I’ll gladly vote for the iron boot grinding me into the dirt that still allows me to breathe instead of the one that is going to drown my face in the mud. If I have a choice, I’ll take the best available option.

Retaliated for being bad cops, perhaps?

As a native Nebraskan, I take great offense at the “northeast Nebraska’s biggest city” phrasing. What a weirdly specific way to refer to an otherwise average small town. We’re already a joke, why rub it in and imply Omaha or Lincoln don’t exist?

Am Nebraskan, can confirm we just really like volleyball. Look up sellout streaks for both football and volleyball if you don’t want to take my word on that.

We didn’t set out to break the record, that only became the narrative the last week or so when it became clear it might happen.

Good chance we do this again and still get 90k people to attend!

Did you use reddit 10 years ago or longer? The Fediverse is already significantly more stable and a better user experience in comparison.

Why would a different type of vehicle that also flies in the air not need to follow similar maintenance requirements?

The only reason cars and car drivers aren’t held to the same standard is because if a car breaks, it just stops moving. If a plane, even just a single passenger one, stops working, it falls out of the sky.

That just makes the hypocrisy even worse!

I don’t understand the problem.

My conservative Catholic family thinks the current Pope is a plant by the liberals, so he must be doing something right in my book.

So helicopters with extra steps. Got it.

If your employer fires you suddenly for no reason, there’s no real consequences.

Depends on the industry and location. If they do that a few times in relatively small industry, or in a captured but small market, word gets around and suddenly that company has difficulty hiring in the future.

I will just never understand how so many people look at a broken down car on the side of the highway, then think “what if whatever happened to that vehicle was the same, but 5,000 feet in the air?”

So do cars and trains! They easily take people to the airport, where you can conveniently park your helicopter between uses.

How is either a better or more affordable option than a cheap helicopter? Air taxis using helicopter have existed for decades and fly around urban areas every single day.

Will people still need a pilot’s license and all of the associated time + training that requires? Because they will surely also need to have a driver’s license and insurance and everything else required of owning a car!

I do not understand the appeal at all unless it’s just a refusal to give up on a very specific childhood nostalgia.

You’re just doing the same thing in the opposite direction. Calling his take “fictional” is making a claim, not ‘just asking questions’.

They were chanting “hang Pence” and literally, physically building a gallows. The intentions were quite clear.

Wasn’t the hair, it was the motor oil black hair dye that Frank Reynolds mixed up for him in his underground salon.

They are not regular civilians, they are public servants and act on behalf of the government. If they want to give up qualified immunity and other special protections that normal citizens don’t have, then we can revisit this definition.

Similar to how FBI or IRS agents are not the same as regular citizens but also aren’t members of any military branch.

the fact the police are people and some have families and their own wants and needs will mess with anyone’s line of thinking.

Almost like they should be carefully evaluated and trained to make sure they can properly handle tense situations.

Police have to be ready to risk opening the door to confirm a dangerous suspect before they use force to try and save themselves.

Not if they are protected by every level of the system from any possible consequences. So much easier to just assume all citizens are a potential enemy and go in gun’s blazing. Just to be safe (for themselves).

That probably already exists, why would one of the many LLM systems out there having to re-train impact anything but that one program?