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“Killings at sea” is a better phrase than some I’ve heard, but I wish they’d emphasize that we are using our military to murder civilians. They are non-military targets.

They were not charged with a crime. They had no chances to defend themselves. They received nothing remotely resembling due process. They were not convicted by a court, nor given the death penalty. We in the US do not execute people for possessing or transporting drugs.

Our military is simply murdering people.

The question isn’t whether a flung sandwich can cause bodily harm. It’s whether that flung sandwich did cause bodily harm. They do make that clear in the article. The title simply doesn’t reflect that.

Also, like they talked about in the article, the evidence didn’t match the officer’s testimony. He said that the sandwich exploded all over him and got mustard everywhere. But pictures of the sandwich after it landed showed the wrapper still fully covering the sandwich.

The guy who threw the sandwich probably committed some sort of minor crime, but it wasn’t the one he was charged with, and it’s hard to believe the prosecution when their star witness seems to be lying his ass off.

I have heard that the Tesla board is stacked with people who Elon personally chose. So that is why they constantly give him money and basically do not act anything like a public company. I suspect they are all stealing from the company’s shareholders.

So just firing Elon is not enough. The board needs to be completely replaced, and the new board needs to file the biggest lawsuit in history against Elon and the former board members. That’s really the bare minimum for Tesla to recover.

But most likely, the company simply needs to go under and let some other company buy their IP.

$2000 a person won’t even offset the additional cost from the ACA subsidy reduction. So, a one-time check that would only cover several months of the recurring cost that he’s given us.

Imagine you are a government. You train soldiers to become elite killing machines. Then, you abuse them and abandon them when they are suffering.

The US has been doing this exact thing for centuries to untold numbers of soldiers. I’d have expected at least a few Punishers to have been created. The abuse reliably creates alcoholics, but not Punishers, and I don’t really understand why.

Stop appeasing Nazis.

I thought that, in this case, the headline pretty much summed up the article without being misleading or anything:

Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern slammed Vance, saying he should be “ashamed.”

He wrote on X: “JD Vance grew up on nutrition assistance provided by the federal government. Now, he’s ripping SNAP away from millions of hungry kids growing up in poverty. Pulling the ladder up when you reach the top is not the American way. He should be ashamed.”

So I’m not sure what you’re complaining about. Shouldn’t you make that sort of comment after you’ve read the article yourself? Because I think if you’d read the article, you’d know that the headline pretty much says what’s in the article.

House Republicans created a rule earlier this year that will block resolutions on the tariffs from getting a floor vote.

When I heard it described, they said basically that the House decided to automatically rubber stamp whatever tariffs Trump made.

Here is the first clause of Article I Section 7 of the US Constitution:

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;

While this means that they do have the power to create a bill that delegates their authority, it’s hard to see this tariff nonsense as anything but an abdication of their constitutional duties and a weakening of the checks and balances that are supposed to be built-in to our democracy.

Maybe the founding fathers never expected representatives to just hand over their power so easily. Like, no matter how idiot-proof you make something, America will always invent a bigger idiot.

There’s not enough evidence? Then why did you call a fucking press conference about it? Imagine you’re a doctor or scientist and you have to work with the world’s biggest moron as the leader of your organization…

It can’t be a one time fork. Whenever his propaganda changes, he’s going to want to give different instructions to his AI and then regenerate the entire encyclopedia like he already did.

It’s a different use case from an encyclopedia that is based on facts and the truth.

Except when it comes to tariffs.

Exactly. Some people will be “poor” no matter how big their salary is. They’ll be unable to accumulate any savings because they spend as much as they make, and then add credit card debt on top of it.

Yep. Billionaires only care about that number (their net worth) going up. It doesn’t help them in any substantive way when the number goes up. But they don’t have anything else to give their lives meaning. Just to have some number go up and to have their number be higher than other people’s numbers.

If they didn’t care about that number, and only cared about their selfish lifestyle, without comparing to others, for example, then with the value of money today, they’d probably stop bothering to hoard money long before they hit a billion dollars. It’s a pathetic excuse for a life to keep accumulating like billionaires do. They don’t care who they hurt as long as that fucking number gets bigger.

A lot of herbivores will eat meat opportunistically, even if they’re not starving. It’s an easy way of getting quick nutrients.

A prominent Protestant cleric from Northern Ireland said Charles should abdicate if he prayed with the pope. Kyle Paisley, a reverend with the Free Presbyterian church and son of the late unionist politician Ian Paisley senior, told the BBC that the joint prayers would break the King’s oath to uphold the Protestant faith.

This sounds a lot like bullshit to me, but I don’t know what exact oath Charles swore. I’d expect that the head of a Christian church would be permitted to pray with anybody they choose, even an “enemy”.

Then you cannot rely on mail in ballots because sometimes mail gets lost. Really if you want to make sure that every vote must count, no exceptions, then you have to design a new method of absentee voting.

The moment that a ballot has left the voter’s possession, it needs to be tracked and kept securely like we do at my local polling place, or else there’s no way to count every vote, no exceptions. So we need something extra for absentee or mail-in ballots.

The line has to be drawn somewhere, is the problem.

The current line is that the vote was accepted by the time that the ballots were counted, and I don’t think you should move the line simply because it’s a close race.

He can just “fix” that by sending in the National Guard.

It’s interesting. I’m going to ignore for a second which political party won, etc.

Her ballot was returned by the postal service, despite how she used a preprinted address label that was sent to her.

And had her vote been counted, it would have tied the election.

I’m inclined to say that her vote wasn’t cast in time, even though it wasn’t her fault. I’m sure there are a lot of people who had similar things happen and don’t end up having their vote counted. For example, road closures, transit cancellations, bad weather, lost mail. As long as it’s not a widespread problem, you have to draw the line somewhere and say that the ballot wasn’t cast in time.

Greta Thunberg said that the Israelis bound her and placed her next to an Israeli flag, and then kicked her whenever the flag touched her. So, they even mildly tortured an internationally famous person who was not Palestinian, and who they knew would be released and would share the story.

So, if they’re not afraid of doing that to Thunberg when they know it will be exposed, then nothing would surprise me about what they’re doing when they don’t think they’ll get caught.