I'm Canadian so idk about FBI, but I do know a guy that became an RCMP officer, and he said they administered a polygraph, and he indicated everyone seemed to believe it was a real thing.
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People who use lie detectors as a machine they think can detect lies are stupid.
The real purpose of the lie detector is to trick the suspect into thinking it can detect lies, to the point where they confess.
Ancient trick. The voodoo magic chicken. "This chicken can tell all lies from truth, and it says you are lying." Who doesn't believe in voodoo magic? So the thief, knowing the jig is up, confesses.
Fun fact, the reason we all call it "climate change" and not "global warming" was because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to do so, as they deemed it less "scary" to the public:
In interviews, Republican politicians and their aides said they agreed with the strategist, Frank Luntz, that it was important to pay attention to what his memorandum, written before the November elections, called ''the environmental communications battle.''
In his memorandum, Mr. Luntz urges that the term ''climate change'' be used instead of ''global warming,'' because ''while global warming has catastrophic communications attached to it, climate change sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge.''
Also, he wrote, ''conservationist'' conveys a ''moderate, reasoned, common sense position'' while ''environmentalist'' has the ''connotation of extremism.''
President Bush's speeches on the environment show that the terms ''global warming'' and ''environmentalist'' had largely disappeared by late last summer. The terms appeared in a number of President Bush's speeches in 2001, but now the White House fairly consistently uses ''climate change'' and ''conservationist.''
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/us/a-call-for-softer-greener-language.html
What drives me insane is how everyone on the left just... went along with it. Now we retroactively rewrite history and claim that they were always separate terms with entirely different distinct meanings. And knowing that so many highly educated, inquisitive, independent thinking people didn't think to question that or look into that, it frightens me.
Matters to his voters.
Carney needs to call them out and publicly state that the taxes are never going to end because Trump is using them as a fundraising scheme.
Yeah but good luck holding a sign that says "Don't shop here, they hire immigrants".
Lobby the government to stop doing that. In the meantime, teach them their rights, how to unionize, help them with food security and finding a place to live, so that they aren't in such a precarious position that makes exploitation so profitable.
The problem is when immigrants from countries with lower labour standards and poorer conditions are effectively used as "scabs", to suppress wage growth and unionization. And I fear the capitalists who benefit from this are pushing the "you just hate immigrants" narrative to protect it.
When my brother was half-awake after raising a baby, he was at the liquor store with his friend to buy a bottle of wine, and the guy at the counter asked "...your ID?" and he heard "Are you ready?" so he just said "Ready for what?" "Your ID!" "Yes I am ready! Let's go!"
Other guy had to step in and say "he's very tired, just had a baby".
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The RCMP is the federal police that investigate federal crimes, like the FBI, and also do local policing for areas without a local police force.
Nowadays the nerds either go corporate or are too autistic to apply to anything.