Yeah same, OP’s was definitely a mistake. I think she’s just here for us two.

It probably depends on the moment.

I feel it oscillates from “basically already a state” to “European nation that happens to be next to us” to “damn Canadians won’t give me Greenland, must be the left.”

Yeah in my mind it’d be a “blank-only” gun, a movie prop. Which is well within the budget for movies like this, I mean they have a dedicated armorer. Resizing a barrel isn’t uncommon, based on Wikipedia searches, so while it might be a hassle, it could definitely be done within a reasonable timeframe and cost, and avoid any mechanical issues with the gun, but would be pretty high on the list of things a movie would cut corners on if it decided to.

Which is what I gather happened here, anyway, so maybe this IS standard practice.

Yeah but you could use a different caliber that’s nonstandard.

I don’t think its that rare, but its not common. Usually it means that the client is breaching their agreement. Often that breach is in the form of they lied to the lawyer. Lawyers have confidentiality, so the only reasons to lie are external to the case itself.

Could also mean Lindell stopped paying them, probably for money troubles.

I’m not sure but the mandatory arbitration lindell himself put in said to pay the guy, so it was as rigged as lindell could get it without it being illegal, and they still felt it was well-proven, and lindell should pay.

Estimates vary but seem to be between 5 and 10 cents per brick.

Lego definitely makes a profit, but they also haven’t done the usual thing for a business to do, make the product cheaper to squeeze more out of it. In fact, one of the reasons to choose lego over another is the tight tolerances they have for their Legos, they fit better and hold better than a knockoff.

So like, yeah, business, they’re trying to make money, but its not the clear-cut fake inflation thing going on, or even necessarily price gouging, as far as I could determine. Its more, this is what a quality product costs, they haven’t cheaped out, but it just feels so prohibitively expensive because people aren’t paid enough in general.

I bet it won’t be weird at all, honestly.

Growing pains, obviously, that’d be weird, but once they’re in, you’d get used to them as easily as you got used to having them removed.

At least, I had mine for a number of years before they were removed. It seems surprising, but I’m used to not having them, and I think the inverse will be equally weird.

I’m not dumb nowwww though. I want them back.

Dentist didn’t even let me keep them. I was gonna cast them in resin and make bone dice out of my mistake. Unfortunately, human teeth aren’t big enough to make dice without some extra material.

I had my wisdom teeth removed because I failed to take care of them (dumb teenager), but my dentist told me my jaw fit them just fine, so I never had to lose them.

I want them back.

It’s because they don’t see them as people, they see them as violent criminals that the world would be better off without.

If you step into their shoes for a minute, and one of the criminals you just successfully took off of the streets said they can’t breathe, your first thought might be “good. Maybe that’ll teach you a lesson about doing crimes in my neighborhood.” Your second might be “I wish I could shoot you right now and get this over with, but maybe I’ll get lucky and I can say I didn’t hear you.”

Note that the second one is inherently a stupid thought, there’s body cams. That kind of logic didn’t stop my 5-year-old from telling me she cleaned her room when I could easily check and find out she didn’t, and it won’t stop cops from fantasizing about everything working out here.

That’s exactly why they do things that way. They’re living out a fantasy world where there are no real rules and there are no consequences, and they have to live a balancing act between indulging in that and dealing with reality. Sometimes cops fail to balance that, and that’s what we see here.

As for who trains them, it’s their fellow cops. This isn’t a bunch of individual fantasies, these men work and train and talk together about how it’d be so much better if they had less restrictions and just talk about that hypothetical world. New cops who have any kind of racism or similar “My group is best” can join the conversation and add in their own unique version to the group fantasy. New cops who aren’t already racist, though, won’t hear blatant racism. No, they will just hear about crime stats and reoffending rates, about cops that died trying to deal with all the supposed crime, and about how stopping them is justice and will help everyone, not just cops. In time they’ll share the group fantasy, too, and stop seeing their victims as people. Occasionally someone just doesn’t join in the fantasy and they get bullied until they quit.

This is why the easiest way to move forward from this kind of thing is to gut the police departments and start over, or we at least need bodycams that can’t be turned off so easily.

Some do. You can also just restart a phone real quick and it’ll demand your passcode not biometrics.

The passcode itself isn’t circumvented by this, after all.

But locking/resetting your phone should be an urgent thing, if you suspect the police will take it. Apple also does this if you hit the power button 5 times fast.

Honestly it’s a pretty good thing to come of it. Lotteries are just openly-hidden taxes. I wish there was more related to the “play responsibly” thing they pretend to be about, but I think they’re easily a net positive, even with all the irresponsible playing and consequences of that.

Same thing that happens if no one bought the right numbers. Most lotteries, that woulf mean yes, it stays in the pool.

Next up: Florida creates Women’s Driving Permit, only pink vehicles and engines below 120cc. Men on the other hand need a vehicle greater than 150cc with a hood high enough to no longer need to see children, as that is women’s business.