Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

@tofugolem@mastodon.social @Huntn00@talkedabout.social @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world All true. For me the weirdest piece of that whole puzzle is that the police have their own union. It's like they admit that it works, it has a purpose, for them. But then they want to get the benefits of unionization for themselves while at the same time denying those benefits to others.

@Huntn00 @StillIRise1963
It's not just racism.

In every strike, they side with the corporate owners and never with the strikers. This is no accident.

The police do not exist to protect you from criminals, they exist to protect wealthy people from YOU.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/multiple-people-killed-jacksonville-store-shooting-mayor-102589687 Waters said the shooter, who was in his 20s, used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with at least one of the firearms painted with a swastika. He left behind writings that led investigators to believe that he committed the shooting because it was the fifth anniversary of when another gunman opened fire during a video game tournament in Jacksonville, killing two people before fatally shooting himself.

The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. at a Dollar General near Edward Waters University, a small historically Black university.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/us/jacksonville-florida-shooting-multiple-fatalities?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn “This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference. He said the shooter, who is White and shot himself after the attack, left behind evidence that outlined his “disgusting ideology of hate” and his motive in the attack.

All three victims were Black.

The shooting happened blocks away from Edward Waters University, a historically Black school where students living on campus were told to stay in their residence halls.

https://post.news/@/Celset/2UXvbU1t2eqslEks4FanDxqMpvb https://post.news/@/Celset/2UXvbU1t2eqslEks4FanDxqMpvb He wanted to kill n****rs —
“He hated Black people,” Sheriff T.K. Waters told a news conference. Sheriff T.K. Waters called the shooter's manifesto a "disgusting ideology of hate" and said: "This shooting was racially motivated. He wanted to kill n****rs — that's the one and only time I'll use that word." (Waters had been quoting the manifesto when he used the racial slur.)

Republicans will take advantage of every and any mechanism that is available to take control of public offices that they did not win, and that the public does not want them to hold. If they are allowed to have any power, they will exploit it without regard to the will of the voters.

In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park.

No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring.

It started with the wolves hunting the deer, this led to a rapid decrease in the deer population. The wolves' presence also made the deer avoid parts in the park where they were and easy prey.

Thanks to the deer's absence, those parts started to regenerate. Forests of aspen and willow trees started to flourish.

That's when things really started to happen. With trees and bushes came more berries and bugs. As soon as that happened, various bird species started moving in.

With the increasing tree population, also another species was attracted. The beaver, previously extinct in the region, moved back. And the dams they built provided habitats for otters, muskrats and reptiles.

The wolves also killed coyotes, which meant more hawks, red foxes, badgers and weasels in the park. Even the population of bald eagles and ravens rose.

But here's where it gets really interesting. The wolves changed the behavior of the rivers. With more balance between predator and prey came the possibility for other species to thrive. There was less erosion because of increased vegetation. And the river banks were stabilized, the channels narrowed, more pools formed, and the rivers stayed more fixed in their courses.

So the wolves did not only transform the great ecosystem of Yellowstone, they also changed the park's physical geography.

#nature #ecology #wolves #yellowstone #parks

Your reminder

In 2016 Russia financed a series of ads along with an army of upvote bots. The intent was to divide america further from all angles

The senate intelligence committee released the following ads from Russia linked actors

These are from accounts with names like Blacktivists, Back the Badge, Secure Borders, Army of Jesus and so on. Every division covered

We’re heading into 2024. If you see a political ad trying to provoke you: mistrust it.

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@HeavenlyPossum

The thing that's always frustrated me about anarchists (from what you've written, I'm assuming that's you) is that you imagine groups of people will just *do* things, collectively, for the betterment of all. And that will work. Humans have way too much of the "what's in it for me?" gene for that to work on any kind of scale. I mean, hell, sit through any HOA meeting ever held...

@HeavenlyPossum @nil @passenger

I reject the premise of your question, and I'm not playing your words games where every law is inherently a personal attack. Laws are necessary for society to function.

@ChrisBoese 3 Rules of Robotics…expanded. ☺️

@Huntn00
Nice mug shot collection!