2026-05-17T02:42:29Z https://yabu.me FeralRobots https://yabu.me/npub1cfel2qmvvflcjn50jzy36y7zf53qgxgg9qrnyg7tknf4mwwpdrzq00t65q https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/258/619/110/170/081/original/ac5804ea5efa6890.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/258/619/110/170/081/original/ac5804ea5efa6890.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp682dxd5wnpaws46ey7udajvdlcc5qk4ztw5nuru9psjxr8l4hpqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgz6fad0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2vpzrqek05gx5ga80realk4ay8gjdd6dyv755mezaskz47xfglq8txu4a'>nevent1q…xu4a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I spend a lot of time on BlueSky &amp; I see 2 typical reactions:<br/><br/>POC often say &#34;Nope too much crypto-racism&#34;. I was here in 2022 &amp; saw how a lot of them were aggressively driven away after migrating from Twitter, so I get that.<br/><br/>White middle class intellectual people OTOH respond with derision. Basically, fedi is uncool. If there are reasons they&#39;re varied, but the one constant is that it&#39;s uncool, for very white middle class American jr high school values of &#39;uncool.&#39; 2026-04-06T11:35:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsffnvzgrrmhq7fmayek649lkgcajwgj5pk2ewad7k0ls33xtwx4tqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg99dq6u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ql2qs2ew778jd6fee0urdkceuxdd673ny9egz7uj2qjqkag20ec8hxgqk'>nevent1q…xgqk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeh it&#39;s like &#39;IMA teach you to findom&#39; but one would expect a real findom not to fall for it. <br/>i guess i&#39;m just responding to how weird the pitch seems to me. 2025-10-15T17:55:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr80glg6hrfkln3xvwtcxlx3u6fd4w99uynjjryrdr80mhper4v0qzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgcx6wre In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvkl5nx7wk5zp3wkszd2x6lp0v92j4wayp6trlnnlpc8kjqfhy6acsxzx5j'>nevent1q…zx5j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>is this some kind of multi-faceted FinDom grift? 2025-10-15T17:27:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2cp9rqmpszdw0k4gms7lqhzhx6su3leyjs5uu8pxl5py07p9fcwszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg3wqtl3 The main thing #Murderbot gets from the PresAux team is the understanding that it is a person, not equipment. And a person can make its own choices. From the last chapter of All Systems Red, every bot Murderbot meets is sentient and displays some degree of agency - it wasn&#39;t able to really understand its world that way before being treated as a person by the team.<br/><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots/114853077422088344">https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots/114853077422088344</a> 2025-07-14T19:12:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdqg7jeqtu7r3a3dlmt8pjpy2zxvjfnsr0vlzks93e7exdvvaq2xqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgmwjljq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszxcskj6snpv64eh3snju0uylsevf4wgvfpt4m0dq235nlqeuqg5gf6vxej'>nevent1q…vxej</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know how much traction it got. I think at least a lot of Texans know you can&#39;t first respond your way out of a flash flood. Also Abbot&#39;s &#39;teamwork&#39; bullshit is meant to cover his ass, but it does provide at least some cover down the food chain. 2025-07-10T13:06:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxv8vgjdgewv23ya03j9fe4c4p4788enq6mx8rvyrgv4ucz8xeuzgzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgh9vapz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdmfzdkxrnfgmpe2vze8glfgaq7uzffq2f667pkcdugmjj9fqcmngyv5ft6'>nevent1q…5ft6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I did see, but didn&#39;t read, a story being shared about blaming a &#39;DEI hire&#39; fire chief for those summer camp deaths. 2025-07-10T13:03:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxygqljyyhyzqav2j5ghxdj0gp3tsj4kpe5xf2nrexg6ljhn3404czyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgnlnc5p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyhnya6jyns7q6yrrrpjsju0yyy2tmlqw9yy4rjs8qvx552zvqvege8fv57'>nevent1q…fv57</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Almodóvar certainly needed no additional justification for those remarks but Trump&#39;s given him some anyway.<br/><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7e2z1rxyo.amp">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7e2z1rxyo.amp</a> 2025-05-05T10:01:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8en69303nus4dwgjjhxng8fs7d0qpu98t26jzej8qxxx3ltw8cyqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgjk8p90 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs04c5d8k743gdnry20w34jk72lj2uvs0rrmvgvg4kpnyzwk9hztdcwl9y72'>nevent1q…9y72</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Your ToC disclaimer reminds me of my logical calculus prof, who told us &#34;I need you to nest &#39;({[&#39; or you&#39;ll get your assignments back ungraded.&#34; (He was good about not framing these things as moral issues, it was just a question of how many brain cells did he have to parse out parens.)<br/><br/>(I did not do particularly well in that class, no fault to him.) 2025-04-08T14:29:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvc3lw307tq70yta5gwshev8qx0wuhve93hppa58hkfd5tndhld7szyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgwa6jud In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszp3k7sgpgy62kp9r4hnze4mnx4y5xq3zm32vka3kf2xngvyfx4lg2u5mmy'>nevent1q…5mmy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Rewrite 10,000+ plug-ins &amp; scripts&#34; is disingenuous, to start with.<br/>Nobody anywhere is asking you to make those changes right away - &amp; indeed, probably most people wouldn&#39;t even perceive the most difficult changes.<br/>Admit it: You just don&#39;t want to change it. 2025-03-18T15:04:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs99gkp972h8hxgw3w74ucrxt73gpwsc9hvs339e6zv5wv5hc8vwwqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgcgxeft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr0ws07hnj6fsvrxflc387h60txjmyjefqzlxzmljcz9fl52r7ewq36gvy9'>nevent1q…gvy9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I like when colloquialisms get a subtle change in meaning as the spelling changes. E.g. how &#39;toe the line&#39; (be obedient) became &#39;tow the line&#39; (meaning to offer help or participate in a solution). The meanings are related, so you could have *an* understanding of what&#39;s being said - but it might be subtly off from what&#39;s intended. 2025-03-10T13:38:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszza34dlxxzgq09xfwcvrv08hhkrclvt5cfwzn8hulurwdrjaku0gzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vggpcjfh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfl9v7rz6h8nujhlzytq2zn7nv8cmkufl8wpsnjnn7k2mmrdra84cp4xzlh'>nevent1q…xzlh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>don&#39;t bother, I was thinking back to when I tried it on your server - I&#39;m thinking of a feature I heard about but never really tried (&amp; can&#39;t remember the name of - Beacons, maybe?), so I&#39;m sure I didn&#39;t properly understand what it did. 2025-02-04T21:55:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs82w68uzpqcau2pp348dnjgcg0yrklrcstvdr8ysmaj7hhhzahjxqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgq8eqxg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2tp7npkpxaqxks0tflq7mvq5w0xzyq58mmndydw208hq9gfn3vugf86kc9'>nevent1q…6kc9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>doesn&#39;t *key have something like this? 2025-02-04T21:51:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgvrrs3x22w8te4j6wnl5zdtze7rq9q2896vydpqx8g8ma2x7mxsqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgjkltjv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvl84umdf5lsatrhq896mkq4pnauyl5kw3p38my5rawd0mtjtsspca5pe6u'>nevent1q…pe6u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think bubbles burst the same way anymore. I am convinced by the story people like Ed Zitron et al are telling that AI is a bubble &amp; it will burst IN SOME SENSE - but I don&#39;t think that event will be as catastrophic as Ed et al believe, because VCs have learned to move the capital around in ways Marx never dreamed of. It takes things like trade wars or hardcore USian isolationism to really break economies these days.<br/><br/>😬 2025-01-28T18:22:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrz3dd0qe87t0l5fzz6ghf6zvmde0vv2e4lrnfqrzthxeacrnujxczyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg4l5wve Today is &#34;#LargeBoulderTheSizeOfASmallBoulder&#34; day, for those who celebrate.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/900/753/676/693/910/original/f70420829ee4308b.png"> <br/> 2025-01-27T14:20:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszycqtgr6lds3sqxj3xc97v3aclzx3ya38gdh2xfzthja4n55xlvczyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgnvnlkj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw2pa8xwj662uwgq5kll7tm7q4y3d39yujheh508luqrr66gmd4rct4rg73'>nevent1q…rg73</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>bsky stans stan HARD. &amp; they also tend not to understand what it MEANS that &#39;the Fediverse isn&#39;t just Mastodon.&#39;<br/><br/>That said, I suspect it ends up something like your [2]. 2025-01-14T21:05:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswyhlwsm80m43lluzjf4gtke9ph8wrnqpfq72ncw4znmnpzc4q8nszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vga9mu76 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg40nka87k22ukz82p6trlxtdx3lw6vkym5n0w4vspz5t9lfdjvwsp7elqx'>nevent1q…elqx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If we think of it this way, art can be successful as an activity (i.e., at a personal level), without being successful as an externally-facing activity (see Chris&#39; examples). <br/>Similarly we can reduce the confusion over the differences between art-as-cultural-artifact &amp; art-as-artists&#39;-work. 2025-01-06T11:48:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg40nka87k22ukz82p6trlxtdx3lw6vkym5n0w4vspz5t9lfdjvwszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgw28ykc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrp0mk7fvz97yk9dztvlrwutxshapu6lglrv73tymx9z4ns76x6qc3pcwk7'>nevent1q…cwk7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Primary way we define &#39;art&#39; is by marking it as an elite expression, yes.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve often proposed a way of defining art which I think avoids that: As what we do in attempt to reconcile how we think the world should be, with what we find it to be.<br/><br/>If we define it that way, a lot of everyday human activities become art. (Note that the only person we need to perceive it, in my view, is the person creating it.)<br/><br/>We can still use labels like &#39;elite art&#39; or the like. 2025-01-06T11:45:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8zm5c0uwgwd7xy0phjalr57srj3225dy722ek25qn73ldgsgqrkqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgtw354d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswqxwlcac7rl0z92c8lde5u99wvlylsr8ydxvyswtd4m4xxvddg2gcnhf53'>nevent1q…hf53</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why not both? For people like Trump or Gaetz the real crime is always that someone else is prosecuting them - that&#39;s the sense in which they&#39;re victims. They don&#39;t deny the crimes, except as an expedient; in the slightest of confidence, they&#39;ll happily tell you that they did it, &amp; just don&#39;t think the law should apply to them. 2024-11-14T17:18:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgmc8t2ja8n7hg6hdv08k3uv7jj7wd52kwk25y3uzaw8hj07m6vcczyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vglah43w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2kwagenay0g6rm7ghehssjkx8g2cze3zvyxuhajxqcy2u4ck8squdqt5e'>nevent1q…qt5e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>to be defended by Burke &amp; Hare, Soliciters. 2024-10-11T12:45:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsflkw40snr0s9mpakz200c09yyyyycnp3cdxf28fe286a0qz79exszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg69yyjt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst30e4q94nj5ys44jjhxy5kgsh7djttdn9zaxsr3jfnk3s4upuwkghd6t5j'>nevent1q…6t5j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Why are you in this Slack, then?&#34;<br/>...holy crap the attitude on that dude. 2024-10-10T13:27:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs09erp7rx00zsfmefa6xza9wh8qxzgyslkfpw8lsg2lpuwj8dmvzczyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg9lm2wc Honestly chuckling at the fact that victim-boy Brett Kavanaugh&#39;s big objection to regulating ghost gun receivers was a fear that some poor gun vendor might ACCIDENTALLY sell a ghost gun receiver &amp; get PERSECUTED for it.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/376658/supreme-court-ghost-guns-vanderstok-garland">https://www.vox.com/scotus/376658/supreme-court-ghost-guns-vanderstok-garland</a><br/>[h/t [@knittingknots2](<a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2">https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2</a> ) | <a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113272812452080140">https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113272812452080140</a>]<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/273/086/080/732/140/original/d3740821f11ff709.png"> <br/> 2024-10-08T17:58:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdmp9zw3fvlqtjcq9tyd82vwjer8zjmkdsqlf2sqwwcsf3kc4e8jszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgmjxnze In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0yefxqwxnxqq7kh3s7c200u4r8n29g73anafuzl9yx264jx67yyg5yrdez'>nevent1q…rdez</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m in luck, I get to skip a lot of it because I&#39;m giving a talk on &#39;NaNoWriMo Without NaNoWriMo&#39; between 7-9. 2024-10-01T18:30:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrv4ld4aj2nr0ckadjtratsfhayg6kp2xscaa92wexh335f03v8yqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg53qzuw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsytg2za7kefrk8sz9rzepjl9l7uxwcv8ml55rp4lnrwh2d8astm7q0zwfrn'>nevent1q…wfrn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>but it&#39;s not a true CMS unless [list of idiosyncratic requirements]. 2024-09-26T18:13:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspuw83sll4jgnah0vcq6mls5yh5xqhtm2me2aw3t72u34ptrtn9zgzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgqhwqva In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspm5df3zekf3tknlg8k6l8t7d4jn3l5c4anfpndfcwe9wskpqq89cagx453'>nevent1q…x453</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>with these types either Turkey or Hungary always comes up. 2024-09-26T16:49:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst60l4l66v70w2cphz4p8452ywt2gt9rd0et0ksym98tvtq2qpt4szyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg7x9l99 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyry3dm5e20hun8vaj2vlj3cgmk68khuma4sld2sgg6knmv58dlhq9zhuqm'>nevent1q…huqm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>also one has to be very careful when parsing how AI bros use the term &#34;value.&#34; If he means &#39;valuation&#39;, sure, yeah, it might be trivial. (Especially if one assumes Line Go Up.) Or if he takes a Longermist perspective &amp; presumes that it leads to creation of a trillion-trillion virtual humans - it&#39;s Longtermist dogma that &#39;future virtual lives&#39; are 1:1 in value relative to current actual lives. 2024-09-24T13:10:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxkjfl4udhlv2w7ajzx4dag2ztweu37xz8d5r8lwrk27f4s3m9zsszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg677zlu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst22x4vlnlkc8z3tnlxu3z3f954phz35977srfua82ershwpe3m5spd4jse'>nevent1q…4jse</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>from where I was sitting it looked like de Blasio&#39;s term was basically proof that it&#39;s functionally impossible to govern NYC w/o approval of NYPD. They&#39;re basically the Praetorians at this point. (I&#39;m pretty confident the Praetorians were mobbed up out the ass, &amp; there&#39;s just no surviving documentation for it.) 2024-09-17T11:23:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszkqzs5scd45rgqmyf0pffkdhs725qu2mwex7mn40qw0c5sqfchyszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg7we8se In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv7lnne398rwv7r4xdkkg2gwtetesyygpmmwdew8kkxkeq2de2gssanjj7k'>nevent1q…jj7k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Debussey in the street, John Cage in the sheets. 2024-09-13T19:15:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8jpl03y8tx7sqhsgsyp6u276j04l8n2dgfqgkf0hrytevq0wdjdqzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgem6lan In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqhz9rpw5arwctfx3fl0t9fxdzuwxns768wxnjpl32pn2whh8pzmgyw4wnq'>nevent1q…4wnq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>can&#39;t kill the undead. 2024-09-06T20:26:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszqxrf9c98jg6j5scahv43h20s4rrswlzmqgqky0ejj6cvalw5lgczyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgq072a9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv4tyzguwl9x3jlalse2kdqktz9jc6cjqc5f9nx802k33kr66zahcekvv5m'>nevent1q…vv5m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#39;cuz we all know having your die-hards carry around containers of fake semen with your face on them is a sure winner at the polls. 2024-08-18T16:24:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspzcje43ut68thleauty75d4hwlk00hz9x6phj6ny7hkht8atqrfszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgvlthyn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg7mr0yl0vqg0ta8n7kgynptf6rqnkxpdud0p0jjjmkcwmnhwr2rsgt3zyh'>nevent1q…3zyh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wish you the best of luck, &amp; hope you&#39;ll take whatever time &amp; effort you need to recover! 2024-08-02T15:43:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs20k6ltlzm8zu60rf8g7f7awv68gky9y0f7kcl68uvd9vtpkvj28gzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vg452y5m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9v9ljxrzqyhds4q06m2ts44twrdx6tgwx37fz4e97e2ljqqwludqzt0qx9'>nevent1q…0qx9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>either SOMEBODY is a <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1yf4nsp2vg7mgl2ktwdwyc5hh3xdxvw0puc42xmdxq8cay8g0watqqhesj3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lesbian Death Bed</span> (<span class="italic">npub1yf4…esj3</span>)</a></span> fan or the briefcase full of stereotypically Italian food is a broader cultural stereotype gag than I thought. 2024-07-08T00:42:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9mjgr6hh7n52ft4jc7qx5u8elgh8ftkr4c9p7muek9ms074ljpsczyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgv56uvz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs29uzszrqpcz4f9tglhxut2vvr76ctjtrdqqlpcp7wnvtp5d96n5g3nrsar'>nevent1q…rsar</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Bullseye. Wilhoit&#39;s Law is their TormentNexus-touchstone: any attempt by a non-Conservative president to leverage any of their rulings will be struck down for some new arbitrary reason. The resulting chaos of precedent creates a situation where they constantly need to make oracular interpretations.<br/><br/>Scenario I think we&#39;ll hear more about: Trump packing the court with conservatives, because Roberts demands more bodies to handle bigger case loads resulting from the chaos. 2024-07-02T14:03:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswqwhe656m7xnz7w3ey3ln48jsjz3ru0w9u5t3xx30yhrzpqetplszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgdr0mn5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgday78m8auwdhpthlqwm5lsucyprhs7p3sfwkcp9xryshgfg9lhgpzvg9g'>nevent1q…vg9g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>was this presaged by a drop in sales? or did it flow directly from a crash in pricing on Nike &#34;collectibles&#34;? 2024-06-28T19:11:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgkf3ynw8rx3awgquky3d8su36h7lygscg4l6s9j3dm56wgdqawugzyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgg4ue5a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvd45yxqfp0qgzwr2rkaxqmxcshgxx59x33ylt52txgsm6jaflqrs6jq7sa'>nevent1q…q7sa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can&#39;t tell you how many times I&#39;ve pointed out continual decreases in crime &amp; had people double, triple, nthple down on different reasons why it&#39;s not true - progressing from &#39;show me the stats&#39; to &#39;those stats are bogus&#39; to &#39;well my buddy&#39;s friend is a sherrif&#39;s deputy who said the FBI fakes its stats.&#39; At the end of it all &#39;skyrocketing crime&#39; is a key tenet in the religion of anti-modernism &amp; folks will always find a way to pretend it&#39;s true. 2024-06-13T17:33:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9a3fyvrw7pgmnru8vcythfseyantf40jegtppeqp8au6d5z6k0aszyrp88agrd338lz2w37ggj8gncfxjypqepq5qwv3rew6dxhdec95vgeqc3e3 Random observation: Photos I&#39;m seeing today of American riot cops show them carrying straight-handle batons instead of the side-handle batons that have been more common.<br/><br/>Side-handle batons were adopted because they afforded ways of subduing suspects with reduced force. Also, side handles don&#39;t provide as much striking leverage, so are less likely to seriously injure people by striking.<br/><br/>Cops shifting back to straight batons could signal acknowledgement that their main goal is to hurt people. 2024-05-01T13:51:41Z