To me it was a bit hard to get past the unbelievable BS. Just poke a hole in your suit to fly in space. - yeah, ok, fair point. But that was at the end of the film!
The 1hr 30mins before that not impress you? lol
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The Martian (2015) - an excellent movie
by LoveUniHateExams ini first saw the martian (2015) at the end of last year.. it is directed by ridley scott, so the cinematography is gorgeous.
i thought the plot and characters were solid, with good acting from all.
i particularly liked the banter between mark watney and his colleagues.
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Do You Think White People Are Being Discriminated Against?
by minimus insome call it reverse discrimination.
whatever you want to refer to as, in your opinion, are white people being unfairly picked on?
it seems acceptable that if you are white you are viewed with disdain.
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Do You Think White People Are Being Discriminated Against? - no, not really.
There's no wholesale systemic discrimination against whites, but there is plenty of anti-white sentiment going on in white-majority countries, often from white people.
E.g. it's ok for some twattish, (usually middle class, white) person to say that the British countryside is hideously white. If the same person said rap music was 'hideously black' then that person would be cancelled quicker than black-on-black crime, lol.
Another example: the leader of BLM's British chapter is a black female schoolteacher. She has posted on twitter about wanting white people to become black people's slaves, with little outcry. Imagine if a white person posted a message that said that black people should return to slavery, or some such sh1t. The police would be called to investigate a hate crime.
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Clap for the Carers (or Don't it's Forbidden)
by Slidin Fast inso, in the uk, during the early stages of covid there was a groundswell of appreciation for the nhs for their front-line sacrifice.
this was crystallised into a regular clapping/whistling/noise making session every thursday at 8pm.. "harmless" you would have thought, "a gesture of appreciation", "what could possibly be wrong with joining in on that innocent activity?".
well, the co during his recent rounds had a different view.
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The WT says 'don't clap'.
Outside in the real world, most UK citizens are under pressure to clap Our Amazing NHS. That's right, clap the NHS whilst people are dying of cancer, stroke, heart attacks and other diseases because everyone's focused solely on COVID.
If people wanna clap, let them clap. If they don't wanna, then don't clap. It's no biggie.
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What police have to deal with
by LoveUniHateExams inso, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.
i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.
cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.
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The mainstream media must carry a lot of blame in the way they report shootings.
I recently read about the 13-year-old boy who was shot dead.
It's terrible but the media left out some key details: the kid was armed, walking around with an adult man at 2 in the morning, firing shots. One cop arrested the adult. The second cop chased the kid down an alley. The cop saw the kid had a gun and shouted at him to drop it. The kid, in one motion, dropped the gun behind a fence and put his hands toward the cop. In a split-second, the cop had to make a decision and fired one shot at the kid. The kid died, despite efforts to revive him.
It will likely be ruled a justified, reasonable use of force.
Here's a video breaking the sad incident down …
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The Martian (2015) - an excellent movie
by LoveUniHateExams ini first saw the martian (2015) at the end of last year.. it is directed by ridley scott, so the cinematography is gorgeous.
i thought the plot and characters were solid, with good acting from all.
i particularly liked the banter between mark watney and his colleagues.
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I first saw The Martian (2015) at the end of last year.
It is directed by Ridley Scott, so the cinematography is gorgeous. I thought the plot and characters were solid, with good acting from all. I particularly liked the banter between Mark Watney and his colleagues.
The plot is simple: Botanist Mark Watney is stranded on Mars, presumed dead by his colleagues. He must somehow survive until help arrives.
Another thing I like is that it is accurate - I'm geeky enough to look at a map of Mars for Acidalia Planitia, the site of the Pathfinder and the Schiaparelli Crater.
Here's the trailer …
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What police have to deal with
by LoveUniHateExams inso, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.
i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.
cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.
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I've expressed my concern over the adoption of military tactics by our police many times.
On the battlefield it may be okay to shoot an enemy captive when he startles you with a sneeze, but it's not okay when that person is your neighbor.
Thing is, there are plenty of lunatics out there who don't behave in a neighbourly manner. If cops signal for a car to stop but the driver keeps driving, the cops' suspicions are heightened.
If the cops try to detain a person and issue the order 'put your hands out of the window' but the person ignores it, then the cops may think the guy's got a gun or whatever.
If cops try to arrest a person but the person suddenly runs back into his car, the cops don't know what's gonna happen.
At least some cops have adopted 'military tactics' because there are plenty of stupid citizens, including some citizens who'll try and pull a gun on cops.
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What police have to deal with
by LoveUniHateExams inso, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.
i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.
cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.
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The series of mistakes I listed cascade into each other inasmuch as each one in turn yanks the rug of justification out from under the next one down the line. With that in mind, I'm afraid I'm not following you on #2 and #3 - ok, my comments on #2 and #3 point out the responsibility of the army driver to comply with orders, something he repeatedly refused to do (I'm talking about the clear orders when just one cop is talking). The army guy ignored the clear order 'put your hands outside the window!' multiple times.
The cops shouldn't have made mistakes. They should have issued clear orders. But the army guy ignored orders even when they were clear.
Is non-compliance with orders a crime? Is refusing to follow along with detainment (e.g. put both hands outside the window) a crime?
The George Floyd death, the Daunte Wright death, and this stop of the army guy all show a pattern: refusal to comply with cops, which leads to escalation.
Seeing as this thread is about the crap cops have to deal with, I'll post another example.
In this video a cop stops a white woman and asks her to provide proof of ownership of her vehicle. She refuses, claiming to be a 'free inhabitant', so the cop eventually uses force to make her comply.
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What would happen to the Watchtower Org. if the recent UFO sightings were actually aliens ready to take over Earth
by pistolpete inthe past two weeks several ufo sightings.
navy and pentagon confirm sightings.
us military is worried because the technology being used to drive these air vehicles are showing no signs of any sort of jet fuel.
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What Do Today’s Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Think?
by minimus inwhen i was a witness i knew what my beliefs were and could defend my views, even if it really was wrong.
i understood jw doctrines .
i could define what the faithful and discreet slave was.
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What Do Today’s Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Think? - er, they don't.
If they think, they tend to exit the org.
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What police have to deal with
by LoveUniHateExams inso, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.
i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.
cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.
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#1 Nazario's temporary vehicle license was visible in the lower right hand corner of his rear window even in the body cam video, which wasn't even at a good angle to see it. The police may not have seen it in the dark, but once he pulled into a brightly lit gas station, proper procedure would have been to check for and run that tag. [italics mine] - Hang on a sec, doesn't the law state that a displayed vehicle license must be visible at all times? The cops had every right to stop the guy if they couldn't see that license.
#2 The imperatives shouted at Nazario were conflicting. He was simultaneously told to keep his hands visible and to get out of the vehicle which would have involved pulling a hand inside the vehicle which would very likely have gottem him shot. - yes, you're right here. The imperatives were conflicted when both cops started talking. But what about the commands given before that, when just one was talking? The army guy blatantly refused quite a few of these commands. Who escalated the situation, the cops or the army guy?
#3 Use of force by police must be justified by the level of threat. A suspect may be noncompliant for a whole spectrum of reasons ranging from impairment/confusion/fear on one end to open hostility on the other. It's one thing if a suspect is surely and combative, but it's quite another if he is holding his hands up and stating that he's afraid - yes, use of force must be justified by level of threat. However, cops don't know why a suspect would be non-compliant. Just try to put yourself in the cops' shoes here. They want to stop a guy who isn't displaying his tags so that they're visible. Then the suspect ignores them, driving a mile and a half with the cop car following him, lights and signs going. The cops must be wondering why the suspect is ignoring them. Then one cop gets out and shouts for the army guy to put his hands outside the window, multiple times. The army guy ignores all these commands. The army guy isn't complying here.
^^^ the army guy ain't making life easy for himself, is he? In fact, his non-compliance escalated the situation.
Proper procedure is to make that determination and not needlessly escalate a traffic stop. - The cop went from pointing a gun at the army guy to switching to his taser to switching to his pepper spray. <--- this is actually de-escalation. I'll say again. it was the army guy's non-compliance which escalated this particular situation.
None of this is my personal opinion. This is what use of force experts across the country have said after reviewing the recordings, which is why Gutierrez was fired - I'd rather hear your personal opinions than respond to your appeal to authority but I'll comment anyway. The cops certainly made a few mistakes, although I personally don't think the cop should've been fired. Disciplined and retrained - yes.
And all this happened just as the Chauvin trial is underway, with America on a knife edge, braced for rioting and looting, sorry, 'mostly peaceful protests'. Maybe that had something to do with the cop being fired?