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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On the plus side, he found out all of this BEFORE entering the US, instead of entering and being abducted by ICE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lesson here: Don’t accept a plea deal if you’re not born in the US to US citizens, unless you’re OK to be deported when your plea deal ends.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (5 children)

So… guy was convicted of distributing prescription drugs, claimed to be not guilty, accepted a plea deal, served his time, got his community service commuted to probation, presumably due to unlikelihood to reoffend, THEN got picked up by ICE to be deported to a country he hasn’t lived in for 34 years, and winds up mysteriously dead in custody.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

This is great, but a) it isn’t going to pass, and b) what about cops going under cover and plainclothes officers? So they get a carve out, or are they made illegal?

How about SWAT teams in gas masks? Sheriffs working in dusty areas wearing bandanas? Riot visors?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The challenge today is that their legal job may now require them to do things that are constitutionally questionable and ethically repugnant. So even if they’re good people and upstanding citizens, they may be required to, at any point in their day, to choose between doing the right thing and losing their job.

They only have to choose wrong once to no longer be the “good cop”.

Now, because of the way policing works in the US, it may be possible to have an intrinsically good police department. At least until a state or federal agency rolls into town and demands they do something they wouldn’t otherwise do; then they become complicit.

After all… in any other organized gang, there can be good people, but they’re still going to be found guilty of gang activity due to supporting the others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

s/wrecking/wreaking/g

It was distracting the pedant in me.

Now that that’s over with, let’s have fun and create the reality WE want!

Let MuskCo know that it doesn’t own the narrative. Strathcona is for people, not corporations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like they’ve still got some work to do to identify the areas that have been bottom trawled.

Thing is, I’ve been out of fisheries since the 90s, but back then bottom trawling was illegal in territorial waters, I thought? All the surface trawlers would never have done it anyway because they understood how destructive it could be for future years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The upgrade means the app no longer relies on Apple Pay metadata: it can pull tracking numbers from any retailer’s confirmation email, whether you used a card or paid cash on delivery. The parsing is handled locally by Apple Intelligence, so the receipts never leave your iPhone unless you later choose to sync them through iCloud.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Well that went by fast….

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Those dog groomers are so proud of what they do, too.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Do they give 72 hours notice before THEY show up?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Little Snitch on a Mac.

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