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Uvalde grand jury indicts officers tied to botched shooting police response
  • Because this is probably the best challenge to qualified immunity that’s ever been available.

    Complete and utter dereliction of duty.

    They even ignored their own department’s procedure on responding to an active shooter, so they can’t argue it wasn’t in their duty to stop the shooter, or they didn’t know how.

  • Man survives being lost in California mountains for 10 days by eating berries
  • There’s a shocking number of people who will just go off into the woods with their clothes and a phone.

    I went hiking with a date once who expected to be fine walking a ten mile trail with no water bottle. Some people have no real world experience of how much water you need when you’re exerting yourself for hours on end.

  • NASA has again delayed Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth
  • It’s having problems with its RCS system

    The thrusters that turn the craft around and allow precise movement aren’t working properly, they barely got the thing to dock with the ISS.

    Despite what nasa says publicly, I’m sure there’s a lot of internal debate about if it’s even safe to undock the thing from the station. If it loses orientation control while still close to the ISS, it could easily damage the station and kill people. That’s if some of the damaged thrusters aren’t the ones that allow the craft to go backwards, kind of important if you want to leave the station.

  • Israel ready for ‘all-out war’ in Lebanon
  • The US navy has almost as many aircraft as all of Russia.

    The US Army has more aircraft than all of Russia.

    The US Airforce has more aircraft than the US navy and army.

    That’s just planes and helicopters.

    If you think any of the countries you talked about are a serious threat to the US outside of nuclear war, then you’re sorely mistaken about how truly insane US defense spending is.

  • Fisker files for bankruptcy protection, the second electric vehicle maker to do so in the past year
  • More an Anti-computer-system-that-happens-to-have-wheels narrative.

    I want a car. I want it to turn on, take me from point A to B, and maybe play some music or an audio book while I’m driving. It should tell me how fast I’m going, and how much further I can go before it needs to recharge or refuel. Give me a few buttons for basics like turning on the heat, AC, lights, and the windshield wipers.

    That’s it. I just want an affordable car that can take me somewhere. None of these EV manufacturers are doing that. They all focus on software packages to set them apart from the rest, when if they just focused on making a usable, affordable car, they’d corner the market.

    Let them fail until someone makes something that actually does what it’s supposed to.

  • Massachusetts’ 911 system is down statewide, Boston Fire says
  • What how? Update faster.

    Probably some routing failure caused by ancient infrastructure

    Does anyone understand how 911 lines are different >than regular phone lines that they could go down?

    They are the same phone lines, 911 just has its own routing system.

    Could it be a Cyber attack?

    Definitely could, but never attribute to malice that which can be explained first by stupidity.

    Where's all the phone people at?

    Retired. Everyone has cell phones, and has told all the kids to not take trades jobs for the past 30 years. Every trade is hurting for new workers, including phone line technicians. There’s not enough bodies to do the work anymore.

  • Ex-Trump Official Makes Stunning Revelation: Trump Talked About Executing People At Several WH Meetings
  • When did Al-Qaeda become a military? It’s a terrorist organization.

    And when did it become a war. Congress hasn’t declared a war since World War 2. Legally, all of killing in the Middle East has been done under the guise of military policing actions.

    Are we going to drone strike proud boy leaders now? They did try to overthrow the US government a few years ago. Oh wait, they just got slaps on the wrist.

    So do we only blow up US citizens and deny them their rights when it would be difficult to get them? I guess the FBI can stop spending so much money on training agents to apprehend suspects, if they’re running or have already fled the country, we’ll just assassinate them because that’s way easier and safer.

    The fact that this guy, regardless of what he did, was assassinated on the orders of a US president, and nothing happened, should be deeply disturbing. You don’t have rights if someone can just blow you up from out of nowhere for any reason. You just have privileges that can be revoked at any time.

    He had the right to a trial. Not a privilege to have one, a right. An attempt to apprehend him should have at least been made.

  • US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes
  • “Sorry we killed most of you in a series of brutal wars and plagues that we started, kicked the survivors out of your countries, systematically erased huge swaths of your culture and heritage, and then made the scraps of land we did give you unusable through mining and water extraction, but stealing your water turns out to be good for an entirely different problem we helped create that will ultimately destroy even more people and land.”

    Yeah I don’t know if that checks out. Bad thing still looks bad.

  • 'The Abyss Is Beckoning': Global Nuke Spending Surged to $2,898 a Second in 2023
  • There’s already enough nukes on hair triggers to destroy modern civilization several times over.

    We don’t need more nukes, so it’s extremely concerning that countries are spending so much money on building more.

    It’s important to remember that every single day, the world is about 30 minutes away from nuclear annihilation. And that in about an hour, every major city on the planet could be an irradiated wasteland.

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