PhobosAnomaly

On a similar tangent, I find hilarity in poorly drawn swastikas - or to use an entertaining but horrendously ablest term, a spastika.

I make no apology for equating the sort of dickhead that scrawls this shit everywhere in adult life with the sort of clueless fuckwit that tests sockets with a fork, and couldn’t pour water out of a boot even if the instructions were on the soles.

I don’t often like punching down on the lesser-intellectual folk (mainly because I’m dumb as rocks for 23 hours of the day myself) but this is one of the few times I enjoy the opportunity.

The bigliest number. The greatest. The most number on earth.

Ooooh that’ll be a good PPE concept. Maybe make them contrasting colours. A deep red against a white background perhaps. Maybe put a Hindu peace sign in the middle to highlight their friendly intention.

Batteries.

Truly a unique experience when it comes to 12v batts.

Stop all the downloadin’!

mate you’ve had that inserted for three hours now, let me have a go

Problem is, asking “don’t well all know” and “I have assumed” don’t meet the evidential threshold for prosecution - and “It just fits” isn’t a compelling legal argument.

I’m no fan of his, but due process should be applied to all - whether it’s a sitting or former president; someone swept up in an ICE raid; or someone contesting a traffic ticket.

I get it, it’s still jarring though. I get that an LGBTQI+ mag would want to promote his sexuality to prove visibility of senior civil servants or G-men or whatever the US calls them, but it just feels like a qualifier that shouldn’t be necessary.

Happy to learn otherwise though, I’m open to opinions.

It’s incredible really. I should ask him for lottery numbers or stock tips.

Depends how want to feel really! It’s rhyming slang for “dead”. Apologies if it wasn’t clear.

It’s the antithesis of “vote blue no matter who”.

“Vote red, if your kids are brown bread”.

I actually feel dirty just writing that.

I had a team leader ten years ago or more when I worked in a incident management room, where he would be the duty manager for the south of the UK.

You could tell something was going to happen or a griefy job was coming in, because he’d nip out for a fag for fifteen minutes just seconds before the first phone call would come in.

It was almost impressive, and once most of the policy or callout decisions had been made, he’d come back in with a cup of tea oblivious to the whole thing.

Absolute legend of a bloke really, I was just jealous that I didn’t have that sixth sense.

oh Florida, you silly billy

Yeah 100% on board with that. I think it’s a great thing.

I’m just struggling to get my head around the police department’s objection when Seattle-area cops generally generate more chill news than fuckups (not that good interactions make the news in any departmental arew really); and the introduction of this social work unit would likely take a huge chunk out of their workload (again an assumption based on UK style policing, apologies).

All very bizarre but yes, a huge step in the right direction. Love it.

That all sounds awesome aside from the last sentence - I’m keen to know the rationale for their opposition.

I can only imagine that there’s a concern that the Portland Street Response may be putting themselves at undue risk with the most volatile of clients… but even I can feel my back twitch from the amount of reaching I’m doing there!

I think you’re right but for the wrong reasons - I think it would be an absolute net positive effect but I still think the lines should be drawn between policing and social work and healthcare issues. Fair warning, I’m from the UK which has it’s own issues with policing but nothing on the clusterfuck scale as it is across the pond.

Sending police officers (and ambulance staff, maybe even coastguard - in the civilian sense, not the American branch of the military) to do two or four weeks of social work attachment would work wonders. It would provide a great insight into the difficulties and behaviours of those in social or mental crisis, and give more soft tools to recognise and resolve issues.

That said, it shouldnt be policing agencies going to social work or mental health calls in the first place. People in crisis are often acting irrationally or unpredictably due to the very nature of the crisis they’re experiencing, and when a lethal weapon is an optional available to the responders, then you’ll have a less than spectacular outcome on occasions.

Ideally, additional funding should be centered around social work and mental health teams - perhaps having first responders for both so you don’t have cops wading in with the best of intentions, and confronting something they aren’t the best people to be dealing with - where a mental health ambulance or a social work rapid response team would bring a welfare call to a far safer conclusion.

I absolutely get that my view is very UK-skewed but if you keep putting armed cops into situations like that - then the public will get hurt, cops will get hurt, the taxpayer coughs up a fortune in legal costs … all of which could fund better ways to respond to the homeless, the stressed, the neurodiverse, and other non-criminal issues that people phone in with good intentions.

Even then, Trump isn’t the root problem.

I agree with everything you’ve said (for whatever that’s worth, being from outside the US) - but the primary issue is the 30%+ of folk who are voting for this arsehole, along with the 30%+ of folk who didn’t care enough to vote against it.

Following that logic, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Trump, Hitler, Musk, Orban, Putin or whatever going for the post - it doesn’t even matter whether they’re constitutionally permitted to stand for office, if there’s an overwhelming number of folk who don’t give a fuck and vote that way anyway, then there’s your bigger problem.

Weirdly, we are at (trade) war with Eastasia.

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