Meanwhile, more than 2x the total number Afgansty zinky-bois fertilize Ukrainian land every 60 days…

Cargo 200 now exceeds new recruits every month

I thought, at first, that this was particularly retarded satire, but…

No, just .ml things

Bernie + (anyone else, but preferably AOC) would have won against Trump three (3) times.

It’s a sad state of affairs

Seek help

Holy shit you are delusional or perhaps just so frustrated that your cognitive ability has evaporated.

You should probably take a break.

1. Lemmy is essentially the reddit clone in the fedivers. It is just as much a link aggregator as reddit ever was

2. if you want to see changes in the software, be the change you want to see. Write the code or fund a dev to do it for you

Maybe try Tildes, it’s more suited to your discourse requirements

tildes.net

I’d say that I wish they were, particularly as during this cycle I’m stretching my budget to sprinkle some around on good candidates, win or lose.

But, overall I think they should NOT be deductible.

I also agree with your sentiment that people in the ~120k range are firmly “middle class” now for whatever that’s worth.

Of course, there are regional variables too — that money in Jackson MS is very different than in Brooklyn NY

Jarts were a favorite in our backyard. Noone died. Or even got stabbed in the foot.

They had great heft.

Uhh where are you where political donations, either to candidates directly, or to PAC/501c(4) are deductible?

They are not. It says so right on the ActBlue page and everywhere else. It’s a legal requirement that people be notified that their donations are not tax deductible.

What are you talking about? What video?

This thread is focused on the interview as WRITTEN in the article posted.

Are you calling out OP for not watching a video? Did you read the article interview yourself?

Get a grip, man…

I was not aware that mainland China had designated shitting streets.

Huh

Pretti’s pistol is a Sig P230

Which has (allegedly) issues with what appears to be called “uncommanded” discharge

That is, a discharge when being handled otherwise normally, and therefore neither accidental nor negligent.

It is possible, though I would see this as NO EXCUSE, that Pretti’s gun discharged and the ice agent fired (wrongly) in reaction to that noise.

Some close analysis of the frame-by-frame appear to clearly show the slide pushed back, while in the same frame seeming to show gray jacket with four fingers around the grip and none inside the trigger guard.

HOWEVER I am not a video expert

This (and every killing which involved an ice/cbp operation) deserved to be thoroughly and impartially investigated

Buy an older pixel and install Graphene

Keep it off/in a faraday bag at all times, never turn it on at home. Go to elsewhere to set it up.

If they REALLY want you, you will get got.

But there’s no reason to make it easy.

No.

There is no search warrant for the contents of your mind.

Of course “rubber hose decrypt” is always an option, but we’re not quite there yet.

Honestly I am quite happy with better air travel security and safety, and not particularly interested in going back to a time when any random Greek anarchist assholes or PLA or whatever are stabbing flight attendants or sticking bombs on Pan Am flights

You sound too young to remember, so read up a little.

Here’s something that popped up on the first page of results

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-airplane-hijackings-db-cooper-netflix-180980408/

Toto washlet.

I spent around $1300 on one in 2007

It’s still going strong, zero problems. I finally replaced the oem batteries in the remote ~3 years ago.

When a set of factory AA batteries goes > 15 years, you know that this manufacturer has optimized EVERY part of their product

I would skip automatic lid open/close and the air dryer does not seem useful to me

But the heated seat, warm water spray (internal heater, uses cold water supply) and the various spray modes are fantastic.

I see Toto washlet now for less than half what I paid, and I think that’s a great thing. But I’d spend the same amount again if necessary

Obviously I am US-centric. This is a thread about voting in US elections (??)

I do happen to fly to UK, and generally to LBA or MAN, which are easily two of the worst / most annoying airports in Europe.

Both of them have made great improvements over the past ~18 months though.

CDG is also particularly annoying imo.

I’d do more than that

Disband DHS. This agency was never required and was created merely as a knee-jerk to the information sharing problems that contributed to how 9/11 turned out.

Ironically, the majority of those problems were actually between the FBI and CIA and DHS has no authority over either — that role was handled to the also-newly-created Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

Sooooo we never needed the orwellian DHS in the first place

Abolish ICE, HSI and CBP*. The the other constituent agencies carry on as they did before 9/11 and leave the LE/intelligence coordination to the DNI

*Some folks would love to see ATF go, others want the end of TSA

To be fair, it is. I also kept a Clear membership for a few years, but it wasn’t worth it.

But, non-pre lines are just as short as pre-check these days, and my (non-science) impression is that the only reason it’s slower is that more of the folks in it are unfamiliar with the process.

But messaging/signage for what’s required is quite good in most places, and it’s still much less confusing than 80s and 90s airports.