Sit, stand, kneel, or do whatever you like for the National Anthem

[Spartanmack]

I heard about a study where someone made a video game that required quickly shooting the right person where bunches of people were holding different objects. When people made mistakes and shot people not pointing a gun at them, they tended to shoot black people. Police, even police shown to have implicit bias in the word matching test, performed much better than the general population. The difference is attributed to training. However, if you test officers when they are tired, they revert to the same mistakes the general population makes.


So part of the problem is budgeting and overworking police. It shouldn't surprise anyone to discover that someone with the proper training will revert to their lizard brain under the right stress.

Part of what problem? It's been shown that adjusting for crime rates, white people are more likely to be shot in interactions with police than black people are. And, despite Alex Jones level conspiracy theories about underreported police shootings where some people think cops are actively hunting black teens, murdering them and not reporting it, there are actually very few police involved shootings, even less involving minorities and even less resulting in death and the overwhelming majority of police involved shooting are justified.

That's not to say we shouldn't try or do more to mitigate unnecessary and unjustified shootings, but when we call it a problem and elevate it above the very real problems that impact these communities far more severely, we waste time, make villains out of the people who are serving and helping these communities and perpetuate the victimhood problem.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Part of what problem?

Part of the problem of police shooting when they shouldn't, which is a relatively small number and has nothing to do with stats about all police shootings.

People have a bad idea of the scale of things when they should never happen, but there are reasons to believe that they will happen. In this case, the argument really isn't driven by the number of times this happens as much as it's about whether or not authority is sufficiently held accountable when it does happen.


Part of the reason this ever happens in the first place, is tired or overworked officers.

 

[Spartanmack]

Part of the problem of police shooting when they shouldn't, which is a relatively small number and has nothing to do with stats about all police shootings.

People have a bad idea of the scale of things when they should never happen, but there are reasons to believe that they will happen. In this case, the argument really isn't driven by the number of times this happens as much as it's about whether or not authority is sufficiently held accountable when it does happen.


Part of the reason this ever happens in the first place, is tired or overworked officers.

I don't think people have a bad idea about scale, at least not in the way you're saying. I think we all agree that we should do what we can to eliminate these kinds of mistakes but the fact that they happen doesn't mean we're not doing enough because it's virtually impossible to ensure against every possible scenario where something can go horribly wrong.

I think the bad idea about scale comes into play when we elevate the issues you're talking above the much larger issues of violence and murder that affect these communities, much more than bad or even tired cops.

 

[Michchamp]

Looks like Nike's stock is back to where it was a week ago.

guess everyone who sold bought their shares back.

 

[tomdalton22]

Looks like Nike's stock is back to where it was a week ago.

guess everyone who sold bought their shares back.

All of these idiots that burnt their Nike shoes in protest probably went back out and bought new ones.

 

[Polish-Hammer]

All of these idiots that burnt their Nike shoes in protest probably went back out and bought new ones.

That would be funny, however, that is not how the stock market works.

 

[tinselwolverine]

That would be funny, however, that is not how the stock market works.

How does the stock market work then?

?Cuz, ya know, everybody?s kinda wundrin.?

 

[Spartanmack]

How does the stock market work then?

?Cuz, ya know, everybody?s kinda wundrin.?

that's the trick - the stock market DOESN'T work. There's no cause and effect, catalyst and reaction, no rhyme or reason - it's 1,000% random but only benefits the wealthiest 1% at the expense of the rest of America and the world.

 

[tinselwolverine]

that's the trick - the stock market DOESN'T work. There's no cause and effect, catalyst and reaction, no rhyme or reason - it's 1,000% random but only benefits the wealthiest 1% at the expense of the rest of America and the world.

It's random yet it continually benefits the wealthiest 1% with clock like precision?

That seems a little bit counter-intuitive.

 

[Michchamp]

It's random yet it continually benefits the wealthiest 1% with clock like precision?

That seems a little bit counter-intuitive.

Just like LIBTARDS, hurr.

 

[Gulo Blue]

It's random yet it continually benefits the wealthiest 1% with clock like precision?

That seems a little bit counter-intuitive.

Like a casino.

 

[Spartanmack]

It's random yet it continually benefits the wealthiest 1% with clock like precision?

That seems a little bit counter-intuitive.

Exactly the point! it's how the Free Masons designed it - that's pretty much all I know for sure, since I'm not a Free Mason - yet.

 

[TheVictors]

Nike's target demo isn't angry old white guys, it's 18-34yr olds - they made a business decision and its working.

 

[Thumb]

Nike's target demo isn't angry old white guys, it's 18-34yr olds - they made a business decision and its working.

Right. The only way Nike would be hurt by the demographic that is so upset is if they also made gun cases, ammo pouches, PBR six pack coolers and fleshlights, and in that case they might see a dip in sales.

 

[Spartanmack]

yeah, nike's stock is basically flat from where it was before the scandal - the campaign is paying off!

 

[Gulo Blue]

yeah, nike's stock is basically flat from where it was before the scandal - the campaign is paying off!

That's better than all the facebook posts on my feed that said it was tanking.

 

[sggatecl]

That's better than all the facebook posts on my feed that said it was tanking.

Nike stock was only relevant when people were running around 'angry' with their hair on fire. Now that we see it was just a dip/kneejerk reaction, those same people don't want to talk about it or dismiss it entirely. Reminds me of liberals when Trump was elected.

 

[Spartanmack]

That's better than all the facebook posts on my feed that said it was tanking.

your facebook feed probably isn't the best place to go for market news.

 

[tinselwolverine]

your facebook feed probably isn't the best place to go for market news.

Not necessarily.

There are a few Wall Street prognosticationical entities that make their stock recommendations based on how Facebook house cats respond to corporate logos.

Random Walk theorists have come to consider this superior to choosing stocks by having a monkey throw darts at at a newspaper clipping of the stock report.

Either way, the top 1% of wealth owners ultimately win and everybody else loses.

 

[Spartanmack]

Not necessarily.

There are a few Wall Street prognosticationical entities that make their stock recommendations based on how Facebook house cats respond to corporate logos.

Random Walk theorists have come to consider this superior to choosing stocks by having a monkey throw darts at at a newspaper clipping of the stock report.

Either way, the top 1% of wealth owners ultimately win and everybody else loses.

can't say for sure but it sounds like Gulo's FB feed content isn't random enough to be the product of house cats - more likely his feed is somehow being polluted by sheep or lemmings.