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Post by athn64 on Jul 29, 2019 20:48:42 GMT -6
The weird pseudo-worship of police officers honestly freaks me out. I get that they sometimes have to go into dangerous situations. But you know what would keep them safer? Not letting guns be so ubiquitous in this country. I have more respect for other first responders (firefighters and EMTs) who rush into dangerous situations unarmed. But I still see them as humans.
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Post by lemondrop on Jul 29, 2019 20:49:38 GMT -6
In continual GOP hypocrisy: in light of the much handwringing last week of Mueller choosing some Democrats to work on the investigation who had donated around $60k to Dem candidates, it turns out Barr’s donations to the National Republican Senatorial Committee skyrocketed right before he was confirmed as AG to the tune of $51k. Because of course they did. The GOP really just needs to change their tag line to “do as I say, not as I do”. qz.com/1667918/barrs-donations-to-senate-republicans-spiked-before-confirmation/
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Post by teatime on Jul 29, 2019 20:57:06 GMT -6
The weird pseudo-worship of police officers honestly freaks me out. I get that they sometimes have to go into dangerous situations. But you know what would keep them safer? Not letting guns be so ubiquitous in this country. I have more respect for other first responders (firefighters and EMTs) who rush into dangerous situations unarmed. But I still see them as humans. I was thinking about that, too. EMTs often end up in ongoing dangerous and extremely stressful situations. Firefighters obviously do every time they respond to a fire. But firefighters are also providing other services as well. I’ve seen some respond to a 911 call after a seizure. This is not to say there aren’t good police officers out there. There are. But I also really don’t like the code of silence they have when it comes to wrongdoing of one of their own, the stats on how many cops are domestic abusers, etc.
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Post by teatime on Jul 29, 2019 20:58:26 GMT -6
In continual GOP hypocrisy: in light of the much handwringing last week of Mueller choosing some Democrats to work on the investigation who had donated around $60k to Dem candidates, it turns out Barr’s donations to the National Republican Senatorial Committee skyrocketed right before he was confirmed as AG to the tune of $51k. Because of course they did. The GOP really just needs to change their tag line to “do as I say, not as I do”. qz.com/1667918/barrs-donations-to-senate-republicans-spiked-before-confirmation/Rules for thee and not for me, man. I can’t stand it.
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Post by jkjacq on Jul 29, 2019 21:04:32 GMT -6
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Post by JukEboX on Jul 30, 2019 5:15:58 GMT -6
The weird pseudo-worship of police officers honestly freaks me out. I get that they sometimes have to go into dangerous situations. But you know what would keep them safer? Not letting guns be so ubiquitous in this country. YES!! Police officers are getting shot at/killed by people with GUNS. Stricter gun laws would also help keep police officers safer. I can agree with this but then I wonder what about things like the Garlic Festival shooting? That gun was purchased legally in Las Vegas less than a month ago. The only thing illegal was that it was transported across the California border illegally. What's stopping that? I mean literally.. What is stopping someone from transporting a gun across a border illegally? Nothing? We don't have check points for that stuff. Even if we had laws to ban military style weapons and what not that won't stop someone with a hand gun or a long rifle. I am all for gun control and removing them from everyday life but I feel a grey area here. And I am having trouble wrapping my head around bridging the gap between the 2nd amendment and common sense in the new millenia. Can anyone help me out?
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Post by JukEboX on Jul 30, 2019 6:35:05 GMT -6
I have more respect for other first responders (firefighters and EMTs) who rush into dangerous situations unarmed. But I still see them as humans. I was thinking about that, too. EMTs often end up in ongoing dangerous and extremely stressful situations. Firefighters obviously do every time they respond to a fire. But firefighters are also providing other services as well. I’ve seen some respond to a 911 call after a seizure. This is not to say there aren’t good police officers out there. There are. But I also really don’t like the code of silence they have when it comes to wrongdoing of one of their own, the stats on how many cops are domestic abusers, etc. This is where I am and I am biased. My ENTIRE family is first responders. I talked to my Dad about joining the family trade and he told me based on everything he has seen in his 15 years, he would never wish that on me if I had a chance to do better. And I can understand. Stories he has are amazing and terrifying. But that is all per person. He keeps his cool and stays on top of the situation. Firefighters do everything besides fight fires. Many are also EMTs. They pump out flooded houses, help people when they lock keys and family in their cars, direct traffic, rescue people, resuscitate pets and people, respond to medical emergencys, carbon monoxide, drunks, mentally ill people, and fire alarms. AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY. NO matter the weather. So athn64 is right. They do do WAY more than pull hoses. Now this whole "thin <insert color> movement" I find ridiculous and disrespectful. To start with, to me, the thin BLUE line movement was started by the Fraternal Order Of Police to get the public on their side after the Black Lives Matter movement came to be. They don't need a movement. That is the the FOP is. They are as secretive as MLB/NFL and as calculating and pushy as a Union. The thin RED line movement started a few months later when First responders and police responsed to a mentally ill man shooting people. When they got there both police and first responders were shot and kills. There was emphasis in the media that firefighters were there to save lives and were not armed and so their movement started. Trust me Fire fighters die on a daily basis. I don't go through my feeds once a day and see one dying from a traffic accident while on a call, or falling through a roof at a fire, or health problems, or something in the line of duty. And there hasn't been a thin red line movement for them as deaths happened everyday before the movement even started. And they, THEY are heroes. And since these movements started it got worse. The thin GREEN line for CPB and Border patrol. The thin YELLOW line for TSA and dispatchers. Really?? TSA and dispatchers? I saw someone with a shirt with all the lines of the flag covered in one of these colors. LOOK we ALWAYS support first responders. They are pulling the line between life and death. But these thin color line movements need to stop. Its all a distraction from the real issues and have become a way for the Trump base to rally around law enforcement and try to justify moral high ground to fly in the face of POC movements and what they think is right and wrong. And don't get me started about using the United States flag as a logo for these movements. It goes against flag code and disrespects the country. But that is a whole OTHER topic I am ragey about. When it comes down to it, law enforcement needs to teach human rights and empathy other than just everyone being a suspect. As it is now we are growing a militarized police for which can be used to enforce marshal law. And I know not all police officers are rage hungry meat heads but the over masculinity of the armed forces and the police force pushes the base to be more "Yah MERICA" than it does to include each other. Over Masculinity breeds division, division breeds hate, hate breeds force, force is what kills people.
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Post by JukEboX on Jul 30, 2019 6:37:39 GMT -6
In some good news Ethiopia planted 353,633,660 trees in 12 hours dubbed the GREEN LEGACY project which might be a world record. Read more here: www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/africa/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-intl-hnk/index.htmlFunny how a third world country can get this done but our lazy ass is bringing back coal. Shows which class of country is more connected to the planet and which ones just takes it for granted.
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Post by crimsonandclover on Jul 30, 2019 6:41:30 GMT -6
I have more respect for other first responders (firefighters and EMTs) who rush into dangerous situations unarmed. But I still see them as humans. I was thinking about that, too. EMTs often end up in ongoing dangerous and extremely stressful situations. Firefighters obviously do every time they respond to a fire. But firefighters are also providing other services as well. I’ve seen some respond to a 911 call after a seizure.
DH is a volunteer firefighter. The respond all sorts of things that you wouldn't typically think of - sometimes it's just based on the equipment they have at their disposal that other first responders don't (like the ladder trucks). Several times a year they have a training session on how to open doors. I always tease him about it, but it's actually a very serious thing – they respond to a call about somebody trapped in an apartment building, and sometimes it's a suicide who thought it would be fun to take out a few first responders, too, and hooked up the door handle to a source of electricity. That happens frequently enough that even volunteer firefighters in small towns like ours have to train for it.
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Post by athn64 on Jul 30, 2019 7:34:40 GMT -6
YES!! Police officers are getting shot at/killed by people with GUNS. Stricter gun laws would also help keep police officers safer. I can agree with this but then I wonder what about things like the Garlic Festival shooting? That gun was purchased legally in Las Vegas less than a month ago. The only thing illegal was that it was transported across the California border illegally. What's stopping that? I mean literally.. What is stopping someone from transporting a gun across a border illegally? Nothing? We don't have check points for that stuff. Even if we had laws to ban military style weapons and what not that won't stop someone with a hand gun or a long rifle. I am all for gun control and removing them from everyday life but I feel a grey area here. And I am having trouble wrapping my head around bridging the gap between the 2nd amendment and common sense in the new millenia. Can anyone help me out? Stricter federal gun laws would stop sales in one state to bring to another. It needs to be federal or it will be ineffective.
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Post by mrsweasley on Jul 30, 2019 7:37:52 GMT -6
I can agree with this but then I wonder what about things like the Garlic Festival shooting? That gun was purchased legally in Las Vegas less than a month ago. The only thing illegal was that it was transported across the California border illegally. What's stopping that? I mean literally.. What is stopping someone from transporting a gun across a border illegally? Nothing? We don't have check points for that stuff. Even if we had laws to ban military style weapons and what not that won't stop someone with a hand gun or a long rifle. I am all for gun control and removing them from everyday life but I feel a grey area here. And I am having trouble wrapping my head around bridging the gap between the 2nd amendment and common sense in the new millenia. Can anyone help me out? Stricter federal gun laws would stop sales in one state to bring to another. It needs to be federal or it will be ineffective. Yes. A big reason there is still such a problem in Chicago is the loose laws in Indiana, just a short drive away
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Post by teatime on Jul 30, 2019 8:30:21 GMT -6
YES!! Police officers are getting shot at/killed by people with GUNS. Stricter gun laws would also help keep police officers safer. I can agree with this but then I wonder what about things like the Garlic Festival shooting? That gun was purchased legally in Las Vegas less than a month ago. The only thing illegal was that it was transported across the California border illegally. What's stopping that? I mean literally.. What is stopping someone from transporting a gun across a border illegally? Nothing? We don't have check points for that stuff. Even if we had laws to ban military style weapons and what not that won't stop someone with a hand gun or a long rifle. I am all for gun control and removing them from everyday life but I feel a grey area here. And I am having trouble wrapping my head around bridging the gap between the 2nd amendment and common sense in the new millenia. Can anyone help me out? It’s like anything else. If you live in a state with blue laws and can’t buy alcohol on sundays but are close to the border where there aren’t such laws, where do you go? If you can’t buy fireworks in your state but you can 20 mins away in another, why wouldn’t you? And why wouldn’t people set up border shops to rake it in? But beyond that, I’m SO TIRED of this country’s obsession with guns and things that “go bang.” For SOME portion of the population here there is a weird gun fetishization thing that is disturbing to me. I hope that one day it is seen as extreme to have a family arsenal, but who knows. Side issue, but the unwillingness to budge on anything, even less toxic ammo and primers, for example, is crazy too. “Conservation clubs” (that’s what they’re called around me, at least) have got to be one of the most ironically named things ever when they are responsible for leaving casings/bullets/lead dust/leaded fishing weights all over whatever land their “conserving.”
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Post by jkjacq on Jul 30, 2019 9:06:41 GMT -6
I dont think we've touched on the Capitol One data breech
I guess it wont be in anyones wallet soon.
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Post by jkjacq on Jul 30, 2019 9:09:32 GMT -6
Capitol Ones FAQ states the following Beyond the credit card application data, the individual also obtained portions of credit card customer data, including:
Customer status data, e.g., credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information Fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018
No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than:
About 140,000 Social Security numbers of our credit card customers About 80,000 linked bank account numbers of our secured credit card customers
For our Canadian credit card customers, approximately 1 million Social Insurance Numbers were compromised in this incident.
The No bank # or SSN other than line is really something.
Also this is affecting our northern friends in Canada as well.
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Post by cakewench on Jul 30, 2019 9:23:36 GMT -6
Capitol Ones FAQ states the following Beyond the credit card application data, the individual also obtained portions of credit card customer data, including: Customer status data, e.g., credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information Fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018 No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than: About 140,000 Social Security numbers of our credit card customers About 80,000 linked bank account numbers of our secured credit card customers For our Canadian credit card customers, approximately 1 million Social Insurance Numbers were compromised in this incident. The No bank # or SSN other than line is really something. Also this is affecting our northern friends in Canada as well. Yup, no bank account or SSNs... except these 200k. That wording annoys me.
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Post by enchanted on Jul 30, 2019 9:26:45 GMT -6
*snip* The No bank # or SSN other than line is really something. Yup. We actually were looking at Capitol One because we really hate our card, but I guess we're not changing now. ETA: Not because of the breach, because honestly, it can happen to any company. The flat out lie is what has me saying nope right now.
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Post by jkjacq on Jul 30, 2019 10:21:25 GMT -6
"I am the least racist person in the world" The people of Baltimore are calling me thanking me, its unprecedented, they're calling the White House to tell me thank you for bringing to light the cities ruined by corrupt democrats. (that was paraphrased)
I'm pretty sure he was dropped on his head as a baby
CNN is now only airing clips of his crap. they no longer interrupt what they're talking about to show him speaking.
another norm that is out the window. (not that I'm particularly unhappy about THIS development)
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Post by byjove on Jul 30, 2019 11:12:26 GMT -6
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Post by Uncaripswife on Jul 30, 2019 11:29:17 GMT -6
I read something a couple years ago about water scarcity, and that basically it's going to be a geopolitical catastrophe because of what people will do to each other to get potable water. Like, this is something I believe the NSA and the CIA worry about.
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Post by byjove on Jul 30, 2019 11:32:23 GMT -6
I read something a couple years ago about water scarcity, and that basically it's going to be a geopolitical catastrophe because of what people will do to each other to get potable water. Like, this is something I believe the NSA and the CIA worry about. I have no doubt. I thought it was interesting too because this story mentions periods of intense rain (like DC has been experiencing the last year or so). I'd also never heard of that American civilization.
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Post by jkjacq on Jul 30, 2019 11:56:08 GMT -6
"Mitch McConnell knows less about Russia than I do." our dear leader this morning
Shouldn't the Senate Majority Leader KNOW ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE????????? Especially since he IS a gang of 8 member?
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Post by dc2london on Jul 30, 2019 14:43:02 GMT -6
Whoooaaahhh Jennifer Wexton just came out for Impeachment. Her district encompasses a big chunk of Loudoun county, VA which is....not liberal
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Post by jkjacq on Jul 30, 2019 16:29:02 GMT -6
Whoooaaahhh Jennifer Wexton just came out for Impeachment. Her district encompasses a big chunk of Loudoun county, VA which is....not liberal She puts us to like 48% of house dems right?
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Post by jkjacq on Jul 30, 2019 16:33:24 GMT -6
Grace Meng NY-6th also came out for impeachment
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Post by byjove on Jul 30, 2019 17:43:15 GMT -6
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Post by doublestuf on Jul 31, 2019 10:26:01 GMT -6
Whoooaaahhh Jennifer Wexton just came out for Impeachment. Her district encompasses a big chunk of Loudoun county, VA which is....not liberal She puts us to like 48% of house dems right? I think I saw there are 117 for it now, but that includes Amash.
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Post by doublestuf on Jul 31, 2019 10:30:00 GMT -6
I don't know where to post this. Now if only the Electoral College doesn't fuck us all over and these numbers remain constant.
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Post by byjove on Jul 31, 2019 10:32:38 GMT -6
Do you guys want me to post a story about the massive melt (bigger than 2012) on the Greenland ice sheet? I guess in a small glimmer of good news, Maryland Blue Crabs are big winners in the climate crisis.
In other news, I keep getting bombarded with emails to do a science policy fellowship in DC, and man I want to so bad, but it would be a 25% pay cut and lose my fed benefits (though I would be able to go back to my job after). I am feeling so stuck in my current job. Though, based on my conversations with other women in science, I am basically at the point of "tenure," and this the point of life that a lot of women tend to drop out of science because of career, family, life, etc. Basically every year I stay at this point is basically being a role model for other women in science (which I get- I had no women PhDs in my department when I started 10 years ago, there are a lot more now- and maybe partly because I was at least a number that could show they weren't alone). How depressing is that. I haven't even hit 40 yo yet.
Sorry for the random ramble.
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Post by enchanted on Jul 31, 2019 10:56:16 GMT -6
byjove It's incredibly depressing and I think you staying as a role model is admirable, BUT if you're not happy, then you're not happy. I think being an amazing role model also has to include doing what is best for you and advocating for yourself, not just other women. I'm not saying you have to take the fellowship or that you have to stay. You're the only one who can decide, but don't count out what you want to do if it's feasible. (Which again, I don't know if it truly is or not.)
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