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FBI Labels Anti-Fascists and Anti-Racists as Violent Extremists (unicornriot.ninja)

A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled “Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the American...

quindraco,

Names are meaningless. The allies were fighting the “National Socialists”, who weren’t Socialists. Likewise, “Defund the Police” movement members need not actually support defunding the police - supporting lowering their funding without lowering it to zero still qualifies.

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A thing which dies for your meal. What they grow in the lab is living tissue, a mass of living cells.

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So does broccoli.

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Same thing happens if you eat broccoli.

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Huggies are not the only diapers.

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A person turning right on red fundamentally lacks right of way: when someone doing that gets in a collision, it was inherently an illegal right turn without the law changing. I don’t see how changing the law from one kind of that turn being illegal to another would change the risks in any meaningful way.

quindraco,

Completely non-functional solution. The (starving) people of Gaza aren’t allowed to vote in any kind of election.

quindraco,

I’m deeply unfamiliar with Arkenfox, but does it really supercede NoScript? One of my primary uses for NoScript is bypassing soft paywalls.

quindraco,

Doing that doesn’t teach children to share - it teaches them to avoid getting caught because both the abuser and the victim will be punished, so even as the victim it’s best to keep your abuse private.

quindraco,
  1. Absolutely everyone with an interest in a self-defense firearm would prefer a “high capacity” one. The only guns that aren’t high capacity are single-shot and revolvers, both useless for self-defense in general.
  2. High caliber is not relevant here; we are discussing all weapons Connecticut has defined as “assault”, including low-caliber ones, not specifically e.g. .50s. For example, some AR platform rifles fire 22 caliber rounds, very famously a low caliber by anyone’s definition. 2A) If it were relevant, you would be wrong, as low-caliber weapons are completely useless against bears and other large wildlife, as well as anyone in body armor. People don’t buy self-defense firearms knowing what threat they will need to stop.
  3. Same again for Rifle; the statutes in question label many non-Rifles as “assault”. 3A) Rifles are significantly more accurate than handguns and hence are significantly more credible for home defense than handguns, whose only benefit is portability for self-defense on the go. Given the choice between a handgun or a rifle for home defense, only a fool would choose a handgun. Because home defense can include close-quarters combat and is never going to include very long distances, a relatively short-barreled rifle is your best bet - only a fool would choose a long rifle optimized for hunting long-distance targets.
quindraco,

For starters, let’s be clear: Jacob Brown committed battery, a violation of Louisiana state law. This case is about an alleged violation of Federal law and simply isn’t a battery case. That means it’s not as cut and dry as “we have this guy on video committing battery with a flashlight, of course he’s guilty”.

This is what Jacob Brown was charged with violating: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242

So if you want to claim this case is open and shut or cut and dry, you need to point to some element of that law Jacob violated and then explain how it’s so obvious he violated that element.

My first guess, and to be clear, I am speculating, is that they tried to prove Jacob battered Aaron because Aaron was black. That means proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Jacob doesn’t simply beat everyone up, which is very difficult to prove, especially since so many cops genuinely do simply beat everyone up.

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Yes.

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It’s not about being correct, it’s about how the mathematics of voting works. American Presidential elections are fundamentally designed to force you into a binary choice. This is fixable ans so of course Congress refuses to fix it, but the problem is real, not a delusion.

quindraco,

Absolute nonsense. Cities inherently suck in a way that can’t be fixed and no rational person would ever choose to live in one if genuinely given the choice. Being that close to so many other people, which is the definition of city, is the optimal way to ensure suffering. No thank you.

quindraco,

Trademarks are a government-enforced (i.e. publicly-mandated) monopoly, which is fundamentally antithetical to capitalism.

Capitalism: “an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.”

For sure, there are many shades of grey to be had here, and the world has 0 purely capitalist societies (in fact, such a society is inherently impossible). But every time the public controls trade and industry, e.g. when enforcing trademark law, that isn’t capitalism.

quindraco,

“Libertarian conservative” makes exactly as much sense as “authoritarian liberal” and has the same energy as “lawful chaotic” or “evil good”.

quindraco,

Cubits measure length, not area.

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The jury convicts, the judge sentences.

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It’s weird even thinking of “will” as a verb. It involves no action, unlike every other verb.

“I will.” is like the sentence “You dolt.” Neither contains any action. I’m willing to accept linguists think of the word as a verb, but I’m also deeply confused why they would.

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Connect lets you subscribe, but right now I am using a mix of Connect, Liftoff, and Jerboa. I think I like Jerboa best so far.

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There is no SUV in this picture.

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Why are you riding your bike on the sidewalk?

What would happen if you kept adding water to the earth?

As a hypothetical, say it became easy to grab water from objects in space and then move it places that needed (Africa / the gulf). What would the end results be for the global climate over time? Would you just end up with a flooded earth? Would temperatures rise or fall as time goes on?

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And webbed toes.

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It is generally regarded as exactly fair for anyone to charge anything they want when selling their property.

Do you really want the government to simply dictate to you how much you can charge for things on Etsy or Ebay?

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