Do we actually know if he had a knife? Initial reporting was that the police knew he had a knife because he refused to take his hands out of his pockets. While he did threaten them, it was contingent upon them continuing to follow them. He did not actually attack them until after multiple officers attempted to tase him. Furthermore, so what if he had a knife? As far as we’re aware, he’s got a second amendment right to keep and bear arms. Being armed isn’t an excuse to be killed by cops because you are generally explicitly allowed to be armed.

All in all:

• We don’t know he’s armed
• We don’t know his intentions
• He didn’t immediately attack anyone
• While he did threaten them he made no indication that he intended to follow through until he was attacked
• He continued to try to leave the situation until he was attacked
• The police attacked him first
• He didn’t have a gun
• 4 people were shot by the police; he was killed (this seems to have been erroneously reported earlier. He is now reportedly in critical condition), an officer and 2 bystanders were wounded
• No one was stabbed

While that is textbook escalation, it really doesn’t seem like they shot him cause he had a knife. They shot him (and 3 others) cause he didn’t care about their authority and they couldn’t let the guy that was already on the train go. And all that came about because he tried to skip a fare that costs around the same amount as the bullets fired.

There are 5 basic rules for guns:

• Treat every gun as if it were loaded.
• Always point your gun in a safe direction.
• Never point your gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot.
• Keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.
• Be sure of your target and what’s beyond.

What I posted was a subset of the five then alluded to the full list.

There are VoIP options, sure, but not the actual phone bands.

Except the actual phone part.

It’s way more than just trigger discipline. There’s the traditional rules of course:

• Never point your gun at something you do not intend to kill
• Be sure of your target and what’s beyond
• Trigger discipline

But there’s also reasonable shit beyond the 5 basic rules:

• Don’t willingly put yourself in a situation where use of a gun may be warranted.
• Property isn’t worth killing over, especially in situations where you had to go out of your way to put yourself in perceived danger to protect it.
• Don’t block in the person you are trying to convince to leave.
• People with guns commit more acts of violence than those who don’t. Owning a gun is an irresponsible choice. There are more and there are less responsible gun owners, but owning a gun puts you and those around at a greater risk of violence. When all you have is a hammer …

Oh s—, my gun just went off

Weird, I’d been told they don’t do that.

Cool! Yet another way to have Google loop the same 20 songs tangentially related to the artist I searched for without actually playing the artist I searched for.

Shoots dead activist

There are less clumsy ways of phrasing that Israel killed someone.

So if I were to announce my candidacy, go there with a professional photographer, then yell and push people I would also get away scott free, right? Or is the permanent backing of an angry, violent prone mob also a requirement.

Hmm, they got 1 out before they killed him this time. I suppose that’s an improvement.

Very simply:

• A function defines a curve.
• A derivative reveals the slope of that curve at a very specific point.
• An integral reveals the area “under” the curve (the space bounded by the curve and the horizontal axis).

When the number one result in Google is a site answering my exact question with “did you try googling it first?” I have no incentive to interact with that site.

Any consenting adult should be able to. Sex work is work and it’s far past time we stop stigmatizing and criminalizing that.

Sometimes people put the year they were born in their username like janedoe1969. Sometimes people abbreviate the year to the last 2 digits like janedoe69. Sometimes 2 digit numbers mean something else like 69 or 88. Sometimes people use the non year meaning as an indicator like whitedaddy88. Sometimes people don’t immediately recognize the alternative meaning of a number and accidentally use a dog whistle in their username. Sometimes people don’t want to be confused as being a Nazi because of an innocent mistake they made on a forum years ago. Sometimes they use that negative experience as an opportunity for a meta referential joke.

Well you certainly seemed to have held up to your username.

He’s from Chipotle, so Starbucks basically just replaced their top guy with a clone.

They have touted for a long time their false equivalency that restriction equals security. If they backtrack on that (I believe) they believe they will lose customers. In reality their fanbase will likely stick with them because that’s what they know and the added functionality will make their offerings a more appealing product.

Now that Europe is forcing their hand on some of this we can see the impacts it will have on their market growth in the coming years. There are other factors that impact this potential shift in market share too:

• Is your current phone still working
• Have you had a lot of problems with your current phone or phone manufacturer
• Are you willing to ignore Apple’s past regresses in anticipation of actually being able to use their hardware as you wish

I side load. That’s why I stick to Android. If they get rid of that I need to find something else. Restricting what your users can do is actually a bad business process and the key thing keeping me away from Apple. If Apple were to actually open their systems and start respecting their users they would get more customers.

Really looking like Trump’s the true RINO.