chiliedogg @ chiliedogg @lemmy.world

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The 4473 specifically mentions that Marijuana use in states where it's legalized prohibit the purchasing of a firearm.

Picked by slaves.

I worked in a major outdoors chain, and out policy was to prevent most theft with customer service.That is, you see someone stuffing shit in a box for a cheaper product you go over to them and start talking about the products and making sales pitches and either embarras them into "deciding not to buy it", or they go through with it and you let it happen.

The only thing we'd physically intervene on was gun theft, and we had a designated armed employee on every shift (usually a retired cop) that handled that if they tried to leave before the local police arrived. It only came up once when I was there, and the local police did arrive in time, so they followed the thieves out of the lot and pulled them over.

The most dramatic event when I was there was actually kinda fun. We ran a background check on a guy and it got a delay, and the guy said he'd go eat in town and to call him if it came back in the next hour or so so he could save a trip. Turns out he was a fugitive, and the FBI called us to ask about the sale.

We quickly got a bunch of police dropped off in a bus so their cars wouldn't be visible, and they hid in a few offices around the store, and I called the guy back and told him the background check came back with a proceed.

Then when he came in the door I met him at the front and walked him down a pre-arranged route to the gun counter while chatting him up while the police blocked the aisles around us, and then I got "paged" over the intercom to go to the manger's office and pointed to the register where another salesman could check him out.When I was clear the police moved in on him.

It was kinda awesome.

They're trying to designate artifa a foreign terrorist organization, so they'll be able to lock you up for 20 years for speaking out against Nazis.

Given that he is now making his gestapo work without pay, I think Trump now essentially falls into every one of those categories.

Google gave 20 million to the project.

Yeah. Bastards everywhere should feel insulted.

Did you see the video?

Even the AI knows he has issues with his diet.

It's fine when you're young.

When you get older, the ability to roll your feet off the bed and easily stand up is clutch.

The Cameron Avatar films are great spectacles. They should be experienced in the theatre.

And they know what they are. They don't have much cultural relevance, but they make stupid money because they're event films.

University is overpriced, but a degree isn't just saying that you've gained knowledge. Being able to look up and memorize stuff doesn't mean you'll be good employee. if you can't work effectively with a team or tend not to finish a project all the knowledge in the world means nothing.

The most important thing most degrees demonstrate is that you can work for years on a project with multiple milestones involving multiple disciplines, work with others or self-direct, and meet goals.

Yeah. This administration has made it clear they will never do the right thing and will violate any agreement. There's zero reason to negotiate with them.

It's whybthe Dems CANNOT back off on the shutdown. Trump's threatening to fire a bunch of federalnworkers he doesn't like if the Dems don't play ball, but he's been doing thay anyway for 10 months. There's nothing he can threatening he isn't going to do anyway, so there's no reason to compromise.

The Oas was actually pretty solod. The only real problem was the removal of the start menu and traditional interface for non-touch computers. It's just that it was a huge fucking problem that destroyed the perception of Win8 even after the issue was addressed.

If Metro had been the alternative interface and the traditional experience the default, it would have been celebrated as a great OS.

12 year-olds from 1997.

I'm a government official and people can walk in the building and demand to see my text messages and emails, and I have to hand them over (with reasonable, well-defined reactions categories like social security numbers, home addresses of certain officials and citizens, etc).

And that's a good thing.

I'm not gonna say I enjoy Open Records Requests, but that's mostly because it's a pain in the ass redacting shit, and I recently had to do a TON because a very high-profile person had interactions with the city and every journalism outlet in the country submitted slightly different requests thay required me having to do reactions on about 10,000 pages of documents despite the requests only covering about 30 emails between them.

But it's a pain I'm willing to put up with to maintain transparency.

Sometimes there simply isn't a good substitute for a wooden spoon.

If I've got marinara in the pot, you keep those plastic and metal utensils away.

Did I mention the part where I work for a municipal government by day and teach at a public university by night? It's 2 phones and a tablet for the city, one for the university, and a 4th phone I didn't mention for me.

Though the school phone usually gets left in my bag. I teach scuba and underwater photography. Nobody's gonna lose their house over me waiting a few days to respond to an email. The only time my duties there are critical is when I'm actively with the students. Then it's more important because pressurized encironkents and breathing and stuff.

But I also don't take my phone underwater ^(on purpose).

There's a government-tier system used by lots of schools, cities, etc. It fucking SUCKS.

Like: if you have Outlook on your mobile device and add a government system account, it makes you remove any other accounts. Even if those other accounts are part of the same organization.

And since I manage more than 1 email account that need to go to separate inboxes for legal reasons, I get to carry 3 phones and a tablet.

I think a lot of people who do evil things don't see themselves as evil.

I think the Bushes were evil people who did evil things and I'll never forgive them.for all the damage they caused. But I also don't think they were unpatriotic. They believed in what they did and thought they were making society better.

I think MTG is the really stupid, slightly more evil version of that. She really wants to make things better, but not for everyone. But when she clearly sees that the people she does care about (uaully right-wing racist trash) are being hurt, she wants to make things better for them.

I think the worst part is that the Vice President openly defended them.