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Very, very good and detailed thread on this topic. My only caveat, which Chad does mention briefly, is that this is primarily for an environment in which less-than-lethal munitions are being employed. You will need heavier/more gear if live rounds are expected.
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If you're going to add more protest gear to your kit, make sure you PRACTICE with your loadout.
Nothing worse than being under pressure and your goggles get fogged up and you try to take them off but your goggle straps get stuck in your balaclava and then tangled with your helmet straps.
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Keep your protest PPE and gear simple. And keep it SUPER generic looking.
I know too many people who got enamored with their badass-looking tactical gear and morale patches, then they got identified and raided and put in prison because they were too recognizable from one event to the next.
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Don't waste your money on fancy tactical gear for protests.
Leave the kevlar helmet, plate carrier, MOLLE rig, and ceramics at home unless you're in a jurisdiction where fash tend to shoot people.
Better to be mobile and blend in. Plus, cops love to confiscate expensive gear.
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I've found that with a good elastomeric respirator, I can handle tear gas even without sealed goggles.
It sucks, you get red stinging eyes and you might need an occasional rinse but you won't be totally blinded. Tear gas is worse on the breathing than on the eyes.
Lacrosse goggles don't fog up.
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From January 19th:
acasignups.net/25/05/21/dow...
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I wrote last week about House Republicans' bid to effectively ban states from regulating AI and why that's controversial: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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It's especially odd when you think about the crime scene that is higher ed. We are turning out thousands of expensively educated people with excellent skills and ideas - and no job prospects. AI is mostly targeting the last remaining redoubts of some of the most exploited people in America.
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It's doubly weird to see people show up cheering AI as it helps them *generate ideas,* the very thing AI is supposed to help you execute. (Poorly!) They're not even showing up, idea in hand; it's them showing up, poking the AI, and saying, DO SOMETHING. Handing all their brain to the machine.
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Of course anybody who has done anything ever at any level of competency learns quickly that work is the entire point. The experience is key. Failure is learning. Effort is execution. AI shortcuts all of that. It's for people who care nothing for journey and everything for destination. It's empty.
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To these gen-AI assholes, the IDEA is the sauce, it's the magic, it's the SPARK that will SET THE FIRE that will LIGHT THE WAY, and everything after that is just crass four-letter-word WORK, yuck. It's moving piles of dirt around. It's laying brick. Work is just the thing in the way of execution.
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Calvin's dad had it right
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I'm grateful for all of the responses. But this is happening to thousands of women, cis and trans, up and down the country. Every day. The only difference is she and I have a voice.
Fuck all of those, especially the institutions, who didn't do the work before piling in on 'the transgender issue.'
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The Los Angeles Police Department posts a net loss of $3.3 billion a year every year — and they don't even deliver a single piece of mail