Police, police unions and pro-police organizations will always tell you the answer to crime, as in having less crime, is more police, but that is not the truth. More police leads to more crime because the police have to justify their presence.
Nobody wants more police in their neighborhood. Except the police. They always want more police.
*Note, I have no way to validate the image is accurate and it may be a joke image: That does not change my opinion though.
Nick Heer giving more credit to people than they deserve, just because they work in government
it seems unlikely to me for representatives of the Vatican to be using a knockoff.
Sometimes the internet is awesome.
I find it curious that the rhetoric around competition changes when a company acquires around 50% to 70% of a specific market.
Then, instead of competing, the company is magically abusing it’s leading position in the marketplace to avoid competition.
Deadly Fungus Detected in Most U.S. States
The Last of Us is real and it’s starting now.
Ummm, anyone remember this asshat saying he could shot someone on 5th Avenue in New York and nothing would happen?
That’s what they call foreshadowing.
I’m sickened that half this country thinks he is worthy of the highest political office we have.
Chris Christie,
But look at the end, being indicted, never helps anybody.
And yet, no one in the Republican Party is seriously distancing themselves from his dumb lying ass.
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Have it Your Way
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Stupid jingles are stupid and get stuck in my head.
Yes, I’ll take the call.
Thank you.
Yes. Yes, you do.
Thank you for the notice.
Ellen Joanes writing at Vox
TL:DR - The same way he has always riled his base: lies and lies and lies and lies and we’re great, they’re losers so we have to fight to stop them from cheating and lies.
Nothing has changed in MAGAland since the Chief Dipshit lost the election.
It’s Caturday.
That means it’s time to play.
In the cardboard cat pad.
Daring Fireball, John Gruber: ‘Hating Everyone Everywhere All at Once at Stanford’
I can’t help but contrast this pull quote with Gruber’s thoughts on banning TikTok.
It seems to me to be the same; taking about someone else’s speech because you don’t like it.
Vox
Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?
TL;DR
Society can’t even adjust at 1980’s speed. It’s like society is just now learning how to deal with the internet from 1990’s, let alone the internet of 2020’s.
The New York Times Maggie Haberman reporting on possible Trump indictment,
It is unclear what data points, if any, the Trump team plans to point to…
Oh, Maggie, how are you still so naive about Trump and the MAGA idiots of this country?
It won’t matter what data points he says because he’ll fucking make shit up like a 5 year old - just like he’s always done, even while president. Because the corrupt dipshit is a 5 year old in an adult body.
This little piece from Arch Budzar is a nice reminder.
On Banning TikTok
All I’ve ever received in response to my questions about why TikTok should be banned are
- They’re tracking people
- They’re owned by a Chinese company
Neither of those things on their own are worth an outright national ban on an app. Why?
- Because other apps and services already track people
- Owner ship isn’t relevant to suspected improper or illegal operating practices
The news media and politicians often site national security reasons, but never say what those reasons are. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, they all operate in a similar manner to TikTok (the apps, not the companies) so why is there no national call to ban those apps?
All I want is to understand why the app is worthy of being banned. Just one reason. However, “National Security” doesn’t hold weight without proof. So, where’s the proof?
On Camera Market Analysis
This is a weird one to me. The analysis just doesn’t make sense for a remembrance post. But, Om is a Silicon Valley expert so, surely he knows more than I do.
Om Malik on DPReview being shut down
Steady demand for multiple years is not a healthy market? Sure it’s less than the demand from a decade ago, but demand for cameras and lenses is not dropping off a cliff.
He then goes on to compare site visits for DPReview, a review site, and Petapixel, “another photography website that aggregates and publishes more “photography” related click-friendly content”. He determines that DPReview “wasn’t that good” with 1.9 million visits in January 2023 (down from 3 million in 2021) while Petapixel saw “its traffic surge” with 2.2 million visits in January 2023 (up from 1 million in 2021).
Om’s analysis: