We’ve tried everything else…

Me too! Hah.

Good on you!

One of the most valuable parts of college is that transitional adulthood experience of living in a dorm with other people all the same age, all pondering the big questions. Lots of trying on adult relationships and learning social norms. (Mom of 2 teenage boys here, one in college now.)

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Got the Time - Joe Jackson (or Anthrax, dealer’s choice)

The upshot was that their duty is to investigate crimes that have happened. I think of this every time there's an appeal for increased funding and paramilitary gear for police. Maybe we should have detectives and community officers that walk beats and don't carry lethal weapons.

There was a great Radiolab episode about this, "No Special Duty." radiolab.org/podcast/no-s... tl;dr is that the Supreme Court ruled the police don't have to put themselves in harm's way to protect citizens, because mumble slippery slope to a police surveillance state if they had to prevent crime.

The upshot was that their duty is to investigate crimes that have happened. I think of this every time there's an appeal for increased funding and paramilitary gear for police. Maybe we should have detectives and community officers that walk beats and don't carry lethal weapons.

There was a great Radiolab episode about this, "No Special Duty." radiolab.org/podcast/no-s... tl;dr is that the Supreme Court ruled the police don't have to put themselves in harm's way to protect citizens, because mumble slippery slope to a police surveillance state if they had to prevent crime.

It is difficult to imagine how any of these technologies could work without several other difficult problems solved first: cheap energy production at a heretofore unknown scale, mitigation of the environmental effects, etc.

Best take

For actual belly laughs, Tropic Thunder

braggart!