Keeping dogs inside the vehicle is the right move, but requiring another person there makes no sense if the dog is harnessed/belted or kennelled.

Randos who were in contact with the Trump administration who withheld the national guard and allowed these chucklefucks into our nation's capitol to disrupt a congressional session? Randos who showed up with zip ties and maps, planted pipe bombs outside, and erected a gallows? Randos who had hotel rooms stocked with assault rifles to distribute when the order was given?

The mental gymnastics behind this blatantly false equivalency are profound. You are bending over backwards and nobody here buys it.

You're aware of the people found guilty for seditious conspiracy for their actions on Jan 6th, 2021 - right?

There are very few communists in the USA. I think you are maybe confused about what communism is.

There are far more fascists here than commies.

Democracy doesn't die overnight, it's a process.

The GOP has been slowly dismantling it by disenfranchising voters.

A good example.is the congressional apportionment act which caps the number of house representatives per state. Larger population states like CA and NY have congressional members representing a massive number of people, diluting the voting influence of those constituents.

Thr GOP has prevented that cap from being raised because it gives them an unfair advantage - they tend to dominate the less populous states.

This is just one area of conservative fuckery, there is also partisan gerrymandering across the country which strongly favors Republicans.

GOP lead states keep enacting measures to make voting difficult or inconvenient which disproportionately impact population centers, further diluting liberal votes.

This case has the potential to force social media companies to leave up content full of disinformation, hate, and straight up lies because conservatives have realized their hostile messaging often breaks the terms of service of social media companies.

You are being facetious and I don't expect you care much about this issue.

You also clearly didn't read the article, which conveyed minority areas in Austin (east/northeast, north central) lack park spaces, especially the hike and bike trails which have mostly been built in areas undergoing gentrification.

The inequity here is around ease of access, not segregation - apparently that's a problem for you.

Avoiding racism in city planning is not oniony. It might be a small step but discounting it like this is myopic.

Yeah this isn't oniony at all

So equitable access to park spaces in Austin for all races is oniony?

I wholly disagree, it may be a small step but it's an important one. Austin is a city full of park space and there are areas with an obvious lack. These spaces contribute to health and wellness in a way which cannot be understated.

Edit: lol at the people who apparently think this is a bad idea

!remindme 1 year

He was released in 2019 because police weren't expecting to catch him and didn't have backup to deal with the fallout.

This time it's the military and a larger operation - if they are smart he is far from Sinaloa at this point.

There are other professions where people are murdered for doing their jobs - for example, federal and state inspectors are sometimes murdered for performing their duties, attorneys and judges are often targets, and etc.

The difference is what you sign up for when taking a job - those inspectors, judges, and attorneys don't enjoy qualified immunity like police, they didn't sign up for putting their lives in danger.

I understand your point but intent has no bearing on how objectively dangerous a particular job is when it comes to risk of death.

All things being equal, there are many professions far more deadly than policing.

Sure, and police officers are given broad discretion to kill if they fear for their lives, no matter whether their lives were actually in danger at that momemt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_officers_killed_in_the_line_of_duty_in_the_United_States#/media/File%3AUS_law_enforcement_deaths_in_the_line_of_duty_1791-2016.png

2013: 27 gunfire deaths 2014: 50 gunfire deaths 2015: 42 gunfire deaths 2016: 64 gunfire deaths 2017: 44 gunfire deaths 2018: 51 gunfire deaths 2019: 49 gunfire deaths 2020: 45 gunfire deaths 2021: 55 gunfire deaths

At any rate, it should be noted even the highest value in the past 10 years (64 in 2016) represents a miniscule % of police officers (0.014% of the 468,000 police officers employed in 2016)

Top 10 most dangerous states:

https://propertyclub.nyc/article/most-dangerous-states-in-the-us#:~:text=However%2C%20Alaska%20is%20the%20most,per%201%2C000%20people%20in%202022.

IL isn't even in the top 10. Chicago's per capita incidence is far lower than many other cities. It's not even in the top 10 most dangerous cities:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2022/02/23/crime-in-america-study-reveals-the-10-most-dangerous-cities-its-not-where-you-think/?sh=3c77a3207710

St. Louis, Missouri

Jackson, Mississippi

Detroit, Michigan

New Orleans, Louisiana

Baltimore, Maryland

Memphis, Tennessee

Cleveland, Ohio

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Kansas City, Missouri

Shreveport, Louisiana

lol, in states where 'constitutional carry' is in place, there is already a noticeably higher rate of gun violence.

TN and TX are great cases of this. More guns = more gun violence. Period.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2022/02/23/crime-in-america-study-reveals-the-10-most-dangerous-cities-its-not-where-you-think/?sh=3c77a3207710

Notice all of the republican-controlled cities and yet the brain dead drones will still screech about "but muh Chicago", which is not even in the top 10 most dangerous cities.

It's just the reporting, the rate of police being killed by suspects has actually remained fairly consistent over the past decade.

Police officers have a safer job than many other professions, they are not even close to the on-the-job mortality rates of Electrical Linemen, Logging workers, Oil/Gas workers, and etc.

Far and away, over the past two years COVID is the number 1 killer of cops by a very large margin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_officers_killed_in_the_line_of_duty_in_the_United_States#/media/File%3AUS_law_enforcement_deaths_in_the_line_of_duty_1791-2016.png

Edit: changed "the rate of police being killed by suspects has actually decreased over the past few years" to reflect 2021 and a slight increase.

Under Biden, funding for ICE has increased, and we have deported more immigrants than Trump during his first two years when the GOP controlled all three branches of government.

The "border crisis" which manifests magically around every election is a manufactured crisis.

The vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the USA entered legally and overstayed their Visas. They contribute dramatically to the economy and our construction, service, and agricultural industries absolutely depend on them.

In TX, where anti-immigrant bigotry is fervent, they pay the same state taxes as a citizen. Sales tax and property tax apply to everyone regardless of citizenship and that's what we use.

There are still a massive number of jobs open in the industries I mentioned, we need immigrants to fill those jobs.

It seems like conservatives are even against legal immigration now.

Police have quite literally used bomb robots carrying grenades to kill suspects for over a decade now (including a well known incident in Dallas where a suspect was killed in a parking garage using one).

This article only has traction because it's in CA and we all know about the conservatives on reddit and their anti-california circle jerk.

Some other coasters achieve a similar effect by having sections of track do the jumping, e.g. Hagrids wild ride at Universal Orlando.

There is a section where you "fall" 20 feet or so, after rolling backwards into a spider cave. It's just a section of track the same size as the train on a big hinged platform with hydraulics, but you can't see any of that with the scenery and etc.

You have always been able to do that. the vast majority of patents are never built, and many of them are for things which could never work.

Jesus what a trash opinion piece.

"California to incentivize drug addiction recovery"

Better headline than the blunt spin from Faux news - this strategy is used to great effect by the VA to help veterans overcome addiction, there's no reason a state with resources like California cannot pursue the same program.

Haiti is a great example of how unfettered capitalism can lead to intense corruption and eventual collapse in a developing nation.

Wealthy nations promised Haiti the world and then proceeded to rob them blind - imperialism won out over humanitarianism.

The Heller decision was a re-writing by the court of all previous interpretations of whether the second amendment conferred a personal right.

A similar decision could completely undo it, because again, its not a codified law - just a decision throwing out a DC statute.

Until an Act of congress defines things more narrowly,we would expect to see statutory laws unduly restricting access for home defense thrown out.

An act of congress could entirely change that, just like the Heller decision threw out all existing precedent.

So yes, a law could be passed and brought before the court which leads to yet another reinterpretation of the 2a and disregard for precedent, including Heller.

A friendly reminder there were dozens of court rulings on the 2a before Heller with far different results, and there will continue to be due to the antiquated and vague wording of the amendment.