Prediction: There's going to be a lot of used Harleys available in October.
Dark
Prediction: There's going to be a lot of used Harleys available in October. -- Drew |
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Dark humor is like food.
Not everybody gets it. Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam. |
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thats what was said last year, price not affected tho
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman |
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Got Delta now though
Plus last year some people were still at least trying to pretend to care. Now they're going out of their way to do stupid shit. -- Drew |
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Well, some are probably vaccinated.
And the right ones will get a chance to die. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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Re: Dark
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/child-sex-trafficking-sting-2021-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-nets-9-arrests/M2OOTBZGOFFAXILBKZDXMDZGN4/ "Every accusation is a confession..." :-/ The 2021 rally attracted more than 525,000 attendees, substantially fewer than the record-setting 2015 crowd of more than 747,000, but nearly 14% more than the roughly 462,000 who rode in for the 2020 event, KOTA-TV reported. It's a nice stress test for the vaccines (since many of the attendees trailer their bikes, I assume a large fraction are vaccinated)... Cheers, Scott. |
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They shouldn't be publishing the names before conviction
These guys' lives are fucked now regardless of what they actually did. -- Drew |
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Agreed they're in a world of hurt. But isn't it SOP?
E.g. "Johns lists" of arrests in prostitution sweeps. And that's before the civil forfeiture stuff happens. Cops have too much power to ruin innocent people's lives. (And those guys are innocent until proven guilty, of course.) :-/ Cheers, Scott. |
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"Florida Man" proves that
The reason for the cliche isn't just that weird shit happens in Florida - though it does. It's that Florida releases much more information about arrests, so we hear about all of it. A study a few years ago showed that most of what's reported nationally about Florida crime is what they called "crimes of homelessness". Public nudity, sex, drug use ... all things that if you have a house to do them in nobody knows or (mostly) cares. -- Drew |
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Yup.
:-( I recently saw a bit of a UK miniseries on murder mysteries and murder investigations or something and part of one episode was on the history of the London metropolitan police force. It was only created in 1829. NYC's was later. Police are a very modern construct, and no doubt we should be doing more to modernize their duties, responsibilities, and regulations as society has changed and we've learned much more about how humans actually tick. Cheers, Scott. |
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It's (always) worse than it appears
The first organized police forces in the U.S. were runaway slave posses. I don't think that's sufficient to taint the entirety of current law enforcement, but when you look at what counts as "tough on crime" it's hard not to see that "crime" seems to exclusively mean things that poor (and usually minority) people do. Wage theft is more than 3 times the size of robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts combined. How many officers are hassling CEOs for underpaying employees? There are more than 126,000 sites where industrial waste is known to have contaminated groundwater. If each of those is responsible for one early death per year that's 6 times the murder rate of < 20k/yr. When is the last time you saw a chemical company CEO perp walked on the evening news? When the rich and powerful are allowed to define what even counts as "crime" is it any wonder we have police forces that are de facto segregation enforcers? -- Drew |
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Took me a while... So, Sturgis time again?
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Yup
-- Drew |