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  • Minnesota could prosecute the ICE shooter. Trump can’t pardon him.

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  • No. The "reasonable person" standard is applied. Would a reasonable person in the position of the imperiled person believe they faced a credible, criminal, imminent, threat of death or grievous bodily harm? If so, anyone present may use any level of force that a reasonable person would believe necessary to stop that threat.

    Even if we give him the benefit of an unreasonable doubt and say he was sufficientlt imperiled, "Necessary" is what is going to hang this guy: the level of "force" "necessary" to end the "imminent threat" was to take a half-step to the right. "Sidestep-Right" is the extent of the force he was justified in using against her here.

  • Minnesota could prosecute the ICE shooter. Trump can’t pardon him.

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  • Under the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine, even if he is fully acquitted in Federal court, he can later be charged and convicted in State court for the same actions; this is not considered Double Jeopardy.

    Double Jeopardy applies to the offense, not the act. It is an offense against the state to violate its law against homicide; it is an offense against the federal government to violate its law against homicide. The same act creates two offenses; each can be prosecuted independent of the other.

    (I haven't agreed with this doctrine in the past, but this particular case has forced me to consider factors of which I was previously unaware.)

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    White House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarily

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  • i’m well aware.

    Clearly, not.

    where’s the alliance in it?

    Their shared objective in 1939 was to carve up and annex Europe between them. That one party to the alliance unilaterally terminated the alliance does not mean that the alliance never existed.

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  • Luigi was a lone wolf.

    He's not celebrated because he's a lone wolf. He's celebrated (by both the left and the right) because he struck the oligarchy. Strip out that cancer, and the underlying system is fairly manageable and responsive.

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  • Are you forgetting that it goes “a well-ordered militia…”

    "Regulated", not "ordered", but I understand your point.

    The Left and the Right both celebrate Luigi. Our differences are not nearly as significant as our commonalities.

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  • Constitutionally, the militia is the whole body of the people, and We The People are most definitely armed.

    You are a member of an armed militia.

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    White House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarily

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  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • cost != price.

    The costs involved with that touchscreen are in the tens of dollars, and much lower than the myriad physical hardware it replaces. The costs of producing the car are considerably lower. The price manufacturers charge for that vehicle are considerably higher.

    Try to replace a defective touchscreen: the charge for the proprietary replacement screen is more than a flagship phone, but provides fewer capabilities than a budget tablet.

  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • A $200 tablet and $50 holder is much more capable than the built-in touch screen. The built in touch screen is adding more $2500 to the price of the vehicle.

  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • Phone holders are wonderful in a car. Get rid of the built-in touch screens entirely.

  • 'Foldy Bird' uses your foldable hinge to play Flappy Bird, and it hurts my soul

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  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • You can do that, or you can falsify your calculations, claiming more dependents than you actually have, reducing your withholding.

    You can also go the contractor route, operating as a separate business rather than an employee. 1099 income has no withholding.

    People use "exempt from withholding" on a W4 when the majority of their income is from contracting or self-employment and they file their own quarterly estimates.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • You can actually do that. Read the W4 a little more closely.

  • Trump Says Maduro Captured After US Airstrikes Hit Venezuela

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  • That's exactly why he is invading Venezuela.

    The courts have been holding him back from deploying national guard - let alone active-duty troops - domestically. He's got ICE, but he wants more. He wants to declare martial law. He wants troops in the cities. Active-duty, Federal troops, not weekend warriors. The courts say he can't do that without the Alien Enemies act, and they say he can't invoke that act without a war.

    So we have a war.

  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • a flight of helicopters which could be MH60 Sea Hawk

    In the videos I saw, the helicopters were twin-rotor design. Some variant of the CH-47 Chinook.

  • Things ChatGPT told a mentally ill man before he murdered his mother

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  • All of what it says depends on the input.

    The user is not the only entity supplying input. The operators of the system provide the overwhelming majority of the input.

    It is incapable of lying since that requires intent, incapable of manipulation since that requires intent.

    The operators of the system certainly possess intent, and are completely capable of manipulation.

  • HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden

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  • I haven't kept up with the development side of it...

    Clicking through the links on F-droid, their issue tracker (https://lists.sr.ht/~petercxy/shelter) is active as of three weeks ago. Author's github shows commits as of November 2024, and suggests a custom F-droid repository.

  • HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden

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  • Try "Shelter". It's available on F-droid. It's an app that lets you manage your phone's "Work Profile". I use it to house scummy corpo apps that I occasionally need, but don't want running all the time. From inside the work profile, HSBC shouldn't be able to see apps installed outside of it.

  • Trump urges Republicans to ditch filibuster rule in US Senate

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  • I challenge the effectiveness of protesting in general. Doesn't seem like it has been effective at all since the 1960s.

    Take the Just Stop Oil protests for example: all they have actually achieved is harsher punishments for jaywalking.

  • Male Student Allegedly Created AI Nudes of 13-Year-Old Girl & School Suspended Her, Not Him

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  • Immediately after they accused you, did your school put you in unsupervised, close proximity with your accusers?

    Or did the school keep you separated, and/or supervise your accuser's interactions with you?

    Whether against the boy in retaliation for harassment, or against the girl in retaliation for a false accusations, violent retribution was and easily foreseeable and highly likely outcome after the accusations.

    The school may not have had sufficient evidence to distinguish victim from perpetrator. The principal indicated he believed the girls were lying; that they were making false claims about the boy. And yet, he put the girl on the bus with the boy, without supervision adequate to prevent a fight.

    He put someone he believed to be a victim in close proximity with someone he believed to be a perpetrator, and

    <Pikachu face>

    a fight broke out. Like that result wasn't at all predictable.

    Nobody is upset that the investigation and criminal case against the boy is incomplete. The delay is not the problem here.

    Please acknowledge the actual problem: The school fucked up their immediate response, and that fuckup instigated a chain of events resulting in their punishment of the person we now know to be the victim.