For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can.
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 5mo ago 100%

    Maybe there are some of those people. I still doubt they (or anyone voting for him) is going to be swayed by his use of the N-word.

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  • If cannabis gets rescheduled to III, how can it ever get the state - federal differences resolved when it comes to the recreational market?
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    I was thinking urinalysis, which I was always told was ~30 days. It doesn't change the argument.

    C-level or anyone in the company exempt? Do we monitor alcohol usage so closely? Would people tolerate it if we did? Federal law is the only reasonable basis for an employer to be testing for off the clock use of a drug that is legal or decriminalized in that state. Otherwise it's an invasion of privacy. And yes, it is, whether you tell me it legally is or not.

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  • If cannabis gets rescheduled to III, how can it ever get the state - federal differences resolved when it comes to the recreational market?
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    The moment there isn't federal law to lean on, I hope for and expect court cases predicated on the fact that there's no basis for an employer to care more about whether someone has smoked cannabis in the past thirty days than they do about whether that same employee gets blackout drunk every Friday and Saturday night - nor for that matter if the person responsibly drinks a couple beers after work some nights. (Or is someone pushing to detect alcohol use within the past 30 days as a reason to disqualify employment?)

    Neither of those details of their lives speaks to someone's sobriety at work, and the basis for considering marijuana usage as somehow "worse" is rooted directly in the racist basis for policies enacted at the very start of cannabis prohibition.

    The reality is that drug tests just like felony checks are very good filters for bad employees.

    If this is true, drug testing should start at the CEO.

    Edit2: Hanging onto this for 2 months before replying, or just like trolling through old cannabis discussions looking for an argument, or...?

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  • Frederick Douglass and his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, with her sister in back, USA, 1884
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    Glad you enjoyed it! ERB slips some truth into a lot of their videos. It's not the only reason I like them, but it helps.

    This one sneaks up on you a bit.

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  • Frederick Douglass and his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, with her sister in back, USA, 1884
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    It is with the greatest of respect for Douglass that I link this ERB video for anyone who hasn't seen it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ZblMfZpuw

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    Ex-President Donald Trump set to face jury over sex abuse and defamation claims
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    It wasn't a comparison to Gotti except for a lamentation that the name has been used already. Though if it ends with Trump behind bars too, I can't complain. I'd like to feel some of this turns out to be more than just an annoying inconvenience for him.

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    Edit: Flatpak (possibly regression) issue caused by either xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and/or xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
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    fwiw in the future you can find out the path to your drives and their uuid if needed with

    lsblk -f

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  • Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    I didn't realize that. That's disheartening.

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  • Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 77%

    It's hard for me to imagine 2024 not being the year they do.

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    Ex-President Donald Trump set to face jury over sex abuse and defamation claims
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    I was about to say "How would people know who you meant?" but I'm pretty sure it would catch on.

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  • What do you think is the coolest designed sci-fi gun?
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    I mean the physical design of the gun, not the projectile or effect.

    I'm a simple man. Same answer for decades.

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  • Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    Someone somewhere is already planning how they will get people to work around the clock this way, and someone else somewhere is probably desperate enough to feed themselves or their family that they'll take it when offered.

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    I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate
    Egg Prices Are Rising Again. Why Are They So Expensive?
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    Yep. No reason not to think it isn't just corporate greed again.

    (from the article about the previous insane egg prices)

    In absolutely unrelated news, eggs are suddenly incredibly expensive. A dozen "conventional" eggs are currently averaging $2.88, which is double what they cost a year ago. Supposedly, this is caused by a supply chain shock (an avian flu outbreak).

    But – and this will shock you, I know – the single company that dominates the US egg industry, Cal-Maine Food (AKA CALM – ugh) is making record profits. Their Q3/22 net was up 65% from the year before. Cal-Maine's Q4-22 sales were up record-smashing 110% – $801.7m:

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    Ex-President Donald Trump set to face jury over sex abuse and defamation claims
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 98%

    The entire apparatus of the United States justice department and executive branch has so far not succeeded in doing more than pissing him off about Jan 06 and election fraud, but this one woman has bloodied his nose repeatedly. Bravo I say!

    Maybe this is going to be the one thing he sees actual consequences for.

    Side note - pretty sure losing cases like these would have killed anyone else's political career and presidential aspirations. It's a real shame we already used up the Teflon Don nickname.

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  • What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    Yeah, I'd think outside of movie-style moments it's not something that makes sense 99.9% of the time, I just thought it was an interesting claim. It would have been more interesting if it were true. 😁

    (to be clear I'm not the guy who made the claim)

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  • The GOAT of playing utterly vile people.
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    She'd have made a great Dolores Umbridge. (Not to detract from the hatred Imelda Staunton succeeded in generating, she was great too!)

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  • What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 88%

    I did find a great many links to articles about this one event, but so far nothing to support that they do it regularly.

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/world-news/finland-stabbing-suspect-shot-in-leg

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    "Imperialism only counts if it's Western, otherwise it's just sparkling liberation"
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    and the moment they actually stop and declare peace, the US and EU will seek to tear the rest of their government apart and try to start a civil war, like they’ve done at least 15 times they got involved in a conflict in the last 23 years

    If that were true, it would have been a good reason not to invade a neighbor.

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    "Imperialism only counts if it's Western, otherwise it's just sparkling liberation"
  • be_excellent_to_each_other be_excellent_to_each_other 9mo ago 100%

    The official narrative is that Ukrainian government is illegitimate and ruled by Nazis, abd the country needs to be “liberated” from their rule.

    Okay but we, over here on the good side of the sanity line, know that's not true, right? It justifies nothing.

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    I haven't needed this yet today, but I'm sure it's coming.
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    Last few days are the least functional kbin has been for me since the July exodus. Just me?

    Just curious if it's somehow got to do with anything on my end. I'm generally desktop-only, firefox-only.

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    https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/bar-owner-is-arrested-after-st-louis-police-officer-crashes-into-his-business/

    Sorry folks, this didn't look paywalled for me when I posted it. Links others have provided: [https://archive.md/EwTss](https://archive.md/EwTss) [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/20/gay-bar-pm-st-louis-police-crash-owner-arrest/71986781007/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/20/gay-bar-pm-st-louis-police-crash-owner-arrest/71986781007/)

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    Did I see a note that blocked users would no longer show up in the random threads sidebar?

    I currently have to stare at what is presumably [@RichardvanDaalen](https://kbin.social/u/RichardvanDaalen) being anally penetrated on the main page, no matter that I have blocked him, and no matter that I have hit refresh several times. I could post a screenshot, but you'd probably rather I didn't.

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    The lawsuit argues that the city is violating its own ordinance by not allowing the Office of Police Oversight to access internal disciplinary files of officers.

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    The Reform police officer is on leave while authorities investigate the weekend arrest.

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    The roommates claim officers unnecessarily shot their pet dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

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    But muh bootstraps!
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    Thurau's nationwide examination of decades of lawsuits involving Tasers, also called "Conducted Electrical Weapons," found the devices were used on a disproportionate number of children of color and children with disabilities. Washington says her son fits that description and attends a specialized school. "A 14-year-old. A special needs 14-year-old, who has disorders, who do not understand what is going on," she said.

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    www.rollingstone.com

    Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.

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    Like other plaintiffs talked to by THE CITY, Baez said she never filed a formal complaint while she was locked up because she was “scared, alone, and I had no one.” “I thought people would judge me and say I liked it,” she said, “and that’s why it kept happening.” While she was in Rikers, she began to believe that’s what God intended to happen to her. “I started to believe that this is part of my life,” she said, “to be raped and used like a sex slave.”

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzyyBUpwm_U

    Channel link since this video from OP will go offline in something like 10 hours: [https://www.youtube.com/@DDCyprus1Click](https://www.youtube.com/@DDCyprus1Click)

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    https://www.youtube.com/@DDCyprus1Click

    The current stream that started a couple hours ago is here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzyyBUpwm\_U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzyyBUpwm_U)

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    She was sitting in her car before dawn last month when a uniformed police officer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, accused her and her passenger of trespassing, then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a living hell” if she didn’t comply with his plan to investigate.

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    Police in South Carolina are investigating an incident involving a vehicle that drove through security fences at a nuclear power station on Thursday.

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    The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and **Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him**, she said. It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. **Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue.** Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son. They bounced down the road and curved into the woods, crawling past clearings where rows of small signs jutted from the earth, each marked with a number.

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    “Listen to Elijah’s words,” prosecutor Jonathan Bunge said as police body camera video was played. “When Elijah is on the ground handcuffed, he’s saying over and over and over again, ‘I can’t breathe. Please help me.’” But instead of helping him, Bunge said, Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema and his former colleague, Jason Rosenblatt, ignored McClain's pleas for help and told arriving paramedics that he had been resisting and had "crazy strength." Then the paramedics gave McClain a sedative "as he was drifting closer and closer to death," Bunge said in Adams County District Court.

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