CMV: While tragic, the woman’s death in Minnesota was primarily the result of her own voluntary actions, not because the
Prefacing that is not an argument about immigration law, ICE legitimacy, or police training so please stay on topic about what opinion to be changed .
She knowingly entered an active federal law-enforcement operation involving armed agents operating under high stress. She verbally confronted them, panicked when approached and attempted to flee leading to physical contact . In such environments, agents make split second decisions based on perceived threat, not perfect judgment. In this case the guy panicked and reacted .
Once you insert yourself into that situation, the risk of lethal force becomes non-hypothetical. That does not mean she “ deserved”to die. It means the outcome was a non neglectable possibility , consequence of voluntary risk-taking. Framing an active enforcement operation as an opportunity for performative “Resistance” against perceived (real or not) injustice ignores the fact that these encounters are real and not a game. They are real-world situations involving weapons, elevated stress, and again, split-second decision-making. Disagreement with policy does not change the mechanics of how risk escalates in such environment.
If the goal is policy change, the app
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CMV: Wikipedia and its related projects (Wikimedia) are incapable of fixing their governance problems
First thing first: I am not gonna discuss external politics here. My disagreement with the Wikimedia foundation is unrelated to any political bias on English Wikipedia. If I call anything conservative this refers to the governing structure not being willing to change. Please do not bring up such criticisms of it as they distract from the governance problems in question. We can talk about Wikipedia political bias in a different thread or in dms.
I believe the rigid governance structure of Wikipedia is incapable of changing. It relies on a highly adverserial structure that is pretty much like a state with zero due process and zero lawyers. The difficulty of approving any changes makes it unworkable, as arguably one of the largest and most influential knowledge institutions this is unsustainable and severely harms it.
The only part I think is generally good is Wikimedia commons.
Reforms I want
I believe Wikipedia needs to change its culture to significantly reward the highly technical contributors much more than it does. It should generally reward technical ability and either close off its api to unapproved people or make it less punished to use it
Wikipedia needs to accept more artic
The American Health Care system is such a fucking joke
The American healthcare system is a joke. From the insurance companies to the providers to the companies making medicines and treatments to help people, they have all failed their patients and the American people.
I have seen my best friend lose his teenage sister because insurance companies wouldn’t cover the care needed to treat her rare bone cancer. I saw my best friend’s family start GoFundMe’s to raise money to try and take her to experimental treatments in other countries.
I watched my dad struggle with cancer for 5 years before it took his life in 2020. Surgery after surgery. Insurance companies rejecting treatments recommended by the Doctors forcing him into experimental treatments that gave him diabetes before he died.
I honestly have never seen more brave people than my father going to surgery after surgery, treatment after treatment to fight and stay alive. Or my friend’s sister fighting for her life and willing to do anything to stay alive. The same goes for my mother and my friend’s family being brave and supporting them as best as they can.
My MIL has a disease there is no cure for and it feels like it’s more just that a cure doesn’t want to be invented and given just
"I will show you true power" my life in NOT a nutshell.
Honestly i don't know why i talk about this here. But saw some great themes and....why not?
Its a 20+ years story so ITS GONNA BE LONG.
I am 26 year and those 22 years of my life i wanna talk about.
I started this writing around 3.5 hours ago xd ALSO THERE ARE INSTANCES where i used the word "violated" but i was stupid so take those as not rape but physical damage causing
My father is not a rapist but was a fuck up.
Its about how my life went "kratos vs zeus" with my father and me. The only difference that i did not killed him.
Where to begin? Don't know so i just blast everything here, trying to make it correct in timelapses to be followable.
My father was a cruel man. Don't think i need to explain further if i mention Alcoholism? So he beat every family member since i know myself. (even before me was born and that was atleast 30years ago)
One of my core memory where he beat the shit out of my mother on the ground while my 2 big brother and older sister were in the other room, terrified i guess?
Don't know why i was looking at that scene, my mother said i cried like hell, still i didn't looked away.
Somehow like this, imagine my little ME years. I was afraid my father, ofc i didn'
The One Thing You’re Misreading About How People Care
One person goes quiet for a week and feels nothing has changed. The other notices the silence immediately and wonders if something is wrong. Both are confused. Both feel misunderstood.
What often leads one style to be dismissed as wrong or unnecessary is how care is interpreted.
The issue isn’t who cares more or less, but what is recognized as care, and which actions are treated as proof of it.
People often assume commitment and closeness are measured and understood the same way by everyone involved. They aren’t. Some people rely on explicit signals to confirm alignment, while others treat commitment as an internal decision that doesn’t fluctuate with interaction or circumstance.
So what makes people differ in style in the first place? The pattern is actually simple once you see what it’s anchored to.
Some people have what could be called **persistent presence rather than continuous presence**. Their system is internal by default. They decide independently, and that decision rarely changes because of moments, feedback, or cues. The fact that they stay oriented toward someone is, to them, already the sign that the person matters. Unless they revise that decision, circumstances don’t
Super users - what helped you get started?
I am really hoping to start engaging on here and am having trouble getting started. Any advice from people who used to be in the same boat? I feel like I've been met with some hostility but am just new to this and didn't realize how specific the criteria for posting and engaging was
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