Several things can be true at once. We don’t have to be all-in on one side or the other of the Snowden affair. I’ve never understood why people seem so eager to pick a team on this issue.
Several things can be true at once. We don’t have to be all-in on one side or the other of the Snowden affair. I’ve never understood why people seem so eager to pick a team on this issue.
That must be nice. My company does a lot of work for one of the world’s largest chip manufacturers and getting access to some of their facilities is like pulling teeth. Somebody forgot to submit the right paperwork, it didn’t go to the correct department or project manager, this facility is always locked down on the third Tuesday of every month, for reasons, you name it I’ve encountered it.
I think this can be the case, but I also think intent has to matter. I don’t see any evidence that OP intends to be transphobic.
Same. Mine is a regular watch with hour and minute hands and a digital read-out in the background that I can turn on and off. It’s nothing fancy, but I wear it with a fat black leather wrist-band which is pleasing to my easily-entertained soul.
I am a simple man in many ways.
This is basic cat stuff. “Oh, smell good! Must investigate! Do want or no? Not sure, is hot, but definite smell good! Maybe want?”
It’s from the Cohn brother’s movie, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” Early in the film Buster lists off some of his other “cognomens,” one of which is The San Saba Songbird. It’s not really relevant to anything, I just thought it was amusing. I do, however, play guitar and sing cowboy songs.
How is that a morally coherent stance? You’re basically condoning state-sanctioned murder.
The problem is that if you get it wrong even once --and we know for a fact, through things like The Innocence Project, that many innocent people have been executed-- then it’s the state committing murder in our name.
Morally I’m not OK with that. Are you?
I’d rather err on the side of caution.
Again, we only have to get it wrong once, which we know we have done, and it’s basically the state murdering an innocent citizen.
How many innocent citizens are you OK with murdering?
The mistake here is in assuming that it’s either all or nothing; that self checkouts are either great, or some kind of disaster.
The reality is that they’re great for some applications, but suck ass for others.
Here’s the deal; if it’s just me with a few items, yeah, the self-checkout is awesome, but if it’s me and my wife and we have a shitload of groceries for the entire family, guess what? Self-checkout sucks ass and it’s way easier to go through a regular checkout stand where there won’t be a hundred little different ways for the system to get jammed up and require an employee intervention.
What part about this do people not understand?
I have to think that a lot of the hostility to regular checkout stands comes from relatively young Lemmy users who don’t actually have to shop for families of their own.
Sure, it works great if you’re a single person who doesn’t have all that much to buy, but here’s the thing; if you’re shopping for a family or a multi person household or whatever, and you have to buy a lot of things at once, your self checkouts just plain suck ass because pretty much no matter what you do, you’ll get dinged with an error message every ten or 12 items and have to wait for the overworked and underpaid attendant to come free you up so you can keep going until the next inevitable fuckup.
Self checkout is fine if you have something like 15 or less items, but anything more than that and it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
It’s an ugly fact of human nature that we see way higher levels of social responsibility in relatively ethnically homogeneous societies like Japan.
Small land-holder. Not a titled lord, but also not a peasant per se.
The entire comment is unmitigated bullshit. Think about it; it uses the years 1654-85 as a representative sample of European immigrants to North America, but that’s absurd because we know for a fact that mass immigration from Europe didn’t really start until the 19th century so it can’t be even remotely true that most white Americans are descendants of the immigrants they use in their sample. It’s shoddy and intellectually dishonest scholarship that’s obviously and almost comically pushing an agenda. As such it doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously.
1654-85? Really? And you honestly think that timeframe gives a representative sample of European immigrants to North America? Really? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day. Mass immigration didn’t even start until the 19th century for fucks sake, nearly 200 years later. Sometimes Lemmy really sucks ass.
No, conservatism is ultimately about some people being naturally more deserving than others. It really is that simple. Everything else follows from that proposition. There’s no reason to further complicate it by looking for more proximate explanations.
“Need” probably isn’t the best word. It’s not a “need” so much as it is a belief. They “believe” themselves to be better and more deserving. Everything else follows from that. Start plugging it into what you know about conservatives and you will immediately see that it’s by far the best and simplest explanation.
Also bear in mind that people are often, and in fact quite usually, unaware of why they hold certain opinions and far from using reason to arrive at their opinions, tend to arrive at an opinion and then use reason to rationalize why it’s correct.
The SCOTUS is a great example; we already know how the justices will rule because we already know their underlying opinions about the world. What we don’t know is how they will justify their rulings. If this weren’t true, then neither party would care about SCOTUS nominations. The fact that we care very much tells you that we all privately know that I am right.
You and I do it too. We all do. Some of us are more aware of it than others.
Craigslist struck the first blow against newspapers by taking away classified ad revenue. The death blow came when Silicon Valley taught people that “information wants to be free,” which meant that no one wanted to pay for local news anymore. That led most local newspapers to collapse, while the few that managed to survive --apart from a handful of “legacy” papers-- mostly did so at the cost of turning into click-bait sites or outrage machines.
We have to bring back the idea that people should be happy to pay for local news.
They have been arrested and charged and released on their own recognizance which is much cheaper and less onerous than detaining someone who is not a flight risk in jail until they plead or go to trial.
As of now, if memory serves, pretty much all of the fake electors in Michigan have pleaded out for reduced sentences and cooperation agreements. There are some in Georgia who are still holding out to go to trial, but that’s a completely different case brought by the state as opposed to by the federal government.
You really need to be careful about believing everything you read on Lemmy, especially when it comes to legal information.
Let’s just say that if there were a Lemmy Bar Association, you wouldn’t even have to be particularly literate in order to pass the exam and become a member. Lemmy’s idea of US law is basically whatever some rando thinks makes sense. It’s pretty comical sometimes.
The problem is that Attorney General Garland, for reasons known only to himself, wanted to wait until after the Jan 6th committee issued its report before turning the full power of the DOJ on prosecuting Trump.
I think he did it for political cover; to avoid the appearance of a political motive; but I think it’s obvious now that it was a mistake both because Trump was always going to claim political persecution regardless, and because they are now in real danger of running out of time.
Yeah, my Nancy Reagan does similar shit on the regular.
She’s nearly lived up to her namesake in the sense that she doesn’t really like anyone and is pretty strong on the “just say no” aspect of things.
I love her anyway in spite of her being a cold hearted bitch. In spite of all her great upbringing, she’s never met anyone she wasn’t prepared to scratch or swipe at, drawing random blood.