Phoenicianpirate

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

I honestly wouldn't know. I live in Canada and police vehicles here are incredibly obvious and marked. Some unmarked vehicles do exist, but they are for detectives and people going after more serious crimes and dont care about parking tickets and jaywalkers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 48 minutes ago

Also many people may not necessarily know how a real ICE badge looks like. And fake badges are available for collectors and cosplayers alike. Also most people will not fully check or examine a badge or insignia, meaning by the time they realize it is fake it will be too late.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I do... and always will.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I bought my most expensive dream machine last year (when the RTX-4090 was still the best) and I am proud of it. I hope it'll be my right for at least 10 years.

But it was expensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was unaware that it is a sonic reference. I was actually referring to the German V-1 rocket that was nicknamed the Buzz Bomb by the allies.

Edit: https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Buzz_Bomber

Shit! Wow, mother of all coincidences!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dude, we had a sub down, a CEO shot (and Luigi didn't do it. I am praying for an acquittal), and now this! I mean the whales are still attacking yachts, and I am hoping for more karma to land on their asses due to their own hubris.

What would be funny is that if you have someone planning to go Luigi on a billionaires ass only for them, just moments before, die in a stupid and unrelated manner... then our would be assassin just walks away not having done anything and saying 'meh, saved me the trouble!'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That bee gave up a life of pollenating plants that would green the earth and provide food for us undeserving humans.

That bee is a true heroine! I dub her the Buzz Bomber!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

He is a billionaire. He thinks he is special in every way! Epi-pen? That is for peasants!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

We are not talking Saudi Arabia. We are talking Iran.

But there is something I need to mention about Saudi Arabia and executing gay men. I did look at a list of executions for the charge of sodomy (which is what it is referred to as. Simply identifying as a gay man doesn't appear to be an offense. They need to catch two men in the act for it to happen) is when those executions happen it was never just for sodomy, it was usually compounded by another (universally serious) offense such as rape of a child and/or murder.

So the gay men being executed weren't just accused of fucking another man, but also of killing another person (quite possibly the same guy) or of raping a child.

Now am I missing some cases? Maybe. I dont spend that much time looking at Saudi Arabia's prolific executions (they execute more people per capita than any other country), but most people executed in Saudi Arabia aren't gays, they are drug smugglers.

I do not agree with the death penalty at all. So even executing drug smugglers is off-limits to me. Drugs should be legalized (or at least decriminalized) and strictly regulated, but no prison time for them, and certainly not an execution.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact. Irans executions of gay people in its entire history didn't happen until after the Islamic revolution. Before then and all the way even before the rise of Islam, whatever state that occupied Iran now all had harsh laws against homosexuals...

But enforced none. Not during pre-Roman times, Roman times, early Islamic era, medieval Islamic era, modern Islamic era. None. Not until the 80s did it happen.

It means Iran absolutely can return to a time when homosexuals were at least ignored by the law.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I feel bad for the bee.

But holy shit! If this doesn't make you want to save the bees than nothing will.

I dub this bee the Buzz Bomber!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Plague of locusts? Blood raining down? Him literally getting struck by lightening?

I would like the later. It would be hilarious.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29414662

A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for twelve billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by the Lever.

The data — including “full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, which are otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain” for past and future flights — is fed into a secretive government intelligence operation called the Travel Intelligence Program and provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies, records reveal.

Details of this program were outlined in procurement documents released Wednesday by ICE, which is a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

 

Just 10 years ago the US was still seen as being progressive and racism was slowly becoming a thing of the past... and not even in 10 years all the major civil rights achievements of rhe past 70 years are being thrown out so fast it is making my head spin.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62688077

I can't...

 

I can't...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62295325

Someone toss his ass in prison already!

 

Someone toss his ass in prison already!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61330470

Didn't they US used to send special forces out to rescue people like that in the past?

 

Didn't they US used to send special forces out to rescue people like that in the past?

 

This pisses me off. It also makes me want to get a burner phone for that very purpose.

But I am worried that if I go over the border with a burner phone I might get suspected of something and arrested. How likely is that?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60270545

This is some serious unprecedented bullshit. Especially when their charge was money laundering. Basically he is making money laundering legal. Go ahead and break the law. Trump will pardon you...

 

This is some serious unprecedented bullshit. Especially when their charge was money laundering. Basically he is making money laundering legal. Go ahead and break the law. Trump will pardon you...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59609758

I have no idea how anyone could be that fucking stupid.

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