[-] charonn0@startrek.website 101 points 1 month ago

That's not exactly what happened.

Aaron committed suicide before his case went to trial, and so he was never convicted let alone sentenced. 35 years was never even likely; had it gone to trial there's every reason to think he'd have been acquitted outright, or at worst given a slap on the wrist. Not that he should have even been charged, of course.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 108 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

States have always had that power. Whether its age, naturalization, or oath-breaking, it's never been up to the federal government to decide disqualification.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 107 points 5 months ago

Just recently I was reading about blind people who got experimental eye implants several years ago. They're having serious problems now because the company stopped supporting the implants.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 107 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail

Reminder that Trump's Postmaster General sabotaged the post office's handling capacity in order to interfere with absentee voting.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 128 points 6 months ago

Every Republican accusation is an admission.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 95 points 6 months ago

Cassidy was arrested and faces vandalism charges, which could carry a one-year prison sentence and a $2,560 fine. He has since been released

Why is he not being charged under Iowa's hate crime laws?

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 99 points 6 months ago

not religious expression but rather about making a mockery of religion

Mockery of religion is religious expression.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 126 points 7 months ago

Part of my job is to review security footage for reported incidents.

If there is a long-lasting visual cue that the event has or has not happened yet (e.g. a window is either broken or not), then a binary search is very useful.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 101 points 8 months ago

"Deplorable" would have also been acceptable.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 95 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tuberville has drawn bipartisan criticism for holding up almost 400 military nominations in an effort to protest Pentagon abortion policy.

Does anyone actually believe that it's about abortion? He's clearly trying to weaken the US military on behalf of foreign adversaries.

I'd call that treason, but then I'm not on Putin's payroll.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 96 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This only leads me to assume that India really did have the guy assassinated.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 112 points 10 months ago

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Which is all the reason I need.

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