halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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I did say it wouldn't even be considered.

Looks like a group of shady men wearing masks intended to hide their faces around an unmarked van threatening civilians with weapons to me. Call the police, maybe hyperbolize it a bit. Make them either abandon their spot or waste their time justifying their existence to the police instead of whatever bullshit they're there to do.

The simple solution, and thus the one that won't even be considered, is to tax the rich and fund the IRS to actually enforce those cases instead of low hanging fruit. Reinstituting the 90% top tax bracket with no exceptions and it fills a lot of that gap immediately.

And there's the grift. Because that cannot happen. It's a blank check for the corrupt.

Big experimental thing that's still being developed. Explosions are expected, just not usually at this point, usually during the hard parts after liftoff. That's where they expect to still have issues, explosions there aren't failures as in something fucked up, they're expected and provide data to learn where the current design limits are to make the next version better.

This is the part that was generally figured out. Going to be interesting to see what the root cause is since this should have been routine.

They're referring to the shifting variance between political sides and the range expressed between them. The Overton Window usually.

The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The key to the concept is that the window changes over time; it can shift, or shrink or expand. It exemplifies "the slow evolution of societal values and norms".

Outside of this window you still have Left and Right, but they're the more extreme beliefs that the general populace doesn't currently accept. The window shifting over time means something that would have been considered absolutely insane 20 years ago, could be entirely mainstream now.

A current example would be federal deployment of the military to handle local protests when there is no declared State of Emergency and local government doesn't need or want assistance.

It doesn't even require belief.

2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

While a facetious statement in general, it is factual if those values derive from rounding. Significant Digits must be maintained.

The exceptions are actually logical not broad. The only questionable exception that seems open to abuse is "health reasons".

But the ones we need to be worried about can't read anyway.

Tactical breaching equipment has head and facial protection on just about everything.

I feel like it would be more difficult to manage a system to figure out which one is dirty, rather than just emptying it.

Just get ones that have a metal door, and magnetic sign that says dirty or clean.

Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.

People refer to vibration motors using that phrasing regardless of the actual technology used to achieve the vibration. No one gives a shit that Apple call theirs a Taptic Engine, or that it uses a linear resonant actuator as opposed to something like an offset spinning weight. It is a vibrate motor to 99% of people, even though it doesn't technically have a motor.

Ah, yeah it's just a docker app running on TrueNAS. To be honest, the hardest part was getting cloudflare setup, but only because I'd never done it before.

I literally just did this a couple weeks ago and it's been great so far. Able to run it on my NAS through the same Cloudflare tunnel I use for Emby.

Both were shot at their homes and authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement, the source said.

Impersonating law enforcement, or actual law enforcement? If they don't have the suspect in custody yet, they have no idea whether they were impersonating law enforcement.

You're wrong, but I understand why you think that way. You're almost surely focusing on the concrete aspects of life, not the things you just live everyday without thinking about, like just talking to people, small talk, filling awkward silences, etc. I'm not suggesting the #1 priority is to catch up on the Kardashians, but it's about having something in common to talk about with people around them.

Their entire life has been prison for 11 years, they need something current to be able to talk to regular people about while going about their day. Otherwise they will feel like an outcast that knows nothing about current society and cannot relate to anyone on any level because they don't know what the people are talking about or referencing. It's literally the Captain America "I understood that reference" situation.

They're going to be treated as an outcast by a lot of society simply because they have a record. Anything that helps them connect will help.

This entire topic is about the help that the younger sibling can help with. Current social trends are exactly what they can help with, easily, it's what they already live daily. They're an expert on that.

I know others will mention some of the personal things, so I'll instead focus on ways to help him try to reintegrate with everyday life and society socially.

You could start to try to help with some things he will interact with daily. The chances of him knowing about basically anything electronic you use now on a daily basis are slim. This is one of the biggest daily interactions that many former inmates have trouble with and betting up to speed on in modern society.

For some perspective, 11 years ago was 2014, and the launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. All the advancements since then will be new. LTE actually being widespread and usable, 5G even being a thing at all.

An offshoot of those are things like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc. which are massive social media hubs now, but didn't exist then. Heck, Vine was technically still around for a couple years after he went in. Educating about changes to media consumption and social media use can help with integration back into society, and suggesting some recent things to catch up on can provide recent and relevant topics of conversation for daily life.

It's still known for electronic _box sales. Especially around graphics card releases.

So not just a civilian, but a US military veteran who earned his citizenship via service to the country. I'd argue if they want to try and make different levels, since that's clearly what they're trying to do, that he's more an American citizen than anyone that happened to be born here, especially more than any of the current Administration.

Also, how much you want to bet they're checking every piece of paper in his immigration file to see if a signature or date was missed. Serving earns you citizenship, but it is not automatic. You still have to fill out the paperwork, and that leaves open the possibility of errors. We already have stories of people who have been deported because they don't care about fixing paperwork errors caused by Immigration staff if it gives them an excuse to get rid of someone.

Jefferson wanted it to be every 20 years. Every generation essentially.

Instead we let the chuckle fucks in Congress stay as long as they want, into their 80s, across 4 generation. Determining laws for technologies and both global and local economic situations they have no comprehension of or even a chance at understanding.

They offered them a 64 box of Crayola. You really expect them to ignore that offer?