Well if people protest here, then the right will just label it as riots again like did they in 2020. So basically we have to comply or shut up with the rules or risk being demonized by the right wingers and their media.

Overpopulation is ecofascist propaganda.

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I wish US citizens were this stern on things, we may have worker rights if we did.

Dogs may not have been trained for marijuana. If you're looking for coke or heroin mules you don't want your dog to alert every time a college student walks by. Dog may not have been trained for drugs at all. At airports I'm pretty sure a lot of the dogs are for explosives, not drugs.

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Think of the kidnapped then. Lol.

If you have footage and pictures of the perp run them in an AI database to help narrow down suspects to then save lives.

Not particularly controversial.

Step 1: Live in a country where the capitol is within a couple hours travel for the entire population.

Step 2:...

But seriously, I don't think Europeans understand how much bigger the US is than their countries. I went to college in the Bay Area of California, and there were a couple foreign students from England. One day they came by and asked us if we wanted to go to Disneyland with them. They were crushed when we told them that Disneyland was a 9 hour drive away; they had assumed that since is was the same state, it couldn't be more than a couple hours.

That's the issue, and why European protests shouldn't be a model for American activism. America is far far far too spread out for the French model of protests. For example, I'm in the Midwest and priced out a trip to DC for a big planned protest. Would have cost me over $2k between flights, pet sitting, and accommodations. And that's not even counting the issue of lost wages and potentially lost jobs.

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The gorilla problem is not a simple one to solve.

You don't have to once your photos are publicly accessible. If the photos are in your home and not publicly available on the web then the 4th amendment would be applicable.

Got the numbers on that?

> "Think of the children" (also "What about the children?") is a cliché that evolved into a rhetorical tactic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

Estonia and Latvia: Are we a joke to you?

I once accidentally smuggled weed into Paris. Had a roach in my wallet.

So hinder an investigation and have a child not be saved from murder?

It seems like there's a big risk to them going into a situation like that. I would like to hear exactly how the de-escalation is supposed to work so that the worker is kept safe. I never hear any details about how it would theoretically go down.

Yeah, the thought it triggered with me is “Where will the population peak? 10 billion? 11? More?”

I used to have a senior partner at my law firm. Cops show up with a drug dog at the door of his condo. It alerts. They bust in the door and seize pot plants. He hires a fancy law firm. They fly in the dog's trainer from california, and impeach the dog. Evidence suppressed, case dismissed.

Problem is that people still have to make ends meet somehow. Some can't just miss work like that which is why some of your coworkers will still show up to work. Just not showing up to work sounds fine until you realize that the company you work for has a lot more money than you and can replace you, even lawyers, tech workers, etc. It just becomes a war of who runs out of money first. Not sure if this is all unions, but the ones I've been in give the worker a stipend for striking. This is why people will not just strike like that without something to fall back on. This is what business owners and corporations created. They want everyone to work paycheck to paycheck without the backing of a union so they can't afford to miss work.

Seems like if they tried to frame someone into a life sentence that should be on the table for them too, right?

Hey now, my fiancée is from Paterson!

...okay yea, we don't visit very often.

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