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  • That's what I do. I have a very plain backpack and I just keep my camera in there with some clothes as padding. I do have a dedicated DSLR bag but that's more for days specifically for photography and I carry it on a shoulder sling, in addition to my backpack.

  • A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor'
  • I'd venture to say a big chunk of those folks inherited wealth. Most millennial homeowners I know inherited money from grandparents, aunts, uncles, and/or parents.

    And like many who inherited wealth, these folks often make up their own little rags to riches story about how they got where they're at.

  • What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen someone driving do?
  • Cops on laptops/phones while driving on the highway and getting a pass literally every time they're driving distracted and kill or injure someone.

    Every single year in my city someone gets smoked by a cop car/SUV, and the internal investigations always determine via CCTV + phone activity logs that yes their officer was on their phone/laptop, yes they were speeding, yes they went through a red light, yes they failed to have their 🚨 on, but... No, they're never found guilty and the whole internal investigation is the furthest thing from transparent to the public.

  • I fell for it. Fuckin' SteelSeries
  • I have a 30+ year old IBM Model M as my desktop keyboard, and a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro from the 90s that's connected with a long cable from my PC to my bedside nook. So so so much better than Bluetooth or RGB vomit. That said, to each their own!

  • Examples of racism on Lemmy?
  • As a POC I'd say Lemmy is way better than most similar sites but there's still the prevalent sexism that always seems like the "acceptable casual bigotry" and I'm not a fan of that. The kind of "jokes" that guys mostly laugh at while women mostly roll their eyes at because the punchline is usually heavily reliant on sexism.

  • Unbelievable
  • I feel like this is a very naive process that implies due process works, albeit slowly, even for cops who fuck up. It doesn't work because cops, DAs and judges all protect each other.

    Also, most insurance companies will nail you for misrepresentation or fraud if your driver's license license address isn't updating accordingly with your current address, because different areas have different likelihoods for accidents.

    I just don't get why people are so quick to defend cops or give them the benefit of the doubt over stuff like this.

  • > An exploration of what we may do to be active and organize in a Post Roe v Wade United States. These are just some suggestions, How do you plan to stay active in this era?

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    > This is the first of an 8 part Series on Roe v Wade. In this part I discuss the harmful effects that will be caused by Justice Alito's Draft Opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization when it becomes official and the Real human consequences that will be brought about making abortion federally illegal in the United States.

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    Returning to Making Content, Videos, and Streaming - Explaining the Hiatus and New Upload Schedule

    > Today we talk about the Channel, Returning to Making Content, Videos and Streaming. We also talk about the Hiatus and Upload Schedule. The New Upload Schedule will be Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Sunday Streams will be at 2pm ET. Thank You all for your Patience and Support, Stay Tuned for more videos!

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    All cops are bad @lemmy.ml MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml
    Police shoot at innocent citizen-- citizen returns fire with rifle

    > The City of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $1.5 million to Jaleel Stallings, a St. Paul veteran who sued the city after being acquitted of eight felony charges when he shot in self-defense at Minneapolis police officers during the George Floyd protests.

    > Stallings was acquitted by a jury last summer for the charges after evidence presented directly contradicted accounts provided by police and laid out by prosecutors. Stallings, who was protesting the death of George Floyd on May 30, 2020, said he didn't know the people firing plastic bullets at him from an unmarked cargo van were police, so he fired back.

    > Once Stalling realized it was police, he laid his weapon down and laid down on the ground. Surveillance video and bodycam footage shows SWAT officers kick, punch and knee Stallings repeatedly in the face and head after he had already surrendered. Officers initially claimed that he had resisted arrest, with a news release describing it as a "struggle."

    > Stallings suffered a fracture near his eye, as well as cuts and bruises.

    > The SWAT team involved with Stallings were driving in an unmarked cargo van, firing 40-mm marking rounds at civilians out after curfew. Body camera footage showed officers talking about "hunting" protesters. That's when they eventually beat Stallings and another person he was with after Stallings fired his weapon back at them. He previously stated that he "purposely" missed them.

    > No Minneapolis Police Department officer has been formally disciplined for their actions during the May 2020 riots as of this day, though one female officer was disciplined for speaking to a reporter anonymously.

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    Police shoot at innocent citizen-- citizen returns fire with rifle

    > The City of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $1.5 million to Jaleel Stallings, a St. Paul veteran who sued the city after being acquitted of eight felony charges when he shot in self-defense at Minneapolis police officers during the George Floyd protests.

    > Stallings was acquitted by a jury last summer for the charges after evidence presented directly contradicted accounts provided by police and laid out by prosecutors. Stallings, who was protesting the death of George Floyd on May 30, 2020, said he didn't know the people firing plastic bullets at him from an unmarked cargo van were police, so he fired back.

    > Once Stalling realized it was police, he laid his weapon down and laid down on the ground. Surveillance video and bodycam footage shows SWAT officers kick, punch and knee Stallings repeatedly in the face and head after he had already surrendered. Officers initially claimed that he had resisted arrest, with a news release describing it as a "struggle."

    > Stallings suffered a fracture near his eye, as well as cuts and bruises.

    > The SWAT team involved with Stallings were driving in an unmarked cargo van, firing 40-mm marking rounds at civilians out after curfew. Body camera footage showed officers talking about "hunting" protesters. That's when they eventually beat Stallings and another person he was with after Stallings fired his weapon back at them. He previously stated that he "purposely" missed them.

    > No Minneapolis Police Department officer has been formally disciplined for their actions during the May 2020 riots as of this day, though one female officer was disciplined for speaking to a reporter anonymously.

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    Original video: https://archive.org/details/FTVDIYA

    Original article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjby4b/anarchist-collective-shares-instructions-to-make-diy-abortion-pills

    Original video: https://archive.org/details/FTVDIYA

    Original Usage Information: https://archive.org/details/miso-medication/mode/2up

    Original English subtitles file (SRT): https://archive.org/details/ftvdiya-subtitle

    Video created by: Michael Laufer of The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

    This video was uploaded for archival purposes. Merchants of Misery cannot speak to the safety of making your own pills.

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    All cops are bad @lemmy.ml MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml

    Original article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjby4b/anarchist-collective-shares-instructions-to-make-diy-abortion-pills

    Original video: https://archive.org/details/FTVDIYA

    Original Usage Information: https://archive.org/details/miso-medication/mode/2up

    Original English subtitles file (SRT): https://archive.org/details/ftvdiya-subtitle

    Video created by: Michael Laufer of The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

    This video was uploaded for archival purposes. Merchants of Misery cannot speak to the safety of making your own pills.

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    Only 90s kids will remember this

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    All cops are bad @lemmy.ml MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml

    Only 90s kids will remember this

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    Women's rights are human rights.

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    All cops are bad @lemmy.ml MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml

    Source: Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen on Twitter

    National Guard and Minneapolis Police Department officers terrorizing neighborhood residents.

    To this day, neither the National Guard nor the Minneapolis Police Department have addressed the crimes committed in this video. Accountability works both ways.

    Date: May 30, 2020 Location: Whittier neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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    Source: Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen on Twitter

    National Guard and Minneapolis Police Department officers terrorizing neighborhood residents.

    To this day, neither the National Guard nor the Minneapolis Police Department have addressed the crimes committed in this video. Accountability works both ways.

    Date: May 30, 2020 Location: Whittier neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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    Autism @lemmy.ml MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml

    I know this is the autism community but as someone with ASD and ADHD, I thought people here might appreciate this video. There tends to be an overlap between the two.

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    > In today's video we are exploring the idea that sustainability is "women's work" and that there might be an Eco Gender Gap. We cover man theories around masculinity, femininity and it's affiliation with the Earth, and much more.

    Note: This isn't my video but I have a background in research science pertaining to a field relevant to this video and in my opinion this is one of the best videos I've seen on environmentalism. I believe this video should be shown in elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities.

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    How do I filter a community?

    There's a certain community there that I'd like to filter because a) I find the content/discussions to just be generally awful circlejerky nonsense and b) it's polluting the "All" section that I like to browse.

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