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am not sure about the justification for expecting better. 'cause o' their extra training? 'cause o' their high pay? why? regardless, expecting better already undercuts the initial premise, no? gonna also observe police mistake is frequent conflated with police untrustworthiness. Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts "In one well-known study, Loftus and her colleague Jacqueline Pickrell gave subjects written accounts of four events, three of which they had actually experienced. The fourth story was fiction; it centered on the subject being lost in a mall or another public place when he or she was between four and six years old. A relative provided realistic details for the false story, such as a description of the mall at which the subject’s parents shopped. After reading each story, subjects were asked to write down what else they remembered about the incident or to indicate that they did not remember it at all. Remarkably about one third of the subjects reported partially or fully remembering the false event. In two follow-up interviews, 25 percent still claimed that they remembered the untrue story, a figure consistent with the findings of similar studies." the problem with a few stats about police inaccuracy is the fact all witnesses is horrible untrustworthy and not necessarily 'cause o' self interest or ill-intent. inevitable any police situation which garners media attention as well as most police encounters which end up in court is gonna include a high pressure situation. eye witness accounts o' such events should always be deemed less than perfect reliable. mistake is common if not the norm. get wrong is not necessarily matter o' police being especial prone to lies. repeat: fbi stats have personal seen any numbers o' studies showing dozens o' verified police inaccurate statements for such n' such department over years and decades. but again please recognize the real numbers involved. gonna average tens of millions of arrests in a single year and near five hundred thousand for violent crimes. if you found no liars, or near none we could only explain as coverup. *chuckle* also, keep in mind cops is having one o' the handful o' professions where the lies is actual tracked via public records. am recalling our high school years and the number o' times we caught teachers and coaches making stoopid lies. we worked as a ranch hand/cowboy from almost the time we could ride, and is possible no other job we has ever had which attracted so many fabulists, but we chalked that up in part to the alcoholism and broken marriages. we had clients who we explained they had protected confidentiality with US which were more iron clad than what they had with their spouse or priest and we nevertheless had clients lie to us all the time; these folks would literal lie to us when doing so could only hurt their legal efforts and they did anyway, and such were common. have heard thousands o' lies from liars over the years. tell us cops is preternatural subject to lies when they is one o' the few professions wherein doing so has actual oversight crafted into the system, if flawed, makes little logical sense. HA! Good Fun! ps forgot to mention the psych eval and polygraph which is prerequisites for many law enforcement jobs. sure, those is crude tools (although polygraphs is much better than many people realize) but they do weed out more than a few applicants. such pre-employment checks is a reason to expect truthfulness is actual more common 'mongst law enforcement as 'posed to less.

sure, lets' start with the hasty generalization and the failure to offer any support other than feels. keep in mind, in the US alone there were 10 million arrests made in 2019 'ccording to less than perfect fbi data. near 500k o' those arrests were for violent crimes. 'ccording to not fbi sources, is 'bout 700k personnel employed in US as law enforcement. golly. if we are going anecdotal, is not difficult for us to name more than a few occasions from this board wherein posters reached conclusions 'bout law enforcement malfeasance way before any real info were known and in more than a few such cases the s'posed police wrongdoing were revealed to be not what were being claimed. got stats to back up the i find and i think stuff... something other than gut level confirmation bias? HA! Good Fun! ps in absence o' stats or academic studies regarding the unique untrustworthiness o' police, we would be willing to at least consider the logical specious but nevertheless persuasive offering o' years o' personal experience gleaned working close with law enforcement.

you folks are doing the same thing o' which you deride bruce and am suspecting you don't see the hypocrisy or inexplicable believe is different. HA! Good Fun!

GOP commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote New Mexico’s secretary of state on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to order the Republican-led commission of rural Otero County to certify primary election results after it refused to do so over distrust of Dominion vote-tallying machines. ... january 6 was so not the end of the insanity. HA! Good Fun!

"If you look at the people that have been arrested for that, by and large, I mean, it's the boogaloo movement or it's an association with QAnon. It's the right side of the spectrum. It is not antifa." She's unequivocal about this: "The threat of domestic terrorism is not from antifa. It is from these right-wing movements." am not sure how many times the but what about blm and antifa people need be reminded it ain't those organizations which pose a significant ongoing threat to americans or american democracy. when was the last s'posed blm led riot btw? once fed troops pulled out of portland, what happened to the protests in that and similar cities? yeah, the next time a minority dies in an altercation with police there will be more than a few people who instant call for reciprocal violence instead o' keeping their protests genuine peaceful, but in spite o' breitbart and fox news lurid images, most summer protests were (summers o' a few years past btw) peaceful... which is precise why fox got caught doctoring riot imagery and pasting in violence from earlier protests and even spain to give the weak-kneed pearl clutchers "proof" o' minority violence. Champaign Man Sentenced for Inciting Riot four years in prison and $1.5 million dollars for a facebook post. is not as if mr. betts were the only protester arrested and eventual punished by the courts, though admitted most state punishments for rioting specific and the like is kinda light and is often difficult to prove who exact were responsible for a burned down big-o tire store which were destroyed during the chaos o' a riot. summer protests were not quite having the plethora o' security cameras and visibility o' a daylight riot at the Capitol, eh? regardless lib and progressive Congressmen, as well as kamala harris who with her tough-on-crime resume don't check the lib or progressive boxes, got themselves in hot water for making donations to defense funds for those arrested during the protests precise 'cause so many people were arrested and eventual charged with crimes. nevertheless we see the same people trying to rehabilitate the same stoopid without even bothering to come up with a new angle. ain't worth the effort but we sympathize with gorth 'cause am also reflexive condemning the inanity, which is why we added numerous folks to ignore. unfortunate the ignore is not foolproof as we nevertheless see quotable and a few o' the worst purveyors o' stoopid is your fellow mods who are not subject to the ignore feature. so it goes. HA! Good Fun!

old joke: what do you say to a drummer in a three-piece suit? even so, am not trusting the ginger gnome with the bagpipes neither. HA! Good Fun!

sharing 'cause is that time of year... again. Table of State Laws that Protect Animals Left in Parked Vehicles 14 states have enacted laws that allow any person to rescue a distressed animal (AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, IN, KS, LA, MA, OH, OR, TN, VT, and WI). These laws functions to limit the civil or criminal liability of the person for damages resulting from the forcible entry of the vehicle. Indiana is the first and only state to require the person who forcibly enters a vehicle to rescue an animal to pay half the damages. West Virginia and New Jersey are the only states that criminalize the act of leaving a pet unattended under dangerous conditions without providing a rescue and immunity provision for anyone. check the link if you are curious, 'cause most states which provide protection from criminal and civil liability impose specific requirements for the prospective good samaritan. CA as an example: This person will not be criminally liable for actions taken reasonably and in good faith if the person does all of the following: -determines the vehicle is locked or there is otherwise no reasonable manner for the animal to be removed from the vehicle -has a good faith belief that forcible entry into the vehicle is necessary because the animal is in imminent danger of suffering harm -contacted a local law enforcement agency, the fire department, animal control, or 911 prior to forcible entry -remains with the animal in a safe location, but close by until emergency responders arrive -used no more force than necessary to enter the vehicle and remove the animal -immediately turns the animal over to a representative from law enforcement, animal control, or another emergency responder HA! Good Fun!

This traffic stop between a Black man and a White state trooper began with fear. It ended with a surprising act of kindness not sure if it qualifies as good news, but is close enough. HA! Good Fun!

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possible the most fascinating aspect o' knorozov's translation efforts is that it likely were only possible 'cause o' the academic isolation o' the soviet union. for all intents and purposes, the book on the mayan language had been written, and the world's most respected academics had come to agreement that mayan were a pictograph language with each symbol representing a word or concept. there were a brit scholar (thomas? thompsen?) who were THE guy regarding the mayans and his conclusions and process were taught to all other western linguists. an academic dead-end were created by THE guy being wrong. soviet scholars didn't have the slavish devotion to thomas/thompsen and they didn't risk humiliation or loss o' tenure by publishing works with contradictory conclusions. am not certain what yuri's exposure to contemporary western scholarship amounted to, but were almost happenstance yuri's groundbreaking efforts were known in the west before the end o' the cold war, 'cause for the most part soviet academic publications were not translated and promoted beyond the iron curtain in the 1950s. that said, am thinking the quirky cat co-author stuff is a bit more amusing and likely more memorable. HA! Good Fun!

The rise of youth cage-fighting 'couldn't help but think o' the line from highlander. "the kurgans were an ancient people from the steppes of russia. for amusement they tossed children into pits with hungry dogs to fight for meat." back in the 70s our grandmother had to be convinced to let us join youth wrestling. am trying to imagine her reaction to cage fighting. HA! Good Fun!

not accurate. am sympathetic to elie's pov and we already noted how the Court opinion represented an implausibly narrow reading o' bivens, and were improbable dismissive o' ziglar, but am suspecting the wailing and face rending some is promoting with this thomas opinion (whom as you by now are likely aware we got an an increasingly jaded view) is only possible 'cause folks like ellie realize his audience don't know what is the 4th amendment and they are even less likely to be aware o' sovereign immunity. "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." w/o embracing a wholly unsupported parade of horrible and as current read, the thomas opinion says that if you have property on the border with mexico or canada, and if fed agents violate your fourth amendment rights, you cannot sue the feds for money damages. sure, you will have your papers and other illegal seized property returned, and most important, evidence gathered in violation o' the 4th amendment breach cannot be used against you in a criminal proceeding, but the feds cannot be sued for their negligent and even reckless behaviors, 'cause in most cases the feds cannot be sued for negligence unless Congress passes a law to such an effect. sovereign immunity, like it or not, is the common law norm going back before the US were a thing, and sans some kinda legislation changing, or a case such as bivens, you don't get money when the government screws the pooch. the victim in the present case were the owner o' an inn on the border with canada who legit interfered with a border patrol agent s'posed pursuing a suspect. the inn owner complained to the US government 'bout being roughed up (he was thrown to the ground) by the border patrol agent and in response the a-hole agent sicks the irs on the inn owner. the irs found no wrongdoing by the inn owner, but the plaintiff had to hire an accountant and pay him $5000 to deal with the irs audit. inn owner wanted the government to pay his $5000... and if the inn owner had won, his lawyer fees woulda' been paid. btw, the a-hole agent were fired as a result o' the inn owner's complaint. look, am agreeing the case is representing a wrong, but is not the wrong as described. is not making so victims 'o 4th amendment violations have no recourse. the case in question does not eliminate the vast majority o' 4th amendment claims one is gonna seek to make v. the government; you can get your stuff back and you won't have illegal seized evidence used against you. unfortunate, sovereign immunity is kinda the status quo and state and fed need enumerate the exceptions if you wanna sue for money damages. HA! Good Fun!

hmmm. kinda a misleading read. this case is 'bout suing feds for torts committed during scope o' their duties. facts o' the case involved a property literal straddling the border which were noteworthy for the majority as it raised (specious in our opinion given the facts) national security issues. could the courts somehow read the opinion so it applies to any 4th amendment TORT claims made in the 100 mile zone? maybe. is a perilously slippery slope being conjured, but am admitted discouraged by the curiously extreme narrow reading o' bivens and the hand wave to ziglar by the majority. regardless, the referenced decision is offering no implied freedom to violate the 4th amendment save to note the monetary damages one may recover for such violations as set forth in bivens has been seriously limited. HA! Good Fun!

am wondering if the guy with the green bagpipes takes all kinda sh!te from his companions, 'cause he looks way too normal for that bunch. can't help but wonder if he is a roadkill artist or similar. something. anything. HA! Good Fun!

new update/patch am increasing confident a few turn-based mounted combat bugs will never be addressed. am similar dubious the quirk o' animal companions loosing the tandem trip feat if chosen at leveled and not conveyed via sacred huntsmaster or hunter ability will be addressed. is getting to the point where the base game mechanics is as fixed as they is gonna be and only content busted by new dlc is addressed with noteworthy probability. 6/9/22 wotr is hardly optimal, but am once again recognizing the title is more stable (far more) than we expected given our experiences with kingmaker and acknowledging all the additional archetypes and epic content o' owlcat's second (last?) pathfinder ap. am debating whether to wait for the enhanced edition before tackling inevitable excess. HA! Good Fun!

you shouldn't, if you were a bit more self reflective. consider if the guy had successful killed somebody using a knife, bomb or a freaking bow and arrow. you would no doubt see that as ironic as well. after all the guy so angered at the dangers o' an unrestricted 2a managed to kill people anyways, sans a gun, 'cause is people who kill and not guns, right? second amendment idolaters and no compromise folks is rare capable o' critical self reflection. HA! Good Fun! ps just in case anybody is wondering, J. Kavanaugh's second amendment views is not so ephemeral as gd suggests. https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/DECA496973477C748525791F004D84F9/%24file/10-7036-1333156.pdf

am done with through the ashes. will offer thoughts in a bit. for the moment am gonna offer minor spoilers for those who have not yet played the dlc. will add to this post after we take care o' a few rl responsibilities. edit: ok, so concluding thoughts-- ~11 hours of gameplay, but as we noted earlier, the difficulty is a bit less forgiving than the base game, so we likely spent a bit closer to 20 hours actual completing the dlc. once we hit level four our animal companions (leopards and horse) received their boost and we exploited protective luck + chant with our wildland shaman, we were a bit more reckless with gameplay 'cause we were noticeable more effective in combat and less likely to die from a single crit. am now kinda disappointed with the 40k announcement and the rumors owlcat and paizo is suffering a fractured relationship, 'cause this dlc made us look at owlcat design a bit different, a more favorable "different." is not that we dislike the idea o' a 40k game, but this most recent dlc convinced us we would be much anticipating the next pathfinder release from owlcat. yeah, a bunch o' the alternatives to combat were scripted outcomes direct tied to limited use rope or tools items, but we saw potential in the scheme. beyond such scripted encounters, owlcat obvious had made efforts to allow players find other options to straight up combat as well as to include methods for taking advantage o' geography and environmental interactions to skew the odds in favour o' a party facing difficult odds if they chose to try combat. the implementation o' such options were not perfect, but we were much encouraged. owlcat writing is still somewhere 'tween mediocre and bad, but it weren't so bad we wanted to quit. story elements from owlcat is providing little more than a crude raison d'être to explain why your presumably sane protagonist and their companions would choose to face moment-to-moment near death encounters. the dlc were also too short to embrace romances, which we consider a win given what we has seen from past owlcat romances. one o' the problems with a shorter dlc and a huge number o' highly specialized player choices such as is the case with wotr is that the possibility those player creation and progression choices will be wrong increases. wrong spell or weapon choice may serious undermine a character's usefulness and unless you know what kinda enemies will be encountered and what weapons will be available, the possibility to choose wrong increases. am understanding how the dlc could be frustrating if a player failed to build an effective party, and it were all too ez to build wrong for this dlc. regardless, were an enjoyable ~20 hours spent on the dlc and we will likely play a couple more times with different parties. will possible add more in a bit... HA! Good Fun!

am playing through the ashes dlc. we typical play on hard and this content represents a serious difficulty boost, due in large part to low levels but not entire. unless you are a serious glutton for punishment, we would not recommend any difficulty beyond core... and make an animal companion heavy party regardless. is our advice to go with leopards and horses as these is the best low level choices for animal companions. leopards in particular are amazing tanks and a couple o' leopards goes a long way towards mitigating difficulty spikes. observations w/o any real organization: is bugs remaining, but so far has been playable w/o having us rage quit. am liking the alternatives to combat but there is no avoiding much o' the combat. writing is owlcat standard and meh at best but chances are if you are bothering to read this and have any intention o' playing the dlc, you already are aware of owlcat writing limits and are ok with their standard fare. there are transitions 'tween areas which is... annoying. recall willodus' mansion in alushinyrra? click on the door and then you gotta choose options and make text-based skill checks to get through the mansion? not nearly as straightforward or rational as were the skill checks to reach the dragon's lair in act 3, yes? the through the ashes dlc takes what were bad 'bout the willodus mansion interaction and multiplies, then repeats the experience many times. am suspecting am halfway through 'cause am a bit beyond level three and am understanding level five is max. quest based xp is kinda nice as 'posed to per kill. in fact, for most o' the cemetery map we used one o' our leopards to draw undead into encounters with bandits and monsters at which point the baddies would kill each other. no lost xp for fail to personal kill baddies avoids the degenerative xp farming gameplay. in fact, based on our run thus far, you ordinarily gain more xp for using alternatives to combat, although a few such alternatives will rely on rope or tools and those items is also having a premium value and may be needed for those annoying text-based map transitions we already mentioned. do you topple a statue to kill a powerful spellcaster or do you keep the tools you need to knock down the statue 'cause you most definite will need at some point in the future? ... overall am enjoying though is only our preternatural obstinance which has us playing on hard difficulty. repeating for emphasis: this dlc is extreme unforgiving. nevertheless, while am only halfway done, we would recommend... save to note the enhanced edition o' wotr is only a few months remote and it might be better to wait... though no doubt the enhanced edition will create new bugs which will bork a few builds and quests and then you will possible need wait a couple more months. well, here is looking forward to the second half o' the dlc wherein we presumably need fight demons sans cold iron weapons. HA! Good Fun!

*sigh* the majority o' US states has had fewer mass shooting deaths (definitions is all over the map, but am gonna use the more common euro definition o' four fatalities for a single incident) since 2006 than has serbia, and the death per 100k population during same time frame has serbia way out in front o' the US taken entire... 'course norway still holds the record for deaths per 100k by a large margin which shows how mass shootings is kinda difficult to measure and compare. in fact, the vast majority o' US states has had two or fewer such incidents since 1982. is also difficult to identify a s'posed US attitude 'bout firearms. particular given the increased polarization o' the last decade or so, is tough to identify shared american values. when we were younger, free speech were one o' those core values 'bout which an overwhelming % o' americans agreed, but is less the case today than at any point in our lifetime. consensus on firearms is far more elusive. is a considerable % o' americans (almost 3/4 according to a few recent polls) who is in favor o' red flag laws and increased background checks, but there is also the no compromisers who believe the libs is looking to confiscate their guns and any limit on firearms makes such confiscations more likely. 'course the most obvious hurdle to gun reform is the second amendment. you need a new Constitutional Amendment to address gun issues substantive, and even more limited you need exceed the 60 senator filibuster barrier to do anything noteworthy... and we couldn't even get 60 senators on board to address bumpstocks post vegas. compare to country X or nation Y is gonna be problematic as we got the second amendment which am recognizing most people (even americans) do not understand. there is no fundamental right to drive a car or truck in the US. is therefore possible to implement rational basis limits on drivers and driving. the Constitution of the United States of America recognizes an explicit right to bear arms, and there aren't many such rights recognized. have explained how there is no right to vote for President, which surprises more than a few people. furthermore, SCOTUS says gun rights is not only a limit on the fed government but on states as well as local municipalities and that as current read, the "well regulated militia" stuff is kinda throwaway language (which makes no sense given the founders specific added the language to a previous draft which did not have the "militia" language) and that semiautomatic handguns is exact the kinda weapon the founders had envisioned when contemplating a right to bear arms. *eye roll* also, and am not sure how many times we need repeat, the assault weapon ban worked. uzis and ar-15s weren't used in crimes for a considerable period o' time. when the assault weapon ban were passed, one o' the main arguments against it were so-called practical issues such as the existence o' such weapons in large numbers w/o and absent a mechanic for confiscation. so-called practical limits being imagined don't bear the scrutiny o' relative recent history, but the second amendment is different. is a functional insurmountable hurdle given the current political climate. HA! Good Fun!

the now mainstream alt-right were furious regarding mask requirements during a pandemic which killed more than one million people in the US thus far 'cause "assault on liberty" or something. many o' the same folks in ohio is nevertheless okie dokie with requiring young persons to submit to an invasive exam.

well, the single largest category o' gun related deaths in the US is suicides, and if you make suicide even a tiny bit more inconvenient, deaths decrease dramatic. am knowing such is hard to believe, but serious do a search for coal fire ovens and suicide in uk and us. also, o' the remaining +40% o' firearms deaths, "accident" and impulse account for the greatest numbers. is not drug dealers, burglars and carjackers who account for most firearm deaths. folks like gd know the statistics and don't care. if you own a firearm, you is far more likely to die by firearm than those who do not own guns. domestic disputes. shoot innocent person on your property mistaken thinking they is a nogoodnik. kids get access and shoot friend, brother, sister. etc. the vast majority o' felonious firearms deaths is stoopid and utter avoidable. am gonna repeat, the assault weapon ban worked and were a total failure at the same time. the thing is, when was the last time you heard o' somebody in the US killed with an uzi? no doubt you may find such examples, but is extreme rare. were a popular weapon o' gang members and drug dealers in the 70s and 80s, but almost over night their use stopped. the bad guys didn't just voluntarily give up their uzis, did they? serious criminals, the folks who is not doing crime outta impulsive anger or reflexive fear, find alternatives 'cause the penalties related to the assault weapon ban were kinda onerous. the assault weapon ban worked, but overall firearms deaths didn't drop noticeable. make a more comprehensive version o' the assault weapon ban and sure, more than a few criminals would continue using firearms, but gun numbers would dwindle as police would be taking more than a few weapons off the streets either in response to arrests or buybacks and those losses would not be replaced with new sales. no, you would never get rid o' all weapons, but the vast majority o' such weapons would disappear. that said, am not thinking a total ban is needed. is worth noting how sweden has a whole lotta personal firearms. the thing is, sweden is a less diverse population which doesn't suffer US sorta income disparity problems. am assuming sweden also responds better to mental health problems 'cause is tough to imagine being much worse than the US. sweden makes gun ownership a privilege earned after submitting an application and passing a test after which weapons need be stored and maintained responsible. 'course the US wouldn't be able to achieve sweden kinda results w/o addressing the entirety o' the gun problem, and is unlikely the US solves larger social issues as we reflexive try and remove ar-15s from the hands o' the anticipated mass shooters. HA! Good Fun!

consider experimenting with the acids and the heat to achieve your desired optimal taste. replace the lemon juice with lime or a vinegar o' your choice (red wine, sherry, whatever) though vinegar may call for a smaller quantity. change the red bell pepper to something with a bit more bite. serrano is a good option even if it ain't red and the additional heat will add a different dimension to the dish. the cherry tomatoes may seem like an odd choice, but we highly recommend trying 'em for this recipe. cherry tomatoes have high water content, are sweet and tend to be more flavorful than most fresh tomato varieties. have fun with it. HA! Good Fun!

am quite disappointed in the lot of you. this is a crpg development board, a veritable fetid bog o' geekdom, a metaphorical boil on the arse o' humanity filled with nerd instead o' puss, and not one of you did the obvious and linked monty python? shame! boo! HA! Good Fun!

good rule of thumb is to treat celebrity trials like vampires. such trials and vampires is soul sucking curses and an invitation renders you powerless. HA! Good Fun!

radcliffe is likely a safer option than the other harry potter actor. HA! Good Fun!