I am not a supporter of the police. I generally refer to them as state sponsored terrorist. Something needs to change.

This won’t solve everything but could be a step in the right direction to change the culture of police. An educated police force would most likely be less aggressive and violent as well as more tolerant.

So I say give police education benefits that apply to related college degrees. Degrees like criminal justice or social work. It will bring in new recruits who value education and teach existing officers more about the law and/or social justice.

It will also mean fewer people who join the police because they just want to hold a gun and have authority to discriminate against people. There will be better candidates than those people.

This won’t address things like the lack of accountability but I think it would be a net positive.

Our representatives in Congress will never vote to police themselves. But each state could, whether through ballot initiatives or just actual leadership. And once enough states have done it (25-35), then they'd be far more likely to vote to restrict the remaining states.

Frees up ventilators for the unfortunate who do get vaccinated and still get sick.

Doesn't impede on liberties.

Vaccination choice is allows for a free market.

Use a land-based office to guarantee an address for mail, packages, business, etc.. but have the actual shelter be mobile to safeguard against abusive partners and the like.

It's a horrible pun, but my wife has suggested naming the ship "Wife Preserver".

Tired of those endless reply all threads started from someone who wants to be removed from a distro? And then you get the ones ironically replying all to tell others to stop replying all. Yeah, me too.

Think this would solve it and obviously it would make more sense that the one with permissions to fix the issue is the one that gets the request.

I wish I could add filters when shopping to a model that has my body type. I'm exhausted looking for shirts with tiny girls that have no muscles or anything close to my shape. Something that I think will look good ends up looking goofy and I end up returning anyways.

Imagine a movie in which a group of heroes would fight as a team against the villain (which requires team and individual effort) then get power-ups that would occour individually as a natural consequence of them fighting the villain, and even then they would only win with fighting as a team, which would mean they would require team and individual effort, and on top of that also power-ups that also required individual and team effort.

Edit: now I got convinced that power-ups in general are are just a bad thing story-wise. This is the comment that convinced me:

"Kind of an interesting premise, but I have several issues with it when thinking about it as a concept for a film.

In filmmaking (and story telling in general) your main characters have to have weaknesses and flaws to make them compelling and interesting. Why? Because without them, they're "perfect." And "perfect" in films is boring.

Take Godzilla in 2004's Final Wars as an example. He was overpowered from the start and breezed through the monsters of Earth as if they were nothing. Even otherwise "powerful" and "dangerous" enemies like Hedorah and Gigan who pushed his limits in past films were rendered weak as newborn pups compared to him. And as funny as it was to watch him steamroll the competition, it made Godzilla as a character in the film boring AF because he had zero weaknesses or flaws that were visibly presented to us to make us question whether or not he would be able to pull off the big win at the end. It was always a foregone conclusion until the very last minute when Kaiser KG showed up. But even then it was only for a minute or two before Godzilla again became overpowered AF to win the day easy peasy lemon squeezy. He was, in every sense, a Mary Sue.

Compare that to almost ANY other Godzilla film which routinely ranks high on fan favorite lists, like Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla II, and Godzilla's weakness was the existence of Baby Godzilla and the fact that he was drawn to him and could thus be led into traps and dangerous situations. Godzilla's weakness was his status as the parent of the central McGuffin known as Baby. Godzilla vs Destoroyah, Godzilla's own heart is his weakness which turns him into a ticking time bomb which later melts down and it was an inescapable fate. Godzilla's own biology was his weakness. The original Godzilla's weakness was that he, as a natural creature that was mutated by radiation, was still a life form which required oxygen to live which is why the Oxygen Destroyer was able to kill him. His weakness was being a natural born creature of Earth like any other... Like humans.

Your example leaves basically zero weaknesses or flaws for the monsters. If they can power up just by fighting, they could theoretically just fight with each away from Ghidorah non-stop to become infinitely powerful before going in to sweep him as if he were a house fly. And even if you shoehorned some kind of character flaw or weakness into them "Godzilla's breath takes half his power to use," the fact that they "naturally" gain power from fighting basically negates them as a factor once the battle starts. Half his power drained from one blast just means he has to keep fighting to regain it all as if he never lost it in the first place.

Without the fatigue and energy drain of combat as a natural process, the Titans are never going to be in danger of losing or even getting hurt. And that's boring AF.

On that note, combat doesn't miraculously, let alone "naturally," provide energy to you. The very act of combat, even without special abilities, drains energy and causes fatigue because your body burns energy just to move. Just to breathe. Just to live. You're even burning energy when you're sleeping. The very notion of gaining power by fighting goes against the laws of nature which is the entire point of the Titans. They are nature.

In KOTM, the new fan favorite for most, Godzilla experienced extreme fatigue to the point where he couldn't even stand up anymore before Mothra's energy powered him up. And even then it took time to get him there. And Godzilla only reached that point because Emma Russel distracted Ghidorah for him. If she hadn't, Godzilla's extra energy would have been siphoned out by Ghidorah and he would have been killed shortly thereafter by a super powered-up Ghidorah.

Good storytelling relies on the use of tension and release. The tension of the film starts from the inciting incident and builds until the final moments of the climax when the heroes (in this case, Titans) win the day. If the monsters can just power up naturally by fighting and work together ahead of time before facing Ghidorah, where does the tension and release come in? There is no tension if all they have to do is keep fighting to gain power and win the day. It's a foregone conclusion. An inevitability.

All of Godzilla's best and most memorable fights have one thing in common: He begins the battle weaker than his enemies and only wins through teamwork or through an unnatural power boost caused by external factors.

Finally, where is the idea that the power ups require team and individual effort coming from? Are the power ups natural, or are they dependent on the interactions of the Titans? You can't have both. If they can power up by working together, they don't need to "naturally" gain it as a side effect of fighting. And if they gain it naturally, they don't need to work together. They can all just show up and fight Ghidorah as infinitely powerful individuals taking pot shots at him for fun before someone chooses to end the game.

If there's going to be a power up, pick a single reason as to why it happens and stick to it. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

Lastly, there's a lot of emphasis on spectacle in this idea.

But lemme tell you something: The entire reason Godzilla is who he is comes from the story of the original setting him up as an irradiated super species which can shoot a concentrated stream of radiation from his mouth while his spikes glow. As well, the legends of his existence on Odo Island and the way humanity had to become a bigger monster than Godzilla to overcome him is all story.

Without story, Godzilla doesn't exist.

Without story, he's generic movie monster #1103

All of Godzilla's least memorable films relied too much on spectacle and not enough on story. Even if you and other fans didn't realize it, you were enjoying the story behind your favorite films.

Godzilla showing up in Terror of Mechagodzilla to fight Titanosaurus in that awesome night-time reveal backlit by an explosion. Story.

Godzilla emerging from the sea as Burning Godzilla in GvD due to his own out of control radiation. Story.

Godzilla's origin story which is always cited and used by fans to make their points. Story.

Godzilla's history with other monsters throughout the films of the past. Story.

Godzilla has built and maintained his film legacy through the stories just as much, if not more so, than the spectacles that each film came with. While the spectacle moments are often remembered most, it's only because there's a story behind it to make them memorable.

So focus more on story if you want to come up with story ideas. Especially for film. Without story, films are bland, lifeless, and devoid of purpose.

Thanks."

One thing he don't seem to get is that naturally occouring power-ups that require teamwork can still require individual work from the team members as well (meaning teamwork doesn't necessarily exclude inidividual development next to team development), and also, Final Wars Godzilla and some others didn't get naturally occouring power-ups, but other than that, I agree with him. I had a long argument with someome two days ago, and I came to the conlusion that naturally occouring power-ups that require individual and team effort could be fine (while he was fine with any kind of power-up, including individual or teamwork instead of individual and team effort), but now he convinced me that power-ups in general are not really a good thing story-wise.

We need to fight Big Soap's R&D suppression efforts!

Borussia Monchengladbach put up cardboard cutouts to fill empty seats in borussia park recently. Try taking it to the next level. Crowd noises can be played on speakers for 90 minutes. Each team gets an audio jockey who can play different crowd noises during goals, penalties, substitutions, claps, boos and whistles. Home team gets more speakers and away team gets less. By adding 2 more people inside the stadium, you can replace thousands temporarily. #DesperateTimes

Was thinking it might be neat to have a plastic filament material with two parts of an epoxy suspended within it. When heated to its melting point, the epoxy compounds within it would then be able to diffuse and mix. Thus you'd end up with a composite plastic material that is harder and stronger than the original filament.

Just an idea that might be applicable to 3D printing. Be able to print stronger materials than currently availble, but using a more common type of FDM printer and little to no extra processing.

Also might have to alter the process a little bit. Might have to feed a filament without the epoxy through to flush out a hot end, so it doesn't set inside it. But other than that, I would think it's use should be straight forward.

I think making this stuff would have it's challenges chemistry wise, but should be technically feasible. It'd start off as two separate filaments with each having its own epoxy component, which are then joined. This process would have to avoid melting the whole thing as would occur when using it to print, probably something like a pressure based extruder - join the casings at the boundary but not liquefying it in a way that would start the setting process.

So just some random thoughts on a possible future 3D printing material. (Maybe some patent exists on this already? But I didn't look yet.)

That way some of the [removed] clutter would be gone, and also you could make jokes and have fun without interfering with the actual purpose of the sub, or annoying anyone

List of similar and opposite (synonyms/antonyms) emojis based on whichever you select.

Charlize Theron (Aeon Flux, Hancock, Mad Max: Fury Road, Fate of the Furious, Atomic Blonde) would play the brainy leader and rational one, Michelle Rodriguez (Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, Machete, Avatar, Battle: Los Angeles) would play the tough-as-nails tomboy/lesbian, and Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, Resident Evil franchise, Ultraviolet, Survivor) would play the fun-loving cute/eccentric manic-pixie dream girl. The classic Powerpuff Girls formula. All three also have crossover experience with each other between the Resident Evil and the Fast and the Furious movies too, with Rodriguez knowing the other two actresses. And because there always has to be a bad guy who is like them, but better and more seasoned, Angelina Jolie (Resident Evil, Mr and Mrs Smith, Wanted, Salt) can be the antagonist, since she's kind of getting old now. How awesome would this movie be?

that way we can know if the post itself reaches the top based on combined points as opposed to just one single post.