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Schadrach

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  • Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

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  • The 9th circle in the Inferno was a frozen lake. Though I'd expect Weinstein and Epstein to end up on the ring dedicated to the lustful rather than down on the 9th with the traitors.

  • Black Kansas City teen Ralph Yarl sues white man who shot him for ringing the doorbell

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  • As far as Castle Doctrine goes, that's not really important. What's important is what side of the doorway he's on.

  • Only Cable News Viewers Think Israel isn't Committing a Genocide, Survey Finds

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  • Wait, I can both sides this!

    Israel is committing a genocide. Palestine would probably be committing a genocide if they had the capacity to do so effectively ("from the river to the sea, palestine will be free" doesn't leave much space for Israel to, umm, exist at all?).

  • Black Kansas City teen Ralph Yarl sues white man who shot him for ringing the doorbell

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  • This is why the Castle Doctrine is bullshit. Who the fuck cares if the kid opened the door? That’s not justification enough to shoot him.

    Castle Doctrine only applies to someone entering your home against your will. So if the kid was shot outside the front door then Castle Doctrine doesn't apply. If he was inside the home, then under Castle Doctrine it's reasonable to assume the stranger invading your home doesn't have your best interests in mind and that you don't have a duty to flee from them but instead may defend your home as an extension of self defense.

    Usually the line is drawn at the threshold - if they're outside the threshold then Castle Doctrine doesn't apply. So if he was literally shot for knocking at the door/ringing the doorbell then Castle Doctrine wouldn't apply., but if he was shot while trespassing inside the home...

  • Black Kansas City teen Ralph Yarl sues white man who shot him for ringing the doorbell

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  • Ah yes, let’s ensure only the well off can afford firearms.

    Let's be fair, half the point of an HOA is keeping the poors (and ethnics, but they aren't allowed to say that part out loud any more) out of your neighborhood to maintain property values. So your HOA requiring you to carry some kind of gun insurance wouldn't be completely unreasonable, if you can't afford it (or anything else they want) you shouldn't be living under that HOA.

    Also why I don't live in an HOA, and having an HOA was a red flag when I was looking for a house.

  • After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it

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  • I mean, they do make cheeses with embedded bit of meat, but that's usually pig (specifically bacon).

  • It's movie night. You don't know who's coming but you have to pick a movie everyone vibes with. What do you choose?

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  • If we're going that route then Manos: The Hands of Fate.

  • Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen

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  • Exactly. If there was any question then the punishment is way too permanent to even be considered. But this dude is literally the father of a 14 year old girls child.

    What kind of forcible medical alteration is appropriate for a woman who sexually assaults a younger male? Like, say, any of the various cases where a female teacher has a "relationship"/"sex romp" (aka rape but it's a woman so we don't want to call it that) with a male student?

  • Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen

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  • I mean, nothing about this sounds constitutional to me. Hate to be the “stick up for a piece of shit” guy, but…

    Defending constitutional rights requires sticking up for pieces of shit a lot. There's a famous quote about that, involving defending freedom of speech and defending scoundrels.

  • Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen

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  • What does physical or chemical castration even mean?

    Physical castration is being neutered, aka what we routinely due to male animals we don't intend to breed.

    Chemical castration is essentially being chemically neutered - hormone blockers. Whenever you see someone anti-trans talk about pro-trans people wanting to chemically castrate children that's why - it's the same drugs being used to achieve the same effect - blocking sex hormones.

    And why is this a punishment when he is 100 years old?

    Because castration in LA is only performed in the final week of the prison sentence (presumably because it can't be reversed so as to allow time for appeals), he was in his 50s when convicted and was sentenced to 50 years + castration. So by the time he's in the final week of his prison sentence he would be over 100 should he live that long.

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  • laws written in musket times

    I'm just going to point this out - at the time the 2nd amendment was written revolvers existed, as were weapons that would be the earliest forms of what are now automatic weapons, there was even a relatively quiet rifle that could fire 22 shots per reload. Honestly, right around then was a time of massive innovation in the firearms space, with a lot of ideas and designs not getting much traction for various reasons.

    These were "musket times" not because muskets were the best guns out there, but because muskets were cheap and easy to produce and literally any gunsmith worth the title could produce and repair them easily. Making them cheap to deploy for a military and also the most common gun for a citizen-soldier. Those other guns had limited manufacturing, required specialized knowledge to fix and maintain, or were expensive enough that they weren't common. That last one I mentioned (the Girardoni air rifle) was notable for being carried by the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803 (it didn't see a lot of military use because they were expensive and also required specialized parts and knowledge to maintain - ten men with muskets is a better use of military spending than one guy with a Girardoni).

    Claiming that any firearm more sophisticated than a musket was so far beyond belief that the authors of the 2nd amendment couldn't possibly have imagined it and therefore they shouldn't be counted as "arms" is ridiculous. And also the argument you could use to claim the 1st amendment shouldn't apply to anything other than in person speech or print works, not film or TV or radio or the internet because those are light-years farther outside the realm of things the authors of the 1st Amendment could have imagined than a rifle that can hold and fire 30 rounds.

    should be enshrined forever.

    No one says laws should be enshrined forever, there's a process for changing or revoking them. For regular legislation, passing further legislation is all that's needed. For the constitution, there's an amendment process baked into it that has been used several times and even originalists accept that those amendments were valid, they just assume that the words used mean what they meant when the amendment was written, not what they might mean today if there's a difference.

  • Could Trump Go to Prison? If He Does, the Secret Service Goes, Too

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  • Could you imagine the fucking shit storm putting him in gen pop??

    He'd be too hard to protect in gen pop. The most realistic way to put Trump in prison is to make the entire SHU into a "presidential suite" for Trump and his security detail. Everything else goes through regular prison security as normal, anything or anyone entering or leaving the SHU goes through SS in addition.

  • Demand ad companies take security seriously first and maybe we'll talk.

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  • To take that a step further, it hates key server emulators for Microsoft products more. To the point that AutoKMS and the like are listed multiple times and periodically get relisted as something new so that even if you've flagged it as being allowed it will still eventually get re-blocked in the future.

  • Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

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  • so I don’t understand what your point here is

    It's that all the articles over the last year screaming about the dangers of AI because it can be used for something an interested high school student could use an image editor to do 30 years ago but more easily and arguably at somewhat better quality (depending on the person using photoshop) are being ridiculous because they're blaming the technology instead of the weirdo using it to doctor an image of that girl at their school and pass it around. And yes, anyone who makes and distributes on of these images of someone should be nailed for revenge porn, harassment and whatever else might apply. I say "and distributes" only because if they never distribute it no one would ever know it exists so there would be no opportunity to bust them.

    The best use (ie only good use) for one of these is to feed it an image of something that is definitely not the right kind of image for it and seeing what horrors it invents trying to fill in the blanks. Hand it your buddy with a beer belly and a mountain man beard or a dog or garden gnome something.

  • Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

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  • Also I have a friend who already has huge tits, and I’ve seen them IRL so I’m curious what it would do

    Being serious for a moment, it depends on the source image. If it can tell where the contours of the tits are in the source image, they'll be closer to the right size and shape - otherwise it's going to find something it thinks are the contours and map out tits that match those, then generic torso that matches the shape of where it thinks the torso is and skintone of the face. It's not magic, it's just automating what a horndog with photoshop, a photo of you and a big enough porn collection to find someone with a similar body type could do back in the 90s.

  • Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

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  • Now I have this image of an OnlyFans girl who just fake nudes all her pictures. Would make doing public nudity style pictures a lot easier.

  • Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

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  • The AI angle is just buzzword fearmongering though - this is something you could do with photoshop back in the 90s (and people did, usually with celebrities and with varying levels of quality).

  • U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs

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  • It would come down to exactly what authority has been granted to the FTC by Congress and whether or not this falls under that. And not a broad strokes description, but just what power Congress actually delegated to them and no further. The recent EPA cases are examples of that in action.

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  • I mean they haven't just dismantled entire agencies yet. The closest they've done is lean on a pretty basic idea - the rule making power those agencies have is power that belongs to Congress and is narrowly delegated to the agencies by Congress.

    This means that such agencies cannot make rules that contradict legislation passed by Congress and can only make rules within the span of things delegated to them and no further (because Congress only delegated the power that Congress actually delegated and nothing more, even if it is related or feels like it should fall under their remit based on the name of the agency). Hence why the FCC can place controls on the content of radio or broadcast TV but has no say over the content of cable TV or streaming services - their power over the former is tied to their control and licensing of the use of the airwaves as a public commons (which they were delegated pretty broad authority over) which simply doesn't apply to cable or streaming.