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Disagreement is completely different from what I was talking about.

I’m not talking about disagreement. I’m talking about contrary opinions and arguments being actively suppressed in left-leaning forums.

I’m talking about posts and comments being removed, solely because the expressed opinion is unpopular among leftists. I’m talking about people being quietly suspended or banned for suggesting a jury’s not-guilty verdict was appropriate.

No, I am not referring to simple disagreement. I’m referring to the left being broadly sheltered from dissent on self defense laws, which is deeply troubling, because legal professionals and informed, layperson jurors regularly side with those dissenting opinions.

We don’t even see the self defense laws in left-leaning states drifting toward the opinions held on the left, but presenting their current state is essentially a bannable offense in left-leaning forums.

I stand by my assertion that the left’s position on self defense is a massive echo chamber.

I can think of a few other ways to avoid being called a RINO that doesn’t involve abandoning critical thinking or toeing the Republican party line. Tacking a “(D)” behind your name, for example.

Trump seems pretty good at appointing RINOs to advisory positions.

Someone may comment that we all live in our own echo chambers, but the damn near impenetrable conservative bubble has no equivalence on the left.

There’s a pretty big left-bubble when it comes to the laws governing the use of force in self defense.

Kyle Rittenhouse, George Zimmerman, Ryan Gainer, Michael Brown… Challenging the consensus (even with video evidence and legal citation) invites insults, threats, comment removal, bans…

I’d put that bubble up against the “Trump” echo chamber any day of the week.

Edit: That vote count demonstrates my point.

He doesn’t have to liquidate it now. He can put it up as collateral against a loan.

The liquidation will happen when his appeal is denied, and the loan is called in.

I used to suck dick for porn.

It’s supposed to be in theaters at the same times as Beheading 2: The Guillotines Come to America.

am not interested in the nitty gritty of the legality of what the cop did.

Then there is no discussion to be had. The law is the foundation of officer training and policy. To discuss the officer’s actions, we must first understand the legal climate under which he acted. He knows it: he has been trained on the law.

if you fear for your life then it is legally acceptable to maim the assailant. But to kill them I think is a step too far.

Under US law It is never acceptable to act with intention to kill or main the assailant. Having the intention of maiming the assailant is not self defense: it is aggravated battery. Having the intention of killing the assailant is not self defense: it is attempted murder.

The only intention contemplated by the laws governing the use of defensive force is “stop the threat”. The only valid purpose any imperiled person or other defender can have is “stop the threat”.

If they have time to decide between “killing” or “maiming” the attacker, the attack is not sufficiently imminent to justify any use of force. Their imperfect use of defensive force then qualifies as criminal. That they were attacked is only a mitigating factor; it does not exonerate the criminality of their actions.

I do not think the hoe is “reasonably capable of causing “grievous bodily harm””.

I think training that attitude into police would be a monumental mistake. Prideful, cocky, and overconfident in their own abilities,

*ridiculous.

I have trained in quite a bit of self defence with various different martial arts.

What training and instruction have you had on the laws governing use of force in defense of self or others?

The hoe could be lethal in a very unlucky scenario, as you say, if it struck an exposed neck, or major artery.

Is it reasonably capable of causing “grievous bodily harm”? Being rendered unconscious or otherwise unable to defend oneself, or losing an eye or other significant organ would qualify as “grievous” in these circumstances.

Would a person reasonably fear either “death” or “grievous bodily harm” from an individual wielding a hoe as a weapon?

The only feasible reaolution for this sort of situation is more drastic interventionary measures after earlier incidents. Once he is swinging a hoe at family members and officers, it is entirely too late to expect a non-forceful resolution.

This was not the first time the family called for police to intervene. We need to look at those previous incidents to figure out how to recognize kids that will come to pose a danger to themselves and others.

I read or heard a report that both officers fired. I believe the first officer was trying to run away as he fired, and the camera was on his chest. It didn’t see his gun arm outstretched behind him.

The position he was in was kinda like a driver aiming at the back, passenger-side seat: the body cam would only see the steering wheel.

What training and instruction have you had on the laws governing use of force in defense of self or others?

Why were cops there in the first place?

Because the family reported that he was attacking them.

He had a fucking gardening tool.

Yes. It appears to be a hoe. A hoe that is perfectly capable of causing death or grievous bodily harm when swung at the unprotected head and neck of an individual.

That “fucking gardening tool”, when wielded in this manner, is a deadly weapon. I certainly believe you would make such an argument were I to attempt to strike you with such a weapon.

I stand by my assertion: there is no reasonable argument to be made that this was unjustified. This use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.

If there is any fault here, it is on the fact that the kid was not institutionalized after a previous incident.

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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/hab/great-lakes.html

TL;DR: Algae would almost certainly be worse than whatever they are using.

Berlin was an airlift operation, not an air drop. They landed the aircraft at several airports, and directly offloaded cargo to trucks.

AFAIK, Gaza has no operational airports, which greatly complicates the logistics of an airlift mission on the scale of Berlin.

If we are considering this sort of mission, we’re looking at sealift, not airlift. Our historical precedence will be the Mulberry harbors set up to support the Normandy invasion.

Just because a service is hosted in the cloud does not mean it is SaaS. The service has to replace a software solution, or be replaceable with a software.

A VPN client is software. A VPN server is software. I can run a VPN client or a VPN server on my own hardware.

But any VPN server I install is going to use my own network connection. Not an anonymizing proxy. No piece of software I could run can replace the anonymizing service that a VPN provider offers. The anonymization feature of a commercial VPN provider is not SaaS.

Gmail (especially as part of the Google Apps suite allowing Google to handle the email for your own domain) could be considered SaaS. I could install my own email servers to handle email traffic in and out of my domain(s), but I’d rather pay for the convenience of not having to maintain my own email server software. Gmail, then, is a good example of SaaS.

I would argue that all are HaaS, not SaaS. There is no software you can install that provides disk space.

I suppose we could think of them as subscription-based alternatives to Samba or some other file server software.

Hot air balloon pilot. I am not paying for weather; I am paying for a convenient packaging of specific weather factors not commonly reported by mainstream sources.

For example, a map of the wind forecast at 100’ AGL. Any commercial source can give me wind forecast at the surface. Aviation specific apps can give me forecasts at 3000, 6000, 9000 feet. But a forecast map of winds at the treetop level is rather difficult to come by.

The data is available from NWS, but it’s commonly provided as a vertical wind profile for a specific location, rather than a map of winds at a particular altitude. This app seems to compile vertical wind profile forecasts for many locations into a single map.

That particular map (and several other weather charts) is a premium feature of a commercial weather app for Android. I found it useful, so I subscribed.