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  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • Anger also clouds the mind.

    But, if anger motivates action, why aren't you watching those things? Why do you feel you have to watch this particular video, but not those other ones? Is it that, even after all this time, you think Trump and his goons might be telling the truth, and you need to check for yourself? Is it that the literal millions of other people who have watched the video might be lying about what it contains?

  • in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention

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  • I'm not much of a fan of many traditional British dishes, and there are some things many British people seem to enjoy make me wonder about their taste buds. OTOH, Britain once had a worldwide empire, and it brought back a lot of dishes from that empire to the mainland. Indian curries are the obvious example, but there's also Caribbean food, Chinese food, even other curries from South-East Asia.

  • in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention

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  • Pasta has been around in Italy since at least the Roman era. The story that they didn't know about pasta until Marco Polo returned from China is just not true. He might have brought back some specific new recipes, but Italians have been enjoying pasta since before the three kingdoms began their romance.

  • in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention

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  • Germans have roughly one kind of bread that they're very good at.

    Germany has tons of Turkish immigrants, but Germans won't buy pita bread unless they're getting a doner. They share a massive border with France but mostly ignore delicious French breads like croissants, baguettes, etc. They're right near Italy but you won't find much focaccia. Forget about naan, bagels, bao, corn bread, crumpets, injera, etc.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • I mean in this case there is a benefit to seeing exactly what happened

    Why?

    to confidently shield yourself from propaganda

    Unless you were an idiot who actually believed the lies the Trump admin tells, your shield is already up and active. If the Trump admin said that the sky was blue, I'd assume it was night. That was true months ago, nothing they've done or said recently has changed it.

    There's no prize for being viewer number 1,000,000,000 of the death. You're not going to spot something that the previous 999,999,999 people all missed. You're not going to discover that the vast majority of those nearly 1 billion other viewers were lying and it was actually Trump telling the truth. All you're going to do is watch someone die, and discover that what everybody other than Trump toadies said is correct.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • Don't look directly into the trauma-causing footage. That's what they want. It's no slight to someone's life not to personally watch them die. What matters isn't that you personally watch their death from as many angles as you can. What matters is that you tell the truth about what happened. You can do that without obsessing over watching someone die. In fact, if you think that watching someone die is the important thing, you're dishonouring them by focusing on the wrong thing.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • It's also possible that you saw doctored footage. It's possible that you're mentally disturbed and don't realize it and that what you think you saw isn't actually what your eyes told you they were seeing. You could be a figment of my imagination. You could be an LLM bot. I could be an LLM bot. You could be trapped in the matrix.

    Lots of things are possible. Most things are improbable. You gain essentially nothing by watching a snuff film for yourself to agree with the millions of other people who have also all watched it and all agree that they saw what they saw.

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  • Have you watched every execution of every prisoner sentenced to capital punishment? Have you tried to book a seat to watch the execution in person? Have you sourced out footage from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, in order to watch people die? Have you requested the body cam footage of every shooting involving a police officer? Do you seek out snuff films? Do you go to hospital emergency rooms to see if you can see someone dying? Do you hang out near bridges in the hope of watching someone jump to their deaths?

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  • I actually think it does.

    You're wrong.

    the only way to realize how bad it is is to actually watch the footage

    Really? That's the only way?

    Reading about it does not paint the whole picture

    Neither does watching a video. The only way to get the whole picture is to go out and get killed yourself. In those seconds while you're dying you'll truly understand.

    See how stupid that is?

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • Yes, and I got that information from you, without having to watch the video myself.

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  • I didn't say "Don't do it". I said "You don't have to watch the videos.".

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  • But opining about other people’s reaction to the video without watching it is unacceptable.

    Thinking that other people might be traumatized by watching someone get murdered is unacceptable? Walk me through your thinking here...

  • Beautiful But Deadly

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  • Anyone who doesn't complain about code not compiling on the first try likely writes dead simple programs and could be replaced by an LLM. Writing simple programs is easy, writing complex programs is hard.

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  • You don't need to personally witness all the brutalities of life to stay informed. Do you watch all the Internet's child porn just to be aware it's out there, and to suffer the consequences of that? Or is it only violence porn that you think is essential viewing?

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • You don't need to "learn to process" to know the truth. You don't have to personally witness every horrible thing that's happening.

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  • Not wanting to traumatize myself doesn't make me ignorant.

    Thinking that the only way you can be informed is by traumatizing yourself is the truly ignorant position.

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  • Of course not, I'm not going to traumatize myself unnecessarily.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • It's not ignorance to spare yourself the trauma of watching someone die. You can know what happened without having to watch it yourself.

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  • If you want to get traumatized, you do you.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • You don't have to watch the videos.

    You're going to watch a man getting killed. That's not good for your mental health. You can just take a pass here and not watch. Your watching the video is probably not going to help in any way, and it might hurt you. So, just think about your own needs before you traumatize yourself for no reason.