I dunno, I visited America during the first Trump term and only took fully wiped devices, used fresh accounts with passwords saved to a manager with none of my usual accounts and a burner phone.
I don't need some hog grubbing through my history and finding records of American friends chatting with me about communism and other fun things.
I got groped at every TSA checkpoint, but luckily that was the extent of the attention I got. IMO it's just smart to cover yourself, not an overreaction. I did similar shit traveling to China. I value my privacy and I'd rather be sweated for appearing too clean than the alternatives.
I don't think so. He might have gotten arrested but I doubt he would even be charged, or more likely charges would have been dropped after investigation.
People have defended themselves with firearms to deadly effect and avoided prosecution. Thinking specifically of some elderly woman with an unlicensed shotgun who killed a guy in the last handful of years, her case would have been harder to make since she had the gun and, I guess, had forethought to use it as a self defense tool.
Technically if you have a registered firearm and you happen to have it out of secure storage for a legitimate reason, like cleaning the thing or heading out to a gun range, and if you find yourself needing to defend yourself in a situation where deadly force is necessary, then using your gun in self defense is theoretically permissible.
The hero in this situation didn't bring a weapon or plan for violence and he came under fire from the disarmed guy's accomplice almost immediately. He had no way of knowing whether the man he disarmed would pull out a handgun or a knife, but he did know the man was intent on murder and that the attack was ongoing.
So yeah, I think he could've shot him without breaking the law. That said I've written a lot of qualifying words here for a reason, the law is not applied evenly. A more common scenario is knives- I've seen contradictory outcomes from people killing in self defense, where one situation resulted in no charges filed and another almost identical situation resulted in prosecution.
He was smart not to shoot. Restrained, IMO. Having that gun in his hands could've easily gotten him shot by a cop regardless of righteousness, so it was wise to put it down once the shooter had retreated far enough away.
It's so frustrating. The Prime Minister's own Jewish Envoy w/e the fuck is aligning with the lunatics in Israel publicly blaming the Australian government for this.
We're gonna see some more utterly fucked legislation real soon.
Fucking pisses me off I can't even just feel depressed and upset that a place I used to live got shot the fuck up and a bunch of innocent people from a community I have friends in and connections to were murdered and terrorised.
Like, my mind keeps flipping from the natural disgust and sadness at this happening, to fearing for the Muslim and MENA population, to fearing the backlash, over and over.
I accept that this was a terror attack and that I wasn't who it was directed at, but none the less I'm terrified of what comes next.
Hate to make this about myself, cuz that's not really what I'm trying to express, it's just so obscene to see this shit get rolled into political capital before the blood has even been mopped up. This is so fucked.
I had to double check that it isn't just a photoshop of his mugshot. Same angle and expression etc. But the portrait shows the post-stroke slackness on the right side of his face.
Excerpts from letters to the future from Soviet school children, from time capsules sealed in 1967 and opened in 2017.
“The youth of our region is gifting you, the young ones of the 21st century, with Koryazhma that has been turned from a small village into a modern town within ten years, Severdodvinsk that we built on land that used to be swamps, and the colossal wood industry of the North: Kotlass, Solombal and Arkhangelsk factories. We know that you will have better lives than us,” the letter continues. “You will do great things in our galaxy, will make our planet great. We are a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland. But we also know that you will be a little jealous of our restless young generation. We have a clear aim, a great future ahead of us and lots of things to accomplish. We have things that we can invest out hearts, brains, energy and labour in, and this is the source of our happiness.”
“Dear descendants, today you are celebrating a unique day: a hundred years of Soviet rule. […] We know our time is interesting, but yours is much more so. We are building communism and you live it. We believe that you have perfectly equipped our blue planet, colonised the Moon, landed on Mars; that you are continuing the exploration of outer space that we, people of the first 50 years, have begun, and that your ships are sailing across the galaxy. We believe you are holding talks about scientific and cultural collaboration with representatives of other galaxies, alien civilisations. We believe that the work that our fathers and grandfathers started 50 years ago and which we share, you will finish and bring to victory.”
“You’ve never had to chant: ‘Shame on the Israeli aggressors!’, you’ve never had to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, read news about provocations in revolutionary Cuba. How far away these events are from you! […] Young crowd of 2017! We are sure that you have justified the trust your heroic predecessors have invested in you, that you have created a new world.”
I have probably less than 1BTC from mining a thousand years ago. I haven't looked for it yet but I'm sure I will eventually lol.