Interesting fact of the day: A gravitational wave, having energy, also generates its own gravitational field in addition to itself. Though this field is insanely weak.
Note this is not the same as saying a gravitational field has its own gravitational field. It is only the wave that has energy, and thus its own field. A gravitational wave only occurs when an object with a gravitational field accelerates (and orbiting another object counts as acceleration).
A dispatcher can send cops to the wrong house, they go in and kill the residents who were defending themselves, and it's the cops who are prosecuted and not the dispatcher.
@realcaseyrollins Why would the dispatcher be prosecuted? Its the cops that decided to open fire on someone who was innocent, which is the criminal offense. It is not a criminal offense to misspeak an address.
My issue isnt with no knock warrants directly (surely im against them in general) bur rather that cops have qualified immunity and can carry them out, along with some murder, and not get a murder charge.
Take away qualified immunity, everything else fixes itself.
We worry about providing Universal Basic Income because people might stop working, but here's a thought: maybe, just maybe, with a little financial security, people might actually pursue work they truly choose rather than work to just not die. Imagine that world for a moment.
As someone who is strongly against UBI, and strongly supportive of welfare I can earnestly say people simply not working is not at all the reason I (or most people against UBI in my opinion) are against it.
The reason i am against it is because it causes people more harm than good. People who are in a position where they need assistance need to be given the tools to get out of their situation, and the help to get there needs to be conditional on this (and we should be spending the money that goes with that). Financial assistance should be conditional with mandatory job training or mental health therapy needed to help someone succeed, not just money.
In fact when there are underlying bad habits, as can often be the case, it is possible money can even make a persons condition worse and cause them to sleep farther into poverty.
Absolutely. There is no doubt that actually providing real assistance is a more nuanced and complex thing to do than just piling a bunch of paper bills on someone.
But something that is simple, that doesnt fix the problem (and in fact makes it worse) is not a good argument for the simpler approach. Solving problems for real takes more effort and nuance, but since it actually stands a chance of solving problems (and hopefully with improvement more so over time) its still the way to go.
This is a big problem with society in almost everything, they deny things simply due to complexity in excahange for something simple that isnt a solution at all.
> i think the typical objection to ubi is just a trauma response. "i had to scrape salt off the roads for six cents a day so you should too!!"
There could a bit of people who think that.. i mean there are plenty of grump old crumudgeons.
But of all the people I've debated UBI with, the ones that were against UBI were largely against it for the reasons I've stated, that it enables bad habits rather than fixing them. Not saying poor people are drug addicts, but its a similar mentality, you give a drug addict cash all you do is enable their bad habit, you pay for their rehab you might actually fix their problem. Most poor people in my experience were never taught the skills they need to get out of poverty. With the right skills its easy (I've done it for myself and many other people), but obtaining those skills are non-trivial. Worse yet most poor people are taught its not the skills that is the problem but the system is just against them, so quite often they will push back on the very things they need to do to fix the problem.
In short, more money tends to make poor people just reinforce their bad habits and makes things worse not better most of the time.
Was the racial purge the orange guy who has a history of disliking brown people? Or the senile guy who literally spent a decade of his career trying to fight to keep segregation alive because he didnt want his white child to go to school with other minorities in a "racial jungle" (his words)?
Like literally, im not trying to be a smart ass, when people refer to "The racist guy" that literally doesn't even begin to narrow it down out of those two.
I mean sure, except both are clearly racist today.. one just knows the racism gets him in trouble so he hides it and moved to exploitation over oppression. But their racism still shows through often enough to know its a manipulation and not a lack of racism.
The other guy is and always has been a moron so he just doesnt really hide it.
So I am pretty sure 100% of the "accidentally pedophilia comedies" are on Disney+. So far I identified two different movies in their list that fits this description. Cant think of any on the other services.
Yea I can see that actually, not that I would ban the show and stop my kids from watching it. I think a common theme was kids disobeying their parents, but they usually got caught, got in trouble, and learned the error of their ways.