The real question you should be asking is, why did it take the US media(and most of the western media) so long to do any stories on this in the first place. My guess? There's another journolist type organization deciding what "type" of media to present again. This stuff was all over Japanese media well latish 3ish days ago now, it was in the A section of the Mainichi Times print publication, right next to the article on Japan looking at full revoking article 9, or partially rewriting article 9 of their constitution to allow proactive military defense with the increasing of China in the Sea of Japan and N.Korea. It however isn't in the english online daily or the JP online daily, though the article 9 story is, but it was published early(10am) on the 30th.
Would you say you feel victimized by all these changes in society?
Let's look at it this way, their actions create a chilling effect. Society is victimized by "all these changes in society" as their actions are anathema to free speech and free association.
Which is why when police officers in Sweden turn around and start leaking the data, and start publicly stating that the government is covering it up. The Swedish government's first response is to file "hate crime" charges against them. Yeah, those are the actions of a government that really has nothing to hide.
won't happen. the sheeples that buy whatever the administration feeds them have to have their cheap chinese imports.. and any ban or action against any manufacturer or developer there would threaten the availability of such products.
Well then you should be cheering Trump and falling over backwards with his idea that the exporting of labor and manufacturing to 3rd world countries and China is a shit thing for Americans. No wait, I'm sure you're 100% against that now because Trump right?
He will try and spin victim-politics here, but the fact is that he feels the right to be the sole determiner of who should be removed from a platform he has nothing to do with. It doesnt reall ymatter if his targets are good, bad, or indifferent - he simply does not have that right.
Welcome to the cult known as social justice(this also includes the current flavor of 3rd wave intersectional feminism) and nazi hysteria. Here's your complimentary rage face(including tears), and a list of "nazi" accounts where you can go and contact their employers to try and get people fired. Keep in mind that nazi is anyone to the right of Trotsky though, and punching nazi's? Well if you don't, then you're also a nazi.
We're probably in the largest isolation bubble of our time because social media directly reinforces echo chambers. It also doesn't help that many of the people who are screeching that everyone is a nazi thinks that they're highly educated and very smart. Or that we've got an entire generation of people who are so mentally fragile that different viewpoints make anyone who disagree with them "worse then hitler." Or that we've got a education system that's full of people pushing victim politics, victimhood, and the cult of victimization as a way of social change too. You can see that one everywhere from people virtue signaling over halloween costumes, to the travesty at Wilfred Laurier, or some feminist or 'male feminist ally' being so triggered of a dongle joke that you're pretty sure they're insane.
Nah that's acceptable remember? And if you're not on facebook feeding it all your personal info you're a crazy loon too. Just like the trans movement to normalize getting your junk cut off is acceptable, and pushing 4yr olds to transition to another gender. It's all fine, it's not a disorder at all, it's healthy and acceptable! 20-30hrs gaming? Nah, not acceptable. But if you spend 40hrs/week on social meedia whining over drama? All acceptable too.
This entire pile of bullshit is going to come crashing down at some point soon.
My point was all of a sudden Russia is implying that we are or we intend on messing with their elections. Yet they have no evidence of this but there is some evidence that they were influencing ours and tons of evidence that they are manipulating their own.
There is evidence in both cases, just not in the way you think. Every country screws with other countries. Hell the US was interfering in Canadian elections. Environmental groups in Canada were getting back-channel funds through US environmental groups who'd been sucking off the tit of the CFPB. Think there's a reason that even after the previous government left power that the CRA(akin to the IRS) is still investigating this? There's also serious problems in CFPB land with the person who was overseeing it funneling money.
So now they are gaslighting and acting like they are the victim.
Nearly every country is. Both Russia(and the former USSR), and the US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, NZ, and so on have all done this to some degree or another. I mean come on, we've even got the cold hard truth on this one. The Obama admin directly interfered in an Israeli election. We can go back even further to the collapse of the USSR if you want, and you'll easily find how Bill Clinton's government directly interfered in everything from politics to banking.
You can imagine how that could create problems for the owner of the cars, the leasing company.
In a lot of these cases, the leasing company is the dealership outside of specific partnerships with a parent company who cut them a deal if they buy x number of cars over x years. It's also one of the reasons why almost all of the auto companies got out of their "in-house" leasing and financing business. I'm sure you'll remember when the subprime crash happened all those auto companies were suddenly begging for bailouts, almost all of the debt was directly related to bad auto loans.
Usually it's the person who's helping to setup the persons home/apt/etc for them. There's an entire long flowchart of shit you go through when you're doing this. Not only do you need to keep in mind the use-of-access options for the person, but you also don't want to go so far down the path where you're belittling the person either, this is doubly true for elderly and those who've suffered strokes. The "loss of access/mobility" is more likely to drive a person closer to suicide the closer you move to things that seem to take the self-efficiency away. "Seem" is the key word here too, motion activated/voice activated can seem to be a way to make things easier in your eyes for them. But in their mind it's a step to the loss of control in their life.
I could see different individual cops handling this situation differently.
You'd be right. The cop would be more likely to let the person go and chastise the owner for failing to accept pubic tender as a form of debt settlement and then tell them if they don't like it to file a complaint. If the cop was having an extremely bad day, it was pissing rain outside and cold as anything, they'd probably also consider filing a "abuse of" charge against the business. While people would be right that the business can refuse to accept it, you're likely not going to find much sympathy when the person they're complaining about has money and the business refuses to take it.
That seems like a silly requirement. How often is this skill actually used in a way that makes a difference?
Considering it only costs $150(or less) and 6hrs of your time to get the training? Recerts every 3-5 years run about $75. Ask yourself the question, for a person who's on the road nearly all the time how is it not worthwhile to have people with that training everywhere. The belief is that it's better for people to have the ability to treat those in need, then not having those in need not being treated.
Sure, it is possible that a taxi driver could use first aid skills, but you could make the same argument for requiring that plumbers or barbers or accountants learn first aid.
Those plumbers, barbers, or accountants aren't traveling on the roads and carrying people in their vehicles now are they. The taxi drivers on the other hand are. This is the same reason why bus drivers(both public and private) have to have first aid certification.
Then the Uber drivers should be trained to ask them to go to the Urgent Centers, which may be closer by, and cheaper. As they are Doctors offices without an appointment. Who can treat most issues.
Here in Canada, taxi drivers are required to have first aid (Class A or C) before they can drive for a company. Class A is CPR+emerg first aid+AED training on individuals aged 8+, Class C is the above + infant CPR. While taxis don't carry AED's, almost all municipal buildings have an AED that anyone can get to in an emergency.
Uber pushes that it's not a taxi company, it pushes that it doesn't have to follow the rules that taxi drivers are required to have. They don't want to play by the same rules that the other taxi companies have to deal with, and that's one of the reasons they're continually being hit by regulators. Until that changes and they finally get in line that they are indeed a taxi company, and their drivers actually have to follow the same rules they can piss right off.
Those of us who were born into families with the basic resources to give us a good start were able to spend the effort to set up drivers licenses (the typical ID) which are trivial to renew once set up. To us, it does not appear to be a very high bar.
Bud, friend, pal, guy. I probably grew up poorer then you did without those basic resources. My family ate 5/nights a week at the local Salvation Army building because we couldn't afford food during the hyperinflation crash during the 1980's, hell there were times we couldn't afford electricity. We ate so much KD(@0.18/box) that I still hate it to this day, and the hotdogs when we could afford them were an absolute luxury which was mixed in. And yet, my parents had everything they needed to be able to vote. A bill, SSN, proof of residency(birth certificate).
Countries with good quality voter ID laws/practices do not erect the legal impediments to getting that initial start, and their citizens do not experience the disenfranchisement that we see in too many places in the U.S.
If "legal impediment" means showing up with a current bill, your SSN/AoC/etc document(because you can't buy booze and smokes without photo ID anyway), and a birth certificate then most of the voter ID laws in nearly every country are too restrictive by your book.
And lets not forget shooting civilians, including children and decapitating them, who throw rocks at vehicles to try and murder them. But oh, yes, gotta make sure we protect Israel from a few(~19,000) home made rockets attacks.
And then the white working class went and voted for Donald Trump on a promise to disenfranchise anybody who isn't white, crack down on black people complaining that the police shoots them for no reason, build a wall on the Mexican border, deport people by the millions and rubber stamp Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians without any attempt to put themselves in the place of the people being affected by these crackdowns. I'm failing to see the empathy and the willingness to compromise here.
Wow you really are delusional aren't you? Can you point to where Trump promised to disenfranchise anyone who isn't white? Right. Didn't think so. But turning around and having voter ID laws isn't disenfranchisement, you of course realize that every western country BUT the US has voter ID laws. Can't remember where he is cracking down on "poor blackies" for getting shot. Remember how Obama and his administration went out of his way to race bait, go after police for doing their jobs and so on? Notice how crime has started spiking because of what the previous government did? Bet you were fine with all those actions. Building the wall is a good idea, they work and work well. Ask eastern european countries how well they're working. There are millions of illegals in the US so deporting them? That'd be a good start too. Of course in your racism, you probably think that when people say "deport illegals" they just mean mexicans. No they're talking about all illegals. They want to be there, do it legally, just like everyone else. Funny how you're not protesting Mexico's border wall, or their abysmal treatment of blacks. Or the systemic abuses against people who illegally enter mexico. Nope, the US has to simply let everyone in!
Rubber stamping ethnic cleansing? Really? So you start out delusional then go right into batshit crazy huh? Which is why all those palestinian groups have things like "there can be no peace with the jews" "they must be driven into the sea" "there can be no peace with the jewish state" "it's the duty of xyz to murder the jews" and on and on and on. Most peaceful, full of compromise, really want to get along with the jews. It almost reminds me of the old saying: "The only peace you'll know is the peace of the grave." Funny how Saudi Arabia is suddenly becoming a staunch ally of Israel though isn't it.
Their propaganda machine wasn't powerful enough, they're fixing it so that it'll be more powerful next time.
I don't think their propaganda machine could have been more powerful then it was. It was more to the fact that they turned voters off to them by their actions more then anything. Hell you can dig through the DNC email leaks and so on and find out just how much they blew on corrupting/r/politics and/r/worldnews, and it still didn't work out for them. If anything, these actions that they're employing are working in a negative fashion. I'm going to point to Canada, where the federal Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Ontario have tried to use the same methods, and employ the same methods. It's fundamentally backfiring and it's tanking both parties. Currently Trudeau Jr., is trying to cover-up that he broke ethics rules, and accepted bribes. The more they hand wave, the harder people look and it turns more people to other parties. People who were centre-right are hard-pushing towards the CPC, long-time party members are bailing for anyone else as well.
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The real question you should be asking is, why did it take the US media(and most of the western media) so long to do any stories on this in the first place. My guess? There's another journolist type organization deciding what "type" of media to present again. This stuff was all over Japanese media well latish 3ish days ago now, it was in the A section of the Mainichi Times print publication, right next to the article on Japan looking at full revoking article 9, or partially rewriting article 9 of their constitution to allow proactive military defense with the increasing of China in the Sea of Japan and N.Korea. It however isn't in the english online daily or the JP online daily, though the article 9 story is, but it was published early(10am) on the 30th.
Rule 4: Hold them to their own standards.
Which is exactly what they've done, and suddenly you don't like it.
And there's where you miss the extremism in the left currently.
Would you say you feel victimized by all these changes in society?
Let's look at it this way, their actions create a chilling effect. Society is victimized by "all these changes in society" as their actions are anathema to free speech and free association.
No you didn't, and none of it is true.
Which is why when police officers in Sweden turn around and start leaking the data, and start publicly stating that the government is covering it up. The Swedish government's first response is to file "hate crime" charges against them. Yeah, those are the actions of a government that really has nothing to hide.
Yeah, there's definitely nothing between those two things, such as a left-wing, socialist, democratically elected government like in Sweden. Good job.
And Hugo Chavez didn't crash Venezuela either right?
won't happen. the sheeples that buy whatever the administration feeds them have to have their cheap chinese imports.. and any ban or action against any manufacturer or developer there would threaten the availability of such products.
Well then you should be cheering Trump and falling over backwards with his idea that the exporting of labor and manufacturing to 3rd world countries and China is a shit thing for Americans. No wait, I'm sure you're 100% against that now because Trump right?
He will try and spin victim-politics here, but the fact is that he feels the right to be the sole determiner of who should be removed from a platform he has nothing to do with. It doesnt reall ymatter if his targets are good, bad, or indifferent - he simply does not have that right.
Welcome to the cult known as social justice(this also includes the current flavor of 3rd wave intersectional feminism) and nazi hysteria. Here's your complimentary rage face(including tears), and a list of "nazi" accounts where you can go and contact their employers to try and get people fired. Keep in mind that nazi is anyone to the right of Trotsky though, and punching nazi's? Well if you don't, then you're also a nazi.
We're probably in the largest isolation bubble of our time because social media directly reinforces echo chambers. It also doesn't help that many of the people who are screeching that everyone is a nazi thinks that they're highly educated and very smart. Or that we've got an entire generation of people who are so mentally fragile that different viewpoints make anyone who disagree with them "worse then hitler." Or that we've got a education system that's full of people pushing victim politics, victimhood, and the cult of victimization as a way of social change too. You can see that one everywhere from people virtue signaling over halloween costumes, to the travesty at Wilfred Laurier, or some feminist or 'male feminist ally' being so triggered of a dongle joke that you're pretty sure they're insane.
Nah that's acceptable remember? And if you're not on facebook feeding it all your personal info you're a crazy loon too. Just like the trans movement to normalize getting your junk cut off is acceptable, and pushing 4yr olds to transition to another gender. It's all fine, it's not a disorder at all, it's healthy and acceptable! 20-30hrs gaming? Nah, not acceptable. But if you spend 40hrs/week on social meedia whining over drama? All acceptable too.
This entire pile of bullshit is going to come crashing down at some point soon.
I see you found the prayer wheel, too bad you didn't understand a fucking word I said.
Too bad that you missed the joke. Right around righteous outrage and implied moral superiority.
I'm rich they let me do what I want, makes you a sexist asshole.
So how does that work out with Bill & Hillary, and Hillary directly attacking the people who made claims? Right...
My point was all of a sudden Russia is implying that we are or we intend on messing with their elections. Yet they have no evidence of this but there is some evidence that they were influencing ours and tons of evidence that they are manipulating their own.
There is evidence in both cases, just not in the way you think. Every country screws with other countries. Hell the US was interfering in Canadian elections. Environmental groups in Canada were getting back-channel funds through US environmental groups who'd been sucking off the tit of the CFPB. Think there's a reason that even after the previous government left power that the CRA(akin to the IRS) is still investigating this? There's also serious problems in CFPB land with the person who was overseeing it funneling money.
So now they are gaslighting and acting like they are the victim.
Nearly every country is. Both Russia(and the former USSR), and the US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, NZ, and so on have all done this to some degree or another. I mean come on, we've even got the cold hard truth on this one. The Obama admin directly interfered in an Israeli election. We can go back even further to the collapse of the USSR if you want, and you'll easily find how Bill Clinton's government directly interfered in everything from politics to banking.
Science is not a prayer wheel with science-y words attached.
The Church of Global Warming would disagree with you on that one. Now it's 4 hail Al Gore's and 3 self-flagellations for first world problems.
You can imagine how that could create problems for the owner of the cars, the leasing company.
In a lot of these cases, the leasing company is the dealership outside of specific partnerships with a parent company who cut them a deal if they buy x number of cars over x years. It's also one of the reasons why almost all of the auto companies got out of their "in-house" leasing and financing business. I'm sure you'll remember when the subprime crash happened all those auto companies were suddenly begging for bailouts, almost all of the debt was directly related to bad auto loans.
Usually it's the person who's helping to setup the persons home/apt/etc for them. There's an entire long flowchart of shit you go through when you're doing this. Not only do you need to keep in mind the use-of-access options for the person, but you also don't want to go so far down the path where you're belittling the person either, this is doubly true for elderly and those who've suffered strokes. The "loss of access/mobility" is more likely to drive a person closer to suicide the closer you move to things that seem to take the self-efficiency away. "Seem" is the key word here too, motion activated/voice activated can seem to be a way to make things easier in your eyes for them. But in their mind it's a step to the loss of control in their life.
I could see different individual cops handling this situation differently.
You'd be right. The cop would be more likely to let the person go and chastise the owner for failing to accept pubic tender as a form of debt settlement and then tell them if they don't like it to file a complaint. If the cop was having an extremely bad day, it was pissing rain outside and cold as anything, they'd probably also consider filing a "abuse of" charge against the business. While people would be right that the business can refuse to accept it, you're likely not going to find much sympathy when the person they're complaining about has money and the business refuses to take it.
That seems like a silly requirement. How often is this skill actually used in a way that makes a difference?
Considering it only costs $150(or less) and 6hrs of your time to get the training? Recerts every 3-5 years run about $75. Ask yourself the question, for a person who's on the road nearly all the time how is it not worthwhile to have people with that training everywhere. The belief is that it's better for people to have the ability to treat those in need, then not having those in need not being treated.
Sure, it is possible that a taxi driver could use first aid skills, but you could make the same argument for requiring that plumbers or barbers or accountants learn first aid.
Those plumbers, barbers, or accountants aren't traveling on the roads and carrying people in their vehicles now are they. The taxi drivers on the other hand are. This is the same reason why bus drivers(both public and private) have to have first aid certification.
Then the Uber drivers should be trained to ask them to go to the Urgent Centers, which may be closer by, and cheaper. As they are Doctors offices without an appointment. Who can treat most issues.
Here in Canada, taxi drivers are required to have first aid (Class A or C) before they can drive for a company. Class A is CPR+emerg first aid+AED training on individuals aged 8+, Class C is the above + infant CPR. While taxis don't carry AED's, almost all municipal buildings have an AED that anyone can get to in an emergency.
Uber pushes that it's not a taxi company, it pushes that it doesn't have to follow the rules that taxi drivers are required to have. They don't want to play by the same rules that the other taxi companies have to deal with, and that's one of the reasons they're continually being hit by regulators. Until that changes and they finally get in line that they are indeed a taxi company, and their drivers actually have to follow the same rules they can piss right off.
Those of us who were born into families with the basic resources to give us a good start were able to spend the effort to set up drivers licenses (the typical ID) which are trivial to renew once set up. To us, it does not appear to be a very high bar.
Bud, friend, pal, guy. I probably grew up poorer then you did without those basic resources. My family ate 5/nights a week at the local Salvation Army building because we couldn't afford food during the hyperinflation crash during the 1980's, hell there were times we couldn't afford electricity. We ate so much KD(@0.18/box) that I still hate it to this day, and the hotdogs when we could afford them were an absolute luxury which was mixed in. And yet, my parents had everything they needed to be able to vote. A bill, SSN, proof of residency(birth certificate).
Countries with good quality voter ID laws/practices do not erect the legal impediments to getting that initial start, and their citizens do not experience the disenfranchisement that we see in too many places in the U.S.
If "legal impediment" means showing up with a current bill, your SSN/AoC/etc document(because you can't buy booze and smokes without photo ID anyway), and a birth certificate then most of the voter ID laws in nearly every country are too restrictive by your book.
And lets not forget shooting civilians, including children and decapitating them, who throw rocks at vehicles to try and murder them. But oh, yes, gotta make sure we protect Israel from a few(~19,000) home made rockets attacks.
Just fixed that up for you.
And that is exactly why the nuclear plant was kept at 60% but disconnected ...
No, actually it wasn't. But if you're that interested, why don't you go read up on the 2003 blackout and you'll figure out where you went wrong.
My view is so weak, that I've resorted to attacking the person and not the argument.
And then the white working class went and voted for Donald Trump on a promise to disenfranchise anybody who isn't white, crack down on black people complaining that the police shoots them for no reason, build a wall on the Mexican border, deport people by the millions and rubber stamp Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians without any attempt to put themselves in the place of the people being affected by these crackdowns. I'm failing to see the empathy and the willingness to compromise here.
Wow you really are delusional aren't you? Can you point to where Trump promised to disenfranchise anyone who isn't white? Right. Didn't think so. But turning around and having voter ID laws isn't disenfranchisement, you of course realize that every western country BUT the US has voter ID laws. Can't remember where he is cracking down on "poor blackies" for getting shot. Remember how Obama and his administration went out of his way to race bait, go after police for doing their jobs and so on? Notice how crime has started spiking because of what the previous government did? Bet you were fine with all those actions. Building the wall is a good idea, they work and work well. Ask eastern european countries how well they're working. There are millions of illegals in the US so deporting them? That'd be a good start too. Of course in your racism, you probably think that when people say "deport illegals" they just mean mexicans. No they're talking about all illegals. They want to be there, do it legally, just like everyone else. Funny how you're not protesting Mexico's border wall, or their abysmal treatment of blacks. Or the systemic abuses against people who illegally enter mexico. Nope, the US has to simply let everyone in!
Rubber stamping ethnic cleansing? Really? So you start out delusional then go right into batshit crazy huh? Which is why all those palestinian groups have things like "there can be no peace with the jews" "they must be driven into the sea" "there can be no peace with the jewish state" "it's the duty of xyz to murder the jews" and on and on and on. Most peaceful, full of compromise, really want to get along with the jews. It almost reminds me of the old saying: "The only peace you'll know is the peace of the grave." Funny how Saudi Arabia is suddenly becoming a staunch ally of Israel though isn't it.
Their propaganda machine wasn't powerful enough, they're fixing it so that it'll be more powerful next time.
I don't think their propaganda machine could have been more powerful then it was. It was more to the fact that they turned voters off to them by their actions more then anything. Hell you can dig through the DNC email leaks and so on and find out just how much they blew on corrupting /r/politics and /r/worldnews, and it still didn't work out for them. If anything, these actions that they're employing are working in a negative fashion. I'm going to point to Canada, where the federal Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Ontario have tried to use the same methods, and employ the same methods. It's fundamentally backfiring and it's tanking both parties. Currently Trudeau Jr., is trying to cover-up that he broke ethics rules, and accepted bribes. The more they hand wave, the harder people look and it turns more people to other parties. People who were centre-right are hard-pushing towards the CPC, long-time party members are bailing for anyone else as well.
The parent wasn't talking about an election, he was talking about how popular a person is.
Again that doesn't matter. It doesn't even matter in his home country which uses FPTP.