BillyClark

I seem to recall certain high level government officials saying that they were only going after hardened criminals.

I just looked it up. The data from 2024 is 55.2% White, 36.3% Black, 3.7% Hispanic, 3.0% Multiracial, 1.0% Asian, and 0.8% Native American/Other.

It’s hard to fathom that they haven’t had a black senator for about 150 years with those demographics. I know, people say “tyranny of the majority.” But this really seems tyrannical.

Black people make up over a third of the population, yet black children had never in their lives experienced a black senator. And neither had their parents or grandparents or great grandparents.

January, 2029: "Per executive order, federal agencies are now using “Loser Fascist Piece of Shit” in place of “Donald Trump” everywhere except for in evidence, such as in the Trump-Epstein Files.

The first thing the next administration should do is have Trump arrested so he can finally stand trial for all of his crimes, then tear out all of the awful things that he touched and put pieces of them into the cell next to his like people kept pieces of the Berlin Wall. Just a commemoration of the end of something terrible.

I am against the death penalty, and for essentially the same reason, but I think, generally, you can’t recover if you’ve been on death row or even just falsely imprisoned for years. If somebody’s been imprisoned for 15 years and they turn out to be innocent, they can be released and compensated, but I don’t know if they can really recover.

That’s why it’s so important to be really certain when doling out any punishment.

You know, as long as we’re talking about the cliche, one interesting thing to consider is that hand-set clocks are always slightly slow or slightly fast, so a properly functioning and calibrated clock isn’t even right once a day.

We have standard-setting atomic clocks, but due to the properties of relativity, it’s impossible that they ever precisely match each other, no matter how accurate their mechanism, and so realistically, you can only possibly have one clock anywhere with the “right” time.

So, if you’re going by the most times it can be accurate during the day, but not the actual one standard clock, I think a clock that runs backwards as quickly as possible would have the most times during a day that it is accurate.

This is vigilantism. When the official authorities don’t seek justice, vigilantes often pop up. I may disagree with their methods, but I think the fault lies with these oligarchs for courting the injustice.

When asked about her decision to endorse Rogers, Stevens said in a press conference it was in response to “hate” and El-Sayed’s ties to political streamer Hasan Piker.

I don’t know too much about Hasan Piker, but it looks like from his Wikipedia page that he’s very outspoken against Israel for all the atrocities and war crimes they’re committing.

It looks like Stevens has been bought by Israeli money, so I’m guessing that’s the reason for her endorsement.

“It’s my personal and private decision. I still love the party. I’ve done a ton for the party. I’ve voted for the party over and over and over again. I’m going to continue to do that as I fill out my term,” the lawmaker said.

If it’s “personal and private,” then that means you don’t publicly endorse him, you corrupt dumbass.

Probably the first time I really understood a little bit of the hate was when I watched Galaxy Quest and their parody of him was a little child. It’s just a little bit out-of-odds with the setting that there’s this goofy kid there all the time.

If you’re going to say things like that, then I’d expect you to say something like, “This is Oklahoma. A child of child rape is just raised as their mother’s sister. It’s so common that they put that rule in the state constitution.”

That’s not even the worst thing said in that article:

“This child is traumatized. She’s been through a horrific ordeal,” [Assistant District Attorney Janet] Hutson previously said in an interview with Tulsa CBS affiliate KOTV. “Not only has somebody gotten her pregnant, but she gave birth at home without medical assistance, and this will be her life for the rest of her life.”

“This will be her life for the rest of her life”??? I know it’s the job of the prosecutor to frame things in the worst way, but fuck everything about that. Whoever is left of her family needs to do everything they can to try to help her get past this trauma. And that baby is not her responsibility, either, and never will be.

Saturn is currently about 1 light hour from Earth. That’s a hell of a ping.

Time to build your rigs

Notably, even if you get a TV with smart features, there should be zero need to connect it to the internet. Just use it as a TV. Don’t buy any TV that violates that idea. I haven’t checked, but I’m guessing some shitty smart TV that refuses to work without a connection exists.

You can also build your own media center. It’s one of the more common things to build for yourself. That way, you can at least choose what sort of digital footprint you leave, instead of having everything you do stolen immediately by a smart appliance.

Hmm… Well, its flatpak is still 9.14.0, and for some reason wants full filesystem read/write access.

Maybe “apples to apples” is a poor choice of words, because you completely misunderstood what I meant by it, which is really the whole point of choosing which words to use. That’s on me, but you did completely misunderstand, so I feel inclined to explain.

When they said, “Corporation-owned robots have more rights than people it seems,” it seemed to me that they were basically saying something obviously incorrect for the humor of it. They never intended to compare actual human rights with apparent robot rights.

By “apples to apples,” I meant, “Let’s actually tangibly compare the rights of a robot in that situation with the rights of a human in the same situation. Not the rights of a robot compared with the idea of diminishing human rights.”

Really, the stupidest part of this in my book is a very bad reaction to my comment that simply stated the plain truth. If a lady on a sidewalk is blocking people in wheelchairs from passing, then that person will likely be arrested as soon as the police can show up, so obviously people have more rights than robots in this situation.

Edit: For clarity, the reason I brought up wheelchairs is that the robot cannot leave the sidewalk, so I wanted the human version of that.

I understand where you’re coming from, but surely if you compare apples with apples and substitute a human for the robot, like the professor wasn’t letting people in a wheelchairs get past, the response would have been quicker and more severe.