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Ruairi77 said:
Yea, it's an absolute con job here.
It's called 'detail' and every construction job public or private needs detail if they interfere with the public space in any way.
So all the senior cops who want cushy gigs to see them through to retirement sit in their cop cars staring out at a bunch of lads filling pot holes.
There has been efforts to end this but the best that was reached was that private citizens can be hired to do detail but they must be paid the same as what the cops would have been paid (think lots of overtime). So everyone just hires the cops.
It's a racket.
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Sounds like the Northeast to me. "How many PennDOT employees does it take to fix a road? Eight - one to hold the jackhammer, two to hold the stop signs, and five to stand around drinking coffee."
 
Martin Alvito said:
Sounds like the Northeast to me. "How many PennDOT employees does it take to fix a road? Eight - one to hold the jackhammer, two to hold the stop signs, and five to stand around drinking coffee."
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In Mass, that's six. one to hold the jackhammer, and five to stand around drinking coffee. oh and 2 cops making $60 an hour (min 4 hours by law) directing traffic.
But mostly the cops all just stand around chatting to the coffee drinkers (helps that there's a dunc's on every corner)
I don't know what they chat about but I've a fair idea it's probably about the sweet new outboard they got for their whaler down on the cape, they got a wicked cool punisher sticker for it too bro!

cynical, bet your arse I am!
 
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Judge rules Texas attorney general does not have to appear at hearing on abortion lawsuit after affidavit alleges he ran from person serving subpoena | CNN Politics

A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that state Attorney General Ken Paxton does not have to appear at a hearing related to abortion access lawsuit after an affidavit alleged that he ran away twice from a person who was serving him a subpoena related to the lawsuit.
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His response is hilarious. If you are legitimately concerned about the safety of your family, and you're the AG of your state, is there a reason you would not call the police? They're not going to shoot you.

Answer: because he know good and darned well that the guy was there to serve him with a subpoena, because the man told a woman (presumably his wife) at the door that. If he calls the police to check his bona fides, the process server wins the game, because the officer will let him serve the documents. So, instead, Paxton engaged in convoluted spy tactics to attempt to avoid being tagged with the documents and told he was 'it'.

Doing things this way gets him nothing other than aggravating an opposing attorney for a day or two, which makes me wonder what he has successfully dodged from process servers in the past. He has a fairly sizable list of pending litigation and criminal charges against him, and he has been stalling a securities fraud case for seven years now, which I think has to be some kind of record.
 
Martin Alvito said:
The general consensus among experts frequently turns out to be wrong. In the limit, it is  always wrong. The whole point of getting an education is to have the ability to come to independent conclusions and sort through which conflicting opinions among experts are closer to "correct", and which are not.

If you do original research, which I have done, the entire point of the operation is to point out how previous experts got it wrong, and why, and then support the position with empirical evidence.

Your attempts to bully me into accepting your position through an argument from authority do not faze me as a consequence.

As for your comment on gun ownership, sure, the share of households owning at least one is more or less sideways over the last few decades (+/- 40%), but the number of guns is, as stated, over one per man, woman and child in this country. Statistically speaking, the presumption has to be that every citizen a police officer deals with is armed.

Police deaths have gone down as both gun ownership and concealed carry numbers have gone way up. I don't think it's hard to see why that's the case - because deaths by police violence are also way up. The implication is that "shoot first and ask questions later" makes them safer, and me less safe.
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HAHAHAHAHA, so, you loudly proclaim the research says its a problem with ex-military, then, because almost nobody has heard of this I ask "what research?, and you come up with You Cant Trust The Research Because Its Wrong. Apparently if 9 out of 10 experts say something its wrong, makes sense, what do experts know compared to make-it-up forum guy.

And way to backtrack on the wrong gun ownership stats as well, now that you actually looked them up.
 
PeregrineT said:
HAHAHAHAHA, so, you loudly proclaim the research says its a problem with ex-military, then, because almost nobody has heard of this I ask "what research?, and you come up with You Cant Trust The Research Because Its Wrong. Apparently if 9 out of 10 experts say something its wrong, makes sense, what do experts know compared to make-it-up forum guy.

And way to backtrack on the wrong gun ownership stats as well, now that you actually looked them up.
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Bluntly, I'm sorry that you have so thoroughly swallowed our media's ideas about how to conduct "political dialogue" that it's impossible to carry on a conversation with you. Displaying superior skill at twisting someone else's words might win votes in this political climate, but it doesn't solve problems, and we aren't running for election in here.

Outside of political opinion media, "deny, deflect, distort" practices are generally labeled 'toxicity' by human beings. I know what to do with those people, at this point.
 
verreauxi said:
At least it is a Republican that is showing up to a debate rather than avoiding them all together.
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It makes sense from Abbott's perspective. With a seven point lead no matter who you ask, the play is definitely to agree to the debate, let your side's spin doctors do the convincing for you and avoid any possible signals to the contrary.

Unfortunate, but it is what it is.
 
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