Em Adespoton @ adespoton @lemmy.ca

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In most situations I’d think you meant “boost his ego” but in this case, I think “boast” is more accurate.

They’ll likely deport him eventually.

Pew’s latest study suggests that Trump would have won even if they all voted.

Mostly because the majority of Americans seem to be OK with face eating leopards.

Elbows up!

It’s a shame the US no longer meets international medical standards.

On the plus side, he found out all of this BEFORE entering the US, instead of entering and being abducted by ICE.

Lesson here: Don’t accept a plea deal if you’re not born in the US to US citizens, unless you’re OK to be deported when your plea deal ends.

So… guy was convicted of distributing prescription drugs, claimed to be not guilty, accepted a plea deal, served his time, got his community service commuted to probation, presumably due to unlikelihood to reoffend, THEN got picked up by ICE to be deported to a country he hasn’t lived in for 34 years, and winds up mysteriously dead in custody.

This is great, but a) it isn’t going to pass, and b) what about cops going under cover and plainclothes officers? So they get a carve out, or are they made illegal?

How about SWAT teams in gas masks? Sheriffs working in dusty areas wearing bandanas? Riot visors?

The challenge today is that their legal job may now require them to do things that are constitutionally questionable and ethically repugnant. So even if they’re good people and upstanding citizens, they may be required to, at any point in their day, to choose between doing the right thing and losing their job.

They only have to choose wrong once to no longer be the “good cop”.

Now, because of the way policing works in the US, it may be possible to have an intrinsically good police department. At least until a state or federal agency rolls into town and demands they do something they wouldn’t otherwise do; then they become complicit.

After all… in any other organized gang, there can be good people, but they’re still going to be found guilty of gang activity due to supporting the others.

s/wrecking/wreaking/g

It was distracting the pedant in me.

Now that that’s over with, let’s have fun and create the reality WE want!

Let MuskCo know that it doesn’t own the narrative. Strathcona is for people, not corporations.

Sounds like they’ve still got some work to do to identify the areas that have been bottom trawled.

Thing is, I’ve been out of fisheries since the 90s, but back then bottom trawling was illegal in territorial waters, I thought? All the surface trawlers would never have done it anyway because they understood how destructive it could be for future years.

The upgrade means the app no longer relies on Apple Pay metadata: it can pull tracking numbers from any retailer’s confirmation email, whether you used a card or paid cash on delivery. The parsing is handled locally by Apple Intelligence, so the receipts never leave your iPhone unless you later choose to sync them through iCloud.

Well that went by fast….

Those dog groomers are so proud of what they do, too.

Do they give 72 hours notice before THEY show up?

Little Snitch on a Mac.

There are an infinite number of programs that could do this. Will they? Probably not.

Best thing is to install a trustworthy personal firewall, and block all outbound network access for all processes, and then enable as needed. This won’t stop Windows itself, but it will give you a heads-up if something else is trying to send data somewhere and you can make an informed choice at the time.

Possibly they found that pulling the ad would give it the most reach? After all, they kept the digital assets in place.

Subject: That lawnmower you borrowed

Dear sir,

I am SLAMMING you for your delay in returning my lawnmower. Please return today, or you won’t BELIEVE what happens next! 9 out of 10 billionaires don’t WANT you to know!

Sincerely, Your neighbor.