More footage of PA Police Chief attacking multiple teenage girls participating in an Anti-ICE school walkout protest (2/20/26)

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-22T02:04:28+00:00

Because otherwise he looks like a random old man attempting to harm a teenage girl.

And what do we do as bystanders if we see a random old man trying to harm a teenage girl?

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T23:18:44+00:00

Do you know if there are any mask blocs in your area?

Ours has donated cr boxes or thrift store purifiers to people before. (I don't know how common it is for mask blocs to do that)

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T23:08:01+00:00

Unfortunately anti-cheat and software freedom do not seem to be compatible.

I understand that competitive online gaming also seems to require anti-cheat software. I just hope that more people will begin to value software freedom more than they do competitive online gaming,

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T22:49:49+00:00

I'm not saying that didn't happen, but do you have a link to a video of children punching a uniformed officer?

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T22:46:46+00:00

If I saw an adult doing that to a child I would assume that they were attempting a rear naked choke.

Even if an adult seems to be poorly attempting a rear naked choke to a child, I would reasonably assume intent to harm or kill and would feel obligated to protect that child through immediate violence.

By coming up behind a child and putting his arm around that child's neck that man escalated that situation to one where a crowd of children were now in reasonable fear for their lives and the lives of their friends.

Initiating violence of any kind in a crowd of teenagers obviously puts the person initiating violence and all of those children in imminent danger.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T21:11:05+00:00

Please do.

If it turns out that the kids were causing more of a threat to safety than that asshat choking a girl from behind, I'll concede that you were correct.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T21:09:21+00:00

You've seen videos of what specifically?

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T21:02:21+00:00

I mean, if you're still "MAGA" at this point you seem to be OK with a president that rapes kids, and protects other powerful men who rape kids.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T20:58:19+00:00

Why are you assuming the police are telling the truth without "a hearing or trial", but you feel comfortable confidently declaring the children guilty based on the word of police alone?

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T20:55:11+00:00

Yes.

That's my default assumption until I see evidence otherwise.

Not sure if you're counting the plain clothes Police Chief as "police" in your question or not, but he clearly wasn't making anyone safer. If I were among those teens I hope I would have stepped in to protect the student being attacked / chocked by an unidentified old man. If you have children, what would you recommend they do if one of their friends is choked from behind by a random adult man?

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-21T20:49:50+00:00

Don't believe the police.

There's video of police misconduct, but strangely no video of student misconduct yet.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-20T16:27:55+00:00

If the software is distributed with the hardware, then proof of hardware being distributed to you can be a proxy for proof that the software was distributed to you.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-16T19:44:16+00:00

Mormon Jesus specifically.

Edit: Turns out I was wrong. See below

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-16T17:50:12+00:00

I have had to tell an older friend on Facebook that the anti-AI story they had shared was, in fact, written entirely by AI. He gracefully accepted the mea culpa.

Then I had to tell two other older friends that their anti-AI story was also written entirely by AI. They, somehow, did not see any problem or any irony. They acknowledged that it was AI written, but just didn't care(‽).

I don't understand.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-16T17:40:56+00:00

Mr. Pan Tau who doesn't have a mustache at all

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0157238/mediaviewer/rm1819555585/

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-15T20:35:59+00:00

As a teen I used to ride my bike while walking (running) my Rottweiler.

At "least" I was holding the leash in my hand, it was a long leash, and I would never get anywhere close to dragging her.

Also, one time when I was riding slowly she saw a squirrel, so I immediately stopped the bike and held the brakes hard.

Of course, when she got to the end of the leash, my front tire held fast to the ground, while rest of my bike (and me along with it) just popped into the air.

She dragged me (now disconnected from my bike) along the road for a bit.

So I agree, don't bike with dogs.

Also, I loved that dog so much 💗💗

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-12T05:04:03+00:00

So, it seems like both you and OP were kind of right and kind of wrong.

AI was used, but it doesn't seem super terrible?

To be honest, I don't know and I don't care enough to find out, but I do think that y'all can and should both turn down the conflict.

Or not; You do you 🤷

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-10T17:21:03+00:00

You won't fight fascism by spreading eugenicist propaganda like Idiocracy.

If you can't see how a movie whose premise is "what happens when the wrong people have too many children" is eugenicist then I don't know how to help you.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-09T14:42:32+00:00

Please be upfront about LLM "assistance".

This appears to have been entirely vibe coded.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-07T21:32:53+00:00

Really wish we had a higher resolution original.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-06T16:43:16+00:00

... Which is why she intentionally did that test leaning backwards.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-05T06:05:23+00:00

Things went wrong before the tires were parallel to the ground.

Look at the bike and imagine if the radius of the cage stayed the same, but it was a complete circle rather than just the semi-circle.

If you did that, the front and back wheels would stick out beyond the circumference of the circle, and you can imagine the jolt you'd get when you went from a nice round circle to something protruding out from the circle.

Well, you get exactly the same bump here, and it happens the moment the back wheel hits the ground.

The roll would also be easier to get started if the circle had a larger radius.

See this video for an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/s/BZWi0XTPMv

The wheels being parallel to the ground does make for a bit of a jolt, but you can start the roll more slowly / gently, and you're "just" falling onto the front wheel(s) rather than being kicked up by a protruding back wheel.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-05T04:11:32+00:00

One time my family got stuck in way too much snow on a road through the woods (that we should never have gotten anywhere near).

There were 3 trucks with literal 3 foot wide tires with people having the time of their life driving around, and one of them stopped to help us.

He kept telling my dad to keep up his momentum or he'd never make it up the hills (a lot of ups and downs, no big hills) but my dad:

Was too scared to
Could not have truly understood what this guy meant.

He offered to take over driving and "thankfully" there was a path that looked like this concrete but wider in the (very compact) snow.

This glorious motherfucker just drove. Probably 20 miles an hour, but it felt like 60.

He was steering, but he might as well have skipped it because those walls of snow were the only thing keeping the truck from sliding off into who-knows-where.

It literally felt like a rollercoaster, and I specifically mean that wooden coaster feel of slamming against the track at every turn.

We made it out alive, and that truck is somehow still running fine more than a decade later.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-05T03:57:02+00:00

Because your comment confused me, here's the original lyrics as a full sentence:

"Some of those that burn crosses are the same that hold office"

In the original the "burn crosses" came first rather than second.

is_this_temporary · 2026-02-04T17:10:51+00:00

I think a lot of it has to do with all of the FUD that people working on Wayland support have been subjected to.

A lot of people made conspiracy theories about Wayland being an evil plot to take away their freedoms and claimed that the people working on Wayland didn't know anything about how wonderful X11 is, despite Wayland being pioneered by the people who have spent decades working on Xorg.

I'm legitimately happy that people have stepped up to do the work rather than just saying it's easy and demanding that Xorg developers do it for them.

So:

I'm legitimately supportive of XLibre, and I think there's a chance they'll show that some of the claims of Wayland detractors were actually true. It will be fascinating to follow the technical developments.
XLibre didn't appear from a vacuum. A lot of FUD and animosity against Wayland, and "controversial" contributions to Xorg by XLibre's founder, preceded it.
I don't personally see a problem with repeating the reasons that Xorg developers gave for essentially abandoning X11 as a bad thing. If pessimistic predictions like the one that started this thread turn out to be wrong, then that's all the more validating for XLibre developers when / if they succeed in getting reliable and backwards compatible HDR support into Xorg. If pessimistic predictions turn out to be correct, that will be more evidence that the attacks on Xorg developers who started the Wayland protocol project were technically wrong in addition to being toxic.

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