Zaktor @ Zaktor @sopuli.xyz

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You went through the bullshit to give the federal government a photograph for their facial recognition database associated with high quality identifying information.

Literally every document can be faked. Passport? Fake. Birth certificate? Fake. The supposed point of REAL ID was to be a reliable document. You can fly with one, but if a Temu Nazi making a "targeted" random stop says it's a worthless piece of plastic you lose an hour of your life. For living your life in your home country after doing everything the government asked. If the organization who certifies the IDs won't accept them, why did we go through the effort of making a national ID system that verified lawful status?

And if this was a case about California ID, maybe their fuck up would be relevant, but this is a filling for a case where a US citizen with an Alabama ID was detained.

This doesn't just set up a delay across the board to punish last minute by-mail voters. They can underfund or even more blatantly delay mail from Democratic leaning areas while rushing ballots from Republican ones to the processing centers. Oops, Republicans just get two extra days of voting.

The DNC should set up a program to send a letter every day from places with different political leanings and track the differences between the sent date and the postmarked date. It's an expense, but likely a worthwhile one.

Turns out all you need to do to ignore the Constitution is change your word choice.

I don't think anyone should be surprised that the all-white party in the two party system was racist to the core, I'm just surprised so many people in the nominal middle have accepted that as just an acceptable political stance to hold openly rather than as lightly concealed dog whistles. This should be a single issue deal breaker that triggers immediate and increasingly vociferous opposition, not just one issue among many that's not important if some college student asks you for your pronouns.

Are they planning for a siege?

He literally hired teenagers when lives were at stake.

His companies have been found multiple times to be incredibly racist. Among people who all make decent money. Sometimes you can't just class-reduce every problem.

He also doesn't know anything about "qualifications". He dropped out of school and won the dotcom capitalism lottery so now he thinks school and qualifications are for chumps. He hired teenagers to purge the federal government. He's the last person anyone should listen to complain about "qualifications".

It does seem kind of early to be boosting Vance for just a regular primary.

I'm surprised Newsome let this through.

For a task like this you don't need throughput, you need reliability. You don't want it to break down while there are still people in line.

Jeffrey Epstein is alive and set up a secret moon colony. Get on this rocket or you're a beta peasant.

I'm pretty sure we haven't needed AI for the economy to be managed toward short-term gains at the cost of quality of life and the environment.

The cost comparison on the table isn't whether birthing a human is worth it for them to answer an email 20 years later, it's whether an already existing human sits idle or not.

Black Lives Matter had daily protests for months. And in a couple instances involved taking over parts of cities and burning down police stations. And, for at least a little while, it resulted in positive changes to police policy.

I don't know why people just seem to memory-hole BLM when complaining about the toothlessness of American protesters. Occupy was child's play compared to BLM.

Minimum sentences are there for a lower bound for the least bad version of a crime. "Aggravated kidnapping" would also be using a weapon to force a guy to drive you to where your stolen car is and give it back. The thirst for higher and higher minimum sentences because otherwise a judge is going to let a bad guy be set free after "only" a half decade is childish and has caused immense harm to our society.

Prosecutors said Cole discarded all bomb-making materials at a dump after he saw himself on the news. Components for the bombs, prosecutors wrote, included a pipe nipple, end caps, wires, a 9-volt battery and homemade black powder, among other items.

Cole said he did not tell anyone about the pipe bombs in the years since, the filing said. Agents searching his home this month found pipe nipples, iron end caps, wire and wire strippers. Agents also were said to have found a receipt for hand sanitizer and pipe nipples in Cole’s car, as well as a shopping bag containing end caps and a 9-volt battery.

Huh? He discarded all materials and seems to have been super careful about not leaving evidence, but they found materials in his home and car four years later? Was he stocking up for another bombing? Or was buying plumbing supplies and batteries not an uncommon thing for him?

Even if the contradiction comes from the prosecutors, an editor should be pointing it out so the author acknowledges they just wrote two things that don't make sense together and tried to ask for clarification.

Well, if both filming the gestapo and blowing up federal buildings are terrorism...

I don't think they get what the consequences of trying to make all acts of resistance share the same punishment are.

I'm not sure the anti-chaos economic elite theory holds anymore. This has been the most chaotic year in recent history, spurred by far right racism, with pretty direct impacts on the shut up and shop economy of the United States, and the elite pushback has been tepid to non-existent. A few of them have been lighting money and their customer base on fire to support it.

It might be time to start entertaining the idea that the robber barons aren't just bad people because they want to maximize profits through hyper-capitalism. At some point money alone isn't the core pursuit and they're more desirous of unfettered power. A weaker economy, but one where the government is powerless to regulate their activities and a normalized culture of corruption may yield less profit, but it gives them freedom and control to be untouchable lords.