[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The bystander video is shown here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1188314849017274

Video shows three cops chasing a suspect. The first cop tackles the kid and proceeds to punch him. The second cop run up with gun drawn and shots the kid in less than a second while the first cop is still busy wrestling.

IMHO, the 2nd cop's shooting was incredibly unsafe since he was shooting a suspect wrestling another cop from less than 1 foot away. As far as I can tell, the cop basically ran up to the kid, put his gun to his head, and pulled the trigger. You can not tell from THIS video if there was a gun in the kids hand, but I can't believe the first cop would not have tackled him if there was! There is no way this is a good shooting.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

As an engineering manager, I've already seen cover letters and intro emails that are so obviously AI generated that it's laughable. These should be used like you use them for writing essays, as a framework with general prompts, but filled in by yourself.

Fake friendliness that was outsourced to an ai is worse than no friendliness at all.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Add liberals, scientists, teachers to the end of the list.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

OK... so this is weird. The Supreme court just upheld that the funding structure of the CFPB was constitutional overruling the 5th circuit ruling that the CFPB funding structure was unconstitutional... But THIS federal judge just used the 5th court unconstitutionality ruling as the basis for why this CFPB credit card rule was unconstitutional (the CFPB is unconstitutional so any decision they make is invalid). It seems like he's leaning on a just overturned ruling to make this decision. Is this just a case of a timing error where everything in the credit card fee case was filed before he Supreme Court overruled the 5th circuit's ruling or is there another argument there?

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The dropping interest rate is one of the main reasons that housing prices have skyrocketed in the past 20 years. People judge housing prices by what they can afford monthly and interest rates directly impact that figure. It's only a matter of time for housing prices to fall drastically if interest rates remain at 7%.

And yes, I have a 500k loan at 2.5% on a 30yr fixed mortgage. Maybe we'll sell our house in 15 years, but otherwise, forget it! I have zero interest in paying it off early.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This kind of feels like the "why aren't you inclusive of my racism?" argument conservatives have used against liberals. "I thought you were supportive of different viewpoints?!"

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

This is so weird. Why would they not just pay their drivers more. Add it directly to the cost of doing business. What's the issue?

It's like making a minimum wage for all fast food employees. All fast food establishments now have higher wage costs. So what? The cost of a hamburger goes up $0.50. All your competitors now have the same costs. How does this change anything for you? Versus going out of business?

Think about if only Uber left. That's a lot of extra business for Lyft. What's the big deal? Hm... maybe they have to cover the salary even if the driver doesn't accept any rides? Maybe that's the real issue. How do you guarantee drivers are busy and not just signing in and doing nothing and canceling offered rides? That still doesn't seem that hard to fix.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I get what you're saying, but imagine for a second that Trump managed to convince two states legislators to send in R electoral college votes and throw out the democratic election. Imagine how pissed you'd be. It's not that hard to imagine liberals storming the capital because of a stolen election.

I don't find the reverse scenario to be that far fetched. I get their misplaced anger. They were sold lies and those lies are enraging if you believe them. I don't think it's that hard to see the other side's viewpoint.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Yeah, isn't it like practicing? You're not very good at something so you practice over and over and over and hopefully when you're done you do it better... You know different than when you started.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

As an American I don't get this either. You want to cut on my child's penis the day after he's born?! The fuck? Who says yes to that?

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's imagine an alternate scenario for a second. Let's say there was a Black Lives Matter protest and they broadcast the same stuff that these guys did. "Come to the capital protest!" "It will be wild!" Etc. Then let's say AOC got up there and said "lets march to the capital!"... Imagine this happened while Trump is in office.... and you know for a FACT there would have been tanks in the street and attack helicopters in the air and solders with guns drawn before then even got close to the capital.

The lack of response is how you know this was a Trump planned event. Only a fucking moron would not see the obvious.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

So... they occupy the building. Trump moves in with the military to "protect the capital" and says "we're postponing the results of the election until we can resolve the election irregularities". He then weeds out the generals in the military that show resistance to going along with things. Then he basically just extends the deadline for when he'll hand power back indefinitely. Then he finds a way to blame the democrats for the Jan 6th stuff and locks them up, and voilà, coup complete.

The republicans would have gone along with this is a heart beat.

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