I couldn’t find the link for this video, which is no wonder, because it’s several years old and reddit has since deleted every version of it I could find hosted there. surprise, surprise.

I did manage to find the other angle though, but you’ll have to make due with a facebook link, because that’s all I got.

https://www.facebook.com/ChilenoPromedio2.0/videos/1337891916394316/

notice the cop that gets knocked down the second time is the same as the first.

they are, look up the video. this is from Chile in 2019 and there are multiple angles of this takedown.

no, in the video of the protest, we see him punching downwards and not swinging. this happened in Chile in 2019. this is not the only angle of the fight either, there’s a video that’s close up within maybe 20 ft on the other side.

he immediately got up and the protestor did basically the same thing to him again before running off as more cops arrived.

be advised that if you’re doing dev work on Bazzite, you might have to make use of a distrobox depending on the software you use. for example, VSCode is available as a Flatpak, but if you want to use other things with it like NPM, you’ll have much less headache trying to get it to work by installing it in a distrobox.

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/integrate_vscode_distrobox.md

it’s all good

That reference is old enough that Seinfeld himself wouldn’t date it.

I think the midset of “Everyone’s opinion is valid and should be heard” is more of a neo-liberal perspective

well, that’s not what I said, so yeah, I agree with you.

the rest of the comment totally misrepresented what was happening here. the protestor isn’t backing away, they’re moving downwards. the officer isn’t swinging the baton, he’s punching straight downwards with it because he didn’t get a chance to swing.

now that you are up to speed, try again.

what does that have to do with how is the baton being used here? is he unable to punch with it because you think the proper way for it to be used is a swinging motion? did you get elected the arbiter of how a baton is used or something? this is very amusing to me.

for that matter, even if it was being swung, a hook is also rotational movement, with the force concentrated in the furthest point (the fist), and boxers still roll to avoid or lessen the force of it by moving perpendicular to the swing. I’m curious as to why you think some random person on Lemmy has a better grasp of the physics of a swing than, say, a winner of the Golden Gloves. do you figure you’re eloquent enough to argue many decades of practical evidence that contradicts you? I’m willing to listen to you try it.

it hurt itself in its confusion!

“I don’t like how you’ve chosen to express yourself, so I’m going to stick my head into the sand so I don’t hear your concerns.”

How very white liberal of you. Really channeling your inner Jordan Lund.

your argument was that mine was wrong because the baton is being swung with rotational force instead of linear force. the baton was brought straight downwards. is that rotational energy, or linear?

regardless, you would be wrong anyway, because hooks are rotational and boxers still move away from them to lessen their force. I’m going to accept the decades of practical experience they have over the opinions on how physics works from some random person on Lemmy.

You don’t seem to have paid attention to the meme. The baton isn’t being swung.

Well one, the baton wasn’t being swung, it was being brought down, and two, the protestor was moving away from the direction of the tip and towards the ground.

So your argument is that since it’s increasing velocity, the force given from its momentum is increasing, but decreasing that momentum by robbing it of some velocity does not decrease the force.

Does my summary of your argument sound correct to you?

it’s OK to just admit you don’t know and were wrong. it doesn’t make you less of a person. this comment didn’t even argue anything, you’re just dragging the conversation out because you don’t have a good response, but want to get the last word in.

I don’t need to? boxing and MMA have existed for decades now, it’s been recorded likely thousands of times by now. see my reply to the other guy.

it’s called impulse-momentum theorem. if you apply enough force to an object in motion over a long enough period of time, you reduce its momentum.

if you had fast enough reflexes, you could stop a punch to the head without it harming you by moving away from it at nearly the speed it was approaching you. while no human can reliably do that, moving away from any blow reduces the force of that blow by an amount that is measurable.

in boxing, they call it rolling with the punches. even if you are hit, rolling with a punch lessens the blow of that punch when it connects.

since you’re just asking questions, it’s called impulse-momentum theorem. if you apply enough force to an object in motion over a long enough period of time, you reduce its momentum.

if you had fast enough reflexes, you could stop a punch to the head without it harming you by moving away from it at nearly the speed it was approaching you. while no human can reliably do that, moving away from any blow reduces the force of that blow by an amount that is measurable.

this is why funding education is so important, people. this is a simple concept that anyone should understand.

it’s 2025, and people on Lemmy are asking why stealing the velocity of an object over time reduces its momentum.

I’m not going to waste my time explaining this to you. if you really are interested in impulse-momentum theorem, watch a video on how seatbelts, air bags, and crumple zones protect you when you get into a car accident.

It’s also a feature of Piefed.