Sounds like it’s appropriately named: inadequate and a ripoff

the level and type of stupidity has not changed at all.

Bosch, Meile

wow, I feel embraced now

I’ll jump up, pump my legs and air swim up to the top of a tree.

Yeah, “split” would be more clear

Google and Twitter are not on par with “gimp”. I also didn’t say I was worried. I just noted that it makes people take the software less seriously when I advocate it as a free, open source replacement for Photoshop, which has a very respectable reputation and a business-like name. Being called “gimp” makes people doubt that it’s a professional quality product.

Millions of dollars? That’s not much.

Yeah, it makes it sound silly and non-serious to people I’ve introduced it to who know nothing about open source and Linux etc

and why the fuck would that be the slogan of the Dept. of Labor?

Except Ashley Babbitt, who is a hero for breaking into a secured area of the US Capitol during a riot and getting shot.

Good point that per the constitution, it’s everyone, not just citizens. I had a discussion with a deluded conservative coworker about that recently and he couldn’t accept that’s what the constitution says.

I agree that it’s really inappropriate for them to be making these claims and discussing politics at all. Not surprising as the police union has been a problem in general for decades.

In the “we’re going to investigate ourselves” phase, yes, of course. However sometimes police are charged with crimes for their actions. Clearly far, far less often then anyone else would be prosecuted in court for the same crimes.

They’re not completely immune. If the action is egregious enough or unpopular enough with the public (which seems to be what they’re complaining about), police can be convicted of crimes. Derek Chauvin, for example.

“When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bits. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning”

Well, that’s an absurd claim. Simply being arrested for a crime is often enough for the public to believe that a private citizen is guilty, and they can lose employment, business deals, a marriage or relationship long before any “due process” occurs. When police are accused of a crime, often they face no consequences at all, and if they are charged, they get the exact same due process as any other citizen.