
Corrections officers- I have met/work with many former corrections officers. People who get out of this job - might/likely - will be assholes. People who flourish in this job are fucking nightmares. The standards are abysmal even in places where the pay is good. This is where people who are too stupid to become cops end up. People who are too stupid to become corrections officers don't exist, they're just not persistent enough.
It's a job that combines everything bad about police work with everything that's bad about being an orderly in a mental health facility. The only people who stay are those that can't find better work and those who indulge in the ample opportunities for brutality. Every story I've heard from a CO is an awful problem with a societally damning resolution.
With all that being said a lot of police and fire usually are cut from the same cloth when it comes to socioeconomic background. They're usually from multigenerational families, they grow up in the same neighborhoods and associate with families who are the same. In a lot of towns it'll come down to kids in these families taking both tests and just going with which one offers a job first.
Everyone else on that spectrum just kind of looks upward trying to get to the top.
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Prison guards and military police are consistently the worst fucking people a given society can produce
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NFL will write "End racism" and "It takes all of us" in end zones.
Not only is this hilariously pathetic, it's coming from a league that had a slur for a team name until THIS SUMMER
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Imagining the guy who's gonna go out and do a racism, but real quick he's gonna turn on the TV and check out how the Dolphins are playing. And then, what's that? Down at the end of the field? "End... Racism?"
And the man sits down. Slips off his racism clogs. Lets a single tear roll down his face.
NFL will write "End racism" and "It takes all of us" in end zones.
Not only is this hilariously pathetic, it's coming from a league that had a slur for a team name until THIS SUMMER
Also that blacklisted Kaepernick
oh cool, now that racism is settled maybe we can get cracking on something else
The commish said that maybe they should have listened to Kaepernick a few weeks ago, so it's all water under the bridge. NFL is settling all kinds of long-standing disputes recently, it's amazing.
I have some bad news about the discourse you're going to be enjoying for the next week or so
Official yard signs! In MY videogames!
I love this because it implies to me that the Biden campaign thinks the antipathy younger voters have with the campaign comes from the way its being advertised and not the thing being advertised. Its just so misguided.
"The problem with 2016 is that we didn't 2016 hard enough" <-- dem strategists, presumably.
And it's like I guess so you know like same thing but harder does have precedent a harder kick might get the dead dog past the line
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the ironic thing about "pokemon go to the polls" is that it sounded insincere as fuck but by all accounts Hilary was a huge pokeman fan
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
the ironic thing about "pokemon go to the polls" is that it sounded insincere as fuck but by all accounts Hilary was a huge pokeman fan
Sincerely insincere is a good summary of the DNC
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Can Pokemon even vote? They're animals.
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Honestly as long as there's not significant opportunity cost to "yard signs" in a video game (and with a budget in the hundreds of million I doubt it) then I don't really give a shit if the Biden campaign does this.
They really are intent in making every single mistake of 2016 aren’t they?
they didn't make any mistakes in 2016, the election was stolen from them by russian meddlers and bernie bros
Read all about it in Joe Biden's 2022 bestseller, "Well, It Definitely Wasn't *My* Fault: What Happened, Part Two", assuming America still has bookstores by then
Honestly as long as there's not significant opportunity cost to "yard signs" in a video game (and with a budget in the hundreds of million I doubt it) then I don't really give a shit if the Biden campaign does this.
So long as it's not all they're doing.
there's basically zero cost to this, it's not even a promotion through nintendo, they're just posting QR codes for the designs that you can load into your game
it probably took all of 5 minutes for an intern to run the images through one of the sites that auto-generates an AC pattern for you
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they aren't qualified to administer ketamine or rather shouldn't be qualified to administer anesthetics that have risk of death in the field
It is a serious issue with the education (both formalized and non) that you receive in the area.
I spent a long time talking about my partner (who is from a similar sort of upper middle liberal town in New Jersey) about it last weekend.
And we both had the experience that we learned about some of our country's nastier history. Not all of it, of course, and not necessarily in school in the way that you think about learning about such things. But the way that we learned about such things were presented in a way that... well, quite honestly, it was presented in the way that world history was.
For an example, sundown towns - overall small and specific, and it was something that both of us learned at some point - I believe it may have been in school for me, but my range there broadens a bit as a history major. They are something that, from that Northeastern education, we learned was a part of our history, but they were also something that were implicitly a Southern problem. Whether or not that implication was taught (by teachers strictly using examples that were located in the South, for instance) or something that we both just picked up from all of our regional background radiation, I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think it's a particularly uncommon problem regardless. This was something that happened elsewhere, either because racism just happens elsewhere, or because yes, individual peoples might still be racist in the Northeast (and boy howdy, they are), but it's not as much of an institutional thing.
And like, all of that is wrong. I'm glad I knew about sundown towns or whatever the hell else, but there's so much of it that I learned in a way that was not accurate to the way the world actually works, and I'm not sure sometimes if that is actually better, y'know? That slanted view of history, that idea that the rest of the country is effectively a foreign nation with foreign nation problems that you might visit but don't actually exist in, that's all very not good!
Police/Fire: in locales where both services are paid they make the same money and have the same "prestige" amongst the people looking for these jobs. Fire is typically only paid fully in cities so in most places police officer is the "top" jobs. Fuck cops.
EMT/Paramedic - Not paid in a ton of places, occasionally paramedics are also firefighters, both of these jobs are typically paid less and in most cases you work for a private entity. Usually a stepping stone for people looking to move up a tier. The nicest thing I can say for sure about these folks is that the medics at least graduated high school and the EMTs graduated grade school. Medics oscillate between good people and people with god complexes. Both of these groups should be paid more like nurses should be paid more.
Corrections officers- I have met/work with many former corrections officers. People who get out of this job - might/likely - will be assholes. People who flourish in this job are fucking nightmares. The standards are abysmal even in places where the pay is good. This is where people who are too stupid to become cops end up. People who are too stupid to become corrections officers don't exist, they're just not persistent enough.
It's a job that combines everything bad about police work with everything that's bad about being an orderly in a mental health facility. The only people who stay are those that can't find better work and those who indulge in the ample opportunities for brutality. Every story I've heard from a CO is an awful problem with a societally damning resolution.
With all that being said a lot of police and fire usually are cut from the same cloth when it comes to socioeconomic background. They're usually from multigenerational families, they grow up in the same neighborhoods and associate with families who are the same. In a lot of towns it'll come down to kids in these families taking both tests and just going with which one offers a job first.
Everyone else on that spectrum just kind of looks upward trying to get to the top.
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Tobacco company lawyers and lobbyists.
I've never had enough money to meet anyone like that
Like I said, anyone with a soul gets out.
People who tell you they love the job should not be trusted.
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Not only is this hilariously pathetic, it's coming from a league that had a slur for a team name until THIS SUMMER
Also that blacklisted Kaepernick
hey, using someone's lack of higher education as an insult is pretty fuckin gross
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And the man sits down. Slips off his racism clogs. Lets a single tear roll down his face.
oh cool, now that racism is settled maybe we can get cracking on something else
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The commish said that maybe they should have listened to Kaepernick a few weeks ago, so it's all water under the bridge. NFL is settling all kinds of long-standing disputes recently, it's amazing.
Official yard signs! In MY videogames!
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I love this because it implies to me that the Biden campaign thinks the antipathy younger voters have with the campaign comes from the way its being advertised and not the thing being advertised. Its just so misguided.
A mistake
They really are intent in making every single mistake of 2016 aren’t they?
And it's like I guess so you know like same thing but harder does have precedent a harder kick might get the dead dog past the line
Sincerely insincere is a good summary of the DNC
Many pokemon are sentient and more intelligent than supercomputers.
they didn't make any mistakes in 2016, the election was stolen from them by russian meddlers and bernie bros
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The same Bernie Bros that are not numerous enough to matter in elections and should therefore be ignored.
So long as it's not all they're doing.
Read all about it in Joe Biden's 2022 bestseller, "Well, It Definitely Wasn't *My* Fault: What Happened, Part Two", assuming America still has bookstores by then
there's basically zero cost to this, it's not even a promotion through nintendo, they're just posting QR codes for the designs that you can load into your game
it probably took all of 5 minutes for an intern to run the images through one of the sites that auto-generates an AC pattern for you