TechNerdWizard42 @ TechNerdWizard42 @lemmy.world

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I mean... Yes. Exactly. But the solution is to convict all of them, not allow it to happen. That's what the international community has been asking for for decades.

But you will, because the rest will close eventually. It's a long game. The mom and pops won't survive forever.

Correct. Not sure why people are too stupid to down vote you. He is not a convicted felon at all yet. And the sentencing will be postponed and the entire thing appealed. Because of course it will be. That's the standard playbook, draw it out. Maybe the sentencing will go ahead. But it will be appealed. The only chance of this man being held accountable before the election is with contempt charges where the judge could order jailing in addition to the fines.

Then you're buying shit.

I use universal with everything and they grip way stronger than default US outlets. Just a fact. Never have a plug hanging out. Works with grounded and ungrounded. I even replaced every outlet in a few of my US houses with universal, they are that awesome. No issues for many years, at least 15 now, with various inputs including well used ones in a kitchen for example with appliances being plugged and unplugged all the time.

Literally the only thing I like a US plug and socket for, are extension cords. The 5-15 is a great option for a long run. Don't need a book sized receptacle on one end or a giant cylindrical twisty lock to power a 20W load somewhere.

Or more likely, the ones you used had been worn.

Universal sockets are the norm in many places now. I have every outlet with universal. They grip stronger than a standard American outlet and have tamper resistance. But like any receptical they wear out and are only good for so many insertions. If you use G type plugs they seemingly last forever.

PS2 and PS3 get use. PS4 had nothing that interested me. PS5, same. Maybe when something good comes out ill get a PS17

But but but, China bad boogie man! They can't possibly do anything good.

/s

Need banana for scale.

What's their intended holding purpose?

And then,

Military: If you love your country and freedom from Poseidon, we require $10B to study the affects of these "waves" on modern equipment and soldier moral.

Congress: oh my god! Here's $20B. We luv you so much, uwu

No you misunderstood my point. The fringe candidates are the only ones that actually coax out real answers from the major candidates. The game has changed. It used to be (the whole thing is really modern, but whatever) the host asked tough questions, and the candidates responded. Now the hosts ask soft balls and all you get are prepared statements.

But the fringe idiot candidates can basically yell and scream at the other candidates and push them to say or not say something on record. And if enough audience/national-viewers hear the question and want the answer, the candidate has to put out a statement. From that you'll learn just how meaningless it is or not.

And that's where a lot of these special interest deals are forged. The major candidate agrees to give up a very small concession that may be of importance to a few fringe voters and overall meaningless to their campaign, and gets those voters. But if nobody presses them on the issue, they give up nothing and they still get the votes. It's better to have some balances in there for a 2 party winner takes all system. It's the only parliamentary part of the process. Forming a coalition before election.

I don't disagree he's got no chance at winning and is just going to hurt one of the 2 only real choices. Buuuuuut, having these fringe candidates on a stage with a national audience in a way that allows them to answer questions and critique the major candidates is a good thing. Someone who isn't afraid of losing saying what they believe and baiting a real answer in a real discussion is what's needed. The "debates" are too useless. Nobody says anything. It's all talking points (marketing slogans) with deflection. Anything that is remotely contentious isn't discussed or deflected in a prepared statement. You have to say certain things and do certain things like some weird ceremony but it has zero value.

For example, flag pins... Really? If a veteran asks a question you must pretend it's the best question you've ever heard, thank them for their service with worthless over the top platitudes, and then say nothing of value in your answer.

I bet Chatgpt could write a transcript of the debate and it would be accurate. That's exactly what LLMs do, regurgitate speech patterns with no meaning behind it.

Can't have any of those pesky alternate opinions getting in the way of your ignorance.

The entire concept of having idiots from the area decide your fate went out of style with the wild west. The average person has no ghastly idea what the case is even about. These are people that don't even know the difference between WiFi, "the internet", and google itself.

If you really want a jury for a technical discussion it should be a jury of technical people versed in the subject.

But overall, ban jury duty. Archaic stupid process.

When this happens in Africa, it's a global outrage. The Conservatives have moved past Y'all-quaida and into Redneck Boko Haram territory.

Give the slaves only a few days a year to not work, and they will make the most of those days. The wages and economy are irrelevant.

While true, this is true in basically every area in the USA. If you have a tractor supply store near your house, you're in redneck territory. If you have a Lululemon, you're in blue territory.

There's a fair bit of work. The biggest obstacle is all the random form entries that need to be modified. It's not like it's a single central table, it's the same table copy and pasted a million times. Then for most countries you'd need to add recognition of their passports, their national ID's, update legislation on whether nationals of that state are afforded certain protections or not certain visa requirements or not, etc. It truly can take years.

In most cases one country becomes two or two become one. In the first case everyone can use the old country on forms and the old country's rules apply to everyone until changed. In the second case you can use the country your passport was issued from or both or whatever. But there is less of a change.

For Palestine, it's just poofing into existence. They don't get passports. They don't have any existing relations. So I imagine this announcement will take a while to be formalized fully but there will be some interim order that basically says what you need to do manually if you encounter a Palestinian and your automated systems can't process it.

That's why the US has to ban and censor any raw footage like tiktok and al Jazeera. Can't have those pesky truths get in the way of a good Genocide.

It's almost like the US is the bad guys... The world is waking up.

Yeah that's not how CBP works especially for non citizens. I tell Americans this all the time and nobody believes it. Until it happens to them or someone they know.

You have zero rights. You can be detained without legal representation or cause for 72 hours thanks to the Patriot Act. Even as a citizen. Your electronics seized and spied on. All your social media, email, picture, everything read. It happens daily.

It happens more often to black and brown people and non citizens. But it shouldn't happen at all.