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What kind of fat you prefer for cooking and baking?

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/

The DHS bulletins warn that officers could face assaults with fireworks and improvised weapons: paint-filled fire extinguishers, smoke grenades, and projectiles like bottles and rocks (obviously all non-lethal & similar to flash bangs, riot control gas/smoke & "soft" projectiles) - aka both sides have similar weapons.

At the same time, the guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare “from the point of view of an adversary.”

Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even “on foot” are framed as potential “scouts” conducting reconnaissance or searching for “items to be used as weapons.” Livestreaming is listed alongside “doxxing” as a “tactic” for “threatening” police. Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters—or as participants in “surveillance sharing".

Exercising those rights shouldn't be justification for adverse action or suspicion by the government,” Eidelman says. Labeling something as harmless as skateboarding at a protest as a violent threat is “disturbing and dangerous,” she adds, and could “easily lead to excessive force against people who are simply exercising their First & Fifth Amendment rights.”

“The DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,” says Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People. “It should be sobering, if unsurprising, that the Trump regime’s response to mass criticism of its police state tactics is to escalate those tactic.

FILMING PUBLIC SERVANTS IN THE COURSE OF THEIR DUTIES IS IRONCLAD FREEDOM OF THE PRESS (1st)

WEARING MASKS IS AN IRONCLAD RIGHT AGAINST SELF INCRIMINATION & PRIVACY (5th/State law)

THIS SHOULD TERRIFY ALL USA AMERICANS!!

Your favorite vinegar for salads?

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She commanded me to ask this question, so here I am. Tongue kissing, sometimes called french kissing. Except in France, where we don't call this french kissing at all. That would be weird. We don't even really using names for that activity at all, usually. But it has a french name yes.

So, yeah, what's the story here, history of tongue kissing, in your educated or uneducated opinion? I accept factual data too. Good luck 🍀

Simple enough question, right? I'm sure the AI scum will pipe up at such a simple food-related question, but ignore them. Just want to know whether you're with the Mild Cheese party or the Mature Cheese party... or... y'know... something else.

If you are dating to find a long term partner, I think dating requires a healthy balance between self-confidence and humility. It is much easier to maintain standards and boundaries if you don't desperately need validation from others, but when excessive self-confidence is placed on display, it often looks like arrogance. . . and that is quite unattractive. So, how do you see/evaluate yourself as a potential partner for the opposite sex?

"Conservatives have criticized identity-based affirmative action because, they suggest, it imposes an expectation on students of color that they will represent what is presumed to be, say, the Black or Latino view on any given issue, which discourages freethinking. Admitting students for viewpoint diversity would turn the holding of conservative ideas into a quasi-identity, subject to some of the same concerns. Students admitted to help restore ideological balance would likely feel a responsibility to defend certain views, regardless of the force of opposing arguments they might encounter.

For professors hired for their political beliefs, the pressure to maintain those views would be even greater. If you had a tenure-track position, your salary, health insurance and career prospects would all depend on the inflexibility of your ideology. The smart thing to do in that situation would be to interact with other scholars who share your point of view and to read publications that reinforce what you already believe. Or you might simply engage with opposing ideas in bad faith, refusing even to consider their merits. This would create the sort of ideological echo chamber that proponents of viewpoint diversity have suggested, often with some justification, leads to closed-mindedness among left-leaning professors."