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  • It's totally allowed. It's why citizen juries exist instead of professional jurors, and a jury's right to determine the law is established in Article I, Section 8 of the New York Constitution. It's specifically discussing libel cases, but that doesn't necessarily limit them.

    You still shouldn't say it, because you'll be removed anyway, but jury nullification is the legal system's last line of defense against unjust just laws.

  • The second time was their easiest out. He wasn't President, he had just lost an election, most of the country was disgusted with his antics post-election or at least just tired with it all.

    They could've kneecapped him right then and barred him from running again. He would have left Washington a pariah. Most Republians hated the man, and this was their chance to shoot the rabid dog, but they were afraid of getting primaried over it. Which itself is ridiculous because most of the GOP senators were 3-5 years from their next primary.

    That was when the GOP was fully-captured.

  • I know the source and the idiom. I just don't know why it's picked up in popularity recently.

    I also don't know why its use as an idiom doesn't quite align with the story. It's usually used to describe a situation where the threat of destruction isn't random. For example, in the OP, the danger is the end of support for Win 10, not randomness.

  • It's not zoning.

    It's when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.

    Europe isn't more enlightened when it comes to development. They're just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.

  • Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.

    And the scale of the US isn't something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.

    The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.

  • I'm not saying Trump or what he's doing aren't terrible.

    But he had zero impact on the DC crash, and every time we blame something on him that isn't his fault the Republicans will grasp onto that and say we'd blame him for water being wet.

  • Also, the one in DC really sounds like a fuckup by the helicopter crew. The ATC warned the helicopter crew about the incoming plane twice and the helicopter crew indicated both times they saw the plane and were maintaining visual separation (watching the plane and keeping their distance).