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reverendsteveii t1_jegv66m wrote
Reply to comment by INtoCT2015 in ELI5: If benzodiazepines are CNS depressants, why is it so hard to die from a overdose of them alone? by psychrolute
Once. I was able to swallow exactly once. I tried a second time and my body simply rebuked me. What a weird little thing.
reverendsteveii t1_jegesjl wrote
Reply to comment by AerialDarkguy in Summoned for Jury duty on one of my days off. Not sure if I am entitled to another day off. by tue59833
I didn't end up having to go but when I went I was going with a three pronged argument of I can't be unbiased against cops in a trial, I know about jury nullification and eyewitness testimony is actually really unreliable as my reasoning to say that I would vote to acquit regardless of the law or the evidence.
reverendsteveii t1_jef3h3a wrote
Reply to comment by BureaucraticHotboi in Hours of Ohio train derailment footage lost after being ‘overwritten’ by newsspotter
This. You don't bribe regulators, that's dirty and more importantly, people understand that it's dirty. What you do is "donate" to politicians in such a way that they understand that your donation is contingent upon them loosening regulations and hamstringing the regulators. It still has the same effect, your business doesn't have to pay pesky safety costs or lawsuits after you kill a bunch of people, but this way it's all above board legally speaking and you at least have the veneer of being able to tell people that the system is working.
reverendsteveii t1_jef35hw wrote
Reply to comment by goplantagarden in Hours of Ohio train derailment footage lost after being ‘overwritten’ by newsspotter
> too much to expect anyone will have charges filed
some schlub somewhere might take the fall if they can prove that he made some technical mistake somewhere but yeah, the people who collect 100% of the money when the trains run correctly will see 0% of the responsibility when the trains poison a town.
reverendsteveii t1_jdw5ntg wrote
>"R.M. Palmer has been a presence in the community for decades now," West Reading Borough Council Vice President Phil Wert said Saturday, donating candy to Easter egg hunts and giving back to the community. He said it's the first responders' and elected officials' responsibility "to give back to them because they've given to us."
I gotta say that making sure that first responders understand their responsibility to the factory owners is a Fucking. Bold. Take. Doubly so if it's true as-reported that employees told supervisors that they smelled gas and were told to get back to work about it.
reverendsteveii t1_jd9pclg wrote
Reply to Penn State, PSU, Temple and Lincoln say a tuition hike is needed, even with a 7% increase in state funding by Mrstucco
>Listen, we just need unlimited free money
reverendsteveii t1_jcro4ul wrote
Reply to comment by DoctorSteve in Lanternfly quarantine zone expands in Pennsylvania by ImperialIIClass
You can disagree but unless you can produce for me a dinosaur you're wrong
reverendsteveii t1_jcr6y49 wrote
Reply to comment by DoctorSteve in Lanternfly quarantine zone expands in Pennsylvania by ImperialIIClass
It's things returning to a different, new normal the way they have in response to pressure since the beginning of time. Our job was never to get things back to the way they were, it was to ease the transition.
reverendsteveii t1_jbmvtuo wrote
Reply to Massachusetts cop resigns from force for sexually assaulting student then gets hired by neighboring towns police department to be their sex crimes investigator by wra1th42
The police get paid to rape.
reverendsteveii t1_j9p8t1g wrote
Reply to Central Bucks SD playing the victim card after losing their communications firm by Pennzingers
can anyone r/OutOfTheLoop me?
reverendsteveii t1_j9knpox wrote
Reply to comment by AlVic40117560_ in Republican Doug Mastriano told supporters he didn't get any money from Ohio derailment train operator Norfolk Southern. Records show he took $1,000. by Pennzingers
If he knew, then
>I didn't get any money from that train network
Is a lie. If he didn't know, then
>I know my own finances
Is a lie. Either way, the traitor lied.
reverendsteveii t1_j9k7rwk wrote
Reply to comment by SpaceChimera in White Rankin Deputies ‘Tortured’ Handcuffed Black Men, Shot One, Lawyers Allege by iputitthere
Fun fact about the Reid technique: it came into prominence after Reid used it to get Darrel Parker to confess to his wife's murder. That confession was later determined to be false and Parker was paid $500,000 by the state of Nebraska for wrongful conviction.
Which is to say that the cops always knew it was bullshit that's just as likely to get a false confession as a real one, but their job is to arrest people for crimes regardless of whether those people are actually guilty.
reverendsteveii t1_j9k6ojd wrote
Reply to comment by BubbaTee in U.S. House Member David Cicillini (D-RI) Stepping Down June 1 to Lead Non-Profit Foundation by Originalfrozenbanana
Our local uni owns a network of hospitals and an assload of property and every time they go to our local or state government to ask them for more of my money someone on their executive board who makes 8 figures/year reminds us that they're a non-profit, that all they want to do is serve the community and that actually we're very fortunate and grateful that they're here at all.
reverendsteveii t1_j64wl81 wrote
Reply to comment by Madca in Men gathered around sign reading “Police.. We need your protection... not your harassment, Garfield Teen Organization,” on Columbo Avenue, Garfield: April, 1968: photograph by charles "teenie" Harris. by Yinzerman1992
>Why we want to see it
It's kinda important to confront what they do in real, concrete terms. I'm going to watch it and I'm going to share it because that will prevent complacency. We all agree that this is a problem, but people are also perfectly capable of going "Yeah, that's awful. Well, anyway..." and they need to be confronted with what they fail to oppose directly. So yeah, I am kinda looking to be outraged and I'm looking for other people to be outraged as well, but to make this equivalent to the outrage bait of Obama's tan suit, for example, is to say that people shouldn't be outraged when the police murder people. They should. It's not just reasonable, it's a moral obligation to not let the firehose effect convince you to just knowingly ignore this shit.
reverendsteveii t1_j5yze2r wrote
Reply to comment by pedantic_comments in Pa. drillers abandoned thousands of natural gas wells in 5 years, ignored state law, report says by lildobe
It's not a cop's fault that someone commits a crime. It is absolutely a cop's fault when someone commits a crime in front of that cop and that cop knowingly chooses to ignore it.
reverendsteveii t1_j5yyuj1 wrote
Reply to Pa. drillers abandoned thousands of natural gas wells in 5 years, ignored state law, report says by lildobe
Here comes an $8 fine and a stern chiding from the lawmakers they own
reverendsteveii t1_j5l8i33 wrote
Reply to comment by SunstruckMorning in Four Men Toss Deer Urine On Woman And In Aisles At Walmart In Gettysburg: Police by jillianpikora
Depending on which statutes are in play assault often covers things that don't necessarily require physical contact with the victim, and has a lesser penalty. Battery is when you do actually make physical contact with the victim and carries stiffer penalties.
reverendsteveii OP t1_j1fclhf wrote
Reply to comment by ohhim in Real feel -21f in Churchill. Y'all it hasn't been like this in years. Be careful. by reverendsteveii
I very much expected this to be a gay thing, as one of the town queers myself.
reverendsteveii OP t1_j1emc6y wrote
Reply to comment by ChinaLouise in Real feel -21f in Churchill. Y'all it hasn't been like this in years. Be careful. by reverendsteveii
Me: this isn't once in a lifetime, but it's noteworthy
u/ChinaLouise: you're being hysterical
What are you actually doing? Like, what do you hope to accomplish with this thread?
reverendsteveii OP t1_j1ejg6q wrote
Reply to comment by ChinaLouise in Real feel -21f in Churchill. Y'all it hasn't been like this in years. Be careful. by reverendsteveii
Yes, and at -3 at 2pm we're on pace to likely bottom out at the coldest since at least 2015 (-10) and possibly as far back as 1994 (-22). There's no cloud cover. It's gonna get brutal when it gets dark.
reverendsteveii OP t1_j1ehzms wrote
Reply to comment by ChinaLouise in Real feel -21f in Churchill. Y'all it hasn't been like this in years. Be careful. by reverendsteveii
I said the real feel is -21 because the real feel is -21f, not the thermometer temp. Bbbbbuuuuutttttt it's -3f thermometer temp in Penn Hills according to the weather channel and it's the middle of the afternoon so we're gonna give away a few degrees before we get any new ones. Let's see where it bottoms out.
reverendsteveii OP t1_j1e8tpj wrote
Reply to comment by ChinaLouise in Real feel -21f in Churchill. Y'all it hasn't been like this in years. Be careful. by reverendsteveii
This isnt once in a lifetime, but it's noteworthy
reverendsteveii t1_j0xso23 wrote
Reply to The Jan. 6 panel referred Scott Perry to the House Ethics Committee for failing to comply with subpoenas to compel his testimony in the probe by JBupp
Why are traitors not in prison?
reverendsteveii t1_iymiwau wrote
Reply to Pat Toomey was one of the 43 Senators who killed sick leave for rail workers by GraffitiTavern
Fun fact: the vote was 52-43 in favor of giving the workers sick leave. When the vote is on whether to give the masters another unfunded tax break 51-49 is enough to pass it, but when a vote to do something for workers comes up and it's 52-43 the 43 wins. The game is rigged.
reverendsteveii t1_jegvf90 wrote
Reply to comment by psychrolute in ELI5: If benzodiazepines are CNS depressants, why is it so hard to die from a overdose of them alone? by psychrolute
> 475mg of Alprazolam
Holy shit dude I once ate 8mg of alprazolam and was asleep for two straight days. That's kind of amazing. Doubly so that you didn't have any withdrawal symptoms. Benzos are weird, you can't die of an overdose but withdrawal can kill you instead.