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One of my favorite types of situations
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and would you believe it, I'm even having a beer
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its actually very funny comparing this to Paris having a reputation for being prone to revolt for the opposite reason, because you could barricade it into a maze so easily due to street layout lol
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they're really gonna try to get an integrated military to fight the race war
good thing that vietnam-era institutional knowledge has completely dissipated
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you gotta put it on as soon as things get even a little heated, or you'll get caught off-guard. It's very hard to put on a mask under pressure, in a jostling crowd, while *other people* are getting tear gassed
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this isn't taking into account visiting feds, just "LE commonly found in the Boston area"
wiki says there are 374 *different* agencies operating in Massachusetts
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an American city is probably going to need the auspicious incident treatment to solve policing nationally and it will 100% be lasd if so
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every police department in the US is trying hard to become this btw
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probably should've linked to reporting first but
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probably the biggest point though is if you show up kitted out for full tear gas and impact resistance you are going to stand out like crazy and be somewhat offputting to people around you!
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3. Impact resistance. You want to check for Z87.1, if you don't see it in the listing assume it doesn't have it. Cheap safety gear is sometimes OK, and sometimes *much* weaker
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2. Half or full respirators both have pros and cons. The full ones are uncomfortable, make communication even harder, and are harder to get on/off in a hurry.
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1. Type of cartridge. A lot of the cheap ones come with equally cheap P100 or even P95 filters. You ideally want a combined organic vapor + P100
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tourniquets expire, gloves and packaging adhesive degrade, my tactical granola bars are DEFINITELY expired...
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i am familiar with the works of the @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social , yes
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neat, love a little online quiz
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though the electric smoker's controller is really cheap and flaky, and it admittedly would be pretty funny to train a model to do better
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my projects are to go outside and to smoke meat :)
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lol my partner has to do this frequently, with a 50+ lb greyhound. but only because he gets too anxious to walk anymore.
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many of us have been fortunate enough to not witness car/driver behavior in a real crisis
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www.cisa.gov/sites/defaul...
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here's some more recent research tho
transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/defaul...
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Relatedly, if you're at a protest, discourage anyone from standing in the possible path of a car or near anything that might get hit by one and get knocked around. A lot of people have no intuition for how dangerous even a low speed collision can be
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But I've been next to a van that rammed police barricades. It didn't have much room to accelerate, yet they simply went airborne without slowing it down
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I wish I could find the analysis I read about this once, from GWOT-era, about how poorly prepared even the military was for stopping "a normal car"
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thanks that's so sweet
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