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Seeing the video, completely unfamiliar with the case, I’d say he was driving more than just dangerously. Purposely ramming three police vehicles with blue lights, with police on foot immediately around your car… with no other comment on Mr. Kaba’s or Mr. Blake’s actions, I’d say Kaba was driving aggressively.
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I went to school with an American kid whose family was old money, somewhere in the mid 9 figures back in the 90s. They had an advance team of designers and chefs who would deploy to their summer/winter/Alps/etc. home before the family arrived, and furnish the house and wardrobes. Everything from the swim trunks to the tennis whites (in case they felt like playing tennis at all) was new. The pantry was of course stocked with more fresh food than they and their visitors could eat. When the holiday was over, it would all stay at the house and be distributed among the staff or simply binned.
For one of their friends’ birthdays, the parents took the friend group to the Caribbean, and hired a company to design and implement a week-long pirate adventure trip for the kids (muppet treasure island had come out recently). The children’s adventure cost $50,000 and involved actors, trained parrots, sailboats, period correct bespoke costumes for the kids, muskets firing blanks…
Worth considering that musk and bezos have an additional 000 to their name. The consumption of the ultra-wealthy is truly beyond what most people can imagine.
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Would be interesting to see the large folder of small print that accompanies the sign-up.
Probably a paragraph in there waiving any right to a court trial in connection with musk and his companies. Would save Tesla a lot of money, for sure.
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Yeah or a regulator. You’ll burn the light out otherwise.
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I’ve done somewhere in the neighbourhood of a hundred or so tubeless setups using both methods, never had a sealant tsunami. Are folks not whetting the rim so the tyre seats more easily?
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no sane President
One would argue that, in trumps shoes, it’s an entirely sane move to make. He’s just craven and totally corrupt to a degree no president has ever countenanced.
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If it had a SRAM red crankset, the Bb is probably a 68mm. SRAM’s most common road bearing is GXP. Yud have to post a pic of the cups to see if it’s BSA or press fit.
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and the people responsible see prison time
Prison time for what though? I guess you could argue about the boss of the company suggesting they find someone else to do the surgery is pretty horrendous but he's eventually declared as alive so somewhat moot
My response would be at least attempted homicide, but given your response I don’t think it’ll be understood. I don’t feel like a debate right now, but I might elaborate later on why ignoring signs of life in order to conduct a procedure where you stand to make money deserves prison.
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I guarantee thousands of people around the world will unregister as organ donors following this
Really?
Having advised families on the legal aspects of organ donation when a real-time decision has to be made, yes, I would bet money on it. A lot of people are tenuous donors, and a lot of family members can’t cope with the possibility of ending the life of a family member who might miraculously recover. The story will probably reach a few tens of millions of people, so a few thousand is a low estimate.
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Trigger: extreme disregard for life, drug use, abuse, nightmare fuel.
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Gonna x-post in epic wtf it’s that bad. Here’s possibly one of the worst wtfs in recent memory:
Better coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive
The article doesn’t do the story and the victim justice but it’s better than the Guardians pathetic attempt, which downplays the seriousness of it all.
In a paragraph: A middle-aged drug user has an overdose and is taken to hospital by his family. He’s declared braindead and the family agree to organ donation, including his heart. The patient is prepped for surgery and the family notice his eyes opening and tracking their specific movements, but they’re told it’s only reflexes. The patient starts “thrashing” about in their room, so medical staff sedate him. The patient is taken to the surgical ward and is seen crying. A transplant doctor has a minor breakdown and refuses to do the surgery. A representative from KODA, a for-profit transplant admin agency, calls their boss from the hospital to tell them the situation, and the boss demands they find a replacement doctor because the transplant needs to go ahead. The patient is eventually declared living and the surgery is aborted. He currently lives with his sister and has some cognitive and memory issues following the episode.
Basically, multiple people employed in the medical profession thought they could get away with killing a drug addict and taking his organs. Guy is alive by pure luck.
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I think I see your point that the medical procedure itself didn’t start, so it’s not like cases where an anaesthetic wears off and the patient wakes up mid-operation. The horror factor in that case is that the anaesthetic could wear off. In this case, it’s multiple transplant professionals colluding or being so extremely negligent that they were, effectively, going to kill a clearly non-braindead and fully cognizant man for his organs, while lying to his family about his state. They got so far as to be gathered round prepared to cut him open, and the guy was aware of it.
Knowing the extreme bias against drug users in the States, I personally suspect their opinion of him as a person played into their actions. They sedated the guy when he started thrashing about at the mention of organ harvesting, and ignored that he was staring intently at his family members. To top it off, a private company making a profit was the driving force for it.
Like I said, nightmare fuel. I hope there’s serious reforms and the people responsible see prison time. They’ve not only nearly killed a man, and traumatised him and his family for life; they’ve fucked over an entire branch of the medical industry (transplants) that struggles to this day with potential donors’ concerns that they’ll be cut apart for their organs without merit. I guarantee thousands of people around the world will unregister as organ donors following this.
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He was prepped for surgery and literally wheeled into the theatre though?
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Trigger: extreme disregard for life, drug use, abuse, nightmare fuel.
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Gonna x-post this in US news because it tracks with how the US is devolving into a pseudo-country where only money matters. Here’s possibly one of the most epic wtfs in recent memory:
Better coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive
The article doesn’t do the story and the victim justice but it’s better than the Guardians pathetic attempt, which downplays the seriousness of it all.
In a paragraph: A middle-aged drug user has an overdose and is taken to hospital by his family. He’s declared braindead and the family agree to organ donation, including his heart. The patient is prepped for surgery and the family notice his eyes opening and tracking their specific movements, but they’re told it’s only reflexes. The patient starts “thrashing” about during a preparatory procedure, so medical staff sedate him. The patient is taken to the surgical ward and is seen crying. A transplant doctor has a minor breakdown, and both transplantists refuse to do the surgery. A representative from KODA, a for-profit transplant admin agency, calls their boss from the hospital to tell them the situation, and the boss demands they find a replacement doctor because the transplant needs to go ahead. The patient is eventually declared living and the surgery is aborted. He currently lives with his sister and has some cognitive and memory issues following the episode.
Basically, multiple people employed in the medical profession thought they could get away with killing a drug addict and taking his organs. Guy is alive by pure luck.
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Facilitated by historically entrenched ‘othering’ of groups that are too vulnerable to defend themselves effectively. Bonus points if the group is exploited for their labour by the leadership group pointing fingers at them.
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This is the most hipster thing I’ve ever read.
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Trump is a megalomaniac and is also strategically betting on ‘the devil you know’ cognitive hack. Many voters don’t know anything about Harris, and they prefer the psychological safety of voting for trump because they think at least they can predict his actions and impact. The more airtime trump is given, the less there is for Harris to put herself out there.
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Also, most clowning is harmless and a rather noble pursuit, so it’s effectiveness as an insult is limited.
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Well that was an unexpected twist. Are slurs acceptable depending on context? 🤔
Glad the bad cop lost his donuts. (I misread, thought the cop was found guilty too)
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new perfume that smells like shower fresh torn cardboard
Whatever the smell equivalent is to a flashback, the rank odour of Ikea’s cardboard reinforced cupboard cubes just did that.
They smell very strongly like vomit, very likely from an acid used to reconstitute their cheap cardboard.
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The openly gay officer was probably slightly aggravated by it but knew the threshold for it being a crime was distress. Given that the phrase is a homophobic slur, it’s hard to feel sympathy for the convicted.
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it's a fairly high bar
Indeed, because, unlike sticks and stones, wielding words aggressively depends on context to be considered violent, but denying the possibility outright is simply wrong.
Violentia is the root you’re thinking of, meaning the use of force to cause harm or injury. Words may not have mass but they are plenty capable of causing injury, including medically diagnosable injury. But I’m labouring the point…
Some folks seem to have totally run with the 'words as violence' concept
Defo. See also the mythical ‘(excessively) woke’ crowd who take offence to everything and anything. Fortunately they’re not as numerous and nowhere near as powerful or impactful as their scapegoating political critics make them out to be, but they do exist and are thoroughly unpleasant.
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Contrary to popular grade school wisdom, words can and do cause lasting harm to vulnerable people. Increasing personal resilience is key but the focus should be on stopping the abuse, not solely on growing thicker skin.
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words are not violence
What a bizarre opinion.
Violence can be verbal according to the World Health Organisation, whose definition of violence includes threats of physical harm. Or according to American Psychiatrist Association. Or the European Psychiatric Association….
LFGSS
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of fixed gear and single-speed cyclists.
Respectfully, I was making no comment on anything other than the description of the driving I saw in the video as ‘dangerous’, and my belief that a more serious ‘aggressive’ qualifier is more accurate.