BillyClark

I’m sure the poster pulled these numbers out of their ass. I wonder what the real numbers would be.

It’s guaranteed that replacing MAGA people with the same kind of immigrants we have today would reduce crime, but how much?

ICE’s feed says that they did this jump start thing, but let’s get real. It probably never happened.

These are the same people who lied and said that an officer suffered internal bleeding after he clearly didn’t get hit by anything. These are the same people who lied and said that they killed a man who was brandishing a weapon threateningly and their agents feared for their lives despite the fact that he never touched the gun and was disarmed at the time of the shooting.

If ICE says something that benefits themselves, then I have no reason to believe it’s true. This is the slant to take whenever you get any information from a source of propaganda.

That’s a picture of ICE agents walking near a car with jumper cables connected. Maybe they saw somebody getting jumped and photobombed. Maybe they just used one of their own cars and the entire scene is staged.

Even in the extremely remote possibility that they actually did something to make another person’s life easier, they ruined it by taking pictures of it. That would mean that they only helped as PR.

There is no reason to believe when a known propagandist tells you something like this. You should first expect them to lie or distort the truth.

Looks like the last Beartato update was in 2023. Sad, I always liked that comic.

I don’t expect other people will like it as much as I do, but here is maybe my favorite Beartato comic ever: https://nedroid.com/?403

For some reason, I am starting to feel closer to the methods of Diogenes as I get older. If you’re not familiar with him, I suggest you read at least the intro on his Wikipedia page… actually, I’ll just copy it here:

Diogenes the Cynic (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/, dy-OJ-in-eez; c. 413/403 – c. 324/321 BC), also known as Diogenes of Sinope, was an ancient Greek philosopher during the period of Classical Greece, and one of the founders of Cynicism.

Renowned for his ascetic lifestyle and radical critiques of social conventions, he became a legendary figure whose life and teachings have been recounted, often through anecdote, in both antiquity and modernity. Diogenes advocated for a return to nature, the renunciation of wealth, and introduced early ideas of cosmopolitanism by proclaiming himself a “citizen of the world”.

Diogenes was born to a prosperous family in Sinope. His life took a dramatic turn following a scandal involving the debasement of coinage, an event that led to his exile and ultimately his radical rejection of conventional values. Embracing a life of poverty and self-sufficiency, he became famous for his unconventional, shameless behaviors that openly challenged societal norms, such as living in a jar or wandering public spaces with a lit lantern in daylight, claiming to be “looking for a man”, that is to say “for a wise man” (sophos).

a large chunk of the replies were “well MY displays work just fine!”

I just went to check the previous thread, and I think there’s miscommunication both ways here.

They read your post as “I’m trying Linux, but it’s even hard to get monitors to work.” So, they responded, “I haven’t had a problem with monitors on Linux in decades.”

There’s not much else they can say, as you weren’t really asking for advice, so you didn’t give any technical details, but you were still complaining about something that they like.

Meanwhile, you read them as you said, “well MY displays work just fine!” So their replies seem utterly baffling, defensive, and unhelpful from your perspective.

They don’t need a release date in the first place. They already released some of the files in small batches. And then they completely stopped without any explanation.

So we can see what they do when they are releasing the files. They just release batches as they finish them.

The fact that they aren’t doing that means that they intend to obstruct further progress on the release of the files.

It’s just the definition from Wikipedia:

Unlike domestic terrorism, state terrorism is that perpetrated by nation states, but is not considered such by the state conducting it, making legality a grey area.

This came following her call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

For people who didn’t watch the video, she says, “Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment,” and the guy jumps up and rushes the stage.

It sounded sort of like he was saying that Rep. Ilhan Omar should resign or something. But what a weird trigger. You got to wonder what kind of a loser would jump up to defend Noem.

Or maybe he wasn’t defending Noem, and was just waiting for Rep. Ilhan Omar to say something that he could shout back at her. The most childish and mindless of retorts.

I can’t see how this guy could possibly be anything but a total loser. He turns violent presumably in response to propaganda.

That woman telling her to go get checked immediately was right. It’s unlikely, but people have been killed like this before.

True, that is actually brandishing, but I don’t think anybody really thought that helping a woman off of the ground while never touching or showing off your gun is brandishing.

For conservatives, words don’t have meanings anymore. If a word sounds like it might have a negative connotation, then it is a word that they use to describe any opposition. They don’t need to bother waiting to see what actually happened. The important thing for conservatives is to say the bad-sounding word first. Nobody has ever held them to account for lying.

Miller is doing this stuff as part of his official governmental duties, so this is technically not domestic terrorism. It’s state terrorism.

Legal scholars have said the strikes, launched against civilians in boats far from the US, are violations of domestic and international law. The Trump administration maintains they are legal, under a secret opinion written by the justice department that argues the US is in an armed conflict with cartels and that the laws of war apply to the strikes.

Let’s see about this “war.”

War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

Obviously, Wikipedia isn’t the absolute authority on defining what “war” means, but it does a great job at checking your common sense. Like, a war isn’t always between established states, but it’s also distinct from enforcing laws in places where they don’t enforce their own laws or where their own laws don’t suit you.

Even if you assume that everything the Trump administration has said about these people is true, these boats were not carrying out anything like a military operation. Drug running isn’t a military operation. They’re not supplying front lines with drugs for battle.

These people were accused civil offenses, not military operations, and we in the US do not give the death penalty for running drugs.

And of course, the Trump administration lies as naturally as it breathes, so I have no reason to think the men from this article were running drugs in the first place. This is all just showing that even the lies Trump has told are not sufficient to justify the military actions he’s ordered.

It’s just a regional dialect thing. Where I grew up, we called it “coke,” even if it was a Dr. Pepper. That’s the only one that is truly irredeemably wrong.

I had to train myself to call them something else. (I chose “sodas” because that was the only alternative I knew.)

The word “robot” can be defined in many different ways, and that affects whether this has already happened, or how soon it may happen in the future.

If robot means remote controlled machine, think Battle Bots, or if it means something with a robotic arm, then it’s probably already happened.

If robot means human shaped machine, then I’d guess if it hasn’t happened yet, if only because of the expense.

If robot means sensors, processing, and actuators, like I learned in school, then I’m guessing it hasn’t happened yet, simply because it’s more work than a machine that follows a routine, but I could easily be wrong.

If robot means fully functional human sized android type robot with integrated processing then who knows? If it also requires AI, then I’m guessing it’s a ways off.

I don’t know what monster first thought it was a good idea to mix pickle relish into tuna salad.

I think that would have the opposite effect on me. I’d be sealed shut for good.

If the horse doesn’t want to take off the headpiece, that usually means that it’s not finished eating the food that the owner put into the headpiece in order to get the horse to stick its head in there.

Based on the fantasy writing I know of, if there previously weren’t any dragons, and suddenly there is a dragon, then there is also the possibility that suddenly, you’ll be able to use magic.

This is insulting to illiterate people.

I’m not sure what “left wing architecture” means. Because, to me, this looks like the sort of thing you have to do when the population grows like crazy. Those tend to be areas where women have little education and little power.