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

Could be a reasonable facsimile of an album

Too bad you didn’t put this much thought and effort into your first post in this thread.

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

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.

Holy shit a 41 minute video…

Thanks for the tldw

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.

Suozzi NY-03 Apologized, regrets vote

Henry Cuellar TX-28 pardoned for bribery by trump

Don Davis NC-01 no primary, no challenger

Laura Gillen NY-04 primary challengers https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/laura_gillen/457010 https://ballotpedia.org/Nicholas_Sciretta

Jared Golden ME-02 not running for re-election

Vincente Gonzalez TX-34 primary challengers https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/vicente_gonzalez/412725 https://ballotpedia.org/Etienne_Rosas

Sorry this is bad paste from my spreadsheet, and doesn’t include the links.

But only two of these even have primary challengers.

How so?

I fly enough to hit “gold” status on major airlines, and have seen the transition from the shit-show that was TSA initially into a universally smooth and fast process.

I think a lot of people don’t truly know the chaos that was pre-TSA screening. Do you recall being stuck in an aircraft at the gate, because the airline had to unload luggage for a passenger that hadn’t boarded?

For a long time after 9/11 the only airport operating smoothly was DCA (Congress uses DCA)

But for the last dozen or more years, things have only gotten smoother, everywhere.

I passed through JFK screening in less than 22 minutes a few weeks ago.

Nah, typical 2A “enthusiasts” care a lot more about whether that person was carrying a firearm legally, under whatever applicable laws. In some states, that is no law at all. In MN, it’s a permit.

Granted, a lot of Republican gun owners would make a racially biased assumption that a Somali migrant is less likely to have a proper permit, and those same folks have a lot more benefit-of-doubt for fellow white males.

But, in my lived experience as a strongly left-leaning person embedded quite deeply in US gun culture, all of those folks would see themselves in the shoes of any man, of any race, in Pretti’s situation.

You might not think that’s any better than a racial bias, because it’s an in-group bias.

The trick to getting people to be outraged about your murder hasn’t much to do with being black or white or brown

It’s mostly about the murder being on-camera, from multiple angles, filmed by people and released to public scrutiny immediately

As well as it being very extremely clear that it was an unnecessary killing, a deliberate murder.

So, if you’re gonna get killed next week, please make sure there are plenty of witnesses with cameras all around you.