Interesting that all popular imagery of the judeo-christian god ended up paralleling Zeus/Jupiter anyways.

But…but…I can shop like a billionaire. A billionaire!

And it’s just “coincidence” that they’re almost all black.

I have never seen that skit before and it is uncanny how well they managed to capture the dialog delivery of those characters.

Wondering if Google Glass counts for that, since it was only ever available as a test device for developers. Never made it to general availability before it got the boot.

I watched it years ago and enjoyed it, but I am not sure if all parts of it hold up today.

Still waiting for my Discord streaming.

It is literally Ireland with some extra bits if viewed upside-down.

You’re right. Real European dragons are perfection.

I suppose the definition of justice is flexible, between preventative justice and restorative justice and so on, but in this case I am referring specifically to holding guilty people accountable for their actions. There will be no making right what happened here, not by any stretch of the imagination, and there is still a lot more work that needs to be done to make sure this sort of thing never happens again. But while I am sure it is of little consolation to Sonya’s family, her murderer is going to prison.

I know there are long-standing charicatures in media of the “corrupt cop” type of character shooting some innocent person and then planting a knife or drugs on them to make it look like self-defense, but that wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t some grain of truth to it.

With the body cam footage that had been released, there is no question of his guilt. There’s no way for the police to cover this up by painting another innocent victim as a criminal, dragging her name through the mud, just to keep this racist scumbag on payroll and free to keep terrorizing the people he’s supposed to protect. The racists don’t have to gather in droves to protect this monster and put a community through hell to further some disgusting agenda or another.

It doesn’t fill the void, but it is some degree of justice which is better than none.

Popularity I’m afraid.

Other polls that factor in additional considerations essentially have them neck-and-neck right now, maybe a 1 or 2% lead for Trump.

Fucking electoral college…

Well, in this particular incident that the post is about, there was definitely a stovetop that had a pot of boiling water on it. That’s apparently worth shooting someone over…

Got it, you get the final say, then.

How does any of this apply to you?

You ever have a bad day as a teenager, and then you go to eat lunch in a high school cafeteria, but when you’re grabbing plastic utensils someone makes a comment like “Woah better hide the knives from Stovetop before he cuts his stomach open”?

It ain’t great, is all I can say. Especially when you’re not even Japanese, because everyone apparently just lumps all Asians together in a monoethnic mass.

Say whatever about corporate assholes who fuck up and get people killed. Like if you want them to die, fine. But racial stereotyping hurts everyone, whether it be jokingly or pointedly.

No no, I would still like to know what makes harakiri the “usual Japanese way” in this context.

So just so we’re on the same page, that is the “usual” way that Japanese people today accept responsibility for their actions? Or specifically the Japanese samurai in question who own this particular firm?

Could you explain your previous comment for me, then?

TIL, interesting turn of events.

Actually makes me wonder what Dubya’s take on this is.

Guessing he probably doesn’t have one, since he spends his waking hours just painting and golfing and trying to run away from the haunting specter of the millions of lives he ended by waging a series of unjust wars in the Middle East.

And wouldn’t you know it, it’s thanks to bodycam footage that we have irrefutable proof of this clear and unquestionably excessive use of force against an innocent victim.

The bodycam footage that thousands of police departments throughout the US are still pushing back against because they want people to think it impedes their ability to appropriately deliver justice, when it is actually, finally, allowing justice to take place. The necessity of which was caused primarily by police brutality against people of color, just like this situation, where there was no witness account other than the cop’s side of the story.

If this happened ten years ago, back before bodycams became more widespread, the cop would have gotten off with a short paid suspension and no other punishment, because all there would be is the cop’s one-sided account of how she clearly assaulted him with a deadly weapon and reached for his gun.