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Milk_Sheikh

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  • AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines

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  • US police academies spend far more time on firearms training than on de-escalating a situation - 71 hours against 21, on average, according to a 2013 US Bureau of Justice Statistics report.

    71 to 21 hours is meaningless without the gross training hours. Like the two sources I linked from a quick search, there’s other training for driving, legal refreshers, IPV/SA, first aid, etc

    Follow through to the BJS source, it’s a good overview report: Police Agencies, 2020 Sheriffs Offices, 2020

    I’m very concerned about the lack of external oversight - “tough on crime” and police unions have made political avenues impotent, even after Floyd was murdered. I also want to roll back the police’s “job” and believe in divesting those roles, but that’s a political fight currently. Nobody says they want corrupt or rouge cops, but then outsider oversight is woefully lacking - and the status quo is what got us here.

  • "Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It

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  • Thanks! Honestly I’ve enjoyed A LOT of the usernames I see on Lemmy, y’all out here doing it with funny and creative names

  • "Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It

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  • “Look at the things Americans do… and they have paid healthcare!”

  • AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines

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  • How about acknowledging the fact that in the US, the average police officer spend over three quarters of their time training to use a firearm

    Serious citation needed there buddy, cause that’s a WILD claim. The police have structural problems, but don’t spread disinformation

    Here’s a sample police academy syllabus. ‘Firearms’ is about 13% of the course blocks.

    Here’s Missouri’s required annual education/refresher training requirements - and I think we can agree they’re no icons of policing:

    • Of these 24 hours, officers must obtain a minimum of:  
    • 2 hours in Legal Studies;
    • 2 hours in Technical Studies;
    • 2 hours in Interpersonal Perspectives;
    • 2 hours of Skill Development in the area of Firearms;
    • 16 hours of Electives (Any of the above-listed core curricula areas);
    • 1 hour of Racial Profiling training;
    • 1 hour of Implicit Bias training; and
    • 1 hour of De-escalation training

  • Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming.

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  • My guy YOU are the accountability. Yes, it’s another exhausting and thankless form of governance, but if you hate the board and the despots? Run a flyer campaign, run for the board/leadership, get on the finance committee and run obstruction, abuse the bylaws and force actual proper process and procedure - the power trippers rarely are actual good administrators, and generally hate procedures and checks on power.

    It’s not a fun process to fight back, but “refi and run” doesn’t solve the issue of bad HOAs/leadership

  • Stormy Daniels testimony reveals the triumph of #MeToo

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  • I still can’t fathom how that didn’t just immediately tank his candidacy for the even remotely religious-right - what absolute rank and disgusting hypocrisy.

  • Israel frustrated U.S. paused weapons shipment over Rafah assault concerns, official says

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  • We’re going to continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East recently… But it’s, it’s just wrong. We’re not going to – we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells

    If Joe “I’m a Zionist” Biden is dropping public statements like that whist icing out aid, there’s so, SO much more that isn’t being said. Like that report Blinken was meant to release today, but got delayed…

  • Periods are a nightmare in Gaza's crowded, unsanitary camps. Women are using birth control to skip them

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  • The IDF ‘maintains’ a list of banned “dual use” items that while definitely helpful to civilians, if it can potentially-maybe-kinda be of any use to a militant? Banned.

    The list is absurd and goes beyond understandable items like binoculars or bubble levels, and bans dumb things like scissors, tourniquets, or tampons. If some witless IDF inspector can think of a potential use, it’s banned. The whole truck gets turned around.

    They rejected an aid shipment at least once because it was on the wrong size pallet.

  • U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel

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  • I am no friend of Bibi or the IDFs action towards Palestinians, but let’s be fair - the northern border has been lit up lately, and Biden is still a self described Zionist. Not ‘defending’ the Jewish state is going to be a big line in the sand for him

  • North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger

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  • The Houthis have been face-tanking Saudi airstrikes for years. The loud ones meme’d away, but it’s not a surprising outcome so far.

  • Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years

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  • Me: Haha get fucked Tories, this is what you deserve for the absolute dereliction of leadership and results

    Also me: I hope this translates to the general and isn’t just the usual protest vote for local elections

  • Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah

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  • I’d argue they’re notable because they’re Jewish, and are afforded an odd ‘extra legitimacy’ to criticize Israel because of that - until the ‘self hating Jew’ trope is brought out…

    I am constantly disappointed that society as a whole cannot see through the obvious ploys by the hyper-partisans to hijack and disrupt honest discussion by treating all criticism as anti-Semitic

  • Ukraine can strike inside Russia with British weapons, UK’s Cameron says

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  • Useless as an objective. They threw +2 StormShadows at it previously during the counteroffensive prelude, when retaking the land route to Crimea was the main thrust. Now it’ll frustrate local logistics, instead of cutting off resupply.

    Curb stomping air bases or Russian MIC factories has a universal effect across the front.

  • Ukraine can strike inside Russia with British weapons, UK’s Cameron says

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  • Yup, just like when HIMARS was feasting on Russian ammo dumps and AAA when initially introduced - but now at much further ranges

  • Ukraine wiped out 100 Russian troops at once in a strike showcasing the range and power of its new US ATACMS

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  • It’s less critical now, but Kerch is still a very valuable supply artery that doesn’t have to go through the Donbas and the higher risk of Ukrainian strikes.

  • Ukraine can strike inside Russia with British weapons, UK’s Cameron says

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  • This is the counter-escalation rhetoric from the west, in response to new evidence of Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine.

    Ukraine has been striking hundreds of kilometers into Russia already, but with domestically made light prop planes turned into flying suicide bombs. Thats way wayyyy cheaper than a multi-million Taurus/StormShadow, but super vulnerable to air defense unlike said cruise missiles.

    Allowing Ukraine to strike with supplied weapons could have a big effect on battlefield outcomes depending on how it’s applied. I think any hope of UKR air dominance is years away, but blunting Russia ability to muster and sortie glide/hypersonic attacks would be significant today. Crimea (and the Kerch bridge) is useless for now, ammo dumps and staging areas are too low value, and the naval forces are already being attritted and denied a use via sea drones.

  • MTG Cites Antisemitic Fable Jews ‘Handed Over’ Jesus To Be Killed

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  • So wait. Given the Republicans just ‘trapped’ the Democrats into voting for the stupid ‘working definition of Antisemitism’ as a federal guideline, can we flip the table and trap them into a vote to censure/eject her from Congress?

    I’d bet there’s a non-zero headcount among the Republicans who’d be happy to boot her, and if not there’s a lot of headlines to run about the “GOP defends virulent anti-Semite in own party”

  • MTG Cites Antisemitic Fable Jews ‘Handed Over’ Jesus To Be Killed

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  • What makes a better lie:

    • A 100% fabrication
    • A lie that selects elements from reality, and invents parts of the whole story

    Muhammad was also a known historical figure, as was Joseph Smith.

  • We can do all three things at once

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  • The entire French nation begs to differ. Look at that map! Power generation alllll over the country, not tucked in an unpopulated area or clustered in one spot ‘just in case’.

    Then look across the border at Germany. The CND and Greens did a number on then generations ago, and Russia has kept up the fear over nuclear so they were able to keep Germany dependent on Gazprom. Until Ukraine.