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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1h

Just look at how cops acted during the last DSA-affiliated mayor: David Dinkins. He wasn’t anti-cop, he significantly expanded NYPD, increased their budget, all that, but because he pushed to hold bad cops accountable, they literally rioted.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I really don’t see how the Israelis are telling a different story. Seems like they’re just telling the dark reality of why the moment was squandered.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1h

Many such cases www.fox6now.com/news/mountai...

'Mountain lion' turns out to be chonky cat, police admit

www.fox6now.com

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

It is kinda funny that because of who Trump is, he can very credibly threaten Bibi (and allow Bibi in turn to threaten his right flank) in a way that a Dem just couldn’t.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

And the producer (for whom natural gas may just be a byproduct of oil production) is gonna be willing to take whatever the market is offering, but Billy at terminal operations expects his salary to increase along with the cost of living, or he’ll go find a job elsewhere.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, and it actually makes a lot of sense that infrastructure construction and maintenance costs would track generalized inflation closer than the spot price of the commodity.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 10h

At least make it a gif, the juice has gotta be worth the squeeze. You only get my private sexual desires if you can animate them.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 10h

Well you got me reading Wikipedia and now I don’t know what to believe

en.wikipedia.org
The cougar (Puma concolor) (/kuger/, KOO-ger), also called puma, mountain lion, catamount, and panther, is a large small cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 12h

So you can only lose. There’s almost certainly going to be no upside even if you think crashing a helicopter into a densely populated area is an upside. They’re not going to stop flying. They aren’t civilian pilots with basically zero risk tolerance, they will continue with their mission.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 12h

EAnd how it could result in a helicopter falling on them or their loved ones, because it *can*. But it also just won’t, because military/federal LE pilots train for lasing, and there are effective mitigants against it, which is why helicopters still fly in war zones.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 12h

An under discussed point in laser discourse is that pointing a consumer laser at a military/federal LE aircraft is just extremely unlikely to actually harm them. You give them an arrest and a propaganda win because every pilot will get on TV and tell the public how dangerous it *can* be….

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 12h

The other thing it’s likely to do is sound scary when described to the public, and look even scarier if the aircraft has any imaging devices that capture it being pointed at the aircraft. Great propaganda for the feds, since most people fear aircraft falling on them.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 12h

Pointing a normal consumer laser at a federal law enforcement or military aircraft is actually pretty unlikely to have much effect on them, it *could*, it’s just very unlikely. What it is likely to do though is land you in federal prison, which some people might not expect from a $20 item at staples

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 13h

The fact that the crew landed and went and yelled at the people who were doing it (and then called the cops) demonstrates how easy it is for them to find you!

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not even about that happening, which almost certainly wouldn’t, it’s about the fact that most people imagine it could happen, and that creates risk to *them*.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 15h

They can often find you pretty quickly, it very rarely has any actual practical effect on them, but it does sound (and look on any imaging equipment) very scary and dramatic which makes it great propaganda for the state, especially because people can imagine the aircraft crashing on their house.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 23h

Please look up the meaning of “promote”

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 23h

The first part of that argument is sorta true, but the conclusion doesn’t follow, because it requires ignoring that the Nazis control Twitter and do things to ensure that non-Nazis can’t effectively argue to the masses. It also ignores that Twitter gains legitimacy from our presence.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 23h

The steelman argument from them would be: even if we can’t convince the true Nazis on Twitter, most of the people on Twitter aren’t true Nazis, and that mass of people can be convinced and are needed by the Nazis to remain in power. So we should be on twitter to convince *those* people…

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1d

I think what they’re saying is more like “we left the Nazi bar but now the Nazis are in charge and they don’t hear our ideas at their bar, so we can’t influence them”.

Of course that doesn’t make it any better, the Nazis are never going to listen to non-Nazis.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1d

I left because I did not trust their decision to change the TOS choice of venue from the place where their headquarters was to a place where they had basically no presence, but did have very conservative judges.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1d

To show the number of federal judges who responded with those views, because people like pictures. They don’t have percentages, they aren’t pie charts, your entire argument rests on some idea that their argument is about proportions, but it simply isn’t.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, the overemphasis on who nominated some of the judges, sure, that’s flawed for exactly that reason. Though that’s a common mistake that I see from even people I’d expect to know better.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1d

But we do know they didn’t respond. Your formulation implies they did.

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