What is obvious? Yes the US has a big problem with violence in general and police violence, plus there is a big problem with racial inequality (plus inequality in general). What to do about these problems is another matter.

The devil is in the detail though. You want the police to never kill a black person? That is probably something that can’t be delivered by a government.

So you want the gov to figure out what you want?

It’s not, unfortunately it is a necessary catalyst for long lasting change as history has shown

It’s my experience that westerners talking glibly about revolution have never experienced one.

It isn’t and shouldn’t be up to protesters to define the solution detail by tiny detail,

Governments make laws and policy. We should be very clear what they can and can’t deliver.

If I protest about ‘economic justice’ and demand the gov deliver it for me we have a problem of ‘economic justice’ being ill-defined and under-articulated. How will I signal to the government what it is substantively than they need to achieve? What does success look like formally?

There’s certainly a consensus amongst most lucid people. It’s hardly complicated

noun prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior

That doesn’t address the issue of so-called systemic racism perpetrated by social structure and institutions. This is one thing the protests want ‘abolishing’.

I’m not saying this doesn’t exist but it also can’t be pinned down unproblematically either. For example, Critical Race Theory says that core economic and social systems in the West such as Capitalism and liberal-democracy are immanently racist by being built on racist meta-narratives. That’s interesting but it’s also not clear what can be done short of setting fire to everything if that’s true.

There are many in the humanities who think that race should be abandoned as a concept because it’s so protean and nebulous. There is no academic consensus regarding what race is.

Unless you have a demand then your ‘protest’ is either a pose or wantonly destructive.

It’s all well and good saying that racism must end but there is no consensus as to what racism actually is.

Civil rights movement wanted equality before the law for example re ending segregation and equal voting rights.

BLM has a bonkers wish list of nonsense.

I’m not saying there aren’t real issues to be addressed but they need properly articulating.

US police declared war on the (black) public some time ago. The police are an army without the training. Bandits.

That sounds hyperbolic to me. At least make some demands. Revolution is for the irresponsible and adolescent.

our systemic racism

Our? Who are you addressing?

That definitely fits BJ’s whole bonhomie persona.

In my experience, if I’m either very unfit or really burned matches on a ride then sometimes I can sleep badly. This matches with my experience of work where sometimes I could be ‘too exhausted’ to sleep properly. It’s like being in a stressed state.

I feel like the Gov is desperate to be the good guy handing out freedom to everyone.

What’s the demand Inkster?

It is not unusual to find fencing either side of a boundary (especially with old terrace housing) where drains/shared drains run or are very close to it!

Yeah, there is a lateral drain running adjacent to the back of the properties (it’s about 1 m from the rear kitchens/extensions along the row). In fact, the current fence in question crosses over a manhole. The first timber post (which is nearest to the manhole) is embedded in the concrete hardstand/patio. My plan was to cut this and use a fence post shoe to fix the new post. It is possible as you imply that the drain dictated the position of this first fence post originally and so the rest of them followed suit. I don’t want to go digging or breaking concrete close to the manhole so hence the use of a shoe anchored to the concrete.

The gardens face West so the light issue isn’t too bad.

The good side of both my fences faces the neighbours.

There is nothing in the registry documents saying who is responsible for the fences so I take it upon myself to do the works.

The neighbour is a tenant and they said their landlord is fine with me replacing the fence as they are too. I’ve not mentioned the technicalities of the fence position. I’d say it’s been there years, at least 10 more like 20 judging from the condition.

Well, it’s not a conservation area and not next to a road. There are no provisions in the registry documents prohibiting it, and other properties on the row have 6′ fences so I’m assuming so :D

I wonder if SRAM have actually read the BLM manifesto?

I modified the 2 stroke engine for my RC car to give more power using a Dremel.

I’d wager that hospitals and care homes are the most significant sites for transmission.

That isn’t quite true. Public transport is still operating albeit less and many factories and businesses are still open. The lights wouldn’t be on and we wouldn’t be eating otherwise.

Yeah, I think France were citing opportunities for super-spreaders given ‘prolonged minglings’ like in university halls, pubs, planes, tightly packed sporting events, music venues, etc.

Yeah hydrocyclones have been used for years in oil and gas and mining to separate out solids from a liquid medium. Same principle.

My Dyson has been going for 10 years now so I’ve got no complaints.

I remember the bad old days of bags. No thanks!

Seems like the blog addressed many questions but leaves several questions unanswered.

It’s a conservation area and coal board (now coal authority) permission for construction is a schedule on the deeds.

The concrete block shed (the cottage) may or may not fall under permitted development rights, may have been built over a swimming pool, may qualify for permission by prescription, but nobody is really sure. The conservation area restrictions would seem the most problematic.

No crowds though I think for the horse racing?

Is any of the property listed? Conservation area? That may be a violation if they undertook work to make a barn habitable?

Could look for building regs submissions too. What’s the address?

My first post was acknowledging the shooting bias.

That’s why I avoid Tesco; normally because it’s full of shirtless men in the summer but also because many who shop their lack the self-discipline to comply with covid rules.

The Sainsbury’s near me is doing a sterling job making people queue to get in and most people are acting sensibly when inside. Once a week I shop at the local (big) Asda for my parents and have noticed that in the last couple of weeks things have slackened off a lot with no control over entry any more, and as you say, large families treating it as a **** day out.

Bias in terms of accountability (the impunity theory) is not the same thing as a bias in outcome (the shooting bias). The latter is a statistical fact, the former a hypothesis for which no direct evidence has been supplied.

I’m not disputing the shooting bias but the idea that the police have impunity to kill black people but not white people. These are not the same thing. This would imply that when police kill white people they tend to be significantly more likely to be prosecuted or disciplined in contrast to when they kill black people.

Well, we’ll have to see what happens with death rates over the next few weeks. Certainly from my POV, the ‘lockdown’ has been slackening significantly over the last couple of weeks and now many look like they couldn’t care less. I think the best we can hope for going forward is that behavioural changes and the closure of pubs and sports events keeps the R coefficient <1. I can’t say I have much faith in the technical competence of this government given the incoherent and mixed messages we’ve had recently. They have also been prepared to compromise their own guidelines and instructions to save Cummings which I find reprehensible and tells us all about their priorities.

I’m contesting the theory that the police have impunity to kill black people but not white people.

Nobody had presented evidence to that end. I’m not contesting that black people are more likely to be killed.

The UK certainly has problems with racism but it’s nothing compared to the US because there is no slavery legacy in the UK per se. It was only a few decades ago in the US that there was formal segregation in some US states for example.

It’s not a lie Rydster. The people killed with impunity are mostly black men. Others are killed but without the same level of impunity.

That may be true but without some statistics it’s just a perception.

The Xbox Game Pass makes available a lot of first-party AAA games from day one which you can download and store locally. This is the deal-maker for me, although I also own a PS4 now which I got to play Death Stranding. I feel Game Pass is better than PS Now.

Temp related can also be due to a dry/bad solder joint.

Indeed the video is horrible, not just the unnecessary (and probably sadistic) use of force but its symbolic value of a black man virtually under the boot of a white cop.