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I used to be for the death penalty. But I've been convinced that it's not a good system to have.

Shaun's video about it (and PragerU's take on the Death Penalty) actually aligns with my position to a T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L30_hfuZoQ8

It's a longer video but I highly recommend giving it a listen if you want to have a serious dialogue about the Death Penalty.

You made me freak out and check my calendar because I doubted that today is Sunday.

I think that if someone dies of COVID and you can trace it back to an unvaxxed person, the state should charge them for reckless endangerment and involuntary manslaughter. Or Negligent homicide.

Do they have kids? If so then encourage them to get their kids vaccinated.

If not, then photoshop the image to include more boosters and claim you're close to your pizza and you should both go together to get your next one.

Sounds like they should get a visit from Todd Clorox

In a perfect world he would be arrested at the podium.

Hell, in a perfect world he'd be arrested, tried, and convicted of treason already.

ViewtifulGrave posted...

There was also an ad for Rogers the musical.

During Spidey's fight with Strange in the mirror dimension, there's a short clip where you can clearly hear Christmas music playing.

In short, you can generate a list of possible rational zeros by finding the factors of the constant term, and dividing them by the factors of the leading coefficient.

• 48 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, and 48
• 3 can be divided by 1 and 3

So, if you took every number from the first list, and divided them individually by each number in the second list. You would get a list of all possible rational zeros.

Well, almost all of them. We would have all of the possible positive rational zeros, but the negative rational zeros are also possible as well. So we include both, effectively doubling our list.

This gives us a lot of possibilities. And our next step is to try one out. Test to see if that value, when subbed in for x, makes the polynomial equal zero (synthetic division can speed this process up). Repeat this process to find all of the rational zeros. Any remaining real zeros can be found by factoring the original polynomial and applying the quadratic formula.

I'm teaching the main method of solving this by hand right now, which involves using the Rational Root Theorem and related theorems, rules, and conjectures.

It's a real pain in the butt to both teach and learn tbh.

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Find the values of x that make the function equal zero.

No calculators (except for basic operations if you need it), no photomath, no wolfram alpha, etc. Can you solve this?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/7/AAaVCFAACuUD.png

JoanOfArcade posted...

Doing a play through as Zane right now. I'd put him above Amara but below Moze then Flak

Oh yea, Moze and Flak seem like a lot of fun too. I was being more holistic. His design, his abilities, and his dialogue put together make him really fun for me.

Also he makes for fun cryo builds.

Zane is the only fun vault hunter imo. The story is bad but the gunplay is good.

The Handsome Jackpot DLC is great and I think you should get it if it's ever on sale. Not really into the other DLC

Comparing AOC to Trump is missing the the mark, I think. Not because of ideology differences, but because of who they are representing.

If Trump's actions and policies reflect the wants and needs his voting base, then he is only representing less than half of the possible population he serves.

If AOC's actions and policies reflect her voting base, that's a much greater proportion of people in a given population and she more cleanly aligns with her constituents.

So saying they're the same brand of populism is either ignorant or dishonest to the actual differences between the two.

Populism/grassroots campaigns are effective on the small scale because policy is more directly influential and the constituency is more closely aligned with their elected officials as a whole. This is why dems swept the 2018 midterms.

I'm talking wedgies, swirlies, noogies, wet willies, the works. I want to see my senator get shoved against a wall of lockers and have a loogie hocked in his mouth for being a piece of garbage.

What does CE think? Nothing too violent, mind you. Not trying to injure anyone. Just rough em up a bit. Make them think twice before crossing the line.

Maybe stuff them in the teacher's cupboard and lock it.

The Doctor Strange episode is just the plot to Puella Magi Madoka Magica >.>

The animation was okay in some spots like the big laser fights, but the faces were still by far the worst I've seen from a professional studio. It's like they mocapped people talking but only had five points mapped on the model's face.

The dialogue was still horrible, especially Thor. Like, holy shit they just threw him in the fucking dumpster. The only decent dialogue is from Ta'Chala and that's because he already speaks in platitudes so it's not much different from how he already talks.

I have a lot of gripes with the stories and holes in the logic of the series, and I could list them all here (I almost did before realizing that's pointless). Insert "you're overanalyzing a cartoon here" posts, but if this series is meant to be canonized later then those holes will leak into the rest of the MCU, making it even more convoluted than it already is.

Finished it.

Thoroughly unimpressed with the last few episodes.

I'm on the Doctor Strange episode and so far I'm just not a fan.

I don't like the premise, and each of these "alternate realities" feel really shoehorned, especially Captain Carter. That one's by far the worst, and they chose to lead the series with it. The fact is that she, and many of these characters they're putting the focus on, weren't compelling, interesting, or more than just one-dimensional supporting characters in the first place. You can't really change that in a 25 minute cartoon whose focus is more on the world than it is the people that occupy it.

The writing and dialogue are really bad, and having the original MCU actors be the voice talent doesn't save it. They also shovel in iconic quotes where the either don't belong or where the delivery is awful. The animation is really ugly in some spots. Like they let an AI draw the faces and expressions after watching 30 minutes of Infinity War followed by 5 hours of Disney Kids.

The worst part is that rumor has it that these stories will be canon in the Multiverse of Madness movie, so I feel compelled to finish the series so that I understand the movie. Not to mention that there are cliffhangers and open threads in every episode, so I'm left thinking "great, now there's more shit related to this that I'll have to watch later."

I liked the part in the final battle where the three spider men were swinging off of each other

FLAMING EVIL HOMER posted...

Kids want an early winter break i guess.

Idiots

Our break doesn't start until next thursday.

BilalPowell posted...

Shoplifting decreased when shops closed down due to corona?!

Middle hope posted...

I guess shuttering stores and a world ending plague DOES decrease crime after all

Especially when that plague has been happening since 2015 like these statistics indicate!

...wait a minute

I think it's funny when conservatives get mad about the word cracker

I can hardly deal with this kind of stress. I have a lot on my plate this year and trendy shooting threats are the last thing I want on my mind.

Just received word from admin. They are aware of the tiktok trend and are in close contact with police while monitoring the situation.

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If I don't hear back from admin I will.

tomorrow.

I shared the snap with my principal immediately, but he was already gone for the day so I had to email.

Some are saying this is another shitty tiktok thing.

Man this fucking sucks. Waiting around with no idea how to process this information.

darkprince45 posted...

Youre under the belief that youre going to prevent it. I think thats the issue

Well, there are root causes for every behavior. And violent crime is, as I said before, mostly correlated with mental health and poverty. This is a fact.

So if you allocate resources into improving the socioeconomic status of everybody, then you will assuredly decrease the rate of violent crime, including domestic disputes.

Prevention is never a zero sum game. I never claimed you can prevent every domestic crime; and you can still have police as a resource for particularly difficult cases that require that level of response. But the amount of incidents that this response is needed will be less.

And that, in my opinion, is the better outcome.

darkprince45 posted...

Regardless of who responded there will be violence. But somebody has to response. You realize what you are saying is people are being violent towards police, and if they dont respond. Then thats just worse for the victim

You're missing my point entirely. Nobody has to respond if the dispute is prevented in the first place.

If you're an airforce general, and you notice that the only planes returning after a battle have holes in the hull, you wouldn't put more reinforcement on the hull. You would put it on the wings and tail, because those must be where the planes that don't return are getting hit.

darkprince45 posted...

Youre saying a lot of stuff thats just opinion and not actual statistics

If police presence leads to escalating domestic calls to shootings, then there's a direct correlation there by your own admission.

So, logically, more police is going to lead to more escalations, not less.

But preventing the domestic call in the first place would eliminate the police involvement entirely and would lead to less police shootings.

It's a direct logical conclusion. You eliminate the need for a police response by preventing the situation in the first place. Police are ineffective at crime prevention.

Finally, we have something that at least looks like an answer.

darkprince45 posted...

Studies reveal that the lethality factor for police officers responding to domestic disturbances increases significantly because a police presence threatens the offenders perceived power.

OK, so the presence of police is threatening to the attacker. Seems like removing police from the situation would logically resolve that issue.

darkprince45 posted...

The abusers emotions can begin to escalate due to a lack of power and control, and out of a desperate state, they may ultimately explode, prompting them to display totally disregard for a police officers safety or life.

So this threatened state causes an irrational response, and since this happens a majority of the time, it's clear that police presence doesn't contribute to de-escalating this desperate state.

Neither of those things can be just handwaved away by stating "violent people" as though it was ever an actual reason.

darkprince45 posted...

According to Police1, one of the reasons why domestic violence calls are also so dangerous is because officers are forced to operate based on limited or inaccurate information. Police1 emphasizes how crucial it is that trained 911 call-takers and dispatchers not only obtain pertinent on-scene information, but also ascertain past patterns of abuse or crimes and share that data with officers

So now we're talking about information, which is a crucial part of prevention. There seems to be an issue here if there is a history or patterns of behavior with someone and nothing productive is being done. Obviously something is happening that is causing these behaviors to continue, and instead of putting in the time and resources to prevent things from escalating, we're throwing police in when things finally reach a boiling point.

At no point did I say that social workers should be sent in to resolve every domestic violence call. I said that we should look at things that prevent it from happening in the first place. Because it's obvious that responding to these calls will just escalate the situation and dramatically increase the danger for all parties involved.

So, to reiterate my point, instead of just relying on police to take care of things when they've either already happened or are about to reach a critical state, how about we invest in PREVENTION of those situations in the first place. An abusive relationship between two partners or with a family doesn't just happen. It escalates over a period of time until it reaches that state. So why don't we spend time and resources into researching and identifying signs of a domestic crisis and make it easier for those involved to seek help?

darkprince45 posted...

Violent people I already answered it.

That's not an answer.

darkprince45 posted...

I know youre trying to work it around thats it somehow the cops fault. But youre wrong. And its easy to look it up. All youre going to do is get unarmed social workers killed. To be fair. They wouldnt even respond.

You're not answering my question at all. It's not rhetorical, either. "violent people" just isn't an answer to this question. What is causing this escalation? Because before the police show up, there isn't any shooting going on. So what is it about police intervention that leads to shooting?

darkprince45 posted...

Because people are violent. No amount of social work is going to stop it. You literally cant control what goes on in peoples houses behind closed doors

That's not answering my question. What causes these situations to become escalated to police shootings?

That little scene about Yelena getting blipped was kinda cool.

Also I don't think kate's dad is dead. I'm kinda sus about that.

darkprince45 posted...

Seeing as domestic violence calls are the most dangerous calls police go on. And majority of police shootings are domestic related and occur within one minute of arrival

Why are domestic violence calls so dangerous? What causes the situation to escalate to the point of police shootings occurring?

darkprince45 posted...

You can look for the solution all you want, you still need police

This response says nothing. Police aren't going to solve domestic violence, they don't even prevent it in the first place. In fact, most crime isn't prevented by police. Police mostly respond to crime. Prevention is barely part of the discussion.

So if domestic violence is what's actually rising, more police is not going to decrease it. So instead, why not allocate that funding from police to other programs that show promise like, say, social workers or meeting the basic needs of everybody. Things that actually correlate with violent crime statistics.

I liked them both, but I'm a sucker for sci-fi so bebop grabbed my attention more

Njolk posted...

"the both sides people are stupid!"

But... They both do nothing. Trump did nothing. Biden does nothing. Bush started wars, Obama started wars

They're the same party

What war did Obama start?

What insurrection did the democrats incite?

https://www.twitch.tv/calebhart42

He's at nearly 8750 resets for Shiny Ray. 141 hours of resetting.

The probability of encountering a Shiny Ray in this many resets is 1-(4095/4096)^8750 or 0.8819

Fucking tragic.

Medussa posted...

dunno about most of them, but this one in particular got hit in the head with chairs for a living.

This is just a microcosm of stupidity. There are literally thousands of people who believe that Biden is causing prices to rise.

You can't debate people who are that fucking stupid.

Why are so many anti-Biden types just plain stupid?

Like, I couldn't pretend to be that fucking dumb if you paid me.

darkprince45 posted...

ah yes. Of course crime isnt actually happening. The crooked cops are now falsifying the data. Despite hundreds of articles and thousands of people saying daily how dangerous it is there rn

I mean we're talking about the same crooked cops who did everything in their power to protect Derek Chauvin so yes.

Also I'm sure there's plenty of incentive for the average conservative to complain (or lie) about crime in their area since it feeds into their narrative.

As a former holder of GME, anyone still holding GME would have better financial outcomes trying to buy the Brooklyn bridge.

Also aren't police departments the ones who report their crime statistics to the FBI for public recordkeeping?

Seems like there's a lot of monetary incentive for an already corrupt organization with loads of legal protection to inflate the number of crimes reported in their jurisdiction.

PatrickMahomes posted...

my coworker's friend is a minneapolis cop and he says policy is to play "cleanup," which is to say they will simply let conflicts burn themselves out and then go clean up the mess, rather than intervene.

So like 90% of police involvement

Good for her.

"Last Christmas" by Wham is fucking awful. It's not even a christmas song. I could replace "christmas" with "tuesday" in the lyrics and the song would lose zero meaning.

CommonStar posted...

So when can we agree that if Dems loses the coming elections, it's not anyone but their own damn fault?

Establishment dems are going to blame leftists for not falling in line like usual.