silence7 @ silence7 @slrpnk.net

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Yeah. There are some gangs (eg: Police gangs in Los Angeles which do use tattoos to identify themselves, but not all gangs do so, and most tattoos are not gang-related.

And the excuses were really thin. Among other things:

• Tattoos of crowns and clocks
• “I love you” symbol in sign language,
• being in the same area as a law enforcement target

So long as people aren't all identical, they'll have plenty of ability to engage in needless hate

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I had the impression that college deferment ended about a year before the draft did.

I don't expect college draft deferment to be a thing again until the boomers die.

Click the link to find out. It's a gift link, so anybody with JS turned on should be able to access the article.

The US draft system hasn't had college deferments since the latter part of the Vietnam war.

When new car prices go up, used car prices should rise too

It's a gift link. Anybody with Javascript turned on has free access already

During Trump's first term there were still Republicans who cared about things like:

• Constitution
• Law
• Good Governance

They've all been purged now.

That's hard. Changing your bank means changing a whole string of direct deposits and automatic payments. Having done it, the process takes about a month, where you move payments and deposits, then monitor the account for a while to see if you missed anything.

This makes banking relationships quite sticky.

Both personal appearances at rallies and paying for votes

I expect that a lot of their constituents do. And the Republcians will change their tune when they fear the public anger over their actions more than they fear the billionaires

Gun owners mostly shoot:

• themselves
• their wife or girlfriend
• their kids

They apparently know now — she was taken to an ICE facility in Loisiana in violation of a court order.

She was transferred to Louisiana despite a federal judge’s order Tuesday night telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove Ozturk from Massachusetts without prior notice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/hegseth-signal-war-plan-leak-white-house.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.KQc5.B_UwnBUKuQV8

The plan is explicity to force states to change their rules by illegally withholding money from them and their citizens until the states change their rules

Definitely not 100% external. A chunk of cases are known to be genetic.

And these people were eating a mushroom known to be mildly poisonous.

Exactly. There's a reason I won't eat any Amanita: the similarity of edible and deadly species in that genus makes them the main source of mushroom fatalities in North America.

By contrast, messing up a bolete ID is likely to result in a meal that is too bitter to eat. That's a much more acceptable risk.

And these days, that means making sure it's a book written by someone who knows what they are doing, rather than AI auto-generated bullshit.