Sure, but that’s not what police refer to when they talk about blood spatter analysis. I’m not saying it’s impossible to get good evidence from the location of blood; I’m saying that the bullshit they do around drop size and splatter patterns does not have any evidence to support it.

Edit: in other words, they want the credibility of science without doing the hard work of peer-review or falsification.

Trump isn’t doing anything different than he did last time; the only change is scope.

This dipshit really thought that Trump would expose Epstein’s clients even though he wished Ghislane Maxwell well? You have to be a special kind of stupid to fall for that.

From ProPublica:

The reliability of bloodstain-pattern analysis has never been definitively proven or quantified, but largely due to the testimony of criminalist Herbert MacDonell, it was steadily admitted in court after court around the country in the 1970s and ’80s. MacDonell spent his career teaching weeklong “institutes” in bloodstain-pattern analysis at police departments around the country, training hundreds of officers who, in turn, trained hundreds more.

While there is no index that lists cases in which bloodstain-pattern analysis played a role, state appellate court rulings show that the technique has played a factor in felony cases across the country. Additionally, it has helped send innocent people to prison. From Oregon to Texas to New York, convictions that hinged on the testimony of a bloodstain-pattern analyst have been overturned and the defendants acquitted or the charges dropped.

In 2009, a watershed report commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences cast doubt on the discipline, finding that “the uncertainties associated with bloodstain-pattern analysis are enormous,” and that experts’ opinions were generally “more subjective than scientific.” More than a decade later, few peer-reviewed studies exist, and research that might determine the accuracy of analysts’ findings is close to nonexistent.

Cops and pseudoscience go together like chocolate and peanut butter.

For more examples, see “bite mark analysis,” “911 call analysis,” “blood spatter analysis,” roadside drug testing with known false-positives, and even fingerprints (once the gold standard) have up to a 20% error rate.

And that’s not even getting into how their methodology is exactly backwards: they have a claim that they set out to prove, but do no work to disprove what they already believe.

He’s also the caricature of the dumb micromanaging boss that rips off his workers, but that’s not a deal-breaker for white folks either; in fact, the majority apparently approve.

Americans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.

They get off on being hypocritical: they love that they aren’t bound by what they’ve previously said, as it shows that restrictions are for other people.

They believe things provisionally, and only as a means to win an argument. If another argument comes up, their beliefs will shift instantly to whatever is needed to score a point.

This appears to mean that they don’t have any values, but that is incorrect; they unequivocally believe that they should be able to structure society where the people who deserve power will receive it. This is in stark contrast to the left where we believe in equal rights and dignity for all— the exact opposite of their reactionary ideology.

I still cry when I remember that they were clearing them out at $5 a pop. I’ll cling to mine until the day it dies.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:5-6

To look at a historical analogue:

The system of government was formed whereby leading Nazi officials were forced to interpret Hitler’s speeches, remarks and writings on government policies and turn them into programs and legislation. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated them verbally, or had them conveyed through his close associate, Martin Bormann. He entrusted Bormann with his paperwork, appointments, and personal finances; Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. Hitler’s cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.

Hitler’s leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have “the stronger one [do] the job”. In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.

The process allowed more unscrupulous and ambitious Nazis to get away with implementing the more radical and extreme elements of Hitler’s ideology, such as antisemitism, and in doing so win political favour. It was protected by Joseph Goebbels’ effective propaganda machine, which portrayed Hitler as a heroic and infallible leader. Further, the government was portrayed as a dedicated, dutiful and efficient outfit. Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany’s states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue.

The US does have an anti-semitism problem, but criticism of Israel and the IDF is not anti-semitism. Fuck Schumer for trying to equate the two and therefore empowering both the real anti-semites and the genocidal Israeli regime.

“Encounters” is such a funny way to phrase it. Like he was traveling through the woods on a quest and had to roll on the random table upon which a pack of wolves was also an option.

On the contrary, conservatives have one very strict standard:

“Will this candidate attack the people I hate?”

Everything else is secondary.

She’s beautiful! I love seeing her on my feed, and I’m glad she has a person who loves her as much as you obviously do.

When I used to fix cars for a dealership we would sometimes have the service advisor ask us to do work for free. “Come on, it’ll just take you ten minutes!”

I’d tell them that they can do it themselves if it only takes ten minutes. “But I don’t know how to do that!”

You’re not just paying for the part, you’re paying for the knowledge, time, and tools of the technician.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:5-6

But think of the CEO who could use a vacation house in Jackson Hole.

It’s missing the cover plates, so I doubt it’s really playable.

What kind of music would you like to play? If you want something that can do bends, you should look into the Hohner Blues Band harmonica: they run about $10 in the States and are a good option for a beginner.

Note that harmonicas are diatonic*, and you’ll need them in multiple keys if you want to play with others. You can buy them in sets or mix different ones to see what you like.

It’s a fun instrument to just noodle around on and pick out tunes. Get familiar with the feel of it, then look for videos or books to go deeper.

*There are actually different scales that you can play on a standard diatonic harmonica if you play cross harp. This is what you’ll need to look at if you want to play the blues.

We’ve all bean there.

Fucked up, yes. But how the fuck is the cop supposed to be know who is who.

You realize that makes it worse, right? How the cop is shooting at someone who he has not identified as a threat?