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Nearly 1000 people were killed by police last year. 68 were unarmed. So 7% of the time a police officer decides to shoot someone to death, that person is unarmed... Given the number of police who plant weapons on people they’ve shot as well as the utter lack of any sort of consistent reporting - or...

Tazers. Nightsticks. Pepper Spray. Flash Lights. Identifying yourself as an Officer of the Law.

When these powers combine, unarmed (predominately black) people don't die.

My point was more along the lines of, 'Look at how horribly these cops are trained.' Any basic firearms course would tell you to never shoot madly like that. This miscommunication is on me. I should have made myself clearer. Your point was 100% clear. Your point was that Baby Stomping Earl should u...

jewish_scientist wrote:Buncha stupid “Rational and Logical” stuff

I kinda want to print that out, frame it, put it in an art museum, and title the piece “Why people who argue that emotion has no place in decision making or thought are the dumbest dumbfucks to ever dumbfuck III”

And the villain was a guy who flew, like a sort of bird-man!

Last six in order Ant Man : My Plot Makes No Sense Captain America:Civil War:Avengers2.5 Doctor Strange:Belfast Cambridge and the Amazing Nausea Inducing 3D Adventure That Was Fucking Beautiful But My God The Plot Was Boring Guardians of the Galaxy 2:Is the Mary Poppins Thing Played Out Yet? Spider-...

Ray Steel wrote:
gmalivuk wrote:You can edit your most recent post to add more if you want to.

Never ever

I wish you luck in your future forum endeavors.

Yes. Because I fixed it.

Sizik wrote:
flicky1991 wrote:Why is the formatting at the bottom of this page broken?

Drunkenness?

Freezeblade's and Ginger's posts have mismatched quote/spoiler tags.

Feel free to report that for someone to fix.

“We have no idea where you came from, but there’s a 80% chance you are a very good boy”

I understand this is the most direct method you can think of... But you’re still putting a poster of your complaints on Yum! Center about FedEx deliveries to a Kroger regarding their Taco Bell related items. (Yum! being the corporate entity that owns Taco Bell, KFC, and others; the Yum! Center being...

Yeah. This is basically for http://www.xkcd.com and forums.xkcd.com problems. Services for fora.xkcd.com isn’t assured, and that simply redirects to forums.xkcd.com We really can’t help you with a ReCaptcha problem on ExplainXKCD wiki. You would need to contact ReCaptcha for assistance. The problem ...

The Pope is a High Priest , but no one would call him that. That Zuri is not explicitly named High Priest does not stop him from holding the role. There’s pretty clearly religious overtones to everything he does, and he seems to run the show. Part of running the show is delegation of things, like d...

And then she basically gave him a tour of their stuff? I mean, secrecy seemed to be a hit and miss thing. Sometimes they cared, sometimes they didn't. Not Wakanda secret from Ross. Keep Ross a secret from Wakanda. Outside the Royals, until the shit hit the fan - who did he interact with? Regard...

Today's post reminded me of something I've wondered about before: is there any way for us to know exactly how fast we're actually going, in some sort of absolute terms? The idea came from a friend of mine and I joking about a time machine, how even a few seconds forward or backwards in time would i...

Jorpho wrote:
natraj wrote:but let a black girl do it and it's a problem.
Welp, nevermind, guess we can't have that conversation.

Oh, hey Jorpho. Say shit like this in a similar context again without also demonstrating a clear understanding of race relations (particularly in the 1500-2000 eras) and you're off the forum.

That made absolutely zero sense to me. What possible reason do you have for not immediately shooting Klaue? At best - you kill him and you have the gratitude of your partner, and if you want to off her you still have the chance to do so while she's grateful and not considering protecting hersel...

Yeah, remind me again how many American blockbusters with an almost entirely black cast even exist?

Or how many American films with an almost entirely black cast being aimed at the general moviegoing public exist?

You can hardly avoid the subject with American history to be fair, what with the civil war that happened, and the ~ 20% of Americans living today descended from slaves. and precisely how the fuck can British history ignore the slave trade? Like, is it just lost in the cracks of all the other repreh...

I thought even the latest and greatest textbooks still paper over the darker parts of American History? Are you saying the UK is even worse than that? Apparently? I went to a rural school in Kentucky and still managed to come out of it with a "The US did a whole bunch of slavery to the point t...

CorruptUser wrote:I'm almost morbidly curious as to what you learned about Britain and India...

TEA WAS SHARED NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED

Or a time traveling telepathic warrior from the future with an impulsive idiot sidekick retcons reality.

rmsgrey wrote:Even during that 200 year period, the slave trade was a relatively minor part of British history -

Compare and contrast.

And SomethingPositive uses positively unobtrusive ads.

Yet the ads look like distracting dogshit.

Spoiler:

Why don't you get on foonetic and ask him yourself?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha No they wouldn't. Web ads pay garbage. Even on high visit sites, the only way to make any money is to deal with sketchy ads that are half scams. At absolute best, ads pay to keep the server running. And even then, what's the point? Who the he...

That's a good way of putting it. The comics just exist to sell T-shirts

Randall is tech minded and, right or wrong, assumes his audience is also at least minimally tech minded. Minimally tech minded people know to install adblockers. He's not getting revenue he wouldn't get anyway. This isn't "leaving money on the table", this is not shaking down someone for s...

Yes, there are bits that are relevant to British history, but the worst excesses of British colonial history center around India, not Africa. Um, are you for serious right now? They were bad in different ways, but you can't say it was worse than Africa/Caribbean. Of course, I have come across peopl...

The fuck is the point of a police alarm? Fire alarms make sense. A building on fire can take hours to get structural damage. Even in cases where the structure is just gone, completely in flames in minutes, the surroundings don't also go up in moments and need a line to keep the fire from spreading. ...

I liked Poe. A lot.

Which helps someone using Windows 10..... how, exactly? Please, describe in detail how it helps a Windows 10 user. Use as many small words as you feel necessary. I want to know, precisely, how something for Windows 7 and 8/.1 used to prevent an unexpected Windows 10 installation assists a Windows 10...

I suspect SecondTalon is rhotic.... RoadToElDorado.Gif I'm from an area where mostly Southern and Midwestern, but a little Northern and Appalachian mash together, with Seasame Street slammed on top. I don't know what the fuck my accent and dialect are. "Yes" is probably the best answer. I...

Hmmmm..... I don't believe I've ever heard the sort of person who pronounces water "warter" use the word parse.

At any rate, sure, USAsians say it like that dialect says pass. Probably.

Southern English what now? Southern England English, or Southern US English? Southern Australian English?

At any rate, pass and parse don't rhyme. Farce and parse do. Or the first part of Larceny. Parseny.

FWIW, what these kits are doing isn't THAT complicated. I can't make any claims about which has a better database, but pointing to probable ethnic groupings of heritage is not something that requires a terribly complicated set of molecular tools or database queries. The devils in the details, I sup...

Does anyone know any sources that explain how they gather data for the results? A relative of mine, with Mexican heritage, recently posted results to face book, and I thought it was interesting there wasn't a Spanish or Iberian category, but "Celtic/English" and "North African",...

Pfft. Mxyzptlk is easy.

Mykyla is hard.

It's a mashing of Rene and Esme in to one name.

Of course, Pamela, Fiona, Jessica and Vanessa were invented names too.

The only difference between a stupid new name and a generic name is time.

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