Iowa state court officials ordered a security penetration test and the members of the firm hired for the test sit in jail for breaking into a county courthouse.
Perhaps a good question to ask them would be, “Is there a difference between hating the Russian government and hating all Russian people?”
If they say no, or don’t get the point, ask them about something controversial that the Czech government has done and have a show of hands of who supports it and opposes it, then ask the people who oppose it if they think that they should be personally responsible for what their government has done.
It might get them thinking, at least.
Or you could even make it about you and America… You could say something like, “I opposed the Iraq War, I thought it was a mistake, and I didn’t vote for the people that took us into that war… Should people in the rest of the world who hate America for that war hate me for that war? Should Iraqis hate me for that war?”
You could make a moral argument that every American is partially responsible for what our government does, and you could make a logical argument that the average person as an individual can’t be expected to prevent the bad things a government does.
Aww man Eddie Money died, dude was all over my 7th-9th grade radio RIP
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Did you guys know that you could just pocket the cash for the estimate amount rather than getting it fixed? Recently got $1500 for a small crack/scrape someone put in the bumper of our seven year old car. Felt like winning a (minor) lottery, lol.
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One time I got backed into by a guy with no insurance. Through a bit of strong arm tactics via a friend and the fact the guy was drunk and illegal, we were able to reach a payment agreement where he paid me $500 a month for three months (this after getting an agreed upon estimate). I just kept the money, the car was old at the time and the damage cosmetic.
Keep that money stick it to the man, unless you want to fix it. Of course with insurance I am not sure what happens if you have another accident and the same damage is still there, might they deny the claim?
Pretty sure they just won’t cover any repair to the pre-existing damage.
In this case, the car is only 3 years old, I’ve only had it five months and it’s in very good condition, so I’m definitely going to get it repaired.
Thing is that the class isn’t about me and my opinions. It’s about getting the students to practice the English that they learned during the week in either an unstructured environment or a structured environment created by them. Time I spend talking is time they spend not practicing English. Potentially taking up an entire class due to an offhand comment that rubbed me wrong is pretty selfish.
In that situation, my responsibility was to write a few questions they came up with on the board to use as a jumping off point for small group discussions. I was just taken aback by that response.
Criminal records should not be public. That’s a crazy breach of privacy. So if I have one small run in with the law, in a criminal system which is notoriously corrupt, it’s public forever.
Why does someone else need to know my criminal record outside a formal background check?
I swear sometimes you could design a perfect nation by simply doing the opposite of what happens in America.
yeah allowing clovis eight to have unfettered free speech on our USA#1 interwebs was a tragic mistake
Didn’t seem worth the time, like literally as a gambler I’d put my expected EV/hr at under minimum wage.
You really think the cops and courts should have less transparency?
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I called the body shop to schedule the appraisal, but it’s like their regional chain’s appointment line. They put me on hold and disconnected me. So I went onto their chat, they said “One moment please,” and then nothing - and it disconnected me for inactivity.
I call back, I’ve been in the queue for 6 minutes and counting now… I’m also in the online queue, it’s been four minutes and counting.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGH!!!
He clearly thinks America should have never abolished slavery.
I’m headed to the mall in my Camaro to pour out a can of Busch.
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Do they know about the pre-existing damage? You didn’t tell them about it did you?
Courts are open to the public, so even if this info weren’t provided by the government (and I think that varies by location) it could still be available.
One ticket to paradise.
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When I was in high school, I frequently made long walks home after a party or gig. I went to a school across town so all my friends lived over there and I would often end up walking a couple hours through some unusual places to be walking (industrial areas, stretches without sidewalks, etc).
One night a cop pulled over and started asking me what I was up to, why I had a backpack, and so on. Apparently, there had been a spree of graffiti in the area (so the cop said) and he wanted to look in my bag for spray paint. I wasn’t up to anything and had nothing to hide – just a backpack with a math text book, loaf of bread, and a 2L (what we called a 2-liter of soda back then, lol). But I have always had a problem with authority, and especially cops, so I didn’t want to tell the cop anything.
“Am I under arrest?”
“No. Just let me look through your bag.”
“What did I do wrong? You can’t just search me for no reason.”
“Look, kid. Just show me your bag.” He’s starting to get pissed.
Sure, I’m a snot-nosed kid with an authority complex, but I’m still in the middle of nowhere with a guy with a gun making demands. So I let him look through my bag. He asks me why I have so much stuff, smells the soda (for alcohol I assume), and then looks at my ID to check my address and make sure my story makes sense about where I’m going.
While he’s searching my stuff, I notice there’s a kid my age in the back seat of the cop car. Looks like he had been crying.
“Hey,” I say to get the kid’s attention. “If this cop will do this to me, he probably did something illegal when he picked you up.” The kid won’t even look at me. His eyes stay fixed on the floor of the cop car.
“Shut up. Get going,” the cop says, handing me back my stuff. I take my bag and keep walking.
The next day I decide to make a complaint against the cop. I had noted his badge number, thinking this was some kind of magic bullet that would dispense justice. I head downtown to the main police station and tell the guy at the desk I want to make a complaint against the officer with badge # (whatever it was). He tells me to wait and then I get asked into the back to talk to someone higher up.
Long story short, the higher up listens patiently to my story (lol white kid privilege + Canada) before telling me that he knows this cop personally. He’s been on the force 20 years, he’s a “good guy”, blah, blah. He would never do anything wrong. He thanks me for coming in and tells me to leave. Polite but forceful.
I leave deflated. For some reason I actually expected something to get done.
TL;DR: lol cops investigating themselves.
I was rear ended a few years ago and had a preexisting crack in my windshield. Tried to get the body shop to agree it was caused by the accident (“I don’t remember it being there before”) but they wouldn’t include it when they submitted the estimate to insurance. I couldn’t believe it.
Cops should be transparent. Why is a persons criminal record public?