“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

As long as there are people willing to kill to oppose it, death is an unfortunate necessity for democracy’s preservation.

I bet they just threw it into the DMZ, turns out when you park your car in a bad part of town and leave all the windows open and the doors unlocked, bad stuff happens to it

In fact, it is the firewall that separates your network from the internet, it’s the first line of defense that would normally provide some protection for an exploitable machine

I would expect there to be problems with most machines if they were to be fully exposed to the internet, nobody actually uses a computer like this

Netplay isn’t exactly ideal, as from what I understand it generally requires the syncing of all players emulated console hardware simultaneously (basically, every emulator tricks the game into thinking they’re all being played on one single console), which is a lot harder to reliably achieve than having native netcode to handle multiplayer

My instance is defederated with them, and most of the (politically) negative interactions I’ve had with people from other instances, I check hexbear, and so far 100% of the time they have an account with the same name there

Niger is close to a slur and is probably overwhelmingly used as a way to bypass filters as opposed to actually taking about the African country

Boeing is a strategic military asset of the US government, who needs to hire private corporate hitmen when we have plenty of tax dollar funded ones

A launcher owned by an analytics company? In my OS owned by an ad company?

The double standards are blatantly obvious, criticizing the CCP in basically any way is “xenophobia” but criticizing the US government is almost a participation requirement

Many bug’s native habitat is actually inside your home, putting them outside is like sending them to die a slow death in Siberia instead

As a trained professional ass talker, I can confirm (with authority) that these people are not doing it

There were other officers on the scene

One of which had a shotgun, the rest were armed with either their service pistols or non-lethal, the officer with the AR-15 took point because he had the most effective weapon for the sorts of long ranges you would see in a large department store with a reported active shooter

The other officers had warned the officer who fired to slow down and de-escalate, but they were ignored

It was not about deescalating, this was a (in two separate 911 calls from people in the store) reported active shooter in a now unknown location, and the officers were attempting to follow their training by forming into a group and slowly moving through the store to find and eliminate the threat, they were telling him to slow down because he was pushing ahead out of formation (I believe upon seeing the woman that was attacked, blood streaming down from the multiple lacerations on her head and face, attempting to crawl towards them for help)

The other officers had non-lethal options, but the officer escalated and fired live rounds in a situation where they couldn’t know if they were putting bystanders in danger

Lethal force is certainly authorized in (what is believed to be) an active shooter situation, with hindsight we can say he didn’t have a gun but the officers at the time not only didn’t know that, they were told the opposite, he was both armed and had already fired the weapon. Upon spotting the suspect, he was holding something (a painting) in front of him, concealing half of his body, and with a gun trained on him made a rapid movement with his free hand behind the painting, which is ultimately what got him shot

not militant thugs who spray rounds at the spray rounds at the slightest provocation with no regard for bystanders

The officer fired three rounds, one of which either missed or over penetrated, ricocheted off of the ground, and then penetrated a wall to unfortunately kill an innocent bystander hiding in a changing room behind

Cops are overwhelmingly shit and need better training, but aside from the almost freak accident killing of the innocent bystander, this was more or less a textbook handling of an active shooter situation by police who probably have never otherwise responded to one in their life, without the two errant 911 callers who apparently mistook breaking glass for gunshots the response would have likely been very different

Three shots, one of which ricocheted off the ground, penetrated a wall, and killed the 14 year old hiding in the changing room behind where the shooting took place

There were two separate 911 calls reporting an active shooter from people hiding in the store (apparently both mistook the smashing of glass as the sound of a gunshot), the officers that responded treated it as an active shooter situation because that’s what they were told it was

People always want to make it more difficult to get a gun, but when it comes to them actually paying for it (extra taxes covering free licensing, free safety classes, whatever) it’s crickets

And the military?

It was decided that “The-Side-Streets-Around-Tiananmen-Square Massacre” was a little too wordy

“Of course I know about fork-knife and Scooby-Doo toilet”

Doug Dimmatoro, owner of the Dimsagoya Dimmadome*