Quote from: Meta Cognition on July 08, 2016, 11:42:55 AM

The police killed the last guy by attaching a bomb to a robot, sending it to his location and blowing him up.

Did the robot make it out OK?

RIP robro

He literally just wants it for the mythic emblem in Destiny.

Wtf

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141854

Abstract

A geographically-resolved, multi-level Bayesian model is used to analyze the data presented in the U.S. Police-Shooting Database (USPSD) in order to investigate the extent of racial bias in the shooting of American civilians by police officers in recent years. In contrast to previous work that relied on the FBI’s Supplemental Homicide Reports that were constructed from self-reported cases of police-involved homicide, this data set is less likely to be biased by police reporting practices. County-specific relative risk outcomes of being shot by police are estimated as a function of the interaction of: 1) whether suspects/civilians were armed or unarmed, and 2) the race/ethnicity of the suspects/civilians. The results provide evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average. Furthermore, the results of multi-level modeling show that there exists significant heterogeneity across counties in the extent of racial bias in police shootings, with some counties showing relative risk ratios of 20 to 1 or more. Finally, analysis of police shooting data as a function of county-level predictors suggests that racial bias in police shootings is most likely to emerge in police departments in larger metropolitan counties with low median incomes and a sizable portion of black residents, especially when there is high financial inequality in that county. There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explainable as a response to local-level crime rates.

The full report is in the link. The most damning conclusion I've read so far is that it undermines the argument that black people are shot (armed or unarmed) at a higher rate than other ethnicities because they commit crime at a higher rate.

I think you've embarrassed yourself in your other thread enough already.

Police say a row broke out at Fermo, a town on Italy's east coast

THEY HAD A MIGHTY ROW

Any examples of this?

tbh I think there's a much stronger argument for prevalently black schools being underfunded and closed disproportionately as a cause for decreased performance.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/public-school-funding-and-the-role-of-race/408085/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2998809?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (Haven't read; thought the summary was interesting)

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem

And it's important to note that this isn't necessarily outright racism; many on both sides of the issue will point out that there's a strong correlation between discrimination against black students, and discrimination against poor people, meaning it's common for the system to screw poor people, and black people are significantly more likely to be poor than white people.

What the hell does "TILL" mean?

It's an abbreviated form of the word "until".

Maybe you've felt that way, or just feel exhausted or annoyed by the constant barrage of articles, videos, tweets, complaints, etc. on social media. I'm reposting a statement from a very politically active, liberal, Christian friend of mine because it's a sentiment that I've never seen on here, and our beliefs, biases, and viewpoints deserve to be challenged:

"So easy for white folks like ourselves to "put racism aside" because we can, we aren't faced with it every day of our lives.
TILL our black brothers and sisters are not killed in the streets by police at a rate vastly outsized for their portion of the population.
TILL our brothers and sisters are not kept out of homes by redlining.
TILL our brothers and sisters are not called "welfare cheats."
TILL our brothers and sisters are not arrested and thrown in prisons at rates larger than any other population.
TILL our brothers and sisters are not kept from jobs once they are out of prison.
TILL our brothers and sisters are not kept in schools that are more segregated than during Jim Crow, that perform worse than the "white" schools across our country.
TILL our brothers and sisters are not punished at different rates for drug offenses, even in "legalized" states.
TILL justice is served for our brothers and sisters.
TILL we stop being numb to others' pain and recognize that "hard work" isn't worth jack shit.
‪#‎Blacklivesmatter‬ and it is up to us to trust the experiences of those around us and shout it and affirm it from the highest mountaintop. Because THAT is what Christ would do. CHRIST did not say "everyone," HE called on SPECIFIC groups of people that were marginalized, if that is our standard for what is truth. He affirmed their existence and power and centrality to the Kingdom. And we must do the same."

I always suspected that stingray was a spook.

Mummy and Mummy Returns are some of my favorite nostalgic films. They really tried to get Brenden Fraser to be the next Harrison Ford or Tom Cruise and it just didn't pan out.

Bush's administration didn't use it to discuss classified information, though the dangerous precedent is worth criticism, and no administration should be allowed to just delete swaths of emails. All of that correspondence is capable of being preserved for public purview.

We're learning about how our solar system was formed, refining models of how the planet is composed, and improving space exploration techniques.

I'm sure I have, but I can't think of specifics.

https://club.ubi.com/#!/en-US/ubi30

Yeah, it's through UPlay, but free is free.

It's really hit and miss, and the story is a mess so don't play it for that.

2, Brotherhood, 4, and Rogue are worth playing. Syndicate is supposed to be good too, but I haven't tried it. They're all very cheap on the Steam store for the next 2 hours.