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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I don’t think it’s going to happen that way. Body cams are needed if you want to record people working in the field, such as police officers, but for people working at a fixed location, an office or factory or what have you, CCTV cameras are cheaper, less intrusive, and harder for a bad actor to screw with by “accidentally” covering their lens or forgetting to turn their unit on.









  • Batman gives you so many options.

    “It doesn’t mean I don’t care anymore. I don’t want to let you down, honest, but… but it just doesn’t hurt so bad anymore. You can understand that, can’t you? Look, I can give money to the city - they can hire more cops. Let someone else take the risk, but it’s different now! Please! I need it to be different now. I know I made a promise, but I didn’t see this coming. I didn’t count on being happy. Please! Tell me that it’s okay.”

    — Bruce Wayne at his parents’ grave in Mask of the Phantasm

    “Think about it - a world where there’s no crime, no victims, no pain.”

    “And no choice. Who elected you, anyway?”

    “Who elected you? The problem with democracy is, it doesn’t keep you very safe.”

    “It has other virtues. But you seem to have forgotten them.”

    I didn’t forget! I just chose peace and security instead.”

    “You grabbed power!”

    “And with that power, we’ve made a world where no eight-year-old boy will ever lose his parents because of some punk with a gun!”

    *Batman drops his batarang; it clatters to the ground*

    “You win.”

    — Batman loosing a debate with Alternate Universe Totalitarian Batman in the Justice League episode “A Better World”