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Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors
  • It's amazing how almost every job not in the government already acknowledges and penalises this as a crime. But because these folks actually instate the rules they have to follow their somehow exempt from the same standards.

  • Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death
  • You're assuming that the cops percieve you as a threat and are guaranteed to kill you no matter what you do. I won't deny that's happened but its very far from the norm. In a lot of cases the cops are stupid, or negligent or scared and prematurely react without foresight. Add a civillian possessing a gun and and flagrantly threatening to use it and you turn a situation that could be disarmed into a inevitable violent conflict.

  • Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death
  • Most people don't wanna kill each other. And shooting back is probably going to raise the likelihood of getting murdered (i don't have any source for this). That said it is still absurd how the police flagrantly disregard peoples liberties, extra judicially execute them and get away with it with impunity. The societal contract is dead.

  • TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell
  • I mean its a company alerting you to an impending loss of service and asking the only people who can turn course to do something. Its not much different to pornhub putting up a "no longer accessible, reach out to your senator" banner instead of aggressive privacy invading age checks. I think a lot of american websites did something similar when gdpr basically forced them to stop tracking us without consent.

  • TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell
  • Facebook was a key factor in the rise of trump and the January insurrection. I respect you're realising the lack of substance in this pov, I just want to say I don't see the appeal in an American company shovelling Russian propaganda over a Chinese one shovelling Chinese propaganda. Not like we're gonna do anything either way to remove the grip these companies have on people. Just push them to ones that feel more "like we are".

  • What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
  • Is the issue their censoring content globally or just at all. Twitter for example is known to cave to local governmental pressure but I suppose its limited to a particular region and people outside of there are still allowed access. Really I'm more disturbed anyone is careless enough to rely on social media for news. It's no secret their all just regurgitating what they or the platform owners want. Most youtubers actively avoid controversial content just to avoid demonitisation; if youre on a platform like truth social id be surprised if you ever get an impartial voice. I literally only scroll tiktok for cute and funny vids.

  • ‘I am so scared of them now’: Burned from overspending, some ‘buy now, pay later’ users warn others away
  • I think it's a gray line for some folks. I recently got my first credit card and I use it for all day to day expenses. It's amazing how easy it is to get side tracked while spending. You only having to down pay a certain amount of the outstanding credit and the limits are set by the provider not you. If i didn't keep monitoring it I think it'd be really easy to get a bill one month that just eats out all my other income.

  • How often do you update your system?
  • Once a week. I have to use proprietary realtek ethernet drivers and they need to be rebuilt with each kernel upgrade. I haven't figured out a clean way to plug them into packman and rebuild on kernel updates so I just update, reboot, rebuild and install drivers when I notice I'm on WiFi instead of ethernet.

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