8 Minutes 46 Seconds

“The defendant had his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in total,” the criminal complaint against Derek Chauvin reads. “Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Mr. Floyd was non-responsive.” There are scary things happening right now. Even before these protests broke out around America, we (and everyone around the world) had been riding the uncertainty of a future afflicted by pandemic and quarantine. Millions have lost their jobs, the worst possible time for that since America ties its healthcare so closely to employment, and that single $1200 stimulus check from April is… [Continue Reading]

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On the UK and their Decisions

The UK election has been a bit of a strange one, what with the winner and current prime minister being a guy who hides in fridges and steals people’s phones rather than answering even remotely hard questions, but the election is over and the vote is in. After 10 years of Conservatives, the people of the United Kingdom want more of the same, and Boris Johnson will remain as prime minister. The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats did rather badly in the election, losing a lot of seats and giving the Conservatives a majority. Frankly, it looks like the… [Continue Reading]

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