So these cops were arrested for assault and battery, right?

On what grounds?

Racism became illegal 50 years ago? Where? I don't understand the conflation of racism with systems of social discrimination. One can be racist without any sort of social or government system. How else would such systems get put into place? This woman is telling me what I can and cannot see because I'm white. How the fuck would she know? So much for people being individuals.

I just tell people that I don't give out that information. No zip code or anything. When people started asking me my name years ago I thought they were fucking crazy, and I was shocked to see so many people casually giving their name and address out.

Holy shit. That was way worse than I thought it would be.

Men fitted with a telephone and a radio. Not too far off.

How the heck does it land?

I wonder what those people will do when no one will hire them and they can't get a job because of their record.

Even if it's true that the vaccine sometimes causes the disease, that doesn't at all debunk herd immunity. I don't even see how it's an argument against vaccines unless the number of people getting the disease from the vaccine is very large.

I find it baffling that this is a thing that people are against. Vaccines are one of the greatest advances in history and have, without a doubt, saved many lives.

"sexist and racist microaggressions that are normalized in our society as “flirting.”"

Seriously?

It always surprises me how people tend to stand so close to things going wrong. They seem to have no idea how much more wrong things can go. If you can get a good look at an imminent train collision or falling crane, you are standing much, much too close.

Everyone has an accent.

The thing about interacting with the police is that their job is to find something that you've done wrong and make you pay for it. A jury will believe a cop over a random person, and cops can be wrong, and cops can be corrupt. Recording an encounter gives the jury an objective view of what was recorded. In a one on one encounter, it's just about the only thing that a person can do to prove that they're telling the truth. It's not being a dick any more than refusing to answer questions is.

That went much better than I thought it would. Those guys seemed awfully calm about lighting that thing. I would have been sprinting to hide in a bunker.

No, the argument says that the universe exists, and then makes the conclusion that it's fine tuned to be the way it is, but it treats that conclusion as though it's a premise.