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Pepper Spray

I am not sure how pepper spray is supposed to stop someone from wildly slashing around.

Not have tazers?

Been many times proven to be unreliable: Highly depends on what the attacker is wearing or which mental state he is in.

But the cops decided to take the US approach of shoot first ask questions later.

Guess we should task you with the investigation, since you appear to know a lot more than the rest of us.

allegedly he threatened the officers with tear gas or a knife, but even he did, in no way is shooting someone justified in this situation.

Have to disagree with you here: If threatened with a stick, police have to pull out a bigger stick to do their job.

If a person starts a fist fight, the baton is the proper method to a) defend yourself and b) gain an advantage over the attacker. If the person then pulls a knife, the baton loses its advantage and a new tool is needed to regain it.

The issue in this case is not the choice of the tool for the job: Pulling the gun on someone attacking others with a knife. The issue is the attacker was shot in the back, which raises the question if he was still a threat.

Little fun fact: The vests regular police are wearing in Germany (at least in the southwest where I live) are bulletproof against small arms fire, but not stab proof. So "just tackle him and take it on the armour" is not an option.

What's the thought in your head that pops up next to your feelings in such a situation?

Mine is usually something along the line of "So that's it, huh? Doesn't feel so great after all".

Not everything that glitters is (Nazi) gold. /s

I remember that one documentary everyone at my school watched at least once during lessons: A bunch of animals in Africa getting drunk by eating fermenting fruit.

Bluesky, the decentralized social network [...]

Were only one instance exist or did I miss something?

“Either they are making this up as they go along, or the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing,” said Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, a nonpartisan conservation group.

Why not both? The end goal is to hand over federal land to Burgum and friends, so as long as that happens who cares about the details?

OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

I fully support sending Taurus to Ukraine but I am afraid this might be one of Merz' 'Stammtischreden' that he does frequently: Just blurb out whatever he thinks at the moment and sounds good while at the bar, but then decides otherwise once sobered up.

I see the point in my projects yet I am frustrated and depressed by my perceived lack of progress.

Want to start a project and procrastinate on it together?

life is unfair and the big dog eats the small dog.

Life is unfair, because people choose not to be fair.

You might ask her why she believes this an acceptable state of things. Is it maybe because it is beneficial to her? Would she accept the system if she wasn't beautiful and/or smart?

Another possible approach I see is taking away some privileges or force her to do more work around the house? After all, as parent you are top dog, so why not treat her unfairly? Its the natural order of things after all, isn't it?

Maybe sprinkle in some historic lessons about child labor and tyrannicide to show that just because something is like this does not mean that it has to continue to be like this.

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these 'Add to X Wallet' buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn't look very nice but it does the job for me.

Techbros

My head canon is that creatures such as ghosts, demons, djinns, ... enter our mortal realm willingly from time to time and sometimes form a connection with a person, who they then teach how to summon them in times of need. This knowledge is then passed down.

So effectively otherworldly creatures are tourists who gave a local their number and now they get bothered by their greatgreatgreatgreatgrandkids.

Ah, a person of class!

It might certainly be a factor, though: German citizenship is very "valuable" in the sense that it opens a lot of possibilities for travelling. A lot of countries (and we are not just talking EU member states here) do not require as much paperwork or none at all if you own a German passport compared to a US one.

Oh, they can do that if need be. They already tested it.

Friendly reminder for everyone downvoting this piece of news. The downvote button is not a dislike button.

Not sure how to interpret your question.

In case my message wasn't clear: I think the reason the rightwing extremist AFD has overtaken the conservative CDU in polls is twofold. On one hand the CDU is adopting more extreme rightwing rhetoric and this validates the AFD as 'the original fascism'. Secondly the CDU opposed new debt based investments for the last four year and campaigned heavily based on this sentiment. Now they approved a plan for up to one TRILLION € of debt to finance defence and infrastructure related projects.

Why choose the off-brand when you can get the original fascism for the same one vote?

Especially considering that the conservatives fooled every voter by throwing out basically every fiscal austerity policy they so vehemently defended during the last years, the moment they won the election and now need money to form a functioning goverment.