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I recently read that current estimates are that Melbourne had just overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populous city when the pandemic started.

But Melbourne had some of the longest, strictest lockdowns in the world, so quite a few people who could move away did so.
 
In the United States, gas stations are one of the top three places a person is likely to be victim of a violent crime (non-gas-station convenience stores are another; I couldn't find the third place of the top three).

Also in the U.S., there are more defensive uses of a gun than there are violent crimes against persons that get reported to the police (by about 10%) -- meanwhile studies show that between one and two out of three violent crimes are never reported to the police (interestingly, quite often because the victim was a wanted felon).

Again in the U.S., over half of violent crime involving guns occurs in the poorest ten percent of neighborhoods; of those neighborhoods, over four out of five are almost exclusively black (and over nine out of ten are areas that banks refuse to give loans to residents).

Meanwhile, politicians aiming to address the issue of violent crime almost invariably avoid any potential approaches that would require an increase in government spending.
 
pornoboy said:

India has overtaken China to become the world's most populous nation, according to estimates. As reported, India's population stands at 1.425.775.850 today.​

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Despite its many massive problems, this is a country that is bursting forth with dynamism, ideas, diversity, and change.​

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A weird fact about India: homeless people who essentially live on the sidewalks actually pass down the right to a particular piece of sidewalk in a chain of 'possession' that can go back five generations.

Every time I run into that fact I find myself asking how it's possible for a country to have homelessness so de facto institutionalized that there is a system where pieces of sidewalk no more than two square meters in size can in effect be inherited.
 
Another fun fact about U.S. crime: in order to seize your money or portable property, all a police officer has to do is allege you obtained them with drug money -- and to get them back you have to prove you didn't! This means that when it comes to having your property just taken away by police you are guilty until proven innocent.

Police departments use this to seize about three billion dollars worth of people's possessions annually. Some estimates say that the figure is actually about ten percent higher, meaning that about three hundred million dollars in cash and property is de facto stolen by police officers between when it gets seized and when it gets officially documented.
 
For nearly a half century,there are more people per capita in jail or prison in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

The U.S. also leads the word in people who are convicted felons in crimes that didn't harm anyone, i.e. victimless crimes.
 
When Nazi forces had to withdraw from Paris in 1944, Hitler ordered the city burned to the ground. The German general on the spot ignored the order, claiming in his memoirs that there was no military value in doing so and he felt the Fuhrer was "mentally unwell"; others claim he just didn't have the forces needed to carry out such an order.

Not quite a year later when Allied troops captured a bridge that allowed crossing into Germany itself, Hitler order the entire country destroyed starting with transportation and industry. Albert Speer, the man whose job it was to carry out the order, issued two different sets of orders: in the clear, one set said to carry this out beginning with industrial sites, but in high-priority code the order was given that complete planning be completed first, an order that in essence prevented any of the destruction from happening -- and which covered Speer's ass in case the Fuhrer found out nothing was being destroyed; after all, German efficiency demanded thorough planning!
 
When Abraham Lincoln was elected President he did not believe that blacks and whites were or could be equals. Long before the war was over, the dedication and effectiveness of black military units fighting for the Union had changed his mind, so that after the war ended he ordered that black soldiers, along with their white comrades, could take home their military arms, and he insisted that every black veteran deserved not only the right to vote but to hold property and enjoy all the same rights as whites.
 
Kulindahr said:
A weird fact about India: homeless people who essentially live on the sidewalks actually pass down the right to a particular piece of sidewalk in a chain of 'possession' that can go back five generations.

Every time I run into that fact I find myself asking how it's possible for a country to have homelessness so de facto institutionalized that there is a system where pieces of sidewalk no more than two square meters in size can in effect be inherited.
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Talk about breeding like rats . . .

Gods damn a sick excuse for a human that would bring a child into that.
 
Kulindahr said:
Another fun fact about U.S. crime: in order to seize your money or portable property, all a police officer has to do is allege you obtained them with drug money -- and to get them back you have to prove you didn't! This means that when it comes to having your property just taken away by police you are guilty until proven innocent.

Police departments use this to seize about three billion dollars worth of people's possessions annually. Some estimates say that the figure is actually about ten percent higher, meaning that about three hundred million dollars in cash and property is de facto stolen by police officers between when it gets seized and when it gets officially documented.
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Where did you get this 'info'?


@ "some estimates"

According to whom?


@ " seized property "

How much is returned after proper documentation is provided? It's easy enough to quickly provide such legal documentation.
 
Students read in English that Pandora had a box that was not to be opened, but in the original Greek it was a jar.
Kahaih said:
Where did you get this 'info'?
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Where did I get the information that it was a jar? From reading it in the original Greek!
Kahaih said:
@ "some estimates"

According to whom?
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Institute for Justice was what the guy on the radio cited. I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher than ten percent.
Kahaih said:
@ " seized property "

How much is returned after proper documentation is provided? It's easy enough to quickly provide such legal documentation.
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"Easy enough"? How many people keep the receipts for every last thing they own, or documentation of where they got the cash they are carrying? Bank statements don't qualify because they don't show where the money came from, and you'd have to prove that you got the cash from a bank. And you have to go to court to get anything back; the police aren't just going to release it -- and how many people can afford the thousands of dollars of court costs, especially when generally a city or county or state can't be required to pay your court costs if you win?
Police have seized boats, camper trailers, and other expensive items merely by declaring they suspected it was acquired from drug money, ruining people's livelihoods and even costing people their homes and businesses, because there are no rules about civil forfeitures. This is why the Institute for Justice is pushing a case aimed at establishing that the seizure of property has to conform to the "due process of law" clause so that police have to prove in court that the property was acquired through drug money, they can't just take it.

The ACLU is involved in the fight as well. This isn't a very helpful article but it shows the issue: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/asset-forfeiture-abuse

The Supreme Court ruled on one case but it hasn't made much of a difference; they're going to have to slap executive branches down a lot harder. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...laws-so-long-supreme-court-stepped-ncna974086
 
There are about ten thousand asteroids catalogued that have the possibility of hitting Earth. Astronomers judge that this is one in one thousand of the ones that are actually out there, meaning that there are about ten million yet to find -- making the effort to find them with telescopes before they find us by slamming into our planet critical.
 
Kulindahr said:
Students read in English that Pandora had a box that was not to be opened, but in the original Greek it was a jar.

Where did I get the information that it was a jar? From reading it in the original Greek!

Institute for Justice was what the guy on the radio cited. I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher than ten percent.

"Easy enough"? How many people keep the receipts for every last thing they own, or documentation of where they got the cash they are carrying? Bank statements don't qualify because they don't show where the money came from, and you'd have to prove that you got the cash from a bank. And you have to go to court to get anything back; the police aren't just going to release it -- and how many people can afford the thousands of dollars of court costs, especially when generally a city or county or state can't be required to pay your court costs if you win?
Police have seized boats, camper trailers, and other expensive items merely by declaring they suspected it was acquired from drug money, ruining people's livelihoods and even costing people their homes and businesses, because there are no rules about civil forfeitures. This is why the Institute for Justice is pushing a case aimed at establishing that the seizure of property has to conform to the "due process of law" clause so that police have to prove in court that the property was acquired through drug money, they can't just take it.

The ACLU is involved in the fight as well. This isn't a very helpful article but it shows the issue: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/asset-forfeiture-abuse

The Supreme Court ruled on one case but it hasn't made much of a difference; they're going to have to slap executive branches down a lot harder. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...laws-so-long-supreme-court-stepped-ncna974086
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LoveMyPeppermill liked your post, so you have that.
 
Only very few birds have a penis,
ducks have one of the longest compared to body-size up to 6 inches.

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now seriously...​

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Although Vincent van Gogh painted more than 900 painting (plus many more drawings and sketches), he sold only one of his paintings throughout his entire lifetime.
 
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