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Arthur Besse

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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What if there were an outside force that was attacking students/university

That happened at UC Los Angeles a few months ago; the university police chief and 19 of his officers stood by and watched the attacks for over 3 hours before intervening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/11/ucla-protests-police-inaction-fights/

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UC Merced annual training required only 7 rounds, while UC San Francisco used 7000 and UC Santa Barbara used 9000 🤔

Shoutout to UC Davis for having the only police department on the list who “did not use any military equipment during this timeframe”.

For some reason the linked PDF varies from the screenshot in several ways, though most of the numbers are the same. (UC Riverside’s number of rounds of .556-range ammunition used in training is 3000 in the screenshot but 6000 in the PDF now.)

I was curious how much this launcher costs:

… over here I see this glorified paintball gun is normally $2400 but currently on sale for just $1850.

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I hope they’ll be gentle if they ever realize Canada exists

here is their canada portal: https://www.aljazeera.com/where/canada/

they also have some documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish/search?query=canada

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Auschwitz was in Poland. They were careful to keep all the concentration camps out of Germany

The six extermination camps where 2.7 million of their victims were murdered were all in Poland, but the Nazis did have hundreds (or dozens, if you count all of the subcamps near a larger one as being a single camp) of concentration camps in Germany.

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the same twitter account that found the youtube found it

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here is the bluesky profile for the actual Matt Nelson it is: https://bsky.app/profile/gusavocados.bsky.social (via)

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The phrase “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest” is homage to Aaron Bushnell’s statement.

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I’m pretty sure that is not the same person

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Ads?! in Ubuntu? Never! They were simply integrating online scope results into the home lens of the dash 🤡

(that is an actual quote from the sentence immediately following “We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu” in Mark Shuttleworth’s blog post responding to the entirely predictable backlash after they did this, twelve years ago…)

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