It’s easy to forget all the shit Ashcroft said he was going to do, like misinterpret existing laws to go after porn producers, harrass gay folks, all kinds of other Christofascist shit. Then 9/11 happened, and this is a pretty good summary of what happened:

he sought to sweep away any meaningful restrictions on his power and use the fact of September 11th to do so.

But this is an attorney general who treated dissent and criticism as if it was treason, who launched the largest campaign of ethnic profiling we’ve seen in this country since World War II, who sought… who treated judicial review and congressional oversight as inconvenient obstacles to getting the job done.

And I think ultimately he’ll be seen as a disaster, both from a civil liberties perspective and also from a national security perspective.

You’re an optimist. This decline is gonna be way more than a generation.

He said “which bank”, which could be determined by the sniffing DNS requests, or seeing which IPs his computer is connecting to.

Not a breach of his personal information (assuming the bank that he’s using and the client he’s using after putting everything in TLS properly).

It’s got what plants crave.

I took a flyer on some GME back during the excitement. Got in at about $35, set a limit order at $420.69 (nice) for the lolz, and was pleasantly amused when that order got filled.

Source: trust me, bro

Well the companies that have dead peasant insurance do assign some value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance?wprov=sfla1

In my area, fitness clubs closed as well

Where else would people be going to obtain baby formula and other necessities?

What is a western-built phone? Practically all portable electronics are manufactured in Asia.

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.

Having watched drivers in a traffic backup on the Autobahn neatly organize themselves to leave a lane empty for emergency vehicles even though there were no emergency vehicles in the vicinity, my conclusion is that there’s no fucking way that American drivers have the discipline or sense of social responsibility necessary to handle Autobhan-style driving.

Yes, let’s spend money on a system that only helps people in a specific set of buildings only during specific parts of the day and year when the buildings are occupied, rather than doing anything that would help society at large, at all times and anywhere in the country.

Like I said, it’s impossible to know what the right thing to do here, much less actually do it.

Hmmm, one involves fleecing school district funding in a grift, the other reduces profits to armaments manufacturers.

I really can’t figure this out! How is it possible to know?

I dont think they cut much, just one charge and most (all?) references to the Department of Justice. Indictment went from 46 down to 35 pages, still carries 6 charges. A new grand jury considered it and voted to indict. Nothing about this sequence of events indicates this is a weak case.

I personally wouldn’t want a federal indictment of 36 pages against me.

The rendering of a sentence as part of a just trial is absolutely a part of the law, not above the law.

The entire process is spelled out: prosecution, indictment, jury selection, trial, conviction, appeal, etc. fully within the confines of the law.

As if she didn’t pledge AKA at Howard.

That’s basically what Netflix did in the beginning. The challenge for Netflix is that the media companies they were licensing content from weren’t dumb, so the licensing agreements were time limited. The media companies caught up and built their own streaming platforms and now Netflix is at the receiving end of disintermediation.

This was a security update. That’s what Crowdstrike is, intrusion detection, antivirus, etc.

And that a Republican-held house of representatives will never impeach.

Locking dog doors are available that are opened by a tag on the collar or by your dogs microchip if your dog is chipped. Racoons won’t get in unless they steal your dogs’ collar.