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Bodycam video shows Illinois cop shooting unarmed 14-year-old suspected of breaking a window
  • Bodycam video shows Illinois cop shooting unarmed 14-year-old suspected of breaking a window

    Tell the story for what it. A police officer shot a child. What they were or weren't suspected of, whether they had a weapon or not, doesn't matter.

  • Why are wrong numbers so common in the US?

    I do recognise that a lot of it is probably just playing up for the joke, but I assume it has to come from somewhere. I regularly see posts where basically Person A sends an odd image/message, then follows up with "wrong number, sorry" and Person B responds with "wait stay".

    Do Americans, as a rule, not save phone numbers? Or is it purely a bit that has become a trope?

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    If you think this is good for F1 you’re not a real F1 fan.
  • Without context, this sucks. However everything behind first (and often second) is super entertaining. I also wouldn't care if we saw wheel to wheel racing with Max ultimately winning. The same as with Mercedes for the last decade.

  • What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?
  • FLINTA - Frauen, Lesben, Intersexuelle, Nicht-binär, Transgender and Agender. It's a German acronym, and basically covers all non-cishet men, though with a bent toward the female side of things.

    AMAB - assigned male at birth. Basically if the doctor slapped your arse and said "it's a boy", you're AMAB.

    Though not acronyms, I'll expand for clarity:

    N word - n****r, a racial slur aimed at black people.

    F slur - f****t, a homophobic slur, primarily aimed at male presenting queer people, but pretty common all round.

  • What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?
  • And the 99% of people who don't loudly practice extreme beliefs which have been coopted for nefarious purposes?

    In 2016, nearly 80% of Ireland identified as Catholic, and that was a low point for the country. Yet in 2015, we voted for same sex marriage; in 2018, we voted to legalise abortion; in 1995, we voted to legalise divorce; in 2018, we voted to stop treating blasphemy as an offence; in 1973, we voted to recognise other religions and stop putting Catholicism on a pedestal.

    There's plenty to criticise mass religion, and especially institutions for, but don't conflate the powerful, and the extremists, who choose bigotry and hate over love and compassion, with the everyday person who just wants something to provide them with peace.

  • What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?
  • Oh absolutely, criticise the beliefs that don't make sense, and are tolerated. But pretty much everyone of most major faiths believe in science. There's the fundamentalists, who are extremely loud in their ignorance, but the majority of people aren't that.

  • What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?
  • Most of the time yes. A really simple example is the Bible line "thou shall not lie with men as women", the original text says boys not men. The Jewish peoples saw the Greeks fucking kids and said "hey, uh no, let's make that a law, that you shouldn't do that". Boy became men, and that's been used to claim the Bible forbids homosexuality.

    I don't think there's anything ultimately wrong with religion as such. People always try to find meaning and purpose in life. If religion gives them a way of doing that, then excellent; if religion plays no part, then also excellent. The goal is to be a good person, regardless of why you do it. Is a Christian who follows the tenent "love thy neighbour" worse than someone who loves their neighbour? A Jew who helps Muslims despite the tensions between their faiths, and they help because YHWH says to? Are they worse than an atheist who chooses to not help? Religion isn't the problem. People are, people are always the problem.

  • What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?
  • A lot of FLINTA people don't like it. It can be especially upsetting to AMAB people who don't identify as male. It's not the same, but it's similar to things like the n-word, or the f-slur. If someone chooses to use the word about themselves, that's one thing, but if they don't, there's a very good chance you'd upset them.

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    Middle Names Are Uniquely American

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