Our police love the optics of having military gear, but quite frankly they aren't trained and versed on military tactics, discipline, or a number of other things that would make them effective. That's why when there's a real problem like a school shooting or hostage situation they just stand around sucking each other off while wearing body army and holding $1500 AR's. They're just security theater. They care about getting easy overtime. They want to go home at the end of the day. They don't want to die violently. They are paper tigers.

Weird, that perfectly describes the cops in the US.

Oh and militarized just means giving the cops military equipment, mostly armored vehicles and projectile launchers that wouldn't normally be used in civilian work. Police are civilians, and I think they understand that in France better than anywhere, because you don't allow them military vehicles and gear to fight the populace. Unfortunately, no other country got the message. We give MRAPS to our thugs with badges. It's hard to fight back, even when you have pistols, shotguns, and rifles, when the thugs with badges have crowd control weapons. Sonic inhibitors, UV dispersal units, and lethal options like their standard issue AR-15.

Even loaves of bread in Vintage Story aren't that blocky. Well done!

I assume you proofed in the pan, and used some sort of lid?

How the heck did y'all take the Ethernet, and create WWW protocols under Thatcher?‽?‽

So... Planned economies at a small scale created the Ethernet. There's a reason we didn't invent the WWW. Thatcher must have missed some shit for that to have happened.

You do glide. The rotor providing lift isn't connected to anything, the lift is provided by horizontal speed. You'd have to literally hit a building, a mountain, or power lines to crash the things. You don't need a pilots license to operate them, because you basically can't crash them and the entire aircraft weighs quite a bit less than a car.

Shit, don't leave those of us that transitioned to EVs, E-bikes, and solar out. He's a traitor to us as well.

Dropped my ballot off yesterday afternoon at the official ballot box at my local library.

At first I thought someone had done that to a SAAB which would have been appropriately hilarious

Gyrocoptors. They're closer to a flying car, since if you can drive a car, you can legally fly a gyrocoptor in the US. Just remember to file flight plans, and watch out for power lines. The way you land the things is to kill the engine.

Newsome is a lame duck, so he has no incentives to help the poors. That's why he just introduced a measure to ban all wealth taxes.

Andor is able to make people talking for minutes straight interesting. It's slow to get started, but by episode 4 you'll probably be hooked. There isn't a lightsaber in sight, and I don't think they even mention the Jedi once.

It's honestly the best written series in the Star Wars TV/Film media.

If you hated those tests, you misunderstood how much power they gave you. Until my Sophomore year in high school, the campus was open. This meant that we could walk across the street and get lunch at McDonald's, Wendy's, Dairy Queen, or Kroger. Then the school board decided that they didn't have enough control of us during our lunch period if we could leave the campus, so they attempted to close the campus.

That lasted all of about 4 days. The smartest seniors in the school came around and got the top 5 testers in each grade to agree to boycott the standardized tests, and we started holding sit-in protests. Just 20 kids.

The thing the seniors knew, and explained to us is that those tests didn't affect us at all. Universities don't look at those test results. Only the government does. By the 20 of us threatening not to take the test, their scores would have plummeted that year, as would their federal funding. Needless to say they waited until every single middle schooler and high schooler that was attending at the time had graduated before they tried that shit again.