No, I definitely did not.

I said it wasn't an accurate comparison.

No, I understand that. She was also a non-native English speaker, who was still learning English.

The first part of my original comment was specifically addressing someone else's comment who was incorrectly comparing apples to cantaloupes.

I said nothing to do about what the cops felt, or even their actions, which I addressed in the second half, but no one has responded to that so it was dropped.

I was simply stating that those are not apt comparisons because of the statistically significant physical differences between those two groups of people.

There's a reason why Pacific islanders, specifically Samoans, are 40 times more likely to be in the NFL than any other group.

None of that justifies the police killing her, but it also invalidates the original comparison, which was all I was critiquing.

No, I don't. There aren't a lot of high density Samoan enclaves around the US relative to other minority groups, and I grew up alongside one of the largest.

I realize it controversial for Lemmy's white liberal sensibilities to point out different groups of people can have different characteristics, but that doesn't make it any less true, no matter how many people down vote what I'm saying.

I also never said any of this justified the police killing her.

No, it's not an assumption. Because if you had, you would know that what I said was completely accurate.

What....? Seriously? Considering I grew up with a lot of samoans, I think it's you who's mistaken.

It's not assumptions, there's photos online...

Also, that's something that only someone who's never been in a Samoan community would ever say.

That's not the slam dunk you think it is, as she was samoan. So she would probably anywhere between 2 and 3 times the size of the average white/Hispanic/black girls her age.

What I find more curious is that two officer shot, but one was using less than lethal rounds. I don't understand why they wouldn't either both have them, or why those wouldn't be used first sans the real bullets.

I'm going to need you to actually quote which part of my comment you're responding to.

As far as I can tell, what you wrote has exactly nothing to do with anything that I said.

At no point did I mention laws, or legal loopholes.

And I certainly never mentioned anything about the United States, or the legal liability of Twitter, except as in response to your comment.

I think you're confusing my acknowledgment of the daily reality of a country that is currently divided between 3 and 5 major and minor factions, all in various states of civil conflict, with being something else entirely.

I wasn't providing any opinion, or analysis, on the legality from Twitter's perspective. I certainly wasn't making any comparisons to laws in the United States and Yemen, or anything else that you've been talking about since your first comment.

I would make the "duh no shit this is clickbait" observation if the BBC ran yet another story about how kids are selling drugs on Snapchat or Instagram.

You mean the first three paragraphs describing a few ads on Twitter for weapons?

Followed by the BBC, quoting other British "NGO" organizations, trying to rally people to support additional actions against a group that Britain currently engaged in military actions against? Yes, I read that as well.

The article reads like two separate articles pasted together by a moron. The only connective tissue between the Twitter ads, and the Houthis, was that the weapons traders lived an area controlled by them. News flash, the Houthis control a majority of the country.

So again, in a country that has had an active civil war since 2014, it's not surprising that people are selling weapons anywhere and everywhere, online, and off.

Why are you assuming that there is a state of law and order to any degree, outside of maybe the capital..?

Are you aware that we're talking about Yemen...?

Notice that Wikipedia page for their civil war doesn't currently have an end date i.e. it's still active...

It's not like Twitter is providing up support for these transactions, I'm saying it's not surprising they exist on a public forum like Twitter for a country that's ravaged by a decade war and famine.

Just like how kids in the United States sell drugs on Twitter or Instagram.

So no, Twitter is not automatically liable just because people are abusing the platform. I'm not saying it can't get there, just that it's not that simple.

Regardless, I wasn't saying anything about the legality of it for Twitter.

Your reading comprehension is so absurdly bad, that I got to believe you're either trolling, insane, or on a lot of Adderall. I'm out lol.

I'm having a hard time finding where I said that I wanted to live under Houthi rule, or when I denied their status as militant Islamists.

Can you please scroll up to my other comments and point those out for me? Thanks in advance.

Oh, and just a reminder to anyone who actually made it this far into this idiotic rabbit hole, my original comment was that it is entirely unsurprising that Yemeni civilians are buying arms to wherever they can, be it Twitter or a local marketplace, due to the past decade of conflict, years long aerial bombing campaign, and famine.

I can't tell if you're a troll, or actually insane. But I guess those don't have to be mutually exclusive.

I didn't denounce anyone, even among the groups and actors I mentioned. I simply gave a very brief look at situation. You're mad that I didn't provide a complete and detailed analysis, which is irrelevant to my point about civilians bearing arms.

Not for nothing, but your politics are pretty clear, and if it was relevant at ALL to this subject, I'd happily engage. But it's not, so stop yelling into the wind to distract from the fact that your comments are clearly about your disdain of the Yemini people.

No, we're acknowledging that countries wrecked by civil war and intermittent famines going back a decade, aren't known for their ability to police domestic issues fairly, on time, or even at all. I'd be more interested to know what percent of the households are NOT armed.

For the record, I said nothing about any government, or political groups/militias. They're armed primarily by their proxy sponsor, I'm talking about retail arms sale to civilians, bandits, normies, and scared parents alike.

Unless you think IRCG is arming the Houthis via Twitter.

This is bordering on clickbait, because of course weapons are being sold in some form or fashion at most forums or marketplace in Yemen.

It's a country that has been wrecked by civil war and years of a genocidal air campaign by the Saudis, and now intermittent targeted strikes by American and British naval forces.

I would be shocked if most of those people aren't also selling those openly at their local Bazaar or market.

Politics are complicated, especially in post-Soviet bloc countries e.g. the lingering effects of Russification. But anytime a ruling party is looking to dissolve all opposition parties, and label them as criminals, it's because they feel threatened in some way.

The correct answer is neither.

Miracle drugs are almost exclusively funded, or heavily subsidized, by the public sector. Typically through NIH grants, or other public funding mechanisms through the University system.

R&D budgets for a big pharma go to things like reformulating existing brand name drugs, to prevent them going generic as they are supposed to under current law. Or other high return, reduced effort, drugs i.e. new dick pills, narcotics, etc.

Executive pay and bonuses are not going anywhere, no matter what happens with these drug prices. They will cut their company to the bone, and then collude with private equity to take them private and gut it, before they ever considered cutting down their bonuses or stock options.

I assumed it was going to be some slick evil mastermind unknowingly drugging his nanny.

He was literally just coming home when she just dozed off, and covering her face with chloroform rag...but she was waking up remembering a rag smelling of chemicals and passing out.

After the third or fourth time it happened, she put a hidden camera up.

Sure enough, this sadistic dumb fuck, did it again, but this time in full view of the hidden camera.

He only confessed because she went to the police and showed the idiot knocking her out with chloroform and abusing her, yet again.