forearm position in that capture is about half an inch away from "crush the trachea" compliance and a mile away from "control the head, neck and blood supply" compliance. this is battery with intent to cause severe bodily harm.
i would have guessed a null modem adaptor, cuz - why the hell not! but... assuming the USB to serial is a typical DTE (M) then the 9pin to 25pin would likely be (F) to (M), but the potato markings on the mystery adaptor seem to suggest M/M... so... 🤷♂️
no shit. god forbid there could be space to get some important progressive agendas passed here. as the kids say "let the man cook". we can burn him at the stake later, if need be.
Kratsios, 39, cut his teeth in the world of private industry, spending much of his early career at Thiel Capital, a venture capital firm founded by Silicon Valley stalwart Peter Thiel.
there are long standing radicals on the .ml instances, to be sure. I would place the bulk of the current lemmy.ml userbase between Democratic Socialist and Social Democrat (with a strong, vocal splash of authoritarians mixed in there somewhere).
lemmygrad.ml and hexbear are often otherworldly - interesting to watch, ocassionally interesting to engage, but always entertaining if you can pick out the salient arguments from the confusion. love federated systems :-)
probably too much of a sweeping generalization there. I would say (with zero evidence other than my interactions) that after the great reddit migration, those who might say this are likely in the minority.
I cannot defend this other than "the feels", but hey... I think lemmy.ml got moderated a little with the influx of cooler heads.
Make their spouses lose their job for being an ICE spouse
I suspect a non-trivial percentage of the spouses may be victims in abusive reltionships - the loss of employment could make it harder to extract themselves and their kids from the situation.
make their kids ask uncomfortable questions.
as long as the kids are not harrased and they start asking because daddy is a piece of shit? 100% 👍
eyeballs that can be verified remain important, yes. however, privacy and pseudo-anonimity are equally important.
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at this point the sure bet is to disbelieve any trump administration statement (regardless of presented "evidence") as an outright lie unless proven otherwise by multiple independent sources.
this both simplifies your life and points you in the general direction of truth.
forearm position in that capture is about half an inch away from "crush the trachea" compliance and a mile away from "control the head, neck and blood supply" compliance. this is battery with intent to cause severe bodily harm.