Confused_Emus

If anyone the police pay to test things is automatically suspect, how are the police to test anything in a way that you’d trust?

According to the article, the barrels were independently tested at the request of the defense, which is why we have this whole story in the first place. What would more independent testing accomplish at this point?

The cops aren’t the ones who tested the barrels. But feel free to keep rearranging the goal posts about backing up a claim with anything of substance.

Your issue is you think it's all or nothing. I never said I didn't think police would do anything improper. Obviously many of them do. But I'm also not just going to take your assertion based solely on the idea that it's "common knowledge." Common knowledge is a term for assumptions people make with no other proof of than, "Yeah, that sounds right to me."

I agree with the principal idea, but if this is as much of a prevailing issue as you’re making it out to be, it shouldn’t be too hard to produce even a single solid source beyond your own convictions of, “Well that’s just how the world works!”

You want a solid source over their feelsies? Gods you’re so demanding.

(/s for the illiterate)

I doubt a false positive here. Clearly something weird about the cargo to begin with - what the hell else are a couple of dudes going across states in a uhaul doing with 55 gallon drums of water? The water wars aren’t set to start for another few decades, I think. Not really a commodity that needs to be shipped, and if it were I doubt it would be shipped by uhaul.

I mean seriously, just look at the situation and analyze it with some common sense. ACAB, but not every single interaction with them is a conspiracy.

Now see, if you’d have kept your mouth shut instead of letting the diarrhea keep falling out, we’d all likely have come away thinking you were just ignorant instead of a complete idiot.

Have fun watching your kids die. God bless America and all that jazz...

Banned from community.

Someone is definitely experiencing Lemmy the hard way. I bet you make friends everywhere you go.

Thanks to our steady transition from America to Dumb-fuck-istan, the only purpose in life a lot of children will have is to serve as sad, painful lessons for their parents. I just hope they don't have to suffer any more than necessary while teaching them those lessons.

This is madness.

It makes total sense, actually. You just have to look at it from the view point of a corporation - which often helps to make sense of our bullshit.

Our banking system is so antiquated because we have a plethora of third party payment processors whose entire business model is providing those modern features - for a small fee. Part of their profits get redirected to ~~bribing~~ lobbying Congress members to make sure things stay the same.

See also our fucked up tax filing situation.

Does the appreciation for the taste of boot leather come naturally, or did you have to develop a taste for it over time?