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It’s projection. He believes because he’s President of the US, he can make any American organization, public or private, do what he wants, and he’s had moderate success with that. So now he believes all countries operate like that, and any claim otherwise is a lie meant to protect that power.

It’s a classic characteristic of narcissists. They are physically incapable of understanding that people can think differently from then, and that things can work differently than they believe.

Oh good, then the federal government can turn over any evidence the Minnesota state investigators ask for since they don’t need it, right? Right?

The code block I wrote is a statement followed by an if. What I meant be “backwards” was the order of conditions, not that the statement came after the if. It’s exactly what you asked for.

Also remember that anything can be hard for you; no one else gets to decide that. Folding laundry hard? Yep. Getting out of bed on time hard? You know it. Doing hard things is a major accomplishment, so pat yourself on the back every time. If it becomes easier, great! If it never does, then you deserve just as much self praise each time as the first time.

“The claim is that recruiting is up, but there is also dread that the gung-ho types that ICE and the Border Patrol are bringing in have a propensity towards confrontation and even violence.”

No fucking kidding. Half the right already believes we’re in an active civil war. With how Trump has been throwing ICE around, who do you think is volunteering? This is going to get a lot worse. We have 10 months to go before even midterms, and he’s already threatened to cancel that election.

Python, though the logic would be backwards:

milk_gallons = 6 if eggs > 0 else 1

We prepared, portioned, and provided all meals and snacks for the study.

Great for the science, not great for the realistic recommendations. Sure, some people eat ultraprocessed foods because they are just easier, but many people eat ultraprocessed foods because they are unable to access healthier options. Either they are too expensive (either in monetary cost or the time commitment to prepare the food) or (I expect moreso the case for older people) they are physically unable to prepare it. If we’re going to recommend older Americans eat less ultraprocessed foods, we need realistic options for them to switch to.

Really wish I didn’t have a health condition that made it too risky to see in theaters. I hope there’s a digital version I can buy at some point.

There’s not really a “taking over” the FBI can (legally) do here. The murder happened in Minnesota, so the state of Minnesota can bring a state criminal case against the ICE agent for violating state law while acting within the state. If the FBI also wants to open a federal criminal case against the agent for violating a federal law while in the country, they can open a parallel investigation using the same evidence. But the FBI can’t (legally) “take over” a state criminal case. That’s not how our legal system works.

I keep putting “legally” parenthetically because this administration does whatever it wants and uses contorted readings of the law for creating after-the-fact justifications, but here there are few options available to them even to contort.

There’s no substantive evidence in this article. They present 2 kinds of evidence: giving the text to LLMs and asking if it’s written by AI, and asking representatives at major food delivery app companies if it’s about them. How are either of those better sources of “truth”?

The article then also cites second hand stories from other journalists. Apparently the original author of the post acted suspiciously when the journalists tried to get more information. That would be great to corroborate solid evidence, but in the absence of good evidence it’s just gossip.

I’m not saying I believe the original post, but I definitely don’t believe the claim in this headline.

Personally I’m fine with them taking the noise levels from the aerospace industry, too. My primary concern is how’s the battery life?

Everything I’ve played this year has been as easy—if not easier—to run on a free OS put together by a gaggle of passionate nerds as it is on Windows, the OS made by one of the most valuable corporations on planet Earth.

I know the histories of both Linux and Windows are complicated, and oversimplification is going to be more wrong than right, but this seems almost malicious. Yes many, if not most, people who work on Linux can probably be characterized as nerds, but that’s equally as true of Windows developers. Programming itself is classified as nerdy, so it would be impossible for it not to be true. And dozens, if not hundreds, of companies contribute to Linux, both the kernel and software running in user space, so it’s not like it’s only unwashed 20-somethings living in their parents’ basement that built Linux.

The statement could be completely flipped and be equally as true (if not moreso, since multiple of the most valuable companies on earth contribute to Linux), so why even make it?

“Pressuring” how? Any institution with teeth Trump has already neutered.

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There’s no “how” explained in this article. It’s a few paragraphs saying very vague, abstract things, with just one somewhat concrete example in the lightsabre that I didn’t really get because they didn’t go into any real explanation. Is this article written by a movie critic for an audience of movie critics? Because I definitely don’t seem to be the target audience.

U.S. ‌antitrust agencies ⁠had cleared Nvidia’s investment in Intel, according to a notice ‍posted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission earlier in December.

Are they even giving reasons anymore? Or is the “antitrust agency” just a guy napping in a corner they periodically wake up just to give a thumbs up?

Arcades have to charge more than a quarter per play now due to inflation. The price isn’t just you renting the machine for the duration of the play, it’s you paying a small slice of the rent on the arcade location, the income of the workers, the maintenance of the machines, and the electricity for the lights, AC/heating, and so on. No arcades would exist today if they could only charge quarters.

Featherstone testified that he has been involved in hundreds of arrests, about 30%-40% of them involving backpacks or bags, and that “every one of them resulted in a search.”

When prosecutor Zachary Kaplan asked how many of those searches involved a warrant, Featherstone said none that he recalled.

The defense has argued the officers violated Mangione’s constitutional rights against illegal search and seizure because they lacked a warrant when they searched his backpack.

“It must be legal, I do it all the time.” This is not the compelling argument they think it is. Or at least, it wouldn’t be if we actually had the rule of law.

Edit: Also the fourth amendment is protection against unreasonable searches and seizure, not unusual searches and seizure. Just because they do it all the time doesn’t make it actually reasonable.

It doesn’t matter. Even if it were constantly streaming the current volume level, the energy to transmit the value “100” is the same as to transmit “5”, so your phone doesn’t drain any faster to constantly tell the earbuds the volume is high versus low.

Simple answer: no. We’re beyond that now. ICE’s latest strategy is simply to move so fast, courts and lawyers don’t have time to do anything. There are dozens of credible news reports of them deporting US citizens, which means there are dozens, or hundreds or thousands, that haven’t been reported on. They don’t have to follow the rules if there’s no practical way to hold them accountable, and they’re leveraging that heavily.

If you don’t have your papers, they deport you. If you do have your papers, they lie and deport you faster than anyone can stop them.