Message from @vry_o
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This scene rules!
Is today Birth AD opposite day?
Yes, man
cheeki breeki
@diversity_is_racism you know what'd be better than a podcast? A conference with everyone on webcams. You can upload to YouTube. It'd get more exposure
Like Spencer's channel
He makes it more personal by doing videos of himself
Wouldn't it be cool with everyone smoking tobacco pipes on cam??
I can position a cam on me, too. I'll play piano for background gravitas whilst you gents discuss very serious things
that's not a terrible idea
am i wrong to believe the police are an autonomous entity working against the interests of the american people
or at least in democrat cities
no, not in the slightest
police enforce the status quo even if the status quo is blatantly evil
they autonomously expand as they can get away with, to pad their pensions and to make sure there are new grunts justifying new layers of management and new promotions, new pensions, etc
most towns and boros are in disrepair. infrastructure is severely outdated to accomodate traffic, and it's crumbling apart.
but the police always have brand new vehicles
it's like state approved extortion in the name of upholding common law
meanwhile
the police have a great racket. It's politically unfavorable to try to fund them less than before ("The mayor doesn't care about your SAFETY! Is he SOFT ON CRIME???") and on top of it there is no equivalent of malpractice for police that I am aware of
it's about enforcing the law against the people who are willing to pay for it
if a patient comes in with a complaint and it turns out to be a disease I didn't catch, if someone takes me to court and it turns out most other docs would've actually caught it, I get fucked over
but if you're an unpopular politician who didn't fund police that year and something bad happens and the police couldn't make it in time, what happens to them?
yes exactly
one of the only things ayn rand got right was her talk about cops
off topic: I am looking for a certain kind of chinese stringed instrument, it's like two sets of strings arranged horizontally on a flat board, and you play it almost like a piano but by hitting the strings with two modified drumsticks. Does anyone know what it's called? i can't find it
yangqin
right off the top of your head, nice. thanks
i only know this because i actually enjoy guzheng music
yangqin as well
I spent a large portion of my youth with a hardcore chinaboo taoist learning kung fu
he ahd all kinds of crazy chinese shit laying around and one time he got one of those, it sounded sick but I forgot what it was called
at the time it was just one of a long list of weird chinese pieces I didn't know anything about, next to his weird bone strengthening ointment and lion dance rig
it seems like the way you play it, this would be awesome for rhythm but make intervals challenging
IT'S A HARP
but yeah as for police, the fact that any of them even enforce hate crime laws tells you everything
WHAT CHOICE DO THEY HAVE?
cops are not judges or juries, but they do have the initial choice of whether or not to enforce