Komodo Rodeo

Huh, interesting. Thanks for the info, I was under the misconception that it was directly tied to the rusty metal itself.

Pathetic, the fucking cowards.

Feels relevant to say that this practice was covered on Star Trek: Deep Space 9 in S2E15’s Paradise. Heat stroke is no joke, it doesn’t just feel awful, it can kill. Those sadistic freaks are both too incompetent and uncaring to at least organize the work details so that people aren’t killed by the Sun while labouring.

“It is … at the lower end of seriousness of crimes amounting to wrongful death,” Harrison said.

Explain to me how electrocuting a frail 95 y/o demented woman to death ranks ‘on the lower end’ of crimes involving fatalities. Seriously, explain it to me like I’m 3, because I can’t believe that this statement was issued by a judge.

A literal nightmare scenario.

“You’re 100% going to die, but we need to know when you caught it in case it was incidentally passed to someone else.”

shrugs

Agreed, same deal as with tetanus. The last time that I got cut by rusty metal and went to the hospital, the intake nurses seemed annoyed with me for showing up with such a minor injury (two stitches needed only). When the MD checked my records, they told me that it was a good thing I’d come in for the stitches and tetanus shot, because my previous one’s span of effect would have ended at a few months earlier. You can’t take this shit for granted, if you blow it off or delay treatment it could kill you. No lockjaw for me, thank you very much.

Jesus H. Christ, that’s daunting…

It’s relatively new, in terms of weapons. They’ve apparently been adopted on some domestic U.S. military bases as a means to repel attacks, but I haven’t seen any news reports of people rushing the gates. It’s extremely effective for “area denial”, and its potential use against demonstrators (peaceful, not rioting) will inevitably cause fatalities - I guarantee that it won’t be long before it’s used in a situation that doesn’t merit the use of force. Someone will die, hearings will be held, nothing will happen, and it will continue to be used to abuse and assault participants of marches, sit-ins, etc. during scenarios where there was no hazard to Police.

see: truncheons, fire hoses, tear gas, rubber bullets…

But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system unconstitutional could resonate elsewhere in the U.S.

narrator voice “It did not, in fact, resonate. Prisoners continued to bake alive in their concrete ovens of cells during days where temperatures reached or exceeded 100° F. Guards, Police, and state legislators were observed to comment that ‘they deserved it’ for committing low-level crimes, while laughing.”

What the Hell was the name of the movie with Tom Cruise where the protagonist’s friend was dating a fucking hologram?

We’re a hair’s-breadth from that bullshit, and TBH I think that if falling in love with a computer program becomes the new defacto normal, I’m going to completely alienate myself by making fun of those wretched chodes non-stop.

Just when I didn’t think that it was possible to like this guy more.

The meat of the true issue right here. Journalism and investigative journalism aren’t just dead, their corpses has been feeding a palm tree like a pod of beached whales for decades. It’s a bizarre state of affairs to read news coverage and come out the other side less informed, without reading literal disinformation. It somehow seems so much worse that they’re not just off-target, but that they don’t even understand why or how they’re fucking it up.

I’m in no rush, although routing options to go around a country so large are a bit of a pain in the ass to arrange. At least there’s the Caribbean for North-South travel, and Canada/Mexico for Pacific-Atlantic transfers…

Just a bad habit for data entry that stuck from use of the old IBM keyboards. Somehow it felt better to shift my attention to the right-hand side instead of the standard layout and extending my hand to the keyboard’s top just below the F-keys. Everything I needed was right there on the right 1/4 of the keyboard…

Now we’re talking.

Why the inquisitive tone? I understand that the AP is aiming to be non-partisan, but FFS it was clearly an LRAD. Video and victim accounts line up with previous available material about the weapons. Add to that the photographs of LRADs deployed to the area at the time of the incident - this isn’t some Sherlock Holmes mystery, if there’s another entirely different weapon which can spur widespread, instant crowd panic without making a sound then I’m all ears, because I’ve never heard of it. Re-linking footage of the attack from URL used in other comment. Watch the crowd of hundreds reacting to nothing observable at the 0:07 mark

“When presented with photos of the device mounted on an off-road vehicle and deployed at the rally of hundreds of thousands of protesters, officials admitted possessing a sonic weapon, but insisted it was not used against the protesters.”

Liars.

Exact right, as it’s untrasonic, the sound is transmitted directly through the target’s body. Noise canceling earphones/plugs will have no protective effect whatsoever.

I watched the original video when it dropped but couldn’t discern any sound from the weapon itself. Watch the clip here - the crowd reacts at the 0:07 mark without any discernible loud sound, although it was described by victims as “being like a train whistle” (i.e. excruciatingly loud and panic-inducing).

No, the sound is transmitted through the body rather than just via the auditory system in such a way that simply plugging or covering your ears will provide no protection from the effect. As analogy, imagine the effect of a train whistle or jet engine on someone who’s within 1-25 ft., but 100% deaf. It wouldn’t need to be heard by their ears per se as it would be so powerful as to be transmitted into the target’s body, which would reacts accordingly to a 100+ decibel sound.

There is, you just can’t hear the weapon in the footage of the attack on the vigil.

In the same way that human ears can’t hear much of the noise happening around them, we wouldn’t be able to hear recordings of the weapon in use because it’s ultrasonic. Picture a literal dog whistle and our inability to hear it despite it fully capturing a canine’s attention, except as a restricted military-grade weapon for injuring and dispersing crowds.