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https://apnews.com/9c25c63a11fe4f6582363a12c62c4613

An 84-year-old military veteran who had been fighting eviction from his apartment near Miami was fatally shot by at least four police officers.

The Miami Herald reports officers were called to the Hidden Grove apartment complex on Monday when Raymond Bishop threatened to kill himself. Detective Argemis Colome told local news outlets that a confrontation ensued and police were forced to shoot.

The newspaper reports Bishop was being evicted for harboring unauthorized dogs named Roxie and Ranger. A lawsuit said one of the dogs attacked and injured another resident.

A Veterans Administration psychiatrist says in court documents that the pets provided invaluable emotional therapeutic benefit. The case had been in mediation but talks between the two sides failed.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating.

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Cutie can't resist all five foot, four inches of logic.
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The painter's whole thing is patterned backgrounds.
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Darmik posted...

Another interesting thing is that Ubisoft have basically outright said they're no longer doing annual franchise games. So no AC this year.

They do have two unannounced AAA games due before April 2019. I wonder what they are.

Well, if AC is an every other year franchise, I wonder if Watch Dogs might be as well. That'd be due this fall
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Insta wasn't already doing that?
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Antifar posted...

Steep is another game that would have been dead a while back in other circumstances, but Ubisoft has supported it well.

is TC your alt

Yes
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No.
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Steep is another game that would have been dead a while back in other circumstances, but Ubisoft has supported it well.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-met-pfchangs-chicago-inc-20180212-story.html
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Discuss
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I think in general there are fewer games where you play as an animal/made up creature than there used to be.
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I couldn't get into it; count me among the 97%
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If they did, Anthony Weiner and everybody involved in her 2016 campaign would be dead. If the Clintons are criminal masterminds, they are more incompetent at it than the bandits from Home Alone.

The irony is that Hillary is portrayed as this ruthless, win-at-all-costs sociopath, but she probably would have won if she hadn't been so loyal to the sycophants in her campaign.
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Also I came across a very useful niche site

http://www.igcd.net/game.php?id=1000012467
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They also mentioned having at least one real-world rallycross circuit, which is neat in that you don't normally get that with arcade handling

I haven't seen a full car list, but came across this
https://www.gtplanet.net/gravel-season-pass-will-feature-five-dlc-packs-free-cars-coming/

Milestone has announced two free cars for Gravel players, both of which will be available within a month of the games launch.

Up first is the Bowler Bulldog. An unholy combination of old Land Rover Defender, supercharged Jaguar V8, and serious off-road upgrades, the Bulldog is an appropriately-named vehicle. It will become available March 7.

Two weeks later, players will be able to get their hands on the Acciona. Whats that, you say? According to the official site, its the only zero-emissions vehicle to ever complete the Dakar. Apparently the vehicles full name is Acciona 100% Ecopowered but were fine with shortening it too.

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@chill02
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/12/gravel-wants-to-revive-arcade-off-road-racing

I had been kinda skeptical about it until reading this. It comes out at the end of the month.

Gravel will arrive with over 50 genuine off-road vehicles, ranging from classic and modern rally cars, hulking American trophy trucks, Dakar-style SUVs and pick-ups, and more. Porsche is in with the Paris-Dakar winning rally-spec 959, which is the first time Ive seen this car in a racing game since EAs cult off-roader Shox way back in 2002. Toyota is in, too as is Volkswagen (worth a mention considering the cooperation of each isnt necessarily a given these days).

There's a behind the scenes video there where they go over the styles of racing and the "story," which feels like Forza Horizon 1 in that it has fictional characters for you to try and beat.
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s0nicfan posted...

I would assume most people think PBS is fully government funded and so "eliminating funding = no more PBS" which is objectively untrue.

Literally every PBS program begins with "funding for this programming was provided by..." a list of private donors, "and people like you."
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s0nicfan posted...

I read that PBS is only partially funded by CPB and that even total elimination of it wouldn't result in PBS being eliminated.

Correct. The headline reads Trump proposes eliminating federal funding for PBS, NPR


Which is entirely true.
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Caution999 posted...

It's really amazing that we've been able to survive the past few years without Big Bird being made available to everyone.

It still airs on PBS, just new episodes are shown first on HBO
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Wow, it's like Mitt Romney is president
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Nobody gives one ounce of a shit about the debt, and nor should they. GOP concern over the debt and deficit was always a reverse-engineered explanation for their opposition to Democratic programs, which tend to involve more government spending.

Likewise, any Democrat who suddenly cares about the deficit is doing their own cause a disservice.
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JE19426 posted...

Antifar posted...

Also Jeff Sessions: he said slavery, not states' rights was the cause of the Civil War, which is a view I am genuinely stunned to see him hold
https://twitter.com/misstessowen/status/963083927152971776

I think you gave the wrong link here.

Yes I did. Fixed.
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What is Jeff Sessions getting at here, exactly?
https://twitter.com/misstessowen/status/963083927152971776

Also Jeff Sessions: he said slavery, not states' rights was the cause of the Civil War, which is a view I am genuinely stunned to see him hold
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/963118345573818369
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Darkman124 posted...

won't pass, they have a dem governor and the house is barely red so they can't override

For what it's worth, this came up in South Carolina last year, and I haven't seen anything about it passing because even Republicans aren't united in support of it.
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r4X0r posted...

Minority unemployment is at record lows under a Republican administration. Liberal conclusion: "Republicans want to disenfranchise minorities!"

Liberals make that conclusion because Republicans make efforts to disenfranchise minorities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/the-smoking-gun-proving-north-carolina-republicans-tried-to-disenfranchise-black-voters/

I'm not a liberal, but I can understand why they would get that impression. Deflecting a statement about voting rights to one about unemployment is weird.
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Turfgrass management. Gonna become a groundskeeper for a soccer team
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lol
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/02/12/an-officer-who-was-fired -after-refusing-to-shoot-an-armed-man-just-won-175000-in-a-settlement/?utm_term=.252b874535a0

On this much, at least, everyone agreed: A brief standoff on May 6, 2016 which left one police officer without a job and another man dead unfolded with mere seconds to make the most crucial decisions.

That night, Stephen Mader, then an officer with the Weirton Police Department in West Virginia, responded to a domestic-dispute call. Once at the scene, he encountered a visibly distraught man named Ronald J. Williams, court documents said.

As Mader ordered the man to show his hands, Williams did, revealing a handgun. Mader ordered him to drop the weapon.

I cant do that, Williams responded, according to court documents. Just shoot me.

Even as Mader attempted to de-escalate the situation, Williams pleaded repeatedly: Just shoot me.

Mader, who is white, didnt shoot, thinking deadly force wasnt necessary. In those tense moments, he reasoned that Williams, who was black, was a threat to himself but not to others.

But as Mader was attempting to talk Williams down, two more Weirton police officers arrived on the scene. As they did, Williams raised his gun and was shot and killed by another officer.

A month after the incident, Mader would be fired from the department for failing to meet probationary standards of an officer and apparent difficulties in critical incident reasoning. He would also be publicly accused of having frozen and privately called a coward by a colleague, court documents revealed.

In the months of public scrutiny that would ensue, Weirton officials maintained that Mader was fired for other reasons in addition to his encounter with Williams.

Mader, now 27, fought back. In a federal lawsuit filed against his former employer last May, Mader said Williams wanted to commit suicide by cop and the handgun he was carrying was not loaded.

He claimed his decision not to shoot Williams cost him his job as a police officer in Weirton, a city near the Pennsylvania border, about 35 miles west of Pittsburgh.

After months of legal proceedings, Mader and the city of Weirton reached a settlement for $175,000 to dismiss the lawsuit, the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia announced Monday.

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The settlement ended a lengthy legal battle that had prompted numerous debates about what constituted appropriate use of force or, in this case, the lack of it on Maders part. Williamss death and Maders subsequent firing occurred when some police departments use of deadly force, particularly in interactions with black suspects, was coming under criticism.

The incident was prompted by a call from Williamss girlfriend, who said Williams was threatening to kill himself with a knife. After finding out that an officer was on the way, Williams got his unloaded handgun from his car, saying he would get the officer to shoot him, according to the complaint.

The woman called 911 again and told the dispatcher that Williams had a gun but it was not loaded. But Mader did not know that when he arrived at the scene because that information was not radioed to him or to the two other officers who arrived later, said Timothy OBrien, Maders attorney.

Mader tried to persuade Williams to drop the gun, believing he was not aggressive or violent, the complaint said. But Williams, his hands to his side, pleaded with Mader over and over to just shoot him.

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FWIW, the "hidden in background" thing is sort of a theme in this artist's work:
http://www.iltatuaggiodistoffa.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Wiley_Puma_Samuel-Etoo.jpg
http://u.goal.com/89800/89827.jpg
https://artimot.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/kehinde_wiley_world_stage_brazil_13.jpg
http://dontpaniconline.com/media/magazine/body/2014-06-27/images/kw8.jpg
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Damn_Underscore posted...

I'm sure the exact reverse happens as well, but you don't really get to hear that on the internet

Check out the comments section on Fox News or just about any local TV station.
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Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
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No, the conspiracy theorists were not on the plane literally. Someone had to live to explain to us how this is Putin and/or Trump's fault

https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/963062600144695296

1) This man is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard
2) The man whose death he's noting as suspicious did not actually die. He was not on the plane.
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Uh

why my man looking like that gif of Homer Simpson hiding in the bush?
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s0nicfan posted...

Do we want to extend these federal protections to them as well?

We already do under the First amendment
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s0nicfan posted...

we as a society need to stop acting like their opinions on politics are any more valid/important than those of the guy who rotates your tires.

If you really wanted to enforce this, you'd have to clamp down on campaign finance rules, else celebrities are going to hold far more sway than mechanics anyways. (I'm speaking of the U.S., I'm unfamiliar with the UK or Sweden's restrictions.)
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Mal posted...

How many positions in the Labour party are only allowed to be filled by white men?

In its 112 year history, the Labour Party has been led by a white man for all but 10 months. I think it's disingenuous to suggest that the party doesn't have space for them.
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I'm ambivalent towards this. But if you really want to protect the press, the owners of news outlets are a bigger threat to reporters than random crazies attacking them.
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The Tories have a women-only conference; is that an outrage too?

Anyways, here's a Labour MP in his own words
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/962818765577744384
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WizardofHoth posted...

The Olympics a joke these days anyway.

Foreigners get away with so much crap such as cheating to beat the Americans.

Foreigners such as the asians and Russians they cheat by doping or whatever they get away with that crap and yet when US American tries it the u.s. athletes get punished for trying to use any steroid

*looks at Russian delegation*

Yeah I'm not sure the story of this Olympics is other countries getting away with cheating.
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https://www.npr.org/2018/02/12/584980698/trump-administration-to-defang-consumer-protection-watchdog

An internal memo obtained by NPR says the CFPB will on Monday unveil a new strategic plan to that end. A "revised mission and vision of the bureau" for the years 2018 through 2022 will call upon the agency to "fulfill its statutory responsibilities but go no further." It also says the bureau should be "acting with humility and moderation."

This new direction is consistent with Mulvaney's other memos and statements and formalizes his plans for defanging the watchdog bureau and reshaping its mission, according to insiders and experts that NPR has talked to.

The CFPB is considered a powerful and independent watchdog. But many Republicans have wanted to shut it down since day one because they think it's too powerful. Mulvaney is one of them. As a congressman, Mulvaney called the agency a "sick sad joke." He drafted legislation to abolish it. So people at the bureau were shocked when the president appointed him to run this consumer protection agency.

Within weeks of coming on board, Mulvaney has worked to make the watchdog agency less aggressive. Under his leadership, the CFPB delayed a new payday lending regulation from going into effect and dropped an investigation into one payday lender who contributed to Mulvaney's campaign. In another move that particularly upset some staffers, the new boss also dropped a lawsuit against an alleged online loan shark called Golden Valley Lending. The suit says the lender illegally charges people up to 950 percent interest rates. It took CFPB staffers years to build the case.
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People like Julie Bonenfant, 27, who does administrative work for the city of Detroit. Last year was a tough one for her she broke up with her boyfriend, her car was stolen and she got behind on her rent. She found Golden Valley Lending online and and took out a loan, but she says she had no idea what she was getting herself into.

"I was literally facing eviction because I was so behind on my rent and I had no idea where I was going to come up with the money and it was just really rough," Bonenfant says. "It was just misleading. ... The way it was presented was ... I was going to make four large payments and then be done."

But after those four payments, the lender continued to take money directly out of her checking account. When she asked why, the lender told her she had agreed online to a lot more payments.

Bonenfant sent NPR a screen shot from the Golden Valley website. It says on her $900 loan, her scheduled payments in less than 12 months will total $3,735, or more than four times what she borrowed.

Bonenfant has so far paid more than $3,000 to Golden Valley and rung up more than $1,000 in overdraft fees at her bank.

When she showed it to her boss, he called the loan's terms "illegal."

Lawyers at the CFPB came to a similar conclusion. That's why back in April, the bureau sued Golden Valley Lending for unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices.

The lawsuit was moving forward, until Mulvaney came on board, when it was suddenly dropped.
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For her part, Julie Bonenfant of Detroit still hasn't paid off her debt to Golden Valley. And she feels betrayed by the president, whose appointee dropped the lawsuit.

"To be honest I'm really mad, really pissed, because I actually voted for Trump," Bonenfant says. "So knowing that his guy threw out this case that affects people like me. I feel kind of like stupid just kind of like betrayed."

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I have my phone on vibrate, like a civilized person
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Swagnificent119 posted...

Antifar posted...

Every moment spent talking about Hillary Clinton is a moment spent not talking about things that actually matter.

Weren't you the guy that brushed off two cops being murdered as not worthy of national attention today?

Yeah that's me. The deaths of cops in the line of duty, while tragic, shouldn't be national news.

But if you disagree, know that Hillary Clinton discussion is discussion not being had on cop deaths. Which matter far more than Hillary Clinton in 2018
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Every moment spent talking about Hillary Clinton is a moment spent not talking about things that actually matter.
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Pierce draws a windmill
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I hope she collapses tomorrow, we spend a week talking about it, and then never speak of her again.
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Leaving this here...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitburg_controversy?wprov=sfla1
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That is a bad ranking of Winter Olympic sports, imo
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This is technically true as long as you always take video
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1. Luge
2. Curling
3. Hockey
4. Alpine skiing
5. Short track speed skating
6. Skeleton
7. Snowboarding
8. Freestyle skiing
9. Bobsled
10. Nordic combined
11. Speed skating
12. Ski jumping
13. Biathlon
14. Figure skating
15. Cross-country skiing

I will not be taking questions at this time.
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