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quindraco,

You can punch someone you’re fighting, then punch them again because fhe first punch wasn’t enough, you know. And you won’t be a hypocrite if you explain this in public.

quindraco,

Dog breed has no meaningful impact on predicting behaviour.

Naturally, breed definitionally impacts physiology, which can and will impact how practically dangerous a dog is, but let’s not pretend other big dogs are meaningfully safer than this breed.

quindraco,

Wait, they were hiring people based on skin color? That was legal? What the fuck.

quindraco,

That never stopped politicians from banning a wide array of drugs; I’m sure it won’t stop them here, either.

quindraco,

This article put zero effort into explaining why the children were there in the first place, so I went looking.

Some teens escaped from the Bridge City Center for Youth and in response the Governor started sending children there. Same article:

DOC has identified a vacant building on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary that, with minor modifications, can house many of the juveniles currently at BCCY, while keeping them in separate facilities from adult inmates at all times.

I believe BCCY is juvie of no particular subtype, i.e. we can safely assume these kids committed some crime, but have no basis for speculating what sort of crime.

quindraco,

There’s always a choice, but while Modi’s India is a fairly bad ally, it’s still better than others, like Saudi Arabia. Gotta pick your battles.

Maybe some day when the important conflicts are in a different region we can take India to task over things like their police-sanctioned cybercriminals that keep robbing the elderly.

quindraco,

Solar power. Checkmate, atheists.

quindraco,

Anything conductive and grounded. For example, a lamp with a steel or copper body.

quindraco,

I wonder which motor vehicle breaks more rules, motorcycles or buses. Far and away those are the two vehicles I always assume will ignore traffic rules and I am seldom proved wrong, but I wonder which of the two is best-in-show.

quindraco,

For sure! When a bus violates traffic rules, everyone else gets out of the damn way because it’s a bus. You don’t want to try driving aggressively against one of those. When a bus decides to be in 2 lanes at once without using a turn signal, you just do your best not to be near it.

quindraco,

Here’s why, eloquently explained by another Lemming.

quindraco, (edited )

Discord is a bunch of chat rooms - fundamentally not a forum or fora.

Reddit and Lemmy are message boards full of fora, with each forum inside them full of threads which have branching threads inside them, and so on. Their distinguishing factors are really their methods for sorting posts and discussion threads, but those methods are really significant. Old fora had no voting mechanic.

Whether or not life is superior with a voting mechanic is a subjective question, but I absolutely loathe how on Reddit any post that either dissents from the hive mind or is perceived to gets downvoted to oblivion and suffers additional consequences, like how no-one will answer honest questions if the hive has decided that they don’t like it. Personal example: I once asked on the linguistics subreddit why descriptivist linguistics were preferred to prescriptivist and was downvoted to hell and back. The only replies were to call me a racist. I never got an answer, and I still don’t know. So voting is not the end-all be-all of forum mechanics.

quindraco,

What the article doesn’t mention is that this was a foregone conclusion. I don’t think it’s even legal to plead guilty this early in the process, but if it is, it’s absolutely unheard of. You can view these not guilty pleas as procedural.

quindraco,

During this time, judges may force a person to enter a not guilty plea to move the case on to the next stage.

quindraco,

Itsgoingdown is ironically enough down, so here’s another article from a different source about the issue.

Personal favorite highlight:

[Allegations] include […] being reimbursed for glue and food for activists who spent months camping in the woods near the construction site.

quindraco,

No, they’re implying Dolly has a name.

Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2022 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.6%, the correct number is at least 35.7%. In 2022, it is at least 41.3% (crimeresearch.org)

Two factors explain this discrepancy – one, misclassified shootings; and two, overlooked incidents. Regarding the former, the CPRC determined that the FBI reports had misclassified five shootings: In two incidents, the Bureau notes in its detailed write-up that citizens possessing valid firearms permits confronted the shooters...

quindraco,

48,000 people die from guns each year.

That seems easy to verify, and sure enough, it is false. Here’s a source on it being over 250k. This source corroborates, as of 2019. I would guess the number is much higher now, due to Ukraine. Where are you getting your information?

quindraco,

Regardless of whether violence is a failure of policy or personal behaviour, you need a solution for violence happening to you. What’s your recommendation for Zelenskiy, for example? The violence is happening right now, whether he likes it or not. It is too late to decry that it happened; all he can do now is attempt to deal with it. And to date, no known human has pitched a nonviolent, feasible method.

quindraco,

You’re right, but this whole legal fiction going on is maddening.

The truth is that the GOP wants to draw district maps they think will help the GOP maintain minority rule: it’s about party votes, not skin color. It comes across as being about skin color because the GOP believes they correlate.

Because our electoral laws are written so incompetently, partisan gerrymandering isn’t just legal, it’s expected. So the DNC has to engage the partisan fight the GOP started here on racial grounds because that’s what we made illegal.

The whole thing could be fixed by designing an inherently fair algorithm to automate the districting process, but both the DNC and the GOP will never let that happen. So instead we get this nonsense.

quindraco, (edited )

Does anyone know how caste discrimination is usually accomplished? Unlike with racism or sexism, the basis of the bigotry shouldn’t be remotely visible, and unlike bigotry based on sexuality or religion, it’s not even determinable from the person’s knowledge: everyone knows what they’re attracted to and their own philosophical views, but almost no-one knows who their great-great-great grandparents were. It seems a curious thing to be bigoted based on something so challenging to assess.

quindraco,

The diet thing sounds like classical bigotry for sure, like refusing to promote someone if you know they like matzoh because you assume they’re jewish. I wonder what foods they associate with lower castes.

[News] State Republicans Try to Remove NC Supreme Court Justice for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias (slate.com)

On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...

quindraco,

This is horrible and I don’t want to detract from that, but did the author of this piece forget we were being given a picture?

Earls, the only Black woman on North Carolina’s high court, spoke out about racial bias in her courtroom.

Image in the same article.

Photo from her Facebook.

From Ballotpedia.

Now, of course, white people are 100% fully capable of calling out racial bias. Anita is wholly in the right here and the commission is in the wrong. It’s just brutally stupid showing us she’s white and then claiming she’s black.

quindraco,

How is it dehumanizing? Most humans are female.

quindraco,

This seems to be a butchered version of a Guardian page, with nonsense in it.

OP’s page: “People making $15 per hour ($32,805 per year) or less will be paid $0 per month.” Word salad.

Guardian: “Individuals who make $15 an hour ($32,805 annually) or less will have a $0 monthly payment.” Now that’s coherent.

Here’s the Guardian article. It has a soft paywall, so for any Lemmings who don’t know how to bypass one in their browser, here’s a 12ft link bypassing the paywall.

quindraco,

This link will bypass the soft paywall to the non-plagiarised version.

quindraco,

So now drunk drivers have an incentive to claim it was intentional, not accidental.

The overall idea here is excellent, but it is fundamentally nonsensical to only apply it to drunk drivers and not all killers.

quindraco,

What am I missing? What else would the mouse wheel do?

quindraco,

Went looking for this list. Partial results:

The NACP’s register of international sponsors of war includes Philip Morris International, Alibaba Group Holding, Bacardi, Unilever, Mondelez International, Xiaomi Corporation, P&G, METRO, Auchan, and other brands.

quindraco,

This is amazing, what’s it from?

quindraco,

Me: . o O (Why would anyone claim that truth makes the world worse? Oh! It’s someone from Hexbear trying to make the world as shitty as possible. How utterly expected.)

quindraco,

Same behaviour as on Reddit: sometimes the hivemind will, for no apparent reason, assume someone linking a news source agrees with that source and/or its topic, and downvote (or upvote!) accordingly.

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)

Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election, capping one of the most significant prosecutions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol....

quindraco,

No, it doesn’t. Where are you getting your info?

Possessing Pot by offense count, min-max sentence, min-max fine

  1. 0 days - 1 year, $0-1000
  2. 15 days - 2 years, $0-2500
  3. 90 days - 3 years, $0-5000

(3 is actually 3+ but that does weird things to the list format.)

Separately, Seditious Conspiracy has a max jail time of 20 years (I couldn’t find any cap on its fine), so this means Tarrio is being sentenced for both it and at least 1 other charge (which could be a second count of the same for all I know).

quindraco,

Among several reasons your statement is disingenuous is the incredibly significant point that many weed crimes are not possession. I replied to someone discussing possession with more discussion of possession. Many people are serving time for “weed” without serving time for possession, which you absolutely knew when you posted your comment.

A judge told Kansas authorities to destroy electronic copies of newspaper's files taken during raid (apnews.com)

Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers and cellphones seized in the search were returned....

quindraco,

100% of the time, fast investigations are worthless. Shit takes time to do properly.

quindraco,

If they voted against dethroning their tyrant I think you can stick a fork in any referendum threatening to give more of their people more of a voice in their government.

White House bashes GOP on Big Pharma after unveiling drugs chosen for Medicare price negotiation (thehill.com)

The White House on Tuesday bashed House Republicans for pursuing “handouts” for pharmaceutical companies to highlight its announcement of the first 10 drugs chosen for Medicare price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)....

quindraco,

The drugs that made the price negotiation cut are Johnson & Johnson’s Imbruvica, Stelara, and Xarelto, plus Bristol Myers Squibb’s Eliquis, Merck & Co.’s Januvia, Novartis’s Entresto, Eli Lilly’s Jardiance, AstraZeneca’s Farxiga, Novo Nordisk’s Fiasp, and Amgen’s Enbrel.

quindraco,

Why can’t these newspapers get it through their heads that all actually Latino people hate the “word” Latinx with a passion?

quindraco,

Careful, he just told you he likes it when you throw shade.

quindraco,

Translated poorly into English.

quindraco,

Regardless of method, it’s also deeply stupid to attempt to motivate grade schoolers directly. You have to get their parents on board.

quindraco,

It looks super-low budget. It’ll need to be dirt cheap on release or else everyone will pirate it instead.

quindraco, (edited )

Your quote is not in the article. Here’s the only instance of the word “Telegram” in the article:

The cross-border flight was presented as an accident by Russian blogger Fighterbomber, who runs a Telegram channel with close links to Russia’s air force.

quindraco,

Shooting a plane down with missiles isn’t even a pretend accident.

quindraco,

Google has no idea who “Lobsterman” is, and hence neither do I. Why do we care about some obscure Canadian psychologist?

Ben Shapiro is the unofficial head of incels.

quindraco,

Christian AND Slater, wow!

quindraco,

Meanwhile, inside the salmon.

quindraco,

Bad withdrawal from stepping the dose down slightly sounds unlikely.

quindraco,

Is cannabis legal where you live? It might be a good substitute for the “moderate” alcohol.

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