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lemonlime

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  1. Fuck her, and the entire complicit GQP, for continuing to conflate support for Israel (and really it's support for an extreme version of Christianity and bringing about end times) with support for Jewish Americans.
  2. Brilliant
  3. I'm so sorry for your loss, Brisket.
  4. Thanks for the recs! We did wind up going to Calissa, and the food was great and the space pretty. But holy shit on the Hamptons people. I've never seen so many drunk obnoxious parties in one place. Should have listened to you about lunch.
  5. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/25/us/hawaii-u-haul-tourist-rental-trnd/index.html
  6. Thanks. These all looks great. Dockside sounds perfect. Sadly this will be Sat night. And we're camping (Surly poors, but sleeping a few feet from what's essentially our own private beach) so definitely need casual.
  7. Going to the Hamptons this weekend. Any good restaurant suggestions for Sag Harbor?
  8. It's also rich that the supposed "law and order" people who blame black men shot by police for selling cigarettes illegally or having a warrant as deserving of being shot because they're criminals, inciting their followers to harass people for teaching their kids to obey mask mandates.
  9. We are broken.
  10. No. The federal government gave them immunity from lawsuits for these vaccines.
  11. America in a hurry getting back to normal.
  12. Send out tickets with consistent policy. Maybe warning first time, tickets thereafter. And certain thresholds. No ticket within 5 MPH of the speed limit. Always ticket even if first time if more than 20 MPH over. I don't know. I don't work in traffic enforcement. But come up with a consistent policy that is applied to everyone, not just who the cop feels like hasseling that day.
  13. yes. They could. My point is police are supposed to be there for public safety, not for revenue generation. There is no reason to waste resources pulling people over for nonsense. And if traffic stops are truly dangerous, as cops argue, send tickets. This could all be done by mail. Or not. But there is no reason for police to be wasting resources and putting themselves in danger for expired plates. Or even any traffic violations, unless they constitute a risk right then and there to the safety of others.
  14. Yes. If used properly. And as opposed to police using their discretion, which results in (1) pulling over more minorities and (2) pulling people over for complete bullshit. There have been multiple pedestrians struck and killed in my neighborhood by people going well over the speed limit on back roads. And the police aren't sitting there monitoring these backroads. They're pulling people over on the main road for nonsense like an unregistered vehicle. Stop pulling people over for bullshit. And send automated tickets for real violations.
  15. Also, if they didn't have to pull you over for speeding, and just sent the tickets, maybe they would have enough time to enforce the speed limit and send out tickets. You know, actually contributing to public safety with tickets, as opposed to solely padding the coffers. There have been numerous pedestrians killed by speeding drivers in my town. It would be nice if those assholes doing 60 in a 30 actually got some tickets, as opposed to the once in a blue moon the cop has time to deal with this.
  16. At a traffic stop, a cop is more likely to be killed by another car hitting him than from violence from the driver. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/12/are-most-job-related-deaths-of-police-caused-by-traffic-incidents/
  17. To be clear, I don't definitively think she's lying. She could well just be guilty of criminal negligence and abject stupidity. But (some) cops have been lying about mixing up their tasers for their guns for years. I don't know why everyone's giving her the benefit of the doubt, i.e. that she's a truthful moron. And, yeah, all the rest of this is a bigger problem. But part of the institutional problem is that some, not all, but a large enough percentage to be significant, of cops lie. A lot. And people go to prison or are killed as a result.
  18. Or she's lying.
  19. Both are asking to be treated as professionals and with respect. Both are in positions of authority/life and death over others. But only one of those two "professionals" is required to pay for their own mistakes, or at least purchase insurance, and to be held to account for their mistakes, without blaming the public. Edit to add; This right here is the problem. That police think they're above accountability, by constantly amping the fear for their own life. Even when doing things like writing tickets for selling cigarettes or pulling over someone for an unregistered vehicle. And that their fear should let them evade professional accountability.
  20. Why does that matter? The person whose salary I paid fucked up and needs to not be in a position of public trust regardless of anyone else's stupidity. We don't blame victims in other matters. If there were a terrible surgeon who butchered people, they'd be sued for malpractice and lose their surgical privileges and their medical license. And even before then, the public could see what medical malpractice payments the surgeon made. And we wouldn't go around saying, well, gee, yes he butchered that heart surgery. But it's the patient's fault for eating a diet of Big Macs.
  21. Or maybe after being convicted by a jury of their peers. And the cops' weapons should not be out when it's not a violent crime being committed. Get a warrant and come back, and add resisting arrest to the charges. Don't put the suspect's and bystanders lives in danger to make an arrest for a broken windows violation.
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