Yes, but that’s very different from claiming that the people who came up with terms like “moron”, “idiot” and “imbecile” as a way to describe people with intellectual disabilities were necessarily racist.

First reason is that during covid they tried shifting all business over to these pickup services. Well…without direct control of the services, you’re kind of at the mercy of the workforce that can’t get jobs that have a boss. You are not their boss. They are their boss. You’re allowing them to do your work without any oversight on your behalf. So why would Joe the delivery driver, whos 4 hours late picking up this order, give a shit about quality control?

It’s worse than that.

You’re looking at it as if the app-based delivery service has low standards. The reality is even worse. They use all kinds of surveillance and data analysis techniques to figure out which of their drivers is the most desperate, and will keep working for the lowest possible fees. Then, they give the most work to those drivers because they are the most profitable. The drivers know they’re getting screwed, but they are doing app-based deliveries because they can’t find anything better.

The apps are a middleman between the restaurant and the customer and they don’t just squeeze those two, they also squeeze their drivers.

If the World Cup has a lot of half empty stadia, I’d be happy.

It might be interesting if the Mexican and Canadian stadia were full though.

F1 races are also hotbeds of human trafficking.

According to some Russian propaganda conspiracy forum?

There may be some races, but ladies, that’s not why your husband is there.

Sure, nobody who goes to a race goes to see cars drive quickly…

I can’t think of any call where they need to go in guns blazing unless they can actually see that someone’s shooting, or in the process of being killed.

Anything else and there’s time to peek in windows, send a drone up to upper floor windows, and so-on.

Even if it is an actual situation where someone is in mortal danger, doing that will mean they’re not walking into a dangerous situation blind.

If they do that and can’t see anybody in any kind of distress or danger, then the logical thing is to calmly knock on the door and ask some questions.

If you don’t have someone authorized by the state to enforce laws, you’re still going to get people enforcing “laws”, it’s just going to be vigilantes, people with grudges, etc. Just look how frequently you see incidents of road rage. Cops basically exist to prevent people from taking revenge into their own hands.

Take all those incidents of people calling the cops on black men having a picnic or taking their dogs for a walk. If there were no cops, do you think these white “Karens” would just leave the black men alone? Or do you think they’d get together and lynch them?

I think the US needs to scale its policing way back. It needs mental health specialists to respond to certain kinds of calls. The person who responds to a report of a stolen bike probably shouldn’t have a gun. But, at some point you are going to need people who will use physical force to enforce the law. Those people should be heavily supervised by a truly independent body. But, they still need to exist in some form.

Why don’t the king’s guards attack the king?

The police know their job is to enforce the law, but they also know who gets a free pass… or at least who gets a lot more leeway than other people. At a minimum it changes “shoot first and ask questions later” into “ask questions then maybe shoot”.

It’s not up to the police to debate the veracity of a report

Why not?

and they respond with “sounds fake, not coming”.

Why wouldn’t they just respond with “we’ll have to verify this”.

It’s not that they’re idiots, though many cops are. It’s that they don’t get punished for falling for a SWATting attempt.

If you could lose your career if you fell for it, they’d try a lot harder not to fall for it. But, instead, they never face punishment for being overly aggressive, and might face punishment for not being aggressive enough in the case of a real emergency.

If they’ve been told that there are several dead in the street, and they get there, and there’s nobody dead in the street, it’s time to not go in going pow pow pow.

Nice one.

The social media team is very good at their job. I’m glad Wenger agreed to do it too. I think he must still have complicated feelings about how things ended at Arsenal, but I really hope he’ll show up at the parade.

I’m still just enjoying how Tottenham have been key to Arsenal’s title win.

They lost to Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool, Villa, Bournemouth, Chelsea and two draws against Brighton… yet somehow managed a win and a draw against Man City. If they’d collapsed against Man City like they did against Arsenal, they’d be much closer to relegation. But, those same wins mean they were a deciding factor in Arsenal winning the league.

If they survive relegation by less than 3 points, you could argue that the points that they took from City both saved them from relegation, but also handed Arsenal the title. There’s also the possible scenario where they handed Arsenal the title and still got relegated. I’m good with either of those.

Good point. Good, young, attacking midfielders, wingers, fullbacks, etc. are pretty common. But, it’s rare for a young player to be able to play at the base of midfield. It’s often a position that only older players master. If he can be good enough to play there before he’s even 20, he could be an absolute monster as he gains experience.

Eugenics was related to racism, but it wasn’t the same thing as racism.

The intellectual ability / disability axis of eugenics was completely different from its skin colour axis.

I read that before I finally went to sleep. It was the calming and big perspective I needed to relax a bit and go to bed with a smile.

I went looking especially for Amy’s writing, because she’s so good at putting Arsenal things in a historic context.

Given that it’s video production, it might just be some random footage they found so that they can get that reflection.

A better question might be: what match do we want him to be enjoying with a glass of wine?

Yeah, it’s a problem if your backup keeper is very different in style to your main keeper. The other problem is if Arsenal tried to find a backup keeper who played similarly to Raya, he’s be similar but much worse, which is its own problem.

I’ve never heard anything about it having a racial component.

Languages change. Moron, idiot and imbecile used to be medical terms. Gay used to simply mean happy and excited. A fag used to be a term for a cigarette.

I really doubt it would have appeared in a mainstream children’s book if it were seen as at all offensive.

Words like “bugger” and “damn” used to be extremely offensive curses. Now they’re often used as very mild expressions of annoyance to avoid using the serious ones.