It starts with this innocuous video of Parrots dancing around a water bowl www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmGydd815yQ (GC from about a month ago)
Next you find the music at www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Tm8zV8FlA which is mostly full of comments from the parrot people.
Still deeper and you find Master and Margarita www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUJSFcd15Qc
You mention this to a Russian friend who happens to know the entire book by heart. You watch the 2005 series, but always come back to the music by the Ukrainian composer Igor Kornelyuk www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Tm8zV8FlA - if only you could find a choral video - and that's when you discover the most earnest of covers by a delightful school teacher somewhere in the middle of Kazakhstan who is clearly passionate about her productions. (Main Link).
My school productions were never like this - nor was my music teacher for that matter.
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version in English
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It loses something without the Russian dialogue though - it's a beautiful language and I only wish I spoke it.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfO4flTjWlg
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The YouTube video was uploaded by the conductor.
The YouTube profile has a few other videos of her singing which are lovely.
There is also her Instagram handle listed.
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"'lewd acts' in the graveyard in front of houses with young children" Will somebody think of the young children of houses??
"There are also reports that women, who are thought to be prostitutes, have been sunbathing naked in the churchyard." The HOOOOers!
"I know things about drug taking that I shouldn't have to know about." I RESENT KNOWLEDGE!
"Mum they're fighting again." Awww.
"There were four blokes and one woman. She just squatted down and had a wee in the middle of the road while we were watching." Don't watch her then..?
"They know me now and shout abuse at me." No shit.
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in the churchyard, with the Friends of the Churchyard...
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software as a self defence against threats in the cloud
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from somebody with a significantly more experience on the subject than any of us.
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...to not be on the side of the brown folk?
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who are most definitely not racist yet somehow still always seem to prefer any argument that supports the actions of the police when they disproportionately shoot unarmed black people in the back.
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There wouldn't be a disproportionate number of them getting shot.
Now, clearly the reason there is a disproportionate number of black violent offenders is because the institutional racism prevalent in the United States has left most black families with a continuing legacy significant social disadvantage. That's all very sad, boo hoo. But that's what happens. You get born into poverty and you're more likely to pursue life choices that land you on the wrong side of the law.
But the *vast* majority of individuals being shot by members of law enforcement are being shot because they're acting like fucking morons. It just so happens that the majority of those morons just happen to be black, because black people are more likely to find themselves in a situation where a gun gets drawn. It's just fucking statistics.
Clearly there is a massive issue with a lack of appropriate training of Police Officers in the United States. You're throwing kids who have just left school out onto the streets with guns, and I to neighbourhoods where the general consensus is 'Fuck the Police'. Of course they're going to get twitchy and there have been plenty of examples of black people being shot or otherwise assaulted by Police Officers because the Officer in question is a racist cunt. But almost every shooting that takes place occurs because the person getting shot has acted like a fucking fuckwit. Just like this guy.
Don't resist arrest. Don't fight with the guys trying to arrest you. Definitely don't pull a knife out. Don't start walking towards your vehicle when you're clearly being told to stop moving. Don't make sudden movements once your reach said vehicle.
This guy had plenty of opportunities to comply. Plenty more than the most circulated video shows. His getting shot is no doubt a product of his underprivileged upbringing and a social culture which basically reviles law enforcement in all its forms. But the officer didn't shoot him because of his unfortunate social circumstances. The officer shot him because he was deemed to be an imminent threat.
He wasn't shot saving an old lady from a tree for fucks sake.
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Cunt
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This is because police are more likely to pull a gun on black men than white men in similar situations. I have provided citations to support this instead of a wall of opinion. I deliberately chose the first citation to be from Pnas, because that is funny.
For Black men, being tall increases threat stereotyping and police stops
www.pnas.org/content/115/11/2711
People See Black Men as Larger, More Threatening Than Same-Sized White Men
www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/03/black-men-threatening
ABSTRACT
This paper examines the disproportionate killings of Blacks in the United States of America by the police. I argue that the legal standards in the United States regulate the use of force by police officers, are tainted with bias and do not comply with international law. I further argue that that the grand jury process and prosecutors involved in prosecuting police officers who kill blacks are tainted with implicit bias. This results in impunity for these killings. I conclude with several recommendations on how to combat police brutality against blacks.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2018.1495196?scroll=top&needAccess=true&
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I seriously wonder what you get out of this. I wish you’d shut up and go away, to be perfectly honest. I think you’re vile.
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not in a white supremacist kind of way, but in that run of the mill All lives matter, oblivious white privilege kind of way (not that I personally know him). But the amount of over the top outrage and name calling over posting his video over some cop giving his opinion shows intolerance of another kind. Mr Penis demostrated he was far better informed on this incident than others here, he had accurate sources, he was right about police protocols for multiple shots no matter how distasteful of unnecessary we might consider it. I was interested from my work with Uk police around the use of force, and he's been the only one to offer a cogent argument instead of simplistic abuse.
It true that there is disproportionate police stop and search and shootings towards african americans in the US, that's why so many of them are pissed off. Its a common experience for them. But it does not logically follow that every incident of lethal force against a black suspect is unjustified or unwarranted. I can't believe I'm defending Mr Penis, but there you go.
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The enormous amount of energy this person has expended, attempting to show that this shooting was somehow completely justified and understandable, cannot be anything other than an indication that they are an apologist for the racist oppression of Black Americans. I doubt he even lives in America. And I assure you, as a 20-year immigrant, if you haven’t lived here for a while you honestly have no idea just how astonishingly racist America is.
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I think one of the reason the MeToo movement ran out of steam, and you don't see #metoo hashtags anymore, was that was a growing sense that it had become unfair, when someone like azis ansari who made a girl uncomfortable on a date was treated with equal ferocity as someone accused of coercive rapes and had his career halted. If, in peoples rush to judgement, it turns out this guy did say to the cops "fuck you, I'm getting my gun" as was alleged, this over the top condemnation is only going to give ammunition to reactionary forces against it and move reasonable people who might have become allies to the movement to shun it. It still might not make any difference, but that's what I'd advise, and it's generally my advice about other things, especially with millenials. Dont be so quick to judgement and to condemn. Use moral relativity rather than absolutes if you are going to judge. I know it takes more thinking, but do it anyway. Instead of "im going to put this person in racist category" think "what were the specific failings here, what was their intent, how much harm did they do, was it a mistake I would never have made or am I being a fucking hypocrite because it feels good and superior to condemn people?"
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The US police shoot dead 13 unarmed black men in 2019. This is a ridiculously low number for a population of 330 million. They made around 10 million arrests in 2019.
Also the recent cases aren't innocent black men walking down the street getting harrassed by the police for the color their skin. They are mostly shitheads with a rapsheet, often under the influence, making trouble and getting the cops called onto them and then things get out of hand.
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I'm glad that's sorted out.
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What law discriminates based on race in your opinion?
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and of course systemic racism means explicit laws codified to do harm to black people.
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Oh nevermind, I just thought you might want to elaborate on that conspiracy theory of yours a little bit more.
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yet you seem to be agreeing that the criminal justice system is broken?
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As far as I'm accustomed with the US justice system it seems to be one of the better ones. Better than most alternatives at least. Before you start crying about mass incarceration, here is a splendid idea: Stop breaking the fucking law!
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was just wondering about that ol' innocent until proven guilty thing
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This is also why you comply when the police tries to apprehend you, so can have your day in court.
Certainly don't behave like the guy with the domestic abuse record and sexual assault charges in the current video.
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These are simply particularly egregious examples caught on film of a very common experience for african americans, but an uncommon one for white americans. If you listen to the testimony of protesters, it's a repeated refrain, and something you don't get from 5 second news clips of people marching. They've been unfairly victimised by police multiple times, along with most people they know. Not Floyd. Not this wife beater. Them. And they're hugely and justifiably pissed off and don't want to put up with it anymore, particularly because they feel that they now live in a land where the president sympathises with white supremacists. Floyd was just the straw that broke the camels back.
Perhaps with Niel de Grasse Tyson, a physicist not noted for hyperbole or politics, might you understand what's behind the protest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJqn124pmHY
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After all, it is difficult to prove other sorts of systemic racism on video.
Another example might be elder abuse or abuse of disabled people; when cameras became smaller and cheaper, videos of abuse hit the headlines. That doesn't mean the majority of carers hurt clients.
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But then again, it is not innocent people getting misthreated because they are black. It is asshole criminals ending up dead because they are asshole criminals.
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I'll believe you when people who are wealthy, white, female or politically connected get the same treatment.
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Why would a police officer threat them the same? The chance to lose his life is substantially higher when a young man is resisting arrest than when he is dealing with some Karen.
I highly doubt that wealthy white women commit homicides at the same rate that poor young black, white and yellow men do. Not even close I guess.
Is that "systemic racism" thing just what young people call common sense nowadays? Why should they threat them the same, when different demographics are at completely different crime and threat levels?
Don't you think the guy could just have raised his arms and said "lawyer"? You honestly think he would still ended up being shoot? Should we go burn some car dealership and loot some shops tonight to make it all better?
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School or church shooting and the like?
Yeah, I don't feel safe around white folk in the US.
I never know when they are going to wave their 9mm penis extension in my face.
Probably because I started using words longer than 5 letters,
And they took offence.
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I hope you don't mind me continuing to argue, Im just curious myself of what the thresholds are for justifying the use of lethal force in the US
but I don't think this guy shed any more light on it. Firstly he said that "you don't let people get into a car" again like it's some rule which it isn't, no more than entering a house or doing quite a few other activities. If the knife was the threat, and it's not confirmed it was a knife, then in the unlikely event he was planning to slash his own sons in the car he probably wouldn't walk around to the empty drivers side. So I think the "saving them from knife attack" looks pretty weak and it'd be hard to use that and "he was going for his gun", you'd have to pick one or the other. He also said "he either told police he was getting a gun, or they knew he had prior weapons possession", like these two facts are interchangeable. They're not, the first clearly establishes both possession and intention, the second can only be a suspicion on both his possession and intentions. the possession might be a reasonable suspicion given the prior, but the intention to use a gun could not be anymore than a guess given his behaviour. So whether he said it or not is quite pertinent. He may have just been escaping another tasing. If it turns out he didn't have a knife, he didn't say he was getting his gun, and there was no gun in the car, the cops are going to look on very shaky ground. Still I'm looking at it through the lens of UK policing where terms like reasonable suspicion are crucial and there's quite a lot of case law and legislative guidance to decide these things
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it's ok if you're not. In fact I'd be less likely to mock or challenge your certitudes if it was something you could admit. None of us are perfect
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When they have a list of bullet point questions for a suspect,
It better be a short list, because then they need to reload.
(, Wed 26 Aug 2020, 11:35, Reply)
youtu.be/o-fjZYEhtaM?t=48 (referring to rats, not to human beings)...
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"I have something really important to say about a hot topic in the news, but more important then that is I have this coffee to sell."
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chooses YouTube over podcasting as the medium for their brain-farts.
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Does he pick and choose his reports based on how culpable the officers might be?
Wonder what he thinks of this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdeGwiqT0U
Or this
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkuej4H30_8
Or this
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3yg44oS2WwM
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someone who would suffer a loss of reputation because of the public interpretation of that event should never be regarded as an impartial reporter.
In this situation, I would say a cop would be far less reliable and more biased.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 17:24, Reply)
If it was, Jeremy Corbyn would be a plausible political correspondent.
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is not a plausible anything.
I mean, you could tell me he was going to go for a walk and my first thought would be "I wonder how he is going to fuck that up?"
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The Earth is a globe, people landed on the Moon, 9/11 was caused by big ass aeroplanes hitting a building, drinking bleach is dumb, climate-change is real. Get a grip on reality.

(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 22:23, Reply)
was a reasonable reminder that many here could heed. Though when he started the sentence I did think "christ, he's not going to go into a Trumpian rant is he?"
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 23:20, Reply)
s like crack for some people. they keep looking for another hit. What is racism but a gross inaccurate simplification? "All people with this skin colour are like this", ignoring difference. Its little different to the way you ignore context and details and simply brand people as racist who question your belief that this shooting was an unjustified racist attack. If it turns out he said he was getting his gun as has been alleged, the police have an absolute duty of care to protect others, irregardless of your handwringing "they're white and he's black so it must be racist, and anyone who says it's not is racist"
(, Wed 26 Aug 2020, 0:24, Reply)
So now the first thing people see on b3ta is some US cop defending his buddies' right to shoot unarmed people of colour.
I love this fucking place.
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The Broncho thing below.
To restore the balance of the Universe.
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Unfortunately most people seem incapable of doing so.
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Also, feel your nuts.
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But couldn't give a flying sausage about baseball otherwise.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 15:44, Reply)
Most of the time it seems the Blue Jays couldn't give a flying sausage about baseball either.
(, Wed 26 Aug 2020, 10:53, Reply)
In fact, it looks lying down on a couple of acres
/arniejokes
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Made a bit of a track out of the old Smash robots ad.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 14:05, Reply)
could be a similar message delivered by a manufacturer of a particular white floury substance
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H_NvoXQUjA
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A newish album from Richard Dawson I'm really liking.
It feels very fitting for a dystopian Tuesday.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 13:51, Reply)
Skimming through this album, it's clearly not in the 1% that I like. I'm glad he exists and I like that there are people making a living out of this kind of music. I think he'd benefit from a bossy and fastidious producer.
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The vocal stuff didn't do it for me.
The melodies on this reminded me of the vile stuff but it can be very hit or miss.
He's very much a diamonds in the rough type musician which means trawling through loads of stuff that's not clicking.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 15:57, Reply)
Self made GC due to candles situation
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Happy candles Mudface!
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it's sort of about living in a simulation.
DRONE from YH Content on Vimeo.
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and sorry for the delay in replying, I completely forgot I had posted it here as I was very tired when I did it!!!
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I liked it,
part 2?
maybe something humans have created is alive by accident?
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 15:13, Reply)
Ace Stuff.

(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 10:09, Reply)
These are great though, you really feel the energy and chaos.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 10:31, Reply)
It's a long time since I've been to Ludlow, but I don't remember it being like that...
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He should probably be locked up just in case.
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Messages now available from Mrs Purchase on Celebvm.
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30 quid is 30 quid after all. We all have to eat.
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Not sure why...
NSFW due to a swear word, but aren't we all WFH anyway?
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