In Talking to Strangers, Gladwell has a fascinating chapter on Madoff.

Don't think so...

The wallets of people do the voting of where to shop and buy.

It is easy to say (and many people do) things such as:

buy more USA made stuff every worker should make USD $XX per hour no full time worker should have to: (take food stamps, work two jobs, go on welfare, etc etc)

But, most of us

if buying two dresses of the same quality, one from US for USD$100 and one from China for USD$50, will buy the $50 dress will enjoy a cheap all you eat Chinese buffet, which is so cheap because the workers are illegal and work only for tips, no salary complain if the cost of fruit and vegetables increases, because the food companies have to pay a higher rate to the people who pick the fruits and vegetables

Come to the worker paradise of DPRK. They claim to be the only country in the world that does not do taxes.

In fact, they have even a special day - April 1, designated as Tax Retirement Day which was the day they retired all taxes in the country.

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Blm riot prevention

An alternative might be to have her phone connect automagically all the time, and when she's not in the car, use a NFC button to turn my bluetooth to connect to CarPlay. However, if I leave the car, the device will remember my phone, and not hers. I'd have to remember to disconnect my bluetooth from the device when I leave the car with another tap on the NFC device. Easier than unplugging, but....

Cans last longer...

@horace said in Another police traffic stop gone wrong:

@jolly said in Another police traffic stop gone wrong:

@89th said in Another police traffic stop gone wrong:

@jolly said in Another police traffic stop gone wrong:

If he hadn't slipped his restraints and tried to make a run for it, he'd be alive today...

What are the stats again? Each year in the USA there are 10,000,000 arrests made, of which about 1,000 deaths by police, of which only 50 involved an unarmed suspect (although there could be justified use, such as using a car as a weapon) and of the 50 I think 35 were white and 18 were black... oh and of all 50...I'm guessing all 50 were resisting arrest.

So yes. Don't be a criminal. AND if you are one, don't resist arrest. This would solve 99.9999999% (if not 100%) of the problems people are protesting.

Again, ad infinitum, ad nauseum... There exists a culture in the black community, a gangsta-wannabe culture fueled by the illegal drug trade. A culture where drugs, rappers, guns and ho's are glorified. A culture that resents any authority, probably because they are fatherless and have rarely been subjected to authority at home. A culture which does not value education, hard work, thrift or advancing one's station in life. A culture where a felony conviction and a prison term is almost seen as a rite of passage for young black men.

You can throw money at this until Hell freezes over and the Devil takes up figure skating and it will not make any difference.

The black community must demand and invest in change from within. That won't happen. Society, as a whole, is coarsening and losing many of the things which make it successful...Strong families, strong morals, work ethic, and a sense of duty. Why should the black community aspire to become like the more successful segments of society, when much if those segments are busy lurching tiwards the dysfunction of the black community?

And then there are the people making money and careers off of all this mess...

Truth...

Yep.

@doctor-phibes said in Waiting for my vaccination....:

I was quite surprised by how quiet it was in the center of Boston - I haven't been in over a year. I briefly went shopping a few months ago to a place near here, and it was horrendously busy to the point where I didn't feel particularly safe - loads of families with no masks, etc. In the Prudential Place mall in Boston everybody was behaving very well, 100% masks as far as I could see, lots of distancing going on. Even though all the stores were open, there were very few shoppers.

I loved my visit to Boston several year ago. Had lunch in a hole-in-the-wall middle-eastern restaurant, so good but I have no clue what it was.
And, driving to Portland Maine was not a long drive, but it took $12 in tolls which I thought was a real ripoff. They're talking about placing tolls on our freeways here. Will probably happen, as it's being done behind the scenes. Oh, and the restaurant on a boat was fantastic seafood. I'd love to explore the New England areas, it's so different from here, just a lot of history that Oregon was not a part of.

Oddly enough, I know of plenty of non-Covid deaths - it must be my age.

In my team of 7 engineers, 4 of us, including me, have lost a parent, none of them to Covid, in the last year.

Give it a few years and it will be the new normal.

@doctor-phibes said in Speaking of guns, "I’d like to see her try it. ":

@rainman said in Speaking of guns, "I’d like to see her try it. ":

There's a magazine called "Bitch?"
Can't really google search using that word, too many unrelated results.
I'd like to write an article for Bitch.
Actually, I think most people on this forum could write an engaging article for Bitch.
Thanks, Bitch!

It's published by the American Kennel Club.

The fancy scarf in the picture should have given it away. She breeds labs.

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