I'm not convinced the police force in the US is that racist. The majority of crime is committed by Black people. Are the statistics racist? He seemed to be a polite police officer to me.
The police kill more white people than black people. But you don't hear about the white ones, since they don't fit with the "scare the public" media agenda.
Also check out the stats for murder - the number of blacks killed by whites - very small. Whites killed by blacks, again very small. Whites killed by whites - pretty small. Blacks killed by blacks - completely dwarfs the rest. Sorry can't find the source for that at the moment... But if you want to stop black people being killed, you need to look primarily at black people to stop killing them.
He asked her nicely if she could put out her cigarette for his benefit. She in return started ranting about how it was her car etc.
I don't care if she has the right to remain smoking in her car or not. Someone asked kindly for her to put it out, and she went full rant in return.
I'm sure statistically speaking, if someone is a complete asshole and "resists" any attempt to be nice to the police, they're likely to be breaking other laws - carrying drugs, no car insurance, etc etc.
If you get pulled over by the police, starting an argument and forcing them to escalate things isn't the best idea.
In 2 previous jobs, I found out what others at the company were making. OK, they were managers, but still, it just made me pissed off. It didn't make me happy by any means.
As others note, people tend to generally think they're above average. Can you not see that exploding their delusion might not be such a great idea? Some of them have to be below average. A team who doesn't share salary info, can all be happy that they're all above average. If they start sharing salary, half will be below average and probably pretty pissed off.
The people who benefit, are people who are generally happy as they are. Would you like to know how much money your neighbours have? Why should it matter?
I completely agree. But it's a pursuit individuals should pursue. If you want to go explore mars, go ahead! I'm sure it'd be great fun. But it should absolutely not be anything to do with public money, taxes, grants etc.
Leave it completely to rich people and companies to waste their money on.
Stadiums benefit millions of people. Jet fighters save lives.
Finding out that there's water on mars, or some single cell organisms on pluto, does nothing apart from fill a few future text books.
So we find out there's some creatures on Pluto that are roughly the same as frogs. How does that impact anyones life? It'd be an interesting fact, and maybe fun if we could move some over here as pets, but beyond that, it's a colossal waste of energy and money.
Well, agree to disagree. The average person doesn't really care if there is or isn't water on mars, or if someone spent millions of their dollars taking a photo of pluto.
Year after year the news reports another big experiement which cost millions to setup, and which claims to "give us answers as to how the universe was created". I just couldn't be less interested. It's rich people (Or taxpayer funded people) playing with their toys.
It must be great fun if space exploration is your hobby, like explorers of days gone by, but for most people it won't have any impact at all on their lives (Apart from wasting their taxes).
I have both. If I need maps/browser/camera, I use my android phone, and moan at all the crappy UI issues and endless updates etc.
One of my worst gripes with android is just how often it changes the UI just as I'm about to click on something, so that I click on something else. It's maddening.
If I need a phone, I use my Nokia 3210 (With its ridiculously long battery life and far superior reception).
Look at sewing machines though. They used to be made of cast iron and wood. They were built properly, and it shows. They still work 50 or 60 years later.
Modern day sewing machines are made of cheap plastic and flimsy metal. They last 5 years.
Yeah there's some survivor bias, but the materials used to make things in the olden days was just better material. On the down side, sewing machines used to cost a months wages or something.
An old Nokia 3210 or something, just works. It does everything fine. It works as a phone. It was designed from start to finish, and built.
Compare that with Android. Every update they seem to break or remove some functionality. Endless software updates, restarting, etc. It was shipped with bugs, it'll always have bugs.
I'm not convinced this is an improvement. Also obviously has some pretty big consequences if the update system is hacked, or if there's critical bugs etc.
I'm not convinced the police force in the US is that racist. The majority of crime is committed by Black people. Are the statistics racist? He seemed to be a polite police officer to me.
The police kill more white people than black people. But you don't hear about the white ones, since they don't fit with the "scare the public" media agenda.
Also check out the stats for murder - the number of blacks killed by whites - very small. Whites killed by blacks, again very small. Whites killed by whites - pretty small. Blacks killed by blacks - completely dwarfs the rest. Sorry can't find the source for that at the moment... But if you want to stop black people being killed, you need to look primarily at black people to stop killing them.