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First, I appreciate your viewpoint. You're kind and authentic in the way you share it, and you always argue in good faith. Thank you for that. It matters. Second, my viewpoint doesn't necessarily disagree with the items you highlight. He should have renewed his license sticker. He should have addressed the warrant, or avoided whatever behavior led to it in the first place. He also shouldn't have tried leave. All points are valid. I'd be a ridiculous fool to argue with them. Where I come down, however, is that none of those things should result in a death penalty result. So what if he tried to leave? Let him. He didn't have a weapon. You have his license plate number and address. Send someone to his house later to issue the citation. As far as I'm concerned, he shouldn't even have been asked to exit his car. Nothing in this exchange warranted a veteran officer feeling the need to pull a weapon of any sort, not even the taser. Nothing in this exchange would've been the same had he been white. I say this all recognizing my own privilege and acknowledging how hard it is for me to put myself into the shoes of a black citizen interacting with law enforcement in a country with a long history racism, implicit or otherwise.

Lol. You and me both, sir

Much of the discussion above reminded us how police in America face higher levels of danger due to how many guns there are in America. It’s a fair point, but even when considered misses the mark a bit about which citizens are getting gunned down by law enforcement. The below chart was summarized by Axios based on the database of information available here: https://link.axios.com/click/23513096.12/aHR0cHM6Ly9tYXBwaW5ncG9saWNldmlvbGVuY2Uub3JnLz91dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2VuZHRvX2xvY2FsbmV3c2xldHRlcnRlc3Qmc3RyZWFtPXRvcA/600a1412c7007c4fabd64e23B19af298e As you can see, ~60% of police killings involved a response to non-violent issues. That’s a problem we can improve, even if that just means we encourage police sometimes let non-violent offenders go free and attempt to follow-up with them at a later time... that there’s no need for 100% control and compliance 100% of the time when responding to nonviolent issues.

That’s wonderful! It looks like you used solid pieces and not just veneer over plywood. I also like the inlay in your floor

Doubtful Super glad you shared, but this is a thread about minimum wage

Lol. Thx. This one was the hardest thing I’ve built to date. It all started with a sketch that I transferred to 1/4” plywood for templates. The templates were then used for my rough cuts. Base is cherry. The ribbon you see on the exterior is also the interior floor of the box. It’s a species similar to Paduuk. Top is zebrawood. Took a 2-pc template, flipped one piece, and cut the curve into the zebrawood so the grain would form a V shape when squished back together with wood glue. Between the curvy zebrawood halves I laminated two super thin strips of maple to form the midrib. Maple had to be thin enough to bend in the clamps. This pic attached should give you the general idea of how I did it. After that, it was just lots and lots (and lots and lots then lots some more) of hours of sanding, ESPECIALLY trying to get that lid to fit perfectly into the oddly shaped hole I cut into the cherry base. That bit alone took me a solid week before I glued the lid insert and the top together.

They remind me of schools of fish, just “swimming” through a different fluid.

There’s an old saying about how campaigns are written in poetry whereas legislation and governance is written in prose. You’re welcome to your feelings, but feels rather nit picky to me. YMMV You mean other than injecting $6T into the economy and coordinating 3Million daily vaccine shots, while also organizing climate commitments from other nations, readying the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by 9/11, and addressing a surge of migrants on the southern border in a humane way... And all within their first 75 days in office? Not to put too fine a point on it, but your criticism is a bit douchey and a lot unreasonable. In fairness, the congress had been actively and voluntarily relinquishing / surrendering their power to the executive branch for decades. The basic calculus is that it’s easier to keep their seat and win the next election when they refuse to take hard votes. Can’t say I blame those holding executive office who are more than happy to continue receiving and exercising said power.

You might be forgetting that Congress writes legislation, not the executive branch. Biden and Kamala will support and sign it if it passed, that’s all.

My latest completed build. Harder than anticipated with all of the curvy shapes and multiple species of wood, but super pleased with how it’s turned out. ✌️

Just put it in the same shielded box you built to protect your DVDs

It involves chemistry. In our brains. Like all other mental phenomena

Is the anger you feel something that can be used to make the situation better? If so, then there’s no need for anger. Focus on making things better. If not, then your anger is only distracting you from finding those things that can help. Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Try exercise and meditation instead, or whatever brings you joy.

Nope. Barely know or care who you are And science doesn't deal in proof. Lastly, I'll just highlight that you keep conflating depression with major depressive disorders. It's funny how in support of this comment you made: "no one knows how antidepressants work!" ... you've supplied the following link which describes how they work. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00077-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867421000775%3Fshowall%3Dtrue#secsectitle0010

As someone currently living in Iowa, I'll just highlight that yet again our OP is working from cartoonish misrepresentations of reality. Farmers are not mah and pah style couples like American Gothic holding a pitch fork in overalls with a coupla kids and chickens running around. Farms that feed the world are MASSIVE agribusinesses using MASSIVE agri-technology from seed producers and equipment manufacturers. Farming at this agribusiness scale is also a heavily invested in by billionaires in China and Saudi Arabia and other countries. It's time to lose the idea of a dude with 3-teeth chewing on a piece of straw and milking Bessy every morning at 5am and start thinking of folks with 3-piece suits who own millions millions upon millions of acres of land and who exploit the locals. See also: Hog farming.

How? Be specific.

What makes you think this isn't already happening? And yeah... good luck with that whole "to hell with national sovereignty!" mindset. Get back to us all on how that works out for you when you attempt to actually operationalize it in reality, the one that's real and unrelated to the many fictions and false narratives you seem to maintain in your head.

You don't have to be intentionally misrepresenting the truth in order to be sharing falsehoods and fictions. Sometimes, you're just wrong and/or misguided.

Yes Like the person who neg repped my post above, you seem to be overreacting. So, assert things they cannot support with evidence and then cross their fingers and hope the leadership in Beijing confesses and surrenders all their power? Yeah, your model of the world is once again shown to be uninformed to the point of being cartoonish. This isn't some Marvel comic book where they could call in the folks with superpowers fighting for good. International relations are complex, unlike these simplistic naive assertions about what scientists could've done to influence Chinese authorities. https://www.axios.com/who-china-report-coronavirus-origins-e1a0b917-6302-437d-956c-aa7df7cb8f42.html

Lol. Oh my. Like magic! Pseudoscience or Trash Can are much better fits.

You do know that the National Enquirer and QAnon are not valid news sources reporting credible trustworthy information, right?

It’s unclear to me what you’re trying to communicate here. Are you able to explain the idea you wish to convey another way?

It doesn’t take a toll per se. It makes house better protected overall. Your immune system will be better prepared to identify and dispatch future attacks. Also, the “immune for 3 months” thing is kinda crap, especially in context of variants.

I'm not in a position to write and pass legislation. I don't have different standards for both. My country does, and to that end I think (as Ten Oz suggests) it's been more politically palatable to be softer on teens... we tend to still see the childlike innocence in them... unless, of course, they're black or brown. Black Children Five Times More Likely Than White Youth to Be Incarcerated

Sometimes humans take their own lives for that very same reason, whether that illness be mental or untreatable. Hope all is well on your end ✌️