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  • In this situation, there was a patient fighting with law enforcement and EMS was requested.

    That’s the contention, that’s why they’re going to jail, there is no proof this man was fighting anyone. The police put him in a choke hold seconds after the encountered him then order paramedics to sedate him!

    That this as a default in our system where they “just follow orders” and sedate people is troubling and I don’t know why you don’t understand that…


  • I get and appreciate what you’re saying, but I still have a problem with EMS being able to sedate people just walking home on the orders of the police.

    It is literally insane to me that the police can just tell EMS to dose someone with ketamine. You might be able to convince me it was justify with a known dangerous person, in the process of fighting everyone off, maybe. But this case shows, all it takes is a cop convincing a willing EMS person to just do it and then we get dead innocent people.



  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlI might move again. (Or not)
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    10 months ago

    Over-moderation will kill Lemmy instances. One of the reasons Reddit became as big as it did is due to very light-touch moderation verging on “absolute freedom of speech”. It was refreshing and ‘alternative’ compared to the increasing sanitisation of the Internet.

    That’s the sub not the website, over moderation is a feature of some subs, just like lemmy instances. Just like reddit, if you don’t like it create your own, unlike reddit you can set an overall tone to your instance.






  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlIts getting old.
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    1 year ago

    I guess i’m getting that from when you first said,

    but in a truly free market capitalist system

    I just assumed you were defending a “truly free market” capitalism.

    to address what you just posted,

    is it appropriate to blame capitalism when a public corporation in collusion with the government is at fault for an issue? If not, why?

    yes, capitalism creates the conditions for that collusion. It allows entities with the only goal of profit at any cost.

    removing the government doesn’t reduce that corruption it just allows it to go unchecked without even an illusion of protection to the public.


  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlIts getting old.
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    1 year ago

    Okay, let’s do it explain how in a “pure” capitalist society a public body, without the ability to at least nominally use a legal system to guard against collusion and monopoly using the threat of breaking up or shutting down corporations, provide any protection?

    Giving them the power to do that makes them just a government by another name.


  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlIts getting old.
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    1 year ago

    I feel as though you’re also assuming I’m 100% advocating for what I’m describing

    i think you’re missing it. Government for as glacial and corrupt and corruptible as it is, is the only buffer from the excess of a free market.

    businesses without a guardrail HAVE proven they will sacrifice everything, literally everything in the name of profit.

    Oil companies have know for about a century that they are destroying the planet and they are *still * doing it. They fight every regulation that stops them tooth and nail. They buy and shelve technologies that would cut into their profit. Imagine a world where there was no one trying to stop them at all?

    That is the proper diagnosis of our system. We have allowed unaccountable immoral groups to control the means of production and they are literally using it to with kill us all.


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    1 year ago

    I’m not trying to defend windows, it has a myriad of issues, but I’ve never understood the meme of it updating at inconvenient times. I run windows 11 pro, I set it to only update when i tell it to and it does… Like it’s never been a problem, wasn’t a problem in windows 10 or 7 pro either.

    I don’t get it, am i windows whisperer and not know it?


  • It shows it’s work, you can follow it’s citations to ensure it’s not complete bullshit.

    Also no seriously these are dumb questions, I was watching Fraiser the other day and it implied his ratings were in the millions, and I asked bing if that was even possible considering he was on AM radio in the 90s (it’s not), but even if it was completely wrong it literally doesn’t matter…