circuscritic

No, I definitely did not.

I said it wasn’t an accurate comparison.

No, I understand that. She was also a non-native English speaker, who was still learning English.

The first part of my original comment was specifically addressing someone else’s comment who was incorrectly comparing apples to cantaloupes.

I said nothing to do about what the cops felt, or even their actions, which I addressed in the second half, but no one has responded to that so it was dropped.

I was simply stating that those are not apt comparisons because of the statistically significant physical differences between those two groups of people.

There’s a reason why Pacific islanders, specifically Samoans, are 40 times more likely to be in the NFL than any other group.

None of that justifies the police killing her, but it also invalidates the original comparison, which was all I was critiquing.

No, I don’t. There aren’t a lot of high density Samoan enclaves around the US relative to other minority groups, and I grew up alongside one of the largest.

I realize it controversial for Lemmy’s white liberal sensibilities to point out different groups of people can have different characteristics, but that doesn’t make it any less true, no matter how many people down vote what I’m saying.

I also never said any of this justified the police killing her.

No, it’s not an assumption. Because if you had, you would know that what I said was completely accurate.

What…? Seriously? Considering I grew up with a lot of samoans, I think it’s you who’s mistaken.

It’s not assumptions, there’s photos online…

Also, that’s something that only someone who’s never been in a Samoan community would ever say.

That’s not the slam dunk you think it is, as she was samoan. So she would probably anywhere between 2 and 3 times the size of the average white/Hispanic/black girls her age.

What I find more curious is that two officer shot, but one was using less than lethal rounds. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t either both have them, or why those wouldn’t be used first sans the real bullets.

The correct answer is neither.

Miracle drugs are almost exclusively funded, or heavily subsidized, by the public sector, either NIH grants, or other public funding mechanisms through the University system.

R&D budgets for a big pharma go to things like reformulating existing brand name drugs, to prevent them going generic as they are supposed to under current law. Or other high return, reduced effort, drugs i.e. new dick pills, narcotics, etc.

Executive pay and bonuses are not going anywhere, no matter what happens with these drug prices. They will cut their company to the bone, and then collude with private equity to take them private and gut it, before they ever considered cutting down their bonuses or stock options.

I assumed it was going to be some slick evil mastermind unknowingly drugging his nanny.

He was literally coming home when she just dozed off, covering her face with chloroform rag, but she was waking up remembering a rag smelling of chemicals and passing out.

After the third or fourth time it happened, she had put a hidden camera up.

Sure enough, this sadistic dumb fuck, did it again, but this time in full view of the hidden camera.

He only confessed because she went to the police and showed the idiot knocking her out with chloroform and abusing her, yet again.

This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.

I understand that they won’t get involved and run of the local mail mailbox crime, but this was inside of a US Post Office.

That has to be the easiest layup possible a USPIS agent to get a case closure off from, but now I’m really curious about what jurisdiction local police or sheriff’s deputies even have when dealing with crimes that occur inside of the post office, which I’m fairly certain are federal buildings.

I always thought that crimes that occur on federal property, or land, are automatically assigned to federal law enforcement.

Postal Inspectors are Federal Law enforcement, and while you could argue that their budget hasn’t kept up with inflation, it hasn’t been cut either.

Point is, while I’ll always support the need for the US Post Office, and support employees who work in any capacity to deliver mail, I’m not as charitable with USPIS, especially when they have the manpower to spare for warrantless surveillance programs.

…why wasn’t this handled by the Postal Inspectors?

I assumed someone repeatedly breaking into PO boxes is something they would actually want to investigate…?

I was expecting to read the article and find some seventh level of hell legal trickery bullshit, but it does sound like the organizers fucked up.

John Thurston, the secretary of state, rejected the petition outright, saying that organizers had failed to correctly submit a sworn statement confirming that paid canvassers had been instructed on how to collect signatures.

However, while I may be an expert in bird law, with a focus on dick towel related torts, I don’t know shit about Arkansas state law or their regulations for proposing ballot measures.

Maybe someone who is can tell me why this isn’t the fault of the organizers, or if some other shenanigans are at play?

Any chance that they submitted the document, but didn’t complete some arcane ritual like having it delivered by a female virgin courrier? Or not including a list of the mother’s maiden name for every canvasser?

Is the Biden administration lead by conspiracy theorists as well?

Again, inclusive and circumstantial, but pretty far removed from crackpot conspiracy theories and tinfoil hats.

Direct quote from that NYT article I linked:

In addition to the Energy Department, the F.B.I. has also concluded, with moderate confidence, that the virus first emerged accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that worked on coronaviruses.

They aren’t conspiracy theories, at least, not according to the US Government and Biden’s DoE:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/politics/china-lab-leak-coronavirus-pandemic.html

Circumstantial evidence, not conclusive either way, but clearly the Biden administration feels the evidence is weighted slightly more on the side you just called a conspiracy theory.

Which again, is all they allege for ebola, but unlike the co-author of that first paper I linked, I don’t have a PhD in virology, so what do I know.

Those are both pretty through examples of indepth investigative reporting, by credentialed and experienced independent journalists and researchers. There’s plenty of threads to pull on once you start reading into it.

It’s also been covered by Ryan Grim, former DC Beauru Chief for The Intercept. I believe he has recorded interviews up with either researchers from those articles, or some other journalists specializing in covering scientific and medical fields, I forget which.

I’ve read the reporting, and looked into the journalists and researchers behind it, and find them credible.

If you don’t, it doesn’t affect me any.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/did-west-africas-ebola-outbreak-of-2014-have-a-lab-origin/

https://jacobin.com/2016/07/ebola-west-africa-sierra-leone-bah-zoonotic-health-corruption-imperialism/

I have no idea how this lab will operate, but these types of labs are often used by government agencies whose own countries have prohibited certain types of extremely dangerous and risky research.

There’s actually a lot of good circumstantial evidence that the really big Ebola outbreak some years ago likely originated from a lab in neighboring country, that was being used by US government funded scientists, doing work that they were not legally allowed to do on US soil.

It’s late and I’m tired so I am not going to dig up the reporting on that, but there has been some great reporting on the topic in the few years

Whether or not any of that has any relevance to this specific laboratory, or how they’ll operate, I have no idea. Just pointing out that whatever upside can be gained by this type of research, is also accompanied by serious risks.