Victims are afraid to seek help in the US, because “the help” usually re-victimizes them, and protects the perpetrator.

It’s not because of me stating as much…

How does one get “tricked” into meeting a child for sex, and then show up?

I’ve never been tricked into meeting a child for a sexual encounter…

Cops are well known to be rapists, ignore rapists, and even protect rapists. Not to mention the rampant domestic violence they engage in.

Why would you assume cops have any interests in punishing their cohort?

Why would you expect rapists to punish rapists?

Where is this civilized society at, in the US?

Genuine law enforcement efforts?

Like their efforts to protect rapists? Or the genuine efforts to vote for a rapist and pedo for POTUS? And their genuine effort to provide cover for their pastor pedo?

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The pedophiles being attacked are actively hunting, otherwise, they wouldn’t be caught in a trap…

This only happens because there is rarely justice from the state, in these cases.

How many clergy who are rapists still walk around, protected by the state?

People hoping to get randomly added to war chats lol

I mean, fwiw, I i don’t suggest buying them first… I prefer upcycling 2L soda bottles :)

They are more portable, easier to handle, and not a huge loss when they break.

Do people generally not have space to keep 7 days of groceries on hand?

I mean, I get some folks are houseless which obvs, they can’t do this…

But I am hard pressed to figure how someone can’t buy an extra canned good on a shopping trip? That’s literally 0.79. 2l bottles of soda aren’t things people.buy from time to time? Can’t harvest them from recycle buns?

I think a lot of this is looking at the end result, and seeing it to be impossible, because they are trying to eat the elephant in one bit, rather than just one bite at a time…

Instead of beer or wine, stock a few bottles of liquor. Vodka, preferably. Whisky works, but not as well. Because you can use it to barter, and as an antiseptic.

These shouldn’t be “extra” really. It should be food you eat already, so it’s basically “Keep your pantry stocked” level of “preparing”.

And I get it, money is tight. 3 minutes without air 3 hours without shelter 3 days without water 3 weeks without food

Start with water. You can upcycle 2L soda bottles (Rinse them, and don’t think about using upcycled milk jugs). And honestly, most Americans are storing 5 days+ of calories right on their bodies.

After water, buy 1 or two extra canned goods each shopping trip. Or a bag of rice. Or a box of Ramen.

And, if you leave it closed, it’s good for 2 days. If you have ice, you can prolong that. If in the NE, you’re biggest concern is power outages during winter, in which case, you can put it outside, between October and May.

Good info to have, is all.

Just did the math… a 64oz jar of peanut butter is enough survival calories for 6.75 people for a day. Or, one person, for 6.75 days.

Well, there’s a few, creative ways to do that.

ie, instead of a bed frame, stack canned goods under your box spring.

For water, get Water Bricks, and use them instead of milk crates to build shelving.

Just some ideas.

That said, 72 hrs is like a week of groceries per person, and 14 gallons per person. 14 gallons of water per person sounds like a lot, but you can get creative there with the water carboys stored in “shelving” that supports your TV, for example. Or, Water Bricks like I suggested before.

Why did you even take the order in the first place if you can’t manage to produce them to spec?

They were made to spec, but the specs were wrong.

Yes, we’ve had outages in DCs. They are usually just a blip, because we have more than one.

And we don’t pay broadcom anything. We migrated off of esx a long time ago.

And the skills needed? We use a floss stack, so you need to know stuff like nginx, puppet, mariadb, and php.

Not exactly cutting edge stuff there.

Operations engineers make sure the infrastructure is up, and ready for code. Devs own the code.

So, no, it’s really not all that niche.

And I guess we need longer than 20 years to see if it works well?

Was it written on the phone of the people they called?

No, but if they weren’t informed, frankly, that’s on the SM for not doing so. And honestly, anyone taking a call from a deployed soldier should just understand that reality.

The claim was that with calls from foreign countries, if it was an American they spoke to, it would not be monitored. Only foreigners were.

I’m not going to speak to generalities of whose calls were monitored and shouldn’t have been. Solely the item of “Americans stationed in Iraq were monitored”, which is, frankly, obviously happening. And every SM was informed as such. And they were instructed to inform their families of that fact.

Every military spouse knew that, if they went to the pre-deployment briefings they were invited to. Every SM knew it. Every contractor knew it, and their families should have also been informed by the contractor.

Hell, even in my state, only one party legally has to know it’s being monitored and/or recorded to be legal.