waldo.net
Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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Same with hack-and-squirt—you've got to wait until the leaves are fully grown.
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I’ve spent a lifetime avoiding herbicides, and the result is that I know nothing—so, thanks!
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I’d love to know what global best practices exist around policing. I have no idea what a reference model looks like.
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I guess I'm not sure how you'd make that happen. AFAIK, we're not electing civilians to head sheriffs' offices, so I wonder how one would effect that change for police departments?
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We elect sheriffs in municipalities in which there are no police departments and afaik that has not yielded better results.
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I read it to my eldest (instead of letting him read it on his own), hoping the scary things would be easier to deal with if I was narrating. Maybe your teacher had the same theory!
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FWIW that has some scary bits and troubling divorce parts—we had our eldest wait until he was 10 for that, and haven’t let our 8-year-old read it yet.
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I feel like I had one for QuarkXPress a million years ago, but I can’t find evidence of that existing. *Some* design tool, anyway.
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:) We were caravanning with Amber’s parents, honking and waving.
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They just came out and said it:
“We both know why you’ve been detained…it’s because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia”
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After seeing the protest in Charlottesville today, my kid came home and set up his own Lego protest.
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No video games :(
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That seemed like a really obvious move to create the right ambiance and I’m puzzled by its omission.
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For people who don’t know DC, this is less than the crowd on the Constitution Avenue *sidewalk* on a normal Saturday in June, July, or August.
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Seven months later, I went to a Pizza Hut Classic! There’s one half an hour from my house, in Louisa. No jukebox, no pitchers of root beer, but otherwise they got it right. My children loved it. I suspect they’ll insist that we return.
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Ah-ha—a rent-a-cop!
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I speculate that the kind of people who visit downtown are the kind of people who are less likely to be surprised by a large protest, and that the kind of people who mostly frequent 29N are people who need to be reached.
I’m leaning on stereotypes here, I confess.
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I've held a few protests downtown in my time, and I'm a fan, but I have to concede that a protest on 29N is going to be seen by a lot more people. But for media coverage purposes, you're right, being downtown accentuates the crowd size that being spread out along 29N doesn't.
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We drove by (all that was plausible, for mobility reasons), and I was glad to see folks protesting on both sides of 29N.
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Yeah, I understand that the current claim is that this was somebody merely dressed as a police officer, but I think a reasonable conclusion is that it is a police officer dressed as a police officer.
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My assumption is that the Tesla protests rolled over to this. Having done absolutely nothing to help organize these, I think it'd be rude for me to complain publicly, and I *do* think there are merits to protesting on 29N where there's a big audience...but maybe not *there*?
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It’s the Trump Two-Step! Here’s the first, official statement. Now we wait for the second one, which will amount to “assassination is good, actually.”
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But, also, yes, I’ve kept my mouth shut.
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My family hasn’t attended one yet because of the location. I don’t want to walk my eight-year-old across 29N. It isn’t safe. IDK where we’d park otherwise.
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Anybody could be a cop!
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If you’re thinking “but surely Trump learned something after surviving two assassination attempts last year,” I assure you that Trump has not learned anything in 50 years and he is not going to start now.