I’m not picking a fight, I asked you what you meant by documented and confirmed. A coincidence is not a documented or confirmed case of a prophetic dream, it’s a coincidence.

Like if you said that there was a documented and confirmed case of a human that can fly, and then pointed to that one lady who fell out of an airplane and survived, I would have the same objection.

You’re describing shared narcissism.

Bull crap. There is not now, nor has there ever been an inherently conservative value. Conservatives define their values based on their identity, and decide to conserve the social, economic, and power structures that benefit themselves. Any social, economic, and power structures that are not beneficial are evil and must be destroyed. Any position a conservative needs to take, any idea the conservative needs to spread, any argument a conservative needs to make, any action a conservative needs to take, all are justified because it is in the conservative’s best interests. It’s how they can say one thing today, and then attack the same idea tomorrow. To a rational person, this looks like hypocrisy, but a conservative is no more capable of hypocrisy than a scorpion. “How can they support this, but believe that?” “How can they say they believe X and vote for Y?” Conservatives are not tethered to any ideological foundations, so they can say or do whatever they think will help them most in the moment.

Right, but did the person have a prophetic vision, or was it simply a coincidental dream?

I’m not disagreeing with you. My point was that neither person needs to be a criminal to create a situation where both have a legal justification for deadly force in self defense. Like how fucked up is that?

A cop doesn’t need to be a bad cop to create a situation where the civilian has a reasonable fear for their life. I’m a believer that ACAB, but even if I’m wrong, it’s still an untenable situation.

Customs isn’t the organization that does that. If you’re a target for espionage, someone at the NSA or CIA or somesuch organization will find ways to tap your devices, but they don’t do this to every phone imported to the country. Just consider the sheer volume of data that would produce, and the number of analysts who would need to review it. I wouldn’t assume privacy, though. Act like they are watching everything.

What do you mean “documented and verified”? You mean someone dreamed about something that happened? Or someone consistently had dreams that could predict the future? The law of large numbers would suggest someone would eventually dream about something that ends up happening simply by coincidence. It would be a statistical anomaly if it never happened.

It makes sense if you remember that conservativism doesn’t actually exist, and all people claiming to be conservatives are just narcissists who pick and choose what they care about in any given situation.

This is exactly where the 2nd amendment and the Blue Lives Matter movements collide. If both civilians and police have the legal right to arm and defend themselves with lethal force, and neither has a responsibility to show restraint or demonstrate cause, then you have created a situation where an innocent civilian and a good cop could kill each other in self defense and neither would have done anything wrong.

Edit: I’m not going to respond to each comment saying there are no good cops. My point is that the cop does not have to be a bad cop for the civilian to have reasonable fear for their life, nor does the civilian need to be a criminal for the cop to have a reasonable fear for their life. Both are legally justified in killing the other person, and both are legally entitled to own a weapon capable of killing the other. That’s not a society, that’s a war. Ir we didn’t already have a police force, and you described their function in their current state to a peaceful society, they would think you were mad.

Political corruption is one of the best reasons to eliminate the death penalty entirely.

Yeah, iirc he got the diagnosis and just told his agent to say yes to literally everything he could do.

They’re pretending to be pretending to be stupid.

They cited a viral video where a person riding an e-bike crashed into a young child who dashed into the bike lane from a double parked car.

So the problem is the bike lane? Not the illegally parked car. Not the unsupervised child running into traffic. Not the other cars which are much heavier and faster and far more deadly than bikes which frequently hit pedestrians. Not even the cyclist who would probably still be in the lane of traffic even without a bike lane. No, it’s the lane that’s the problem.

He was dressed as a cop, driving a police car, wearing a blue uniform, and a bulletproof vest.

I suppose comics have done that. Like Seinfeld worked bits into the show, especially in the early seasons. But that was all Jerry’s stand up. Roseanne was the same early on, many of the sitcom premises and monologues were from Barr’s stand up routines. But it was never like weekly guests got an opportunity to film and edit a tight five. I honestly can’t think of another movie or show that did it, except maybe talk shows? But then it’s still a performance in front of an audience. You can’t workshop a line or a pause during the Late Show, unless it’s a satirical talk show like Between Two Ferns or Eric Andre.

Paid for with Barlow’s lost treasure, probably. At least we figured out how to clean shoes.

Young Bruce Willis was hilarious and nuanced. Hudson Hawk, Death Becomes Her, 12 Monkeys, the Jackal, and of course Moonlighting. He was willing to do wacky and silly and serious, and created memorable characters. He deserves to be remembered for that. The recent cash grabs should be ignored when considering his body of work. Pretty much everything since the Sin City sequel.

That’s because they were all doing their best comic routines against another excellent comic. They could tweak the timing and the delivery and do all their best stuff as good as it can be done to the best possible audience. The premise was perfect for it.

Conroy’s Bruce Wayne is as close to his “normal” speaking voice as I’ve ever heard, but he makes it sound like an affect in ways that are hard to describe. He was truly a great one.