This year is dumb

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
05/30/2020 at 23:27 • Filed to: None

I shouldn’t have more than one of these a year and were not even halfway through.

DISCUSSION (31)

smobgirl > HammerheadFistpunch
05/30/2020 at 23:36

We’re also on curfew here. I can hear sirens and helicopters and shit exploding so it doesn’t seem like it’s effective.

Discerning > HammerheadFistpunch
05/30/2020 at 23:37

We have a curfew here too. They went with 9pm for whatever reason

HammerheadFistpunch > smobgirl
05/30/2020 at 23:37

I’m far from the action so I don't hear it.

smobgirl > HammerheadFistpunch
05/30/2020 at 23:46

I live a few miles from the big riots but there’s no way to know if what I’m hearing is relevant or a coincidence. They scrambled our police radios sometime last year.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > HammerheadFistpunch
05/30/2020 at 23:52

I’m sad this is happening but the coals have been sto ked and now we have fire.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > HammerheadFistpunch
05/30/2020 at 23:54

I have a hard time seeing SLC going out of control....

(googles SLC)

oh dear

Kinja'd!!!

and Police shove old guy

Chariotoflove > HammerheadFistpunch
05/30/2020 at 23:55

Welcome home.

Just Jeepin' > HammerheadFistpunch
05/30/2020 at 23:55

Pestilence. Famine. War. Death.

The horsemen are busy this year.

Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.”

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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > smobgirl
05/31/2020 at 00:03

Wow. They went to encryption on the police radios?

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
05/31/2020 at 00:05

You can tell, because there’s a mad stampede to buy all the Green Jell-O at the Smith’s Food King...

That’s an SLC thing.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > HammerheadFistpunch
05/31/2020 at 00:08

Utah riot

Kinja'd!!!

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > HammerheadFistpunch
05/31/2020 at 00:08

On the plus side, my GF’s hunkered down in London with family over there. We were musing over the “tough times” of riding out COVID... while binge’ing Netflix shows , camping out in the backyard while eating whatever we ordered in from DoorDash, as we check in on juicy tidbits over the Interwebs.

It’s not exactly the same as enduring the Black Plagues, or even Spanish Flu, in medieval London, is it?

fintail > HammerheadFistpunch
05/31/2020 at 00:10

Smelling like 1968 even more. Not a good year for many things.

Even Seattle is feeling it, 5p-5a curfew and a few cars burned, I think.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HammerheadFistpunch
05/31/2020 at 00:16

What a year the past 10 weeks have been, right?

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/31/2020 at 00:16

hmm TIL

“That’s been a big favorite for a very, very long time,” says Phillips of Salt Lake City’s Deseret News, whose 1998 Jell-O cooking contest acknowledged lime’s popularity with a separate “green” category.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-13-fo-jello13-story.html

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/31/2020 at 00:21

I saw that one!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/31/2020 at 00:23

Decades...

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
05/31/2020 at 00:23

Yeah, it’s one of those Wasatch Front quirks... but they love their green Jell-o.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/31/2020 at 00:30

Well, the last thing we want right now is accountability.

Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch
05/31/2020 at 00:34

Enough BS the last 6mo to last an entire decade and I know we’re still far from finished with it too.

Bid you a s afe night to you oppos and citizens s outh of the 49th.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn
05/31/2020 at 00:34

I suppose it’s also part of the larger trend of “trickle down” from the military too . We fielded a lot of new hardware in the campaigns of the last 20 years— and a lot of police forces seem to think they want some of it.

Those are now MIL-spec jammers most of the SWAT teams are using...

IIRC, LAPD even got some M-RAPs and Buffalos ouf of the surplus pile. Unclear what their mission requirement is.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/31/2020 at 00:50

Last summer, the local sheriff’s office carried out an early morning drug bust at a house down the street from me. They brought the SWAT team, and their APC, and I stood in my front window and took some pictures. Later that morning, after everything was over, I was editing the photos and my middle-schooler looked over my shoulder and asked what happened. I said, “They did a drug bust down the street this morning.” My son looked at the picture and said, “Who did, the Army?”

Out of the mouths of babes.....

If we can’t tell the difference between the civilian police and the military, there is a serious problem.

Kinja'd!!!

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > HammerheadFistpunch
05/31/2020 at 00:54

Australia hasn’t had a great 2020 so far either but America now seems to have made ours look like a walk in the park...

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/31/2020 at 01:16

Most large, metro public safety agencies used trunked digital radio networks these days, and encryption isn’t hard to add to those.

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/31/2020 at 01:25

A lot of departments maintain encrypted channels, but don’t use them during normal use. Basically reserve them for stuff like this.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > HammerheadFistpunch
05/31/2020 at 03:07

over here its still pretty easy going....just a few idiots protesting 5g

and as soon as more than 30 of them gather anywhere the police starts arresting people...

i might live in a police state

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
05/31/2020 at 04:33

come to think of it... covid made the cops lives real easy like... groups of up to 30 people are allowed provided distance is maintained anything over that and the cops have reason to intervene...

kinda killed the right to protest whilst leaving it intact on paper

smobgirl > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/31/2020 at 08:03

They claim it’s to protect the victims of crimes. Press were pretty unhappy. Now if an incident doesn’t make the police twitter feed it’s a PITA to get info on it.

Considering the cops were shooting pepper balls at representatives of our paper during the riots, I don’t think their reasoning stands.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/31/2020 at 09:17

No, that’s the past three years.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn
05/31/2020 at 11:26

Yeah, this. It’s not a good thing. Ideally this is the perfect cop...

Kinja'd!!!

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/31/2020 at 11:28

its partially a way to bail out dod contractors. My dad is life long friends with now retired cop who drove their 70/80s armored car. 2-4 times a year they dragged it out of storage. The city had a number of low level drug arrests @10 years ago and practically got a sales brochure “you now qualify”. For the hell of it they asked, yeah you get it for nothing but the service costs are crazy.

the mrap is pita for egress,