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Posted 1 week ago

Just as I myself have the desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all others.

The Dalai Lama

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Posted 1 month ago

Thought.

We use ourselves as a frame
Of reference for what is right, but what do we really know? Who is to say what is right? Show me someone who claims to know all, and I’ll show you a self indulgent liar.

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Posted 1 month ago

25 Clever Ideas to Make Life Easier

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Posted 2 months ago

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SFMOMA: Less but Better – A Conversation with Dieter Rams

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Posted 2 months ago

There’s something about the look in your eyes. Something I noticed when the light was just right. It reminded me twice that I was alive, and it reminded that you’re so worth the fight.

Echo by Incubus

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Posted 2 months ago

At around 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 2011, officers with the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff’s Department’s Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team surrounded the home of 26-year-old José Guerena, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, to serve a search warrant for narcotics. As the officers approached, Guerena lay sleeping in his bedroom after working the graveyard shift at a local mine. When his wife Vanessa woke him up, screaming that she had seen a man outside the window pointing a gun at her, Guerena grabbed his AR-15 rifle, instructed Vanessa to hide in the closet with their four-year old son, and left the bedroom to investigate. Within moments, and without Guerena firing a shot—or even switching his rifle off of “safety”—he lay dying, his body riddled with 60 bullets. A subsequent investigation revealed that the initial shot that prompted the S.W.A.T. team barrage came from a S.W.A.T. team gun, not Guerena’s. Guerena, reports later revealed, had no criminal record, and no narcotics were found at his home.

Cops With Machine Guns: How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police - The Atlantic

Just in case you’re not furious yet, here’s the official verdict from Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall:

Under the circumstances, and based upon our review of all the available evidence, we have concluded that the use of deadly forces by the SWAT Team members was reasonable and justified under the law. Accordingly, the Pima County Attorney’s Office finds no basis to prosecute.

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Posted 2 months ago