• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 hours ago

    was watching right-wing influencers

    At first, I was thinking stake-out and thought great, someone needs to keep an eye on those assholes, too bad they’re a shitty driver.

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    22 hours ago

    Oh it’s ok though cause they are trained to watch YouTube and crap while driving…it’s the training that makes them better people and immune to laws. /s

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      19 hours ago

      I’m shocked their tablets have access to anything but what they need for work. There’s no reason it should but plenty why it shouldn’t.

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          I had an argument with a friend about this recently. A local cop was watching porn while at a highway construction point, sitting in his car with lights and sirens on. The only reason he was caught was because someone died within eyeshot and he didn’t budge.

          My friend argued that they should keep unlimited access and with unlimited data because they have nothing to do while they get paid to sit in their cruisers with the lights on and car running. His sister does it all the time for overtime pay and has watched and re-watched just about every tv show out there.

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    23 hours ago

    Protect and serve? More like distracted and forgot to swerve. Watching Matt Walsh trash too, not surprised a cop would watch that trash.

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    19 hours ago

    I really like this article format and hope to see more of it. It is stating the facts, outlining it in easy chunks for average American, but doesn’t include any flourishes that tell the reader how to feel about it or how the author feels about it.

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    23 hours ago

    I used to ride so much in California, over 3000 miles actually, but have only managed three rides in close to a decade in Vermont because the roads don’t feel nearly as safe, despite having only a tiny fraction of the traffic. There’s just no room on most roads out here for bikes, they’re nearly all just two lanes with no shoulder with blind corner after blind corner.

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    23 hours ago

    Great, now we need to advocate for both protected bike lanes AND taking away their brainrot devices at the same time!!