Budley Doright
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Never heard about that but I tend not to search out conspiracy theories. Got a link?
September 24th
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DoubleAtotheRON
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Not at all.
DoubleAtotheRON
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Hell, Im not ashamed to say I had to look up some of the words you guys were saying.
CunningCanuk
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I’ve done that, also.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
DoubleAtotheRON
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Oklahoman's and the South in general have words that sound like one word, but they usually consist of a few words blended together..
Fixinta- Im about to do something
Jeetyet- Did you eat yet?
Sco- Let's get going
We've somehow made the English language shorthand.
Fixinta- Im about to do something
Jeetyet- Did you eat yet?
Sco- Let's get going
We've somehow made the English language shorthand.
DoubleAtotheRON
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.... but!, It's all in the environment you're in. We lived in the Middle East for a few years, and when we got back, I couldn't hardly understand what the hell people were saying. My son has been out in Cali for 4 years, (33 yrs old) and was born and raised like a redneck, but he sounds like a surfer dude on the phone now. His southern accent is totally gone. I had to ask him if this was ______... he's like "yeah dad, wtf?"
Drop That Sound
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For some funny reason, 17 astro nots have died in the atmosphere, for various reasons, but none that ever made it to space and back ever did. Every thing went perfect you could say, once they finally got some of them into space.
You would think there would be an actual death in space, with all the so called space activity, the amount of people sent up there, and the effects it has.
No one has ever died in space.
You would think there would be an actual death in space, with all the so called space activity, the amount of people sent up there, and the effects it has.
No one has ever died in space.
cannabineer
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Would you be happier if Lovell, Haise and Swigert would have expired over an open mike hours before reentry?
How about if Neil Armstrong hadn’t figured out why the Gemini 8 spacecraft suddenly decided to become a centrifuge, killing him and Dave Scott?
… Dude.
Fogdog
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You are making a claim that cities lack enough police to fight crime. I don't think that is true. I think we use police inappropriately. We use them stupidly. They are sent out on domestic disputes, or when people are having a mental breakdown, or when a drug addict has had too much, or when somebody objects to a homeless person or a Black person in their neighborhood. The police, whether in Portland or Philadelphia spend most of their time responding to non criminal calls. Most times they are called on for unfounded reasons. After that, police are called on to be social workers. A tiny fraction of their time is spent doing what we train police to do -- to be warriors.
So, I don't dispute that you are concerned about the "rise in violent crime", I just say we could do with fewer armed warriors and more with training in psychology, de-escalation and social workers helping people with drug addiction.
On one point, I agree with you. Most police are not bad people. The fraction of people charged for participating in the Jan 6 riot who are police is the same as the fraction of people who are police in our society. So, it's not as if police are more prone to be violent fascists. But the larger the force, the more there are. It's a numbers game. This is another reason to keep the number of warrior police down.
Its a matter of using our police budget intelligently. More armed men on the streets who are trained to "fight crime" means too few people working as police with appropriate skill sets.
Fogdog
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HI!!!
Hey, I am hoping you could tell us about Plasma Beings? Info on Plasma Beings, plz.
DoubleAtotheRON
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I think I went over this already... watch for it on Netflix.
DoubleAtotheRON
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While there have been many that have died in training or trying to exit the atmosphere, I could only find 3 that died in space...The rest, yeah.... just trying to get there has been fatal.
Fogdog
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We train police to be warriors — and then send them out to be social workers
The fatal mismatch at the heart of American policing.
We train police to be warriors — and then send them out to be social workers
The fatal mismatch at the heart of American policing.
For decades, the warrior cop has been the popular image of police in America, reinforced by TV shows, movies, media, police recruitment videos, police leaders, and public officials.
This image is largely misleading. Police do fight crime, to be sure — but they are mainly called upon to be social workers, conflict mediators, traffic directors, mental health counselors, detailed report writers, neighborhood patrollers, and low-level law enforcers, sometimes all in the span of a single shift. In fact, the overwhelming majority of officers spend only a small fraction of their time responding to violent crime.
However, the institution of policing in America does not reflect that reality. We prepare police officers for a job we imagine them to have rather than the role they actually perform. Police are hired disproportionately from the military, trained in military-style academies that focus largely on the deployment of force and law, and equipped with lethal weapons at all times, and they operate within a culture that takes pride in warriorship, combat, and violence.
How police officers spend their time on the job
The best information on how police officers spend their time comes from “calls for service” data made publicly available by individual police agencies. These are often defined as calls to emergency operators, 911 calls, alarms, and police radio and non-emergency calls. Most calls for service are initiated by citizens, but the data I draw on here captures the officer’s final categorization of the incident.
The data overwhelmingly finds that police officers in aggregate spend the vast majority of their time responding to non-criminal calls, traffic-related incidents, and low-level crimes — and only a tiny fraction on violent crimes.
My favorite visualization of this data comes from former UK police officer and Temple University criminologist Jerry Ratcliffe, who used 2015 data from Philadelphia, a city with relatively high crime rates, to construct this graphic. The area of each box represents the proportion of reported incidents within that category:
link to the Infographic
Fogdog
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Oh come on, man. You are the most complete source of fake news, false conspiracies, right wing lies and distortions I've ever met. It is inconcievable that you don't know about Plasma Beings. Why are you holding out on this information? Is it because it's true that there really are Plasma Beings? So, fill us in. It would be the one time you posted something worth reading.
Drop That Sound
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Ya the soviets... their deaths are completely classified, so how does anyone know how they died?
DoubleAtotheRON
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This thread was honestly the first time I have ever heard the term "Plasma Beings"..... sounds cool tho.
DoubleAtotheRON
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I thought about that too... how do they know that they died up there and not upon re-entry?... guess we'll never know... shit, that was in 1971, they're not going to change the story now.Ya the soviets... their deaths are completely classified, so how does anyone know how they died?
DoubleAtotheRON
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REALLY???..... WINNING!!!!!
Drop That Sound
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I am more than happy to hop on a rocket to outer space myself, when I get older. I don't care if I die, and would sacrifice myself to be the first man to actually go to space to die. Why won't nasa hook me up? Give my a few hour oxygen supply and a pressure suit, and send me up as a human test subject?
I don't even care about being able to record any of it, or tell people what I see. If I hit the 100% silicon firmament dome wall and explode, then that will be that. I'll see for myself whats up.
Sounds cooler than having a drone drop me off at the top of Everest, so my body can stay frozen until someone clones my DNA and grows a new one. That was my old plan. According to many of you guys global warming will melt it all off, so space is the next best way to stay preserved until I drift off to another star system with aliens.
Put me in a Pontiac Fiero instead of a Tesla though..