I’ve taken a listening course taught by a former cop. It turns out there is an active curriculum for police on how to actively listen to diffuse situations; it just isn’t taught as default to all cops.

Going for three from Against Me!

Thrash Unreal

Borne in the FM Waves of the Heart

I Was a Teenage Anarchist

And one from Rise Against

Help is on the Way

One thing I’ve seen as a new hotness in high art is that the themed experience is crossing the threshold from low art to high art. What would have been considered a theme park ride is now bring presented as an interactive experience worthy of being in a museum. Of course, you will have to exit through the gift shop.

I think, as a general direction of art, we are in the middle of a synthesism of ideas instead of the deconstructionism of the early and mid 20th century.

I don’t know what we’re building, but we are building something.

It isn’t a ban so much as being able to legally go after people who evade the ban.

If you are a reputable company in the right jurisdiction, you can be sued by the state for operating illegally. That is likely enough to get companies to block the state’s IP addresses.

That seems rather typical of a middle income economy.

I don’t know. I look at it as a lot of people on Lemmy complain about how “normal” people force them to act in a certain way and, just in the choice of using a depreciated letter of the alphabet, they are getting hated on for not acting in the conformist manner on Lemmy.

Eh. I remember a time on the Internet where L33T SP34k was a thing. I look at the thorn as something similar.

It is a stylistic choice that, even if it doesn’t poison AI inputs, is acceptable in Internet forums like Lemmy.

Yeah, but to be honest, Lemmy is small enough to notice individuals.

Israel had a part in the Benghazi attack and provided intelligence on the attack to Republicans so they could use the attack as a political weapon.

If everyone used the thorn at scale, it would be incorporated into the English language. However, if only a few people use it, I can see it poisoning their inputs.

I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?

Rich people buy expensive stolen artifacts all the time.

A lot of cops have various forms of less than lethal force, but lethal force in the USA is generally allowed if the victim is considered an immediate danger to others. A rubber bullet isn’t necessarily going to get someone to immediately stop doing something.

Good clothes used to be expensive and a signifier of wealth. Someone who could wear a suit likely had money and someone who had a fashionable suit likely had more money. Over the past generation, as clothing became cheaper and large parts of the richer segments have up on dressing well, the value of wearing a suit dropped.

Wearing a suit is still valuable in some circumstances, but nowhere near as much as before.

That’s pretty horrific.

That’s basic economic theory to prices. For prices to down in an elastic market, either supply needs to increase or demand needs to decrease.

Answering the can everyone do this question, the dip usually implies that everyone cannot do this.

The dip implies a drop in demand that is causing prices to dip.

A Senate impeachment trial is effectively a vote of the Senate. It doesn’t require bipartisanship.

I wouldn’t describe them as fake lucid dreams, but I’ve had them from time to time. I usually find them unsettling as I’m used to having more control in my dreams even if I am performing the actions that my dream wants me to do.

do people just wake up and start consuming food/drink without brushing their teeth & washing their face?

Yes. I also generally eat breakfast before showering or brushing my teeth.

what’s the appeal? I get liking someone else making your breakfast, but why is having it in bed fun?

It is an extremely lazy way to get breakfast. You don’t even have to move out of bed to eat.