be_excellent_to_each_other @ be_excellent_to_each_other @kbin.social

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I would guess complacency initially (can't recall a similar incident in recent memory), and also some of the language in the article lead me to believe that a particular threshold wasn't crossed. Maybe that threshold is the only level of threat under which they are allowed to respond with deadly force. (that's just rampant speculation on my part)

I get the impression they were private security not police, so that would explain them being less trigger happy.

Although yes, it's ridiculous, I'd really love a higher-resolution version to zoom in on. 😁

Go look at the police subs at that other place - they don't wonder. They don't give two shits.

They have decided anyone who doesn't like cops is at least one of these:

• A child or young adult with no life experience nor critical thinking skills
• Someone who doesn't like having rules enforced
• A criminal

Their thinking goes no deeper.

They have ruined heritage, patriot, the Gadsen flag, and damn near the US flag for me.

Ah, hello fellow old person. 🙂

Yes, the Capitalist are burying reports of their crimes. Several times I have searched for articles documenting their behavior only to find it’s been deleted.

Dude it's even got a VERY LENGTHY Wikipedia page. It's not being very well hidden apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbuGhraibtortureandprisonerabuse

Also: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Abu+Ghraib+abuse

We live in a great time for portable audio to be able to get this kind of sound and performance out of something we can carry with us everywhere we go

Not only do I agree, but my first portable music player was a knock off one of these, so it's possible that I love the current state of things so much partly because I've seen how shitty it could be. 😁

It's as if you didn't read what I wrote.

You can say it's self-serving (steamdeck) and you would likely be right.

Doesn't matter whose benefit it was for. It's here now. I can use proton without Steam if I want to. If Valve goes full satan tomorrow, they still enabled viable PC gaming platforms where before there were none, and someone else can take the source and run with it.

Lots of us refused to run Windows just for games even before the MS store. We made do with what we could get. Now we (mostly) don't have to. Plus, people who were staying with Win solely due to gaming have a better chance of being able to ditch MS. Given where MS is headed in recent years, that's a win for personal freedom.

don’t kid yourself and think

You are arguing with a point I haven't made.

But muh heritage... /s

You can block an entire domain, but the functionality is currently broken. It will hide entire comment sections from you if you do it.

However, based on recent posts at /m/kbinmeta it sounds like updates should start rolling out before too much longer, and I expect that will eventually be one of the the things that gets fixed.

Windows would still be the only viable option for most PC gamers if not for the investment Valve has made in proton/wine. You can say it's self-serving (steamdeck) and you would likely be right. But we have two (three if you count standard Linux desktops as distinct from steamdeck) viable PC gaming platforms thanks specifically to Valve.

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I assume this is the same CEO that folded like a wet noodle as soon as the bigots started complaining about having Pride merchandise in the store last summer.

Samsung phone, so not sure the money I invested in my DAP setup has been worth it, and I probably wouldn’t do it again.

So, I've always considered myself a bit of an unfulfilled audiophile. Have never had the free cash that I was willing to spend to get all the audiophile gear, but yet I can definitely tell (surprisingly so) that I pay more attention to how my music sounds than most people I know including family members.

My unpopular opinion is FLAC via Navidrome (transcoding disabled) -- Symphonium Client on my phone (with a good bit of time spent tweaking EQ/DSP settings to my liking) -- Buds2 Pro is probably somehow still inferior to what I'd be getting with an audiophile setup, but it's honestly so breathtakingly lovely to listen to sometimes that it's hard for me to imagine it getting that much better.

I'm aware there is room to go above that, but it already sounds so damn nice it's hard for me to imagine it being worth much more effort or expense.

If anything, I haven't used a set of good over ear headphones since decades ago, and I could see that being a big step up.

+ Navidrome but I've been in love with Symfonium as an android client for about a year. Every other android client I tried seemed like warmed over versions of each other with slightly different GUI and a slightly different set of bugs.

However, I somehow don't think I ever tried Tempo (doesn't ring a bell) so I'll at least peek at it.

First, I think you're wrong. But my speculation regarding the future is no more valid than yours, so there's that.

But second, they've been doing the Hillary-smear against her from the time she took office, and it has never let up. Much as it pains me to compare an intelligent, principled lawmaker against that empty vapid windbag, she's nearly as much of a lightning rod to republicans as trump is to anyone sane. She's unfortunately got no shot at the whitehouse unless our country and our politics change dramatically.

If I'm wrong, that's great, but I suspect I'll be dead of old age before things could change enough for her to have a shot. Maybe by the time she's a senior citizen.

In the meantime though, I hope she keeps getting elected and keeps fighting the good fight. If that happens, I expect her ability to enact change will only increase, even if she never makes it to the oval office.

I hope you are right. I have a lot of faith in the progressive wing of the Democrats - less so in the more centrist majority.

Aside from your snide tone, still not really sure what you are fishing for.

Would you be happier if I threatened violence?

I'd settle for them taking the gloves off (looks at OP, looks at the defense of OP that I replied to) in the meantime.

And yes, if their plan (again, using the context of the comment I replied to) is to let the World burn to get themselves into power, it better be "...so we can finally fix this shit" not "so we can satisfy our lobbyists and corporate interests." (Edit: and their plan needs to work)

Dems seem to have adopted a larger strategy of “fine, then you will reap what you sow” philosophy against the Repubs and those who vote for them (i.e., House speaker elections, etc)

So far it seems like the entire country is reaping a lot of what the Repubs have sown while Dems continue to play from the "high ground" playbook. (i.e., Roe, Book Bans, Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, etc)

I'd like to respect them for it, but it's starting to wear a little thin.

Everything goes to Hell in a hand basket and chaos reigns supreme in the US, electorate says enough is enough, and Dems sweep elections in 2024.

If that's the plan, they are standing by while a lot of folks are hurt to get that sweep. It better pan out, and they better do something with it.

Lose a little more faith in humanity? What are you fishing for here?