It always has. With rent control there is no incentive for landlords to rent, repair, or improve. Which actually reduces the amount of available properties, and dissuades building more housing (because what’s the point?) If you can’t make money doing it then you’re probably losing money.
I don't think Mythbusters had the budget to deal with a possible result of "bullet gets sucked directly into the insanely expensive machinery, destroying it"
I suspect "MRI-strength electromagnet" falls into a different budget category than "medical grade and certified imaging system", including but not limited to "MRI removed from hospital and junked because it's no longer maintained / useful / accurate enough". They are pretty resourceful
Very stereotypical aggressive police behavior. The “warrior cop” hero syndrome. This is utterly and disgustingly not surprising. From civil forfeiture to qualified immunity, the police have slowly become just as dangerous to innocent citizens as the criminals. No one will lose their job for this. No one will be held responsible. That alone is the worst crime.
That is part of the deterrent factor, even if it does seem excessive. If the police in the U.S. were like the Japanese, Finnish, or French police, it's reasonable to assume crime would go up.
Maybe crime is actually higher because of low trust and general ineptitude and ineffectiveness. The police in many many places in the US have a local reputation of being useless. That can’t be much of a deterrent.
You may think that. But what about the escalation factor instead?
As LEAs have become increasingly militarized, so has their opposition. Look back into the Prohibition era and the weaponry that organized crime needed for their operations. The criminals will only match the opposition in the arms race, and then the LEAs will obtain funding and resources to increase their so-called "deterrent factor", which winds up in catastrophes like Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidians, SWATting, and school shootings.
Perhaps crime doesn't go up in Finland or Japan because the LEAs have not felt the need to militarize and escalate at every turn. (I mean, Japan got their entire military confiscated in 1945, so they should know about escalations!)
Being a medical device he should file a complaint with the FDA. It won’t help his situation but the company will be forced to take notice. Absolutely despicable behavior by a company.
I think it depends on what you’re looking for in journalism. I think America is divided into three groups: those who want news that only speaks to their political values, those who are just looking for the basic headlines, and those who want substantive news, but without the political or opinionated persuasion. I sense that the breakdown is that people are not getting one or the other from mainstream media.
That's a good point, and I'm sometimes not really sure what I'm looking for. I don't want to live only in my liberal/progressive bubble, but I also don't want to see right-wing propaganda pieces.
I'm fine with partisan articles to some extent, but I do often just want deep, well-researched stories about what's happening in the world, without partisan slant. Granted, anyone who writes is going to bring their own biases to their journalism, no matter how much they try to avoid it.
