Thanks. I couldn’t figure out how to say that without sounding like an asshole. You managed it flawlessly.

I wish I could disagree with this analysis of the current state of our punishment system.

Camels, much like dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals, are constantly pushing their boundaries. The phrase “a camel’s nose under the tent” is indicative of a camel that is attempting to find a way inside the tent so that they may eat the, most likely, food that has captured their attention with its scent.

This would be applicable to the Drumpf administration because they are, much like the camel, using a method of “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks,” as well as a method of overwhelming the media with birdshot. Namely, if you’re creating 50 stories a day, and doing 50 things a day, then the media and the government can’t keep up.

Again similar to our camel that has enough strength to tip the tent over, and create a royal mess, in its attempt to get in.

Edit: First time I have heard the phrase as well,.but that is the meaning I would take from context.

They just illegally fired, and replaced the joint chiefs. What makes you think they aren’t going to arrest and replace all the democratic representatives and senators?

We’re already past The Reichstag Fire

He will be trying to make The Fediverse illegal in the US within the next 6 months.

I happen to live close to a couple of universities and have been friends with some of the CS faculty for a number of years. I generally just tag along with them.

Protesters at the courthouse have that portion covered with banners

That appears to be a Macintosh 128K and I can confirm that the one my dad got in 1984 still functions. It’s not really useful for much these days, but it does work, and you can play Math Blasters, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and it even has a monochrome paint program.

Chinese ships, Russian crews, All Registered In Ireland!

American components, Russian components, All Made In Taiwan!

If the search was, in fact, improperly conducted, it then would be an illegal search and seizure. At that point all evidence obtained by the search is inadmissible in court. They may have just torpedoed their case just with the search alone.

The documentary is a whole other legal can of worms that I am in no way qualified to even begin to analyze.

It’s easy to find other Lemmy users IRL. Show up to any Linux meet up, and roughly 5-10% seem to use Lemmy.

Some Lemming has put a United Federation of Planets flag on their pole. They did say that they weren’t able to find an outdoor version of the flag so they have to replace it once a year.

In English “they” is neutral. It’s also both singular and plural.

TIL The Baha’i Faith doesn’t exist. You are being tankie-ish with this gatekeeping. We have exactly two options. No more, no less. Until we can get rid of our first genuinely honest mistake, FPTP will consistently make the vote a decision between literal evil, and harm reduction. I vote for harm reduction, despite calling them and telling them how to be better once a week. I don’t have a better option, because sitting out allows fascism to take over.

Please tell me, a former USN Captain, an entrepreneur, and a finally retired food Safety manager, IT manager, and QA manager, as well as a literal Jack of All Trades, a master of a few, and a literal Nuclear Power Program Electronics Technician Instructor, what the ever loving fuck I can do? I am not allowed to be part of a political party, I’m only allowed to vote, protest, and take up arms against threats to my community.

The first two I’m already doing.

Do not give tents directly to people in Fremont, near San Francisco. Give them to the charitable organizations, or you may face fines and arrest. The Fremont City Council has decided that homeless people aren’t people, don’t deserve help, and it is a crime to try to help them with any camping supplies.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fremont-homeless-ban-controversy-20163355.php

Out here in San Diego, The Coronado Bay Bridge still has the toll booths from the 1960s. In the early 1990s they finished paying for the bridge, and lifetime maintenance, and haven’t collected a toll since.

By destabilizing relations with allies that have been in place since the asshole was born seems to be a pretty direct threat to us, yeah.

But more to the point, he is trying to shred the Constitution via executive order. That’s a pretty clear and present threat to The Constitution

We were the first modern democracy. No one did the math on how FPTP works until over 50 years after the country was founded, and by then it had already produced our two party system. IIRC, they did the math to determine if the US was a fluke, or if that was the natural conclusion of FPTP voting.

We took an oath to defend The Constitution from all threats both foreign and domestic.

Wish I could. Only reason I know about it, is that it was mentioned briefly in the Navy Nuclear Power Program training materials.