For the sake of her family’s closure, I hope we find out. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have speculation like this about something so horrible.

My thought as well, though this is in texas so why would they be bothering to cover it up? It’s not like they’d be convicted anyways.

Even then it must have been really abnormal, normally they just don’t release the officer’s name and give them a month of paid time off. What the hell…

Yeah, all of my real guesses are too bleak for me to want to type them up. This is just awful.

Only the brown ones, if they’re white it’s technically poaching unless they’re in-season.

It’s extremely strange that no details have been released in this case. I kinda doubt it’s actual full-bore corruption, that’s still fairly rare here, but man for a case involving a foreign citizen it’s sure suspicious they’re so quiet about it. And even in texas there’s so few situations where a fatal shooting doesn’t merit charges. It seems a little far fetched for her to have, say, been mugging someone who then shot her in self-defense. Was she shot by some kind of trained combat armadillo? A senile centenarian who passed away during the investigation? A very small child? (actually those last two are feasible, though in both cases the owner of the firearm they got ahold of would probably have been charged, though it’s texas so that isn’t 100%). Those are the only sort of examples where this might be justified, but lets be honest it was probably the cops.

Just fucking weird. Her poor family.

Yes…?

“The administration” is (usually!) used to refer to the monolithic entity that continues without interruption (office of the prez, congress etc), “this administration” is used to refer to the specific current government/clarify in cases of ambiguity. Weird quirks of american english, what fun…

(Not disagreeing to be clear. Although this is a bit more transparently “dancing to the tune of the puppet master” than most of the US’s other forays into the mid. east, I must say.)

I’m assuming you’ve contacted 911 / emergency services since you know that the ambulance is 20 minutes away. In that case, the dispatcher will step you through an emergency diagnosis and if such an extreme action is warranted either they will put you in touch with a medical professional who can instruct you on safe procedure, or they will be a qualified paramedic and instruct you themselves. However that is EXTREMELY unlikely, tracheotomy are almost never warranted (outside of television) in emergency situations, as stabbing someone in the neck is not a trivial thing to do. In my region the procedure isn’t even taught to first responders (Edit: I was half wrong, paramedics still learn it but EMTs do not) (Edit 2: No, I was right! Neither are taught it) as it’s long been surpassed by modern intubation techniques and treatments like fast-acting anaphylaxis medications.

In short, follow the guidelines you are taught in your first aid class and contact emergency services. Don’t stab someone in the neck.

So… how do you tell an airway obstruction requiring an improvised tracheotomy and a similarly-presenting respiratory distress (resulting from, say, catastrophically low blood potassium) apart? Because if you get that wrong suddenly someone, who needed at worst an hour of IV therapy and a flintstone chewable to make a full recovery, is drowning in their own blood.

Not them but also an instructor - where I teach, we’re having to pivot sharply towards grades being based mostly on performance in labs and in person quiz/test results. Its really unfortunate since there are many students with test anxiety and labs are really exhausting to turn into evaluation instead of instruction, but it’s the only workable solution we’ve been able to figure out.

Hands on, like engage with prior material on the subject and formulate complex ideas based on that…?

Sarcasm aside, asking students to do something in lab often requires them to have gained an understanding of the material so they can do something, an understanding they utterly lack if they use AI to do their work. Although tbf this lack of understanding in-person is really the #1 way we catch students who are using AI.

The reported $152bn drop also decreased the value of the company to roughly $900bn.

Aww, TSLA is down to just… $900 billion… How they do suffer…

I’m allergic to the sun :(

(like actually though, it’s really annoying to manage esp. at really high/low latitudes)
(ty for asking)

… Does it ever worry you that you have to turn once sincere conversations into sad attempts at trolling to save face?

Wait, were you claiming that was the solution you presented before? You… just have no idea what you’re talking about. That’s why you haven’t responded to any of the substantive points anyone has made, except with this baby-tier bait waggling. Good grief are you seriously so insecure you have to resort to this instead of admitting to yourself that you just don’t know enough about the topic to be considered an authority with a respectable position? Come on, have some self respect. When you’re downvoting replies in a days-old thread… You know nobody except us is going to see this, right? What’s the point of doing that except to take what petty victory you can, to cover for the fact you cant find success on the merits of your ideas alone? Please, reflect on your behavior.

Yeah, I wasn’t really sure how to respond to that which is why I tactfully glossed over it instead of saying something unhelpful (like “this is so dumb and wrong that I had to check Trump didn’t say it”).

Russia being able to end the world is the reality in which these decisions are being made and yet Ukraine has not surrendered, their allies are removing the concessions to russian nuclear deterrence they already implemented and the world is re-arming in response to the invasion instead of kowtowing. Like it is trivially easy to show how this is a stupid, hysteronic take because it is proved wrong every second Ukraine continues to resist the invaders.

No, it’s a genuine question because it was unclear. Do you mean “allow Ukraine to use all possible tactical and strategic options available to them” is your solution?

Because if so like… Ukraine has been doing that. The restrictions on direct strikes on russian territory is only for weapons systems provided by NATO member countries, and importantly we haven’t been giving them weapons capable of doing that (except arguably HIMARS, it’s complicated) for a number of reasons (the desire to not entrust sensitive equipment to a force we necessarily do not have direct control over who then would take it into territory controlled by the nation NATO exists in opposition to is one of the big reasons). Ukraine has and has always had the ability to strike deep into russia proper using their own equipment, and (to an extent) they have been doing that for the entirety of the war.

Okay, genuine question: what’s your solution to Russia blowing up the world? Because they can do that. So, what?

The reasoning in this case was that NATO backing of Ukraine could very easily have been seen as direct NATO involvement in an attack on Russia, and thus a justification for nukes to come out. By restricting the weapons given to things that could not be used in “an offensive campaign of retaliatory conquest” (i.e. short range weapons) Russia could not reasonably claim that NATO was doing anything other than helping Ukraine defend itself.

There are arguments to be made here that it was the wrong call to make, but the retort boils down to “russia can end the world” and its hard to argue against that. As the war has progressed over such a time frame, global attitudes towards the situation have strongly coalesced against the “NATO set this up to use their puppet to invade russia” line, as well as it becoming clear Russia won’t accept any end to this war except a military one. Accordingly, NATO feels comfortable with the point we’re at in the frog-boiling process and so the tools given to Ukraine are now ones that expand their options for achieving a military end to this conflict, which include strikes on viable targets in Russia itself.

So all that said, I feel pretty confident in saying the other commentator made that statement without a full appreciation for the situation, and searching for deep insight in their message might be a bit of a fools errand.