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Cop gets busted driving his police SUV 80mph in a 45mph zone, with no lights or siren. He initially ignored a sheriff's deputy trying to pull him over; after he finally stopped, he refused to hand over his license and then he fled the traffic stop.
Surprise! Cop is now back on the job, because the law is for little people.

Orlando police officer back on the job after fleeing traffic stop in Seminole County
An Orlando police officer who drove off after being pulled over by a Seminole County deputy for speeding is back on the job, according to a spokesperson for the Orlando Police Department.

How moral injury is impacting the news industry and what you can do about it https://americanpressinstitute.org/how-moral-injury-is-impacting-the-news-industry-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

How moral injury is impacting the news industry and what you can do about it
Experts define moral injury as the suffering that comes from witnessing, perpetrating or failing to prevent events that violate one’s own deeply held moral beliefs and values.It is not classified as a mental illness. But it can lead to depression, substance abuse or burnout, which is one reason news managers need to understand the phenomenon of moral injury — and ways to address it or head it off.

A look at robots.txt, a good will-based social contract governing the behavior of web crawlers, as experts call for more rigid tools for managing AI crawlers (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawl…

With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial
For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

Germany’s #GWUP is currently falling apart over a debate on how ‘sciency’ #GenderStudies and #CriticalTheory might be. A dark reminiscence to what once happened between “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie” and “Akademie für Soziologie”!

Von der Birdsite David Garcia Nuñez:
"Liebe Kinder, heute will ich euch in eine Sache einweihen, die mich in den letzten Tagen beschäftigt hat. Es geht um den problematischen Umgang der Medien mit dem Thema #trans und konkret um die Unwahrheiten, die Michèle Binswanger über mich verbreitet hat..."

Thread by @thuritch on Thread Reader App
@thuritch: Liebe Kinder, heute will ich euch in eine Sache einweihen, die mich in den letzten Tagen beschäftigt hat. Es geht um den problematischen Umgang der Medien mit dem Thema #trans und konkret um die Unwahrhei...…

Another great example of (charitably) Kruger-Dunning (or more realistically, towering naivity) among the vljmstoligy community.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair
The reason GHG emissions still aren't falling far or fast enough to avoid global catastrophe is "lack of political will" and "corporate vested interests". The fact is that governments of even nations with undemocratic and tyrannical regimes are in the hands of the populace in the medium to long term. How long would, say, Putin remain in power if he announced a ten year programme to tax meat to the point it's a rare luxury reserved for the wealthy, to transition from petrol and diesel fuels, a crash programme to dump coal and gas for power generation and heating and roll out renewables, abolishing hidden subsidies for concrete manufactures to ensure the the emission externalities are priced in, virtual bans on civilian aviation and so on? Certainly there'd be an interesting Keynesian multiplier effect from all the expenditure and investment*, but he'd still be dangling from a metaphorical lamppost within a few years.
*actually the debt incurred would cause huge inflation.
The other big problem, still, is lack of public understanding. There's "awareness", but here are still huge misapprehension. Eg., many people still seem to think thst net zero would mean a return to mid-20thC climates; people still don't grasp the consequences of passing major tipping thresholds, or that many climate elements (ice sheet melting, ocean circulations,..) have multi-decadal or multi-century lags before reaching a final equilibrium. And they still have no clue how fragile civilisation is, or what life in 2100 -- or 2050! - will be like.
I remain more optimistic than I was 25y ago when I first started taking an interest, though. 2.5°C still looks plausible to me, if current reductions continue to accelerate, given a few weather megadisasters to chivvy us along.

What in the flying fuck are these fucking fartwaffles on.
If you don’t want social consequences then don’t be a fucking asshole.
The constitution or “waaa tolerance includes Nazis” doesn’t protect you from finding out when you fuck around.

Underwood and Flinch 🧛🏼‍♂️😱😄
Narrated horror stories | David Flinch had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family’s lord and master, Lord Underwood, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain, he knows his luck has run out. But David’s sister, Lydia, craves this servant role and will do anything to get it....
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Underwood and Flinch 🧛🏼‍♂️😱😄
Narrated horror stories | David Flinch had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family’s lord and master, Lord Underwood, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain, he knows his luck has run out. But David’s sister, Lydia, craves this servant role and will do anything to get it. Also in this show: Underwood and Flinch; the thriller, One Among The Sleepless; his short stories; his readings of classic stories, including 18 from H.P. Lovecraft; and his unabridged readin…

#CactusFlowers
Apparently it’s National #Cactus Day. Here are two prickly pear flowers. June 2017

"Van Vroonhoven reageert geschrokken ..."
Sorry hoor, maar als je hier van schrikt heb je de laatste jaren onder een steen gelegen. Kijk eens even goed om je heen.
Dat 'tuig van de richel' daar zitten jullie mee aan tafel, ja! Onmiddellijk stoppen!