My Dad does and thinks it’s great.
Any of you have an Irish Times sub? Is the app decent?
Top boy is very good!
Couldn't get into Stranger Things, bit too creepy for me.
Dark is excellent on Netflix if you are willing to read subtitles (it's German). There's a dubbed version, but don't watch that.
The fall is a hard watch at times. I didn't think there was three seasons of content but parts of that last season were shocking.
Stranger Things has been consistently good since season 1.
Am enjoying better call Saul and first two episodes of Kenobi are promising (Boba Fett having been quite average for the most part).
Am watching "We own this City" which looks like an attempt to be this generations "The Wire" but I'm struggling with it, good in parts but not engaging.
Am well behind on most of these shows due to time constraints but it's good having things to watch after lockdown starved new content.
New Doctor Strange was good too.
I've been watching Cowboy Bebop. Pretty decent after 4 episodes.
Also just finished The Fall which is well worth a look
Anyone watching Stranger Things? Two episodes in and I’m really enjoying it.
Neil, as always, you are the soul of kindness and compassion.
This might cheer you up (England are going to win the World Cup):
As a Leinster sth and Liverpool supporter growing up, today has not been a great day.
What's your threshold for "fairly common". Data I saw recently suggests it happens less than 5% of the time.
This type of stuff is fairly common.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/560798-police-chief-hails-good-guy-with-a-gun-after-officer-kills/amp/
I'd also bet in most situations the "good guys with guns" are more likely to panic and blast their way through every other good guy who stands between them and safety.
When the good guy with a gun starts firing, how can you tell who the good guy is
Obi Wan Kenobi
That last 25 seconds of Ep 2 of Obi Wan Kenobi...holy feck...
Land of the Free Fire Zone........
I dunno, it feels different this time. Protests outside the NRA meeting in Houston today for e.g.:
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1530252617296891906
Also, the overwhelingly positive response to Beto gatecrashing Abbott's press conference yesterday really surprised me.
"The more we normalize the "right way" to deal with the situation, the more we normalize the utter insanity that a maniac can enter a school with a legally purchased military-grade weapon."
The US is waaay past this point, unfortunately.
To be honest, while the conversation shifting toward police incompetence may be in some ways warranted, it's incredibly unhelpful. The more we normalize the "right way" to deal with the situation, the more we normalize the utter insanity that a maniac can enter a school with a legally purchased military-grade weapon. Another slightly terrifying thing about Uvalde, is that the perpetrator grew up doing active shooter drills in school and likely knew exactly what the school would do once he entered....
Cops in the US have no responsibility to aid or protect anyone except themselves, ever. This point has been litigated endlessly and while occasionally cops are fired for the sort of dereliction and refusal to get involved in risky situations seen in Texas, the courts in the US side with the cops on this always. That small town spends 40% of its budget on its police department, they even have a fully loaded swat team, but I'm sure the cops spend all their time conjuring traffic stops to look for warrant arrests and or fines, harassing migrants and homeless people, or playing Pokemon on their phones. Copaganda always leads with how dangerous being a PO is in the US or 'our courageous law enforcement officers', it's absolute nonsense. Being a cab driver is far more dangerous, also being a pilot, logger, fisher, roofer, road worker, fire fighter and plenty of other professions where one is asked to perform dangerous tasks or work in dangerous environments.
The cops in Texas sat on their hands while kids were being shot in a building, and refused to enter for an hour as the victims bled out. Imagine if fire fighters sat outside a burning school while children died inside because it was dangerous. It would simply never happen.
Bataclan is an alternative version of this event, there the cops went in very quickly and took down the shooters without any cops being shot iirc. I'm sure many who were rescued were saved because they got medical help more quickly as a result. The Pulse nightclub was another US mass shooting where cops sat outside til the smoke had cleared (and long after) while victims bled out inside. There it took 3 hours for police to confront the guy. They'll shoot an insane homeless person with a pair of scissors within 30 seconds.
Also worth remembering that 65% of US cops who died 'in the line of duty' last year died of covid, and their vaccination rates are far below the general population. Cops 'don't like being told what to do'.
There'll be worse changes to the police story to come, from what's been said thus far. The whole situation is totally f*cked.
Their "training" is not worth much which is a large part of the problem. It is short and there is no real oversight of it. The town had a SWAT team and spent a large amount of money on their police force and well...
Everyone's got a plan until they get a punch in the mouth. This is why the "good guy with a gun" logic runs completely contrary to everything we know about the human psychological response to extreme danger. So few of us are mentally equipped to deal with an active shooter situation. Even the Uvalde police force completely froze, despite their training and years of experience in law enforcement, firearms usage and threat engagement. Armed response teams recruit people specifically looking to experience those situations and then put recruits through intense training to make sure they're up for it. Drop-out is enormous because, did I mention, most of us just aren't programmed for this stuff.
Might also be a time to point out that a Republican governor passed gun control laws pretty much overnight in the 1960s. The reason, you may ask? Black Panthers were availing of their inalienable right to form a militia: https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
Ponder on that...
The stories coming out about the police during this school shooting are just horrendous. why even bother being in the police if you aren't going to help in those situations? they seem like just a bunch of dicks that want to play soldier dress up.
Now the count is 19 children
That one is bad, really bad.
That one is truly shocking though. Land of the free?
That's absolutely terrifying
That one will go under the radar now as well. But pretty grotesque.
More of a state of permanence now than a past, present or future tense.
Gunman kills 14 students and one teacher in mass shooting at Texas elementary school https://jrnl.ie/5773314
Evidence of innocence isn't enough
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