No, these have a legitimate use. They can be used in combination with other targets for shoot/no-shoot drills, where some of the targets on the range are legitimate targets you need to hit and others are no-shoot targets you're penalized for hitting. (They need to otherwise look just like the legitimate targets, which is why it's still done in the same style, with hit zones and everything. Because you're training to recognize the difference between a phone and a weapon (under stress and quickly), and if there were other ways to distinguish the target, you might be mis-training. For example, if it had big red 'no shoot' lettering on it, you could easily end up training to look for and recognize that text, rather than looking for and recognizing what the person is holding.)

For example, you could be doing a room-clearing exercise with several targets in the room. One like this, other ones pointing a gun at you. And (as quickly as possible) you need to identify the ones that are a threat, shoot them, and not shoot this one.

Used properly, targets like this could help train the piggies to not shoot unarmed civilians.

Now are these targets being used properly as no-shoot targets? Or are the piggies having fun with their fantasies of shooting people who try to hold them accountable? That's ... a question.

Well, if we've got to come up with a movement for each and every of the cops' crimes, we're going to be here all day, just making names for new movements.

We've already got that. It's called ACAB.

but there is no epidemic of white people being killed

Eh...

Sure, not white people in particular. But the cops do kill an awful lot of people. And plenty of those people are white. POC have a worse 'epidemic', to be sure, but that doesn't mean 'there is no epidemic of white people being killed'.

Yes. It's purely reactionary against BLM.

What do "all lives matter" people stand for? What do they protest for? What are their demands?

They have nothing. It's just a big "Nuh-uh! What about me?" to BLM.

I like how the car's lights are still on and working.

Just appreciating some good engineering, that's all.

Just it’s novel to me that an arguably arbitrary line right there is another country.

And that which side of that line you happen to be born on may shape your entire future.

The is nothing in US law that prevents congress from expanding the size of the House to ~330,000,000

I don't have trash pickup, though, lol!

Too expensive in my area. (Seriously, $95/mo for the smallest can, and recycling costs extra!? Fuck off with that shit.)

Some of my trash gets burned in the wood stove -- free heat. Some can be fed to the chickens. The rest gets tossed in an old trailer that I drive to the dump myself 2 or 3 times a year. (We don't generate very much trash in our household in the first place.) For me, nothing much would change. I guess, presumably, if the trash pickup workers were on strike, the dump workers might also be. If the strike went on long enough that my trailer was getting overfilled, I guess I'd have to find somewhere else to dump it.

donald jeremy trump

His real middle name is John.

You know, as in a person who pays a pimp for a prostitute.

the question of whether evolutionary pressure on the timescale of human generations can keep up with our technological advancement

As long as people exist who could/would refuse it, and as long as there are enough of them to form a viable breeding population, evolution will bring the species through it.

Waiting for random beneficial mutations usually takes a long, long time. But if the beneficial mutations are already in a population, the population can adapt extremely quickly. If all the individuals without that mutation died off quickly (or at least didn't produce offspring) then that mutation would be in basically 100% of the population within one generation. A rather smaller generation than the previous ones, sure, but they would have less competition and more room to grow. (Though, thanks to recessive genetics, you're likely to still see individuals popping up without that beneficial mutation occasionally for a long time to come. But those throwbacks will become more and more rare as time goes on.)

That's a vast oversimplification, though. Because it's very unlikely that the ability to resist the temptation of 'wireheading' comes down to the presence or absence of a single particular gene.

Since mouse studies have already been done, it would be interesting to do it with a large, long-running experiment on an entire breeding population of mice, to see if there are any mice that are capable of surviving and reproducing under those conditions (and if so, do they show any evidence of evolving to become more resistant?)

AI "assistants" stealing slightly more data than usual... Who would have thought?