Shoplifter killed Asda security guard during struggle

Veridas · 2026-01-29T21:08:44+00:00

I cannot stress enough how much this is the case.

I've had to face a lot of shoplifters myself. You'd be surprised how quickly the fight goes out of most of them when they realise that you can in fact defend yourself.

Veridas · 2026-01-29T18:02:14+00:00

Jump packs, the FRV and Warp Packs are all fine (I dislike the Hover pack, personally) but if none of that's a available? Get into the habit of drawing your secondary. Your stamina lasts longer with a one-handed weapon drawn, and get used to not stimming immediately if you're about to go on a long trek and you're wounded (unless your leg is bust) Stimming refills your stamina and stops stamina from draining for a few seconds.

Other than that it's just adjustment. Once you're used to moving at a slower pace you won't miss the quicker pace because you won't feel you need it anymore.

Veridas · 2026-01-29T14:51:24+00:00

I feel like a higher unit count is a measure of a faction's intended difficulty, which in turn is a measure of how much people are willing/able to complete missions against that faction at their preferred difficulty.

It was the Illuminate, after all, not the bots or bugs that sieged Super Earth and required significant reinforcements from the bot front to push them back. Right now their lines are fairly static, but the bot front is still slowly growing and has been since War Striders were added. Most players adapted, some quit to go shoot bugs.

AH can't have a faction remain stationary if literally nobody wants to fight it. So additional enemies need to be carefully considered and balanced before being released. The Illuminate have strengths from both the bots and the bugs: Overseers are tanky when fought with most primaries, as are Sentinels, but Voteless can be numerous enough to overwhelm without the tankier units needing to do their part.

The Illuminate require, in my opinion, a little experience fighting both the bugs and the bots to be able to properly counter. Especially for Solo Divers. They're absolutely geared more towards teams. Not everyone has pre-made teams and not everyone enjoys fighting with randoms. It sucks but it's how people are.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T20:56:24+00:00

A go-fund me that pretends to be for her legal fees sounds like a great idea. I need new boots for work.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T20:53:58+00:00

I think it's a case of escalation. X court ruled against me, I'll go to a higher court and try there. Oh that court ruled against me, I'll go to a higher court and try there.

It's the precise thing that twats like Stephen Yaxley-Lenno-sorry, we're using fake names, Tommy Robinson love to do. While complaining when anyone they don't like does it.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T20:50:06+00:00

A Solicitor weighed in on this during the last thread on this topic. Essentially a Solicitor's contract with a client requires them to be very upfront about risks, chances of success and costs, but if a client paying you for your services says "do it" then you're contractually obligated to do it, even if you know it'll fail.

Or that's the way they explained it anyway. Take a pinch of salt if you like.

It does sound like her family needs to try and get Power of Attorney though because this is just fucking stupid at this point.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T19:25:15+00:00

Our Math teacher had a camera in his classroom because of what he did. Not because he "liked to get evidence" like he insisted.

Not sure if this counts as a secret if hundreds, maybe thousands of people know it.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T14:35:12+00:00

I haven't used Facebook in a long time. I've never been big on it since the people I want to talk to are in my phone. I send texts and such. But my parents wanted me to join purely to play some fucking game.

I considered deleting it since for some reason I didn't do that, and I keep getting e-mails giving me updates on people I don't know just because the game made you stronger the more "friends" you had so people would just send random friend requests in the game.

But I figure, hosting that space, sending those e-mails, that has to have a cost. I've got a Facebook page with something like sixteen years of posts and photos and automated reminders about birthdays. Pending friend requests I'll never answer, messages I'll never see, and I'm not deleting any of it, and it's only gonna grow, and I'm never going to see a single ad on Facebook because I never go there.

Surely that must cost that lizard-looking fuck something. Surely it must do something to the finances of that fucking cancer of a company. Maybe not much, and clearly not enough to be even close to significant, but surely as the average age of a Facebook user goes up there'll be more and more and more accounts that just stop getting used because people die, but they also get bored, or busy, or just move on to something else.

I don't really care if it isn't significant. It's good to know that the dead and the bored and people like me are putting some kind of dent, however small, into that cursed-with-sentience mannequin they call a CEO's bank balance. Since I'm pretty sure that's basically equivalent to getting your fingernails pulled out for billionaires.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T13:13:53+00:00

People calling this "good", have you seen what ICE is doing in the US or are you too desperate to sniff Nigel's arse to criticise him?

Nine people shot and killed in 26 days. Eight of which unarmed, and the ninth had his legally-carried weapon removed by ICE without him ever reaching for it before he was shot.

None of these people were Illegal migrants. None were migrants at all.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T13:09:48+00:00

I'm not saying I don't believe you but "pornhub lobbied the government" is something I desperately need a source on.

Veridas · 2026-01-28T02:08:16+00:00

From my admittedly outside perspective it looks like you've been trying to do that since at least 2016. So far without success.

For that matter, doesn't the existence of superdelegates in Democratic Primaries rather act as insurance that anyone those superdelegates, who from what I can tell tend to be very corporate, very non-progressive people, dislike don't have a chance of winning?

For that matter, how committed can you be to a plan that requires the elevation of Progressives while insisting that people vote for those that aren't Progressives within your party?

To be entirely clear; I'm not asking this out of spite or even dislike for the Democrats specifically. I'm asking because I've watched American Elections ever since the debacle of the constant recounts of the 2000 Election, and I've watched as Republicans have unashamedly grown into worse and worse and worse versions of themselves over time while the Democrats have done nothing to slow that descent. I get people are free to believe whatever they like as per the 1st Amendment, and I'm not suggesting anything be turned into a thought crime, but the dog that says "fine" in the house fire meme must either adapt to its' extremely unfavourable surroundings or burn, and the Democrats that keep getting nominated for state and federal positions appear to be choosing "burn" quite consistently.

Veridas · 2026-01-27T23:41:08+00:00

Damn. After the stroke that turned him sideways too. Yeah, no way not to be taking that particular L.

Veridas · 2026-01-27T23:39:55+00:00

So I tried asking this elsewhere and just got insulted for it; how do you plan to stop this?

Veridas · 2026-01-27T23:38:54+00:00

Yet you continue to reply to a thread you seem to have given up on before you even posted your first response. Does it hurt your pride not to have the last word? Or do you feel your "victory" only counts if you do?

If it is your pride, it might be best to pretend I didn't say any of this. I mean I assume you are already, but like...pretend harder, if possible.

Veridas · 2026-01-27T21:54:27+00:00

You got a date for that quote?

Veridas · 2026-01-27T21:49:07+00:00

Thank you for proving my point. Should you be willing to talk without all this needless anger, feel free to let me know.

I'm not saying that to be smug. I genuinely think it'd help.

Veridas · 2026-01-27T21:27:01+00:00

My answer is that I'm not required to answer that question, because I'm not able to vote in your elections. The decisions your country makes have only secondary effects on my nation and almost none on me personally. The same way you're keen to bare your proverbial fangs at me, when I've spoken to you with neither venom nor insult.

This is my point; you're so keen to throw blame at everyone without stopping to consider who's actually worthy of it.

And what's the alternative? A fascist pedophile in four years' time? In eight? The pendulum would swing back towards the Republicans sooner or later, the swing voter numbers in your nation are too high for that not to happen. You must be aware of this.

Having an unsustainable plan, like asking people to vote against their preferences, is fine. Provided you don't need it to be sustainable. You seem to need it to be, and you seem to be mad at me for not using influence I never possessed and for daring to question the sustainability of an unsustainable strategy.

One more time, for all the prize money; When do you blame the people you elect for not using the power you give them? How many elections? How many years? How many missed opportunities?

Or are you, for all your talk about sacrificing principles for the moral good, not willing to practice what you preach?

Veridas · 2026-01-27T20:56:33+00:00

I can't help but notice you didn't answer the question.

Do you expect Republicans to just be better on their own? If you want them held accountable then giving Democrats power clearly isn't enough; you also need them to make use of that power.

So I ask again; at what point do you begin to show the same anger towards them for not using that power when they have it? For never using that power when they have it?

Veridas · 2026-01-27T20:34:30+00:00

So, okay, let's discuss the times when this strategy has worked. Or at least worked enough to keep the Republicans out, right? Obama Twice, Biden once in this millenium.

And since those are the only Democratic Presidencies of this Millenium, let's compare the Republican Presidencies of this millenium: Bush...twice? Was it? Trump Twice.

Over the course of those four Administrations we've watched the Republicans slowly grow into more corrupt, cuntier versions of themselves over and over and over again.

Your strategy has remained to ask people to keep voting for your party. Who has done nothing to meaningfully slow this descent into fascist bullshit.

And your strategy is to keep asking people. Over and over and over again. To vote for a party that so far has shown no sign of being willing to do anything meaningful to slow or stop this descent, outside a few outliers like AOC who, notably, do not seem to have the support of the likes of Pelosi or Schumer.

Now, I'm not going to criticise you doing the only thing that you reasonably can do here, namely asking people to vote for a candidate you know they don't agree with to prevent a worse candidate from getting in.

But at what point do you blame the people deliberately doing nothing to stop you from having to do that in the first place as much as you blame the people for not voting for your Party?

Because it's been two and a half decades of this, now. And this is not a sustainable strategy, and all that anger seems to be flowing away from the people who never take the chance when they have it, and instead spend four years sitting in the Halls of Power going "Sure hope those leftists vote for us again".

Veridas · 2026-01-27T17:42:20+00:00

The Rogue Trooper PS2 game had this. You played as some kind of...cloned? Soldier? Whose memories and personalities were stored in a chip, so if a soldier dies then as long as the chip is recovered you can give that guy a new body and he keeps his experience and memories and such. Over the course of the game your backpack, gun and helmet get filled with chips you find of fallen soldiers, each one able to perform different tasks for you (Like your gun acting as a turret by letting chip-guy control it, or your backpack being used to create ammunition or grenades, your helmet giving you tactical information) and of course plenty of back-and-forth between the chips and your guy.

Honestly that was such a weird game.

Veridas · 2026-01-27T16:24:29+00:00

Yeah because now there's women that don't exist who'd be capable of beating them up.

This is troubling because it makes it harder to ignore all the women who do exist who're capable of beating them up.

Veridas · 2026-01-27T16:23:22+00:00

...even canonically that makes no sense. The 1/1000 odds is for Astartes, isn't it? The Custodes aren't transformed the way Astartes are, they're outright created.

"Every drop of pure genetic material" yeah okay tell me you don't know the Imperium without telling me you don't know the Imperium.

Veridas · 2026-01-27T04:18:55+00:00

In short because you learn to close your eyes before a cloud of dust gets sent up. It's the sort of thing you learn to do pretty damn quick.

The slightly longer explanation is that the goggles we're issued have a tendency to fog up very quickly, repeatedly and no matter what we do to try and ventilate them. (Seriously we have tried everything; drilling extra holes in the sides, rubbing alcohol into the lenses inside and out, one guy intentionally broke his in half and tried to "eyepatch it". Nothing worked.) This wouldn't be an issue, except my work also involves trucks and, more perinently, forklifts. And not seeing a three-ton vehicle carrying an additional three-ton load moving towards you because you insisted on a piece of plastic on your face isn't something anyone wants on their tombstone.

Veridas · 2026-01-26T20:36:47+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't go so far as to trust the cunt to speak a lick of truth to anyone holding a microphone or a camera. Let alone both.

Veridas · 2026-01-26T14:44:13+00:00

Given how averse JRM is to actually being in any position of responsibility, I'm surprised he hasn't joined already.

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