Two governors in one movie. Not sure what that says, but it’s nothing good.

24 was another one that legitimized brutality.

I’ve occasionally seen early episodes of Cops, the difference in uniform is notable. Don’t know how you’d ever measure it, but I bet Cops is actually responsible for a lot of deaths due to the cultural shift.

I mean, I guess you can make the case that it was that one particular thing.

This is a major cultural shift away from peace officer to Judge Dredd. It’s more than just the one, admittedly terrible, court ruling. You can just as easily make the argument that right wing talk radio of the time was the major driver of the change.

You must be ignorant of the reality of speed traps. Towns where it drops from 65 to 35 and the sign is hard to see. Andy Griffith, the twilight zone version, makes his living off people not from town. Also look up sundown towns. The signs are gone but they still exist, black folks generally know about them, there are probably still guides.

They didn’t used to look like this. The shift happened sometime in the late '90s - early aughts. The fonts and designs until then were gradually modernized but it was similar to corporate letterhead. They also shifted from baby blue shirts to all black around the same time.

The image went from stressful/powerful bureaucrat in a funny uniform to GI Joe action figure.

There is always, always one pair of these in the safety cabinet. Nobody knows how it got there, nobody ever uses them cause you work inside under artificial light and you need real sunglasses out in the yard or welding goggles. They’re probably 20 years old sitting in that cabinet.

I’m labeling the next pair I find, “Portable Mexico.”

Delivering bad news? Hand them Portable Mexico and a Corona.

What’s your old lady’s cop show? My girl is always looking for new trash TV while she works.

Like you, I hate the fucking pigs. Got stories about corrupt sheriffs and gang rape and shit. Fuckem.

Here’s a fun one from when I was a kid. Had a '65 Chevy fleet side pickup for my first truck. Worked at a tater farm. Was driving home from work and I got pulled over for the first time. I wasn’t even wearing boots, just jeans and a straw hat. Complete redneck, may still have had a mullet.

Cop walks up and tells me, “roll down your window.”

“I can’t, don’t have a handle.”

“Open the door.”

“I don’t have a handle for the door on this side, can you open it?”

Cop opens the door and asks me, little red in the face, “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

“It wasn’t for speeding because I can’t in this truck.”

“You don’t have a license plate.”

I look at the back glass where it was taped up, and sure enough, it’s gone. “Hang on, let me grab it.” So I search around in the passenger foot well and find the license plate, duct tape still attached. A Cheetos bag is stuck to it. I hand the assembly to the cop. “Sorry mister, it fell down.”

Watch the cop take the license plate, duct tape and Cheeto bag to his car. Could see his shoulders jumping in my rearview, I assume he was laughing his ass off while he radioed that shit in.

Gave me my plate and tape assembly back, told me to fix it, and let me go.

You ever end up in Yankee land, Pittsburgh way, holler at me and we’ll take you out to dinner.

Can you talk more about melatonin, hormone dependent cancers, and light exposure? Also, what about shift work and rotating schedules?

It is still the norm in the US, especially in rural areas. Unfortunately, cats are absolute hell on wildlife, especially ground nesting birds like quail and killdees. We keep our cats inside, they watch bird TV through the windows.

Hand code is still used. Most frequently, a sub is hand coded with incremental moves and then called at a point. A lot of probing, weird moves, edge cases all still get hand coded.

Hand editing CAM produced programs constantly occurs at the machine as well.

3D printing gcode is pretty ugly because hobbyists “improved” the language without really understanding why it was so stripped down.

Modern Gcode is really meant to be machine generated and human readable/editable.

This is why I don’t like the IA+ LGBTQIA+. Q was a good stopping point because queer is such a great way of saying “it’s complicated but not straight.”

Queer is a nice big tent we can all get under instead of performative labeling or over complication.

They’re not wrong. The deaths of Indians from the Americas and the aborigines from Australia far surpass the technical definition of genocide. Throw in banana republics and other nation building and it is totally arguable that the US has been complicit in many other genocides, for instance.

Thanks for the analysis! Looks like the 250th anniversary will be the party line for MAGAts and such. I was sure the anniversary was just an excuse but this is even more black and white.

Makes you feel like you’re taking crazy pills watching everyone accept insanity. Grab a Republican from twenty years ago and tell them the president is holding a military parade and they’d want to impeach him.

Read the article but it didn’t cover some questions. I haven’t paid that much attention to this because the stupid hurts. Thought this was settled science like iodine in salt.

What does mainstream science generally say about the efficacy and dangers of modern flouride in municipal water? What are the MAGAts regurgitating as the reason to ban flouride/what’s the conspiracy?

LPT. If you ever get the chance to go to a Waffle House: order a Cherry Coke and ask for a double shot of cherry.

It turns into CHERRY coke and is even better.

As another poster said, Puppy Killer Barbie. I think that has a little more emotional punch.

Damn skippy. Gaslighting and basic ass lying are different things. But hey, it’s trendy right now. Next, we’ll find out how he’s a malignant narcissist.

Dude posted a shill review. It’s called shilling. It’s a form of lying for profit. He likely did it to advance his career or because he was afraid not to. His employer likely encouraged the action without directly ordering it.

Oh man. Maybe we’ll get real AI one day that can write that book. It would have been such a good book.

Nobody better fucking tell Brian Herbert this idea.

Picking up hitchhikers to Woodstock during the summer of '69 kind of narrows it down unless op was one of those maple syrup types.