So many caveats it’s practically worthless.

For normal workers who make tips…

For a 14 year old masseuse who works at a golf course getting a “tip” to stay quiet…

Well, they’ll get less from the person tipping them than they used to, but value it as more because they don’t pay taxes now.

Rich people are going to tip less, and get treated better for it. That’s the savings they’ve always meant, they’ll be able to tip less and still get the treatment they want.

It’s not just Sig saying that…

No one, not even cops, can get stuff like this to replicate, even with the exact same guns that supposedly already did this.

People have looked into this before this article was written

The man is 80. Everybody has to die of something.

Just acting like the US president dying in office wouldn’t be a big deal so a blood draw is too much hassle to put him thru is fucking asinine.

He didn’t get a PSA since he was VP according to a recent press release.

Thats either a lie or unbelievably stupid. Like, stupid enough that it calls I to question everything else we heard about how healthy he was in office, even if we didn’t already know for a fact they were lying about it.

If they wanted us to trust them now, they shouldn’t have spent four years lying to everyone.

Honestly it’s probably both at the same time.

The drops were 100% real, and an unacceptable flaw that was/is definitely a liability issue for Sig… (Edited to add: this issue was just on the very first ones and has since been fixed, but the required drop to make it happen was slightly out of spec for what is normally tested for. Like I think it would pass the standard test, but the test height plus an inch or two failed?)

But while this specific one sounds rare, a gun going off in their holster isn’t really that rare and happens with loads of brands of guns.

Cops are strapped all day and “open carry” where the holster isn’t just exposed it’s on a cluttered belt with a bunch of other stuff.

Stuff falls in the holster and moving around can apply pressure which pulls the trigger.

After, the cop will likely see the object, and just discard it to avoid blame.

Like I said, a shit ton of people both involved and not involved did everything possible to try and make stuff like cops were claiming happen in a controlled environment, no one, not even police departments, could replicate it.

This was huge news at the time in the gun community

He wasn’t sitting in a retirement home twiddling his thumbs, he was the fucking president.

There’s no excuse for not running this test as part of an annual physical.

Like you’re legitimately saying it wouldn’t have been a big deal for him to die in office with no advanced notice or time for treatment.

The reason they stop recommending it at 70 is most men that age are retired, have other health issues, and would likely die from chemo before cancer.

We were told Biden was the picture of health, so it would make no sense to stop checking if he had the strength for treatment and a long enough time left for it to be worth it.

For an average American further testing is expensive, the president of the USA can afford to do further testing after the PSA to see what was happening.

There’s just no fucking excuse to not do this routine screening on the president.

And it’s more plausible that they’ve known a long time then they really just didn’t want to run a fucking blood sample for prostate cancer on an 80 year old US president.

You need a trumpian level disconnect from reality to believe this shit, and it’s disappointing so many are.

It was possible but only if dropped and landing at a very specific angle and hitting concrete…

The main problem is when cops hear a new excuse, they can’t wait to try it out

So when this became news, every negligent discharge by a cop (they’re very frequent) was blamed on this.

Shit like this:

Shortly after dark one day in September 2022, police officers Yang Lee and Charles Laskey-Castle arrived on Milwaukee’s west side to investigate a car abandoned on the sidewalk. Lee knelt to examine the driver’s side floorboard as Laskey-Castle stood behind him. Then Lee rose — and his holstered gun fired a bullet into his partner’s leg.

Has never been able to be reproduced intentionally.

Here’s an article and body cam footage:

https://www.wisn.com/article/video-shows-unintended-shooting-injuring-milwaukee-officer/45015940

Sig says the only way it could have happened was if something snagged the trigger, and yeah…

Lots of people have spent a lot of time trying to make the p320 go off on its own like cops kept saying. And like I said the only way that was reproducible was a very specific angle drop on something as hard as concrete.

I never said people voted third party

Ok trump…

Yeah, because voting third party has got you what so far? You’re just a pot calling a kettle black. Both you and the people you’re making fun of are equally useless.

No one mentioned it till you brought it up, claimed no one did what you said they did, and now denied you ever started this fucking Trainwreck of a conversation…

Like, it’s right fucking there that you said it. Everyone can see it…

And you’re just expecting us to ignore it and believe you now?

No one has time for that shit, if you lie about this you’ll lie about anything

The poor performance got the DNC to elect a nonbiased chair for the first time in over half a century…

Did we have to have the conversation about how turnout depression is what happens and not people voting 3 rd party?

You’re jumping around a lot, you claimed people voted 3rd party, and now are saying not enough votes 3rd party to cost Biden/Kamala the election?

There’s no logical consistency between your two comments, they’re openly contradicting each other…

Yeah, because voting third party has got you what so far?

The poor performance got the DNC to elect a nonbiased chair for the first time in over half a century…

If that doesn’t sound huge to you, it just means you don’t know enough about America’s political history.

Ripping the DNC out of the neoliberals cold dead hands was fucking huge.

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

Certainly plausible…

But I don’t trust the police or embassy officials from a country that’s spent years committing a genocide.

They’re not trustworthy witnesses.

If anyone is upset about that and wants it to change, you should go tell the cops and Israel to stop murdering people and then claiming it was self defense.

When you lie about shit constantly, people just stop taking your word on shit

Everybody is different, that’s why the standard method hits the main three.

I don’t know about other people but when I read a story, if it is well written I see it as a movie playing in my mind.

The best way to explain it is picture an apple.

Some people get a phot realistic image.

Some people get a cartoony representation.

Some get the equivalent of a 3d object in a video game.

Other might not “see” anything and just think of the abstract idea of an apple. None of these people will ever assume on their own that others experience something different.

There’s an argument that it’s not an inmate ability, but something that has to be nurtured and grown. But I’m pretty sure there’s been controlled studies and what people “see” is relatively independent of time reading/imagining things.

But there is a real difference between reading/listening, it engages different parts of the brain to take in the information. As does writing it down. It’s why the century old standard for studying is listening, writing/typing notes, and then reading the notes later. It’s covering all the paths to get the information into your brain.

Nah:

https://lemmy.world/post/17391979?scrollToComments=true

That’s what Stewart is saying in this article, Biden’s mental difficulties wasn’t a surprise, we all knew about it.

The problem is the people ghost riding his presidency, mainstream media, and the old DNC all just chose to close ranks, deny reality, and insist Biden was as healthy as a man half his age despite all the evidence to the contrary.

But I remember last year

But not a single peep about massive corruption by Trump, dismissal of laws and actual criminal shit like sexual assault of women.

What?

You seriously have heard anything about that? That’s absolutely unbelievable, even rightwing news sources talk about it to deny it.

Where are you getting your news from that you haven’t heard any of that stuff?

I really hope that the Dems leadership actually listens for once

They had power because the DNC was behind them, and due to the “victory fund” the DNC controlled the purse strings of a lot of state parties.

The voting members of the DNC listened, and elected a nonbiased DNC chair for the first time in decades.

So now the senior elected Dems don’t have anyone behind them. Seniority only mattered as tradition, they can all lose their leadership positions now if they lose the next round of leadership votes.

Could we please get another party that actually represents people???

We basically did already. The Chair has ultimate control of the party, and we got a drastic change in chair.

Jokes aside, Stewart acknowledged: “How fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should have told you was news a year ago, for free.”

“I understand the excitement over an insidious Democratic cover-up about Joe Biden’s mental decline,” he added. “The thing is though, it was a terrible cover-up, because we all fucking knew.”

“There was no cover-up – poll after poll showed vast majorities of the public thought Biden was too old and too out of it to run again,” he continued. “Dean Phillips mounted an entire primary campaign because of it.”

“He along with most of the public knew it was a bad idea for Biden to run. We knew it,” Stewart concluded. “And that’s what’s so hilarious about politicians. The cover-up doesn’t work when everyone knows you’re lying.”

Literally the only reason some people think Biden was a good president, is he’s sandwiched between trump.

So much shit that Biden did would have been completely unacceptable pre-2016.

Like Stewart said, it wasn’t even a good coverup. Everyone could tell Biden was cooked, the admin and party just refused to admit reality exactly like trump is now.

They pulled a weekends at Bernie’s and when called out their only defense was obvious lies.

Was randomly watching this video and while he mentions the Dao instead of Tao, it made me think of this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOagUj-fYM

But he’s an anesthesiologist who spent like 30 years working with Sir Roger Penrose on what consciousness is. Penrose is probably the smartest living physicist right now, him and Hawking worked together to finish a lot of Einsteins work.

But that’s what I was talking about how with crazy high level physics, shit starts sounding like a religion.

Like, no one knows more about consciousness than this guy in the video, but he’s talking about time crystals and aromatic rings in the brain being the foundation of consciousness and that it doesn’t need a biological body for a consciousness to form…

It all sounds crazy, even if he’s using scientific terms and has proof to back it up.

I’m pretty sure if you have a picture like this with trump, you were into some fucked up shit.

And that includes the Clinton’s

Still super awkward his ex was Dee in the pilot, then when they got picked up they dropped her and went no contact and Rob started dating Kaitlin almost immediately after he cast her.

100% makes the Ireland episodes funny where Dee keeps talking about directors banging actors tho.