sparkle

joined 7 months ago
[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

@ani.social

Why am I not surprised

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Daniel Shaver?

Bodycam video: https://youtu.be/VBUUx0jUKxc

In August 2018, Brailsford was reinstated by the Mesa Police Department, staying for a further 42 days in what the department described as a "budget position". The department agreed to reimburse Brailsford for medical expenses related to his post-traumatic stress disorder -- the result of his shooting of Shaver and the resultant criminal trial. The reinstatement allowed Brailsford to apply for "accidental disability" experienced during the course of work. As a result, Brailsford was unanimously approved to be retired on medical grounds. Brailsford was also given a pension of $2,500 per month. The fact that Brailsford was ultimately medically retired instead of remaining fired was only revealed to the public in July 2019.

He just fucking executed him in the hallway and walked over his body, and he gets rewarded?

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Literally Charles McGill

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

don't speak like the french

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The past participle of a verb is used as the passive participle (e.g. indicates the passive voice, where the patient of the verb is the subject and the agent is the indirect object). "She was killed" or "He was eaten" is in the passive voice, while "I died" or "I killed" is in the active voice. It's normally supposed to be preceded by an auxiliary verb (in this case "be"), but news titles omit the copula among other things.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This is literally the passive voice

Active voice would be "Israeli strike kills two twins in Gaza as [their] father goes to register [their] birth" or something

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ketamine

Is that why they call him Sleepy Joe?

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Which person decided to domesticate that thing. Just like "hey I found this weird looking grass fruit wanna enslave it" and chief's like "hell yeah of course I wanna enslave it!" and then they just ate increasingly beady grass for a few thousand years

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Shhh shhh no we have to make the peasants believe every exploitable activity is an intelligent sidehustle. THEIR idea. Not something that will be forced upon them by capitalism. How do you think we create like half of professions ever?

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What in the hell is a "Caramel Ribbon Cursetard"

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What do you mean women don't like a FOSS privacy-oriented user experience? Don't they like going through 500 pages of documentation when Gentoo breaks only to realize all along that the problem was fixed by turning the computer off and on again?

What do you mean men don't like that either?? What kind of place is this?!

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