Oh, that’s def true, headlines about military equipment being bought by normal USA police departments keep popping up.
The militarisation def doesn’t help with the problem.
But I was referring more to the start, the colonial and early independent era, what existing groups were recruited/rebranded into the first police departments.
At all points. It was a gang that started wearing was given badges, not a ‘serve and protect’ force that (d)evolved into a gang.
- “Look out, it’s got a gun!!”
[police open fire for 5 minutes]
It ran out of aluminium too, poor thing.
What-bits per sometimes
Idk what this is about but the setting he is in is absolutely perfect for an energy vampire.
Also they won’t even apologise for most of them
… a major london breed is running the city? :|
No.
But pole dancing is just as valid career choice as debating.
Tooto chicken debate!
It’s a cock-fighting-like event but more civilised where chickens debate each other, they each have little tables & get prep time.
The winner gets a bucket of mealworms. The loser gets the same, bcs chickens are good girls.
Too-to (“Tutu”) was the legendary supreme chicken debate champion that a set of debate rules is now named after, in her honour.
(TIL when I searched for a pic there is a chicken tutu market)
Yes!
Even that was in an era or needlessly ego-boosting giant cars, going utilitarian to get a better product, better lives on average, even save resources - amazing (but with the cardinal sin of not being expensive enough and thus not as financially profitable).
For the same reason I would love to get a normally viable car of much smol.
Like a bit more modern version of Figaro:
Or a sexy mid-engine Autozam:
Kei cars are qewl!
I was under the impression that was the trigger.
They couldn’t pack a full bomb inside the pagers (prob too easy to detect the primer?), so they just added explosives and to trigger the reaction they overheated the battery.
And yes, you can absolutely heat up an AA to 100°C and more by shorting it. But in this case controller sorted it on command Im guessing.
So AA can violently explode. You just had to add explosives :D.
(But honestly, I replied just because I found it amusing you thought I assumed new battery tech did it, I should have added the “/s” next to the flying car reference - after all, in the early age of dumb phones (late 90s) unregulated dumb li-ion batteries killed a few people in China iirc)
How do you overheat a standard AA battery? Just by shorting it?
No, I meant the immediate people involved in the revolution, those often don’t fair well & don’t last long (eg people in a party, not necessarily main headline names). Iirc Russia changed almost everyone in charge in the 20s & 30s to a more stable structure afterwards.
In such system changes the country often goes through another (lesser) system revolution a few years after the first one (when the focus is to just keep shit running) & it’s better that people involved change at that point too.
Like what happened with Robespierre (~Jacobins), the early two or three years under Lenin, and I think Slovakia or Poland when they transitionv away from communism they forbid running for office to anyone that held any official power under the previous regime (the same people that formally facilitated the end of communism since it as that kind of revolution).
What you showed is what happened after after that, so the point of revolution. And I couldn’t agree more with that. My point was not in that. It’s that you need admins and regular politicians to run any system smoothly, and the few 1000s of people revolutioning arent usually the best at tirelessly debating a monetary policy or what road laws to use.
(Oh, the “plundering” part - yes, perhaps the wrong word to use, I meant that fairly literally, irl taking things, not doing it in an organised legal manner which is how “the 1% gets to exist” – and you can se that clearly in the Russia chart too, 90s capitalism was the framework for that, so “paper” not raiding rich houses)
Actually its prob like only one or two laser lines you can casually step over.
But the are super sensitive & triggery.
Beat or being able to flourish once the Goth Galadriel is gone?
Because historically the revolutionary forces (the one toppling the bourgeoisie) are extremely shitty governors (just continuing mass murdering & plundering which kinda makes sense if you think how & what they have been through).
In very few historical instances of regime changes all the previous actors as well as anyone involved in the revolution were prohibited in forming the new structure. This helps a lot to actually change the system.
You wouldn’t want to move from a czar to a dictator, thats long term the same bullshit, only makes things better in short term.
Same with any oligarchy, if it exists and has power than it matters little what kind of regime it technically is.
Edit: I might have chosen poor words but I didn’t mean that the ideologies behind revolutions make for poor government, just literally the force of a few 100 or 1000 people directly involved in the forceful part of the revolution. The fighty-fighty people.
Oh, the sharpening of that French tech for just such occasions.
Pushing it to the limits it wasn’t designed for - some might even break down :D
They keep remastering games I didn’t come around to play the first time. Aging sux (mine, not of the games).
Yes, we have decades between (direct involvement in) wars!!
We didn’t even spend actual money on war stuff the last few decades.
But we sure are gonna do it now, we need to protect our drinking water (for the coming water wars) and update our firewalls (for the coming Skynet wars).