World Views

[Amigoo]

Suddenly, it's clear that the right of free speech and the right of protest
are two different concepts now merged: each confers the right of the other.

Apparently, this merging now creates a right of "free expression",
that activity/behavior required to properly express "speech" and "protest",
with reasonable collateral damage to property and persons permitted.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... tions.html

"according to digestive health charity Guts UK, anything up to 40 is healthy"

Interesting discussion but not informative about the type of bacteria that helps most
... and recommends antibiotics that destroy this beneficial bacteria.

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/economy/ ... index.html

Not great jobs improvement, but not as bad as predicted
... and the trend is continuing slow improvement;
even faster for certain jobs.

See also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/20 ... 153981001/
"What improved and what didn't in Friday's jobs report"

This hints (IMO) that any recurrence of the coronavirus will not severely affect the economy,
especially since "lockdown" will not likely be the preferred method of control (because the "at risk",
a substantial minority, will be the typical victims?).

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... odies.html

"But not everyone who has had the virus will produce detectable antibodies, and may have used a different immune response
in order to attack the virus ... T cells are one of the first lines of defence and act before antibodies are even needed."

"Some parts of the immune response remain a complete mystery to scientists and are unable to measure."

Interesting explanation about the still-mysterious immune system,
suggesting that if you got a good one (however it works), keep it!
A healthy microbiome and certain nutrition seem complementary.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome

Rod

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Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmnZoipkk4

"Condemned The Type Of Violence That Is Now Occurring" ...
then became the inspiration for such violence!

Rod

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Re: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/a ... 309192002/

"Casinos remain one of the few public places you can still light up inside, and coronavirus hasn't changed that. How can you smoke with a mask on, you ask? Masks are only encouraged, not mandatory, in Las Vegas casinos, and many visitors went without during reopening week. (80% of visitors weren't wearing masks during reopening weekend)"

Not a problem ...
if they're the 80% that will not be seriously affected by the coronavirus
... and will not then spread parC to the 20%.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craps
(the many rules that will give you "snake eyes")

Rod

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Re: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3853159/posts

"confirms that Floyd took a highly dangerous narcotic and methamphetamine sometime before he died
and suffered with an enlarged heart and high blood pressure."

"Floyd complained that he couldn’t breathe before Chauvin pinned him to the ground."

With the public preferring to believe asphyxiation, this autopsy report
has delayed significance (during the future trials of the defendants).

Rod

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Re: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14975

"Students at the University of Washington want lax policies for black students during finals week."
"Professors are encouraged to give their black students grading leniency to 'cope emotionally.' "

Seems reasonable ... and provides good precedence for all students, individually or as a group,
for future episodes of emotional stress. Besides, whether the grade was earned or not will be confirmed
later during job employment or advanced schooling. The downside might be that graduates from UW
would have suspect records (assumed grade inflation).

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -dumb.html

"Kitchen appliances that can be controlled from your phone are often dumped by owners
after just TWO YEARS amid fears they are vulnerable to hackers"

"The problem: Users need to share personal information with the machines,
making them vulnerable to hackers."

No, appliances don't rise up and take over the kitchen -
it's the shared personal information that is vulnerable.
However, a refrigerator that suddenly refuses to open
would undoubtedly be mutiny on the bounty (inside).

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rsies.html

"Candace Owens is banned from GoFundMe for spreading 'falsehoods against black community'
after launching $200k fundraiser for Alabama café whose owner called George Floyd a 'thug' "

The poignant lesson is that one cannot stop an avalanche of public opnion,
especially when that opinion is already accepted as historical fact ...
or vigorously promoted as fact by self-serving media.

Not to worry
Like a tsunami, an avalanche leaves a good trail of debris,
an effective audit trail of its first moments.

Rod

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Re: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/guy-off ... 19525.html

"After dancing with and talking to a 'really hot girl' the 23-year-old pulled her over to the bar and offered to buy her a drink.
He placed his order for a beer, and, as he told the bartender, 'whatever she wants.'

The girl then promptly orders four double shots of expensive tequila — for reference, one shot of 1942 Don Julio is $75 —
explaining that she was buying extras for her friends."

The last time I ordered a $75 drink when she said "whatever he wants",
my mom told me to "get away from the bar before we're both arrested."
(it wasn't the Orange Julius like I was expecting)

Rod

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Re: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/thi ... s-america/

"Those that advocate for such an approach seem to believe that most people are inherently good, and that if the police are removed from the equation that we could build a police-free utopia where we all learn to get along with one another just fine. But there is just one huge problem."

"Given the opportunity, there are a lot of people that will burn, loot, riot and harm others without even feeling bad about the pain that they are causing to others. By nature, humanity is deeply selfish, and it has not been easy to organize us into civilized societies. In order for a society to be governed by the rule of law, a relatively high level of morality is required"

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police

Many centuries of police forces (of various compositions) and have not yet proven that societies can live without authoritarian supervision. But the Minneapolis City Council plans are welcome ... if only as a modern attempt to see if the rule of law is still required.

Best guess: Authoritarian supervision will ultimately remain in Minneapolis but not be called "police force". And until lotsa jobs
and/or government assistance exists, the Minneapolis experiment might be best observed from other cities ...
since "Su casa es mi casa." may be the popular mantra in the new & improved Minneapolis.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tment.html

"No actual vote has taken place yet but the council members say they have enough votes - nine out of 13 - to overrule Mayor Frey ...
but that is not strictly true. By law, Minneapolis must maintain a police force of at least 723 police officers. It currently has some 800."

"To completely get rid of the department, the city charter would have to be amended - which would require a public vote
or the full approval of all 13 council members, including the mayor."

Nevertheless, the protest by the 9 out of 13 makes great controversy for the media.

Rod

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Suddenly, defunding the police suggests less work and safer lives for them:
they can let others handle crimes 'n conflicts where their lives would be in danger.

Rod

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Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ZdAIP ... e=youtu.be

"Police officers wash the feet of Black faith leaders and beg for forgiveness"

There's an old precedent for this modern symbolism ...
but the greater one of faith did the washing (without begging).

Rod

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the greater one of faith did the washing (without begging).

This modern symbolism seems reflective of a religion created centuries
after the greater one of faith performed his ceremonial washing ...
and is not symbolism easily borrowed for authoritarian gain.

Rod

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... olice.html

"city council president says fear of having someone break into your home 'comes from a place of privilege' "

In this large North Texas city, protective bars on windows and doors are usually non-existent in "places of privilege",
but often can be found in the poorer areas. Does this not suggest that fear is probably shared by all residents of the city
... or at least relative to higher crime areas (which are usually not places of "privilege")?

And this perspective hints that defunding a police force
may impact higher crime areas more than "places of privilege".

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... women.html

"Radcliffe lashes out at JK Rowling over her comments about transgender people and apologises to Harry Potter fans"

"Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people"

On a symbolic level, this is intriguing disagreement between the fictional Harry Potter and his birth mother author
... suggesting that children are not limited by their parents' imperfections? Or maybe this is creative controversy
to light a new fire for more fiction, like Harry revealed as the transgender Harriet.

Rod

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Re: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/08 ... -facebook/

"She called out the people tagging police in the video, and defended her selling of the looted clothing and liquor –
referring to it as stolen and saying it wasn’t the first time. ... This ain’t (expletive) first time I did this."

A better (than Minneapolis) test environment for defunding the police ...
these "entrepreneurs" would be controlled (or not) by any new Not-Police Department.

Rod

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On the other hand (re: Chicago) ...

Re: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicag ... ting-riots

"Distraught Chicago officials heard on tape fuming over looting, riots: 'My ward is a s--t show' "

Entertaining point and counter-point, but just evidence that both sides
have colorful opinions, well-contrasted by the media for maximum effect

"s--t" = "salt" as in "salt & pepper".

Rod

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The Camden, New Jersey experience in booting the old boots (then rehiring some) ...

Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/09/us/disba ... index.html

"This city disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here's what happened next"
"dissolved its police department in 2012 and replaced it with an entirely new one"

"seven years after the old department was booted (100 officers were rehired), city's crime has dropped by close to half."
"Ojii said the city is 'far away from any practical de-policed reality' partly because of crime that still exists there."

Bottom line: While crime exists, residents still prefer some authoritarian protection;
"7 years" to cut crime rate in half was not overnight improvement, but still encouraging!
... and hints of greater community participation in the effort.

Rod

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The COVID-19 Experience

"Don't worry about tomorrow ...
for tomorrow never comes ...
and then it's gone."

... or so it seems.

Rod

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Re: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020 ... l-for-god/

"A black Georgia State Trooper is making the rounds on social media
after telling Black Lives Matter protests that he only kneels for God."

Counterpoint with courage (reserves that symbolism for it historical usage
while still paying respect to another life that mattered).

Rod

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Re: https://nypost.com/2020/06/09/pandemic- ... ig-toilet/

"But this re-emergence has come with a stream of issues — mainly a steady flow of revelers
freely peeing in public since most bathrooms remain closed."

Wasn't this problem addressed a century ago when cities provided facilties
before the stores and restaurants all had similar options? The point?
This problem is easily anticipated when its history is known.

Rod

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Re: https://www.foxnews.com/media/judge-nap ... epartments
"Can cities actually get rid of police departments?"

"Judge Napolitano explains ...
city charters require the cities to have police departments, so you can't just not have it."

However, police departments are quickly responding to the problem:

Re: https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updat ... vent-abuse

"Dallas police must intervene whenever a fellow officer is using excessive force,
according to a new order from the city's police chief."

Probably a future source of discord amongst police officers (re: definition of "excessive force"),
but may be helped with perspective that a suspect's life should not be endangered by the force.

Rod