Oh yeah, the Patriot act was the biggest victory any terrorists could’ve hoped to gain over the US. People still get offended when I say that our modern security state means the terrorists, at least to some extent, won. They destroyed an important part of the fabric of our society.
Oh yeah, from the article it sounds like the entire town is funded off of high pressure civil asset forfeiture.
The politicians who created the bill to eliminate civil asset forfeiture in Nebraska are idiots though. They didn’t notice the loopholes of it still being allowed if there’s any suspicion of drugs, or if the amount is over $25k? It’s their job, and the job of their supporting staff, to read the bills they’re proposing and passing and make sure stuff like this doesn’t happen. Saying they’re upset it still exists despite their efforts just emphasizes how incompetent they are at passing working laws.
Civil asset forfeiture is a problem in a lot of states, not just Nebraska. Here’s a few from Texas, home of a lot of stuff, like some of the fastest growing cities in the US.
This and qualified immunity are the things that really strike me as big, common, root cause issues with policing.
One time, driving back on the highway with some friends, the mid afternoon sky suddenly turned purple for a couple seconds. We all saw it.
I’ve never been able to find any explanation of what happened. Closest I’ve got is maybe a transformer exploded, but it didn’t make the news or anything.
Am a programmer, with no real medical knowledge, but I almost laughed out loud in a theater watching a CPR scene once. The person was giving the tiniest little chest compressions you can imagine, standing straight up with their arms out straight in front of them and only really moving like, their forearms. To an adult recipient.
12ft had a few months of being great, but I think they ended up selling out or giving in to legal pressure, and doesn’t do anything on several major news outlets anymore
I’ve been extremely happy with the Nikkor 200-500 5.6, especially with a 1.4x teleconvertor. I see the lens on mpb.com for around $900 if you can stretch that much.
That lens is just barely hand holdable, but I’d go ahead and grab a monopod (I have the Benro MSD46C SupaDupa, and it’s great but I’m not 100% in love with it, I’d see what’s good on the market this year if I were you) and the Wimberly MH-100 gimbal head. Smallest/lightest/cheapest gimbal head ever, but absolutely capable in every way. This combo works shockingly well for me in almost all circumstances tbh, haven’t felt a real need to upgrade it in any way yet.
blackout.photon-reddit.com seems to be down for me. Any idea what’s up with that, or other places that are visualizing traffic?
I could be wrong, but my understanding from Backblaze data/articles is that if your HDD made it past 1 year, it’s probably going to last at least a decade. Drives tend to fail early if they’re going to fail.
A warranty warning is fine, though still more obtrusive than I want personally. I haven’t lost a disc at all yet tbh, including well over a decade of pretty hard use one several. I’ve got local parity and cloud backups for when that inevitably changes though.
The post is saying that if you delete your account, you lose any control if they restore your posts/comments. There is no “keep deleting” your account, cause that’s not what they’re potentially restoring.