In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case āconstitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorneyās] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...
If you feel you have to exclude certain types of people because you think they might demonstrate too much empathy or compassion, then the system obviously needs more empathy and compassion.
Hello! I really, really love bok choy, but every time I prepare it it turns a little sour. My intent is to eat it as part of a simple vegetable stir fry....
Iām personally not watching it (you could call me a bit of a disco āhaterā and s4 really kinda bummed me out) ā¦ but thought Iād see how people are enjoying it and think about getting a paramount subscription....
Lots of good points have already been made in this thread, Iāll just chime in to say Iāve really enjoyed Discovery. It definitely has its problems, and Iām kinda bipolar when it comes to Burnham, sometimes I love her, sometimes I canāt stand herā¦she never really learns any lessons. But the show is gorgeous and tried to do something a little different. I respect that.
The action sequences and cinematography are better and more exciting than any other Trek I can think of. That sequence in S05E01 where Burnham is blown out into space, has a suit materialize on her, jetpacks towards Discovery and then transports through the viewscreen directly into her captainās chair was BAD ASS.
I just wish the show was released in 4K HDR. Seems like a waste of beautiful visuals.
I started reading it, but the very first paragraph is already spilling over with bullshit. So Iām done.
Israelās unpreparedness on Oct. 7 shows that even powerful nations can be surprised in catastrophic ways.
First of all, of course powerful nations can be surprised, what a silly thing to say. But thatās not what happened here. Israel should have been fully prepared, because Israel was warned about the exact thing that happened on Oct. 7th. Their intelligence was quite specific on what was about to happen, itās just that they didnāt believe their own intelligence for what I would call ironically racist reasons. They didnāt believe that Hamas was organized enough to be capable of carrying out such an attack, but they were so obviously wrong.
So without finishing the article Iām gonna guess these clowns are using an intelligence failure to justify more intelligence.
The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history...
Yup, it is. I canāt really conceptualize a thousand billions or a trillion, though. These are not numbers that translate to reality in any practical way for me.
Now thatās a price I can get behind. My 2019 Kia Soul cost $14,000, and I love that car. This might actually start making a difference in the market.
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room...
Leaving aside the overall quality of the show, you canāt just recast the beloved main character and expect people to still be excited about it. Especially when the original actor is also a gamer who raved about how much he loved the source material, left the show for the right reasons, and connected with the fans so well.
Wait, what the fuck? This is inexcusable. This means even if you werenāt born in CA, parts of your genome will still be in their database if youāre related to anyone who was, and those parts are often enough to identify you. This isnāt just about personal privacy, itās about our collective ability to retain ownership and control over the most fundamental parts of ourselves and our families. And this data will obviously be abused by law enforcement, if it hasnāt already, because thatās what they do.
Babies deserve even more privacy protections than adults, since they canāt consent to anything.
I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. Iām old so thereās a MySpace account out there. But Iāve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.
I was just about to ask this same question in a different thread. Iām in a similar situation, in that Lemmy is the only social media I use (Reddit before the API crap), but Iāve never used my real name. Iād happily own all my comments, but the point of an anonymous account is that I donāt have to. I guess when youāre under oath it doesnāt matter, you have to truthfully answer the question thatās asked.
Because itās in everyoneās best interest that people with overt bias are dismissed. In high profile cases itās standard practice for both sides to do pretty intensive research on individual prospective jurors (they get a list), and that often includes scouring the web for their social media accounts. If they find something you posted, and you didnāt disclose your account when asked, you could be in trouble.
I donāt think itās usually standard to ask specifically about social media accounts, at least in normal mundane cases, but in a crazy case like this, it can say a lot about a personās ability to be impartial.
the colleague in question feels that only her way of doing things is the right one and expects me to adapt to her way of thinking and her logic. This is tiring and burdensome because I have to force me to stop doing things automatically and efficiently, but think how she wants it done and do it her way. I work worse when this...
Yeah this is how Iād handle it, simple and to the point. As a bonus I might add āIāll let you know if I need a handā which takes the impetus away from her so she knows her ideas are unwanted, but stays professional and polite.
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Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran....
I think the whole neighborhood just heard me sigh.
No one can argue that Israel doesnāt have the right to legitimately defend itself, itās just that no one could reasonably look at what Israel is doing right now and say their actions are defensive, proportionate, or at all justified.
Itās so patently obvious that the onslaught of indiscriminate violence and the direct targeting of aid convoys and civilians, is an offensive war against a population of human beings who are incapable of defending themselves in any meaningful way. This is an absurdly lopsided assault on an entire population of innocent people who just want a country of their own so they can finally have a fair shot at life.
Sorry, but bombing Iran is not defensive (Israel been doing targeted strikes against Iran and Syria for years). Bombing a hospital is not defensive. Guiding your precision missiles so they perfectly strike the WCK logo on the roofs of their vehicles is not defensive. How can killing a child, let alone tens of thousands of children, ever be defensive? It canāt.
Wow, that explanation actually clicks for me in a totally fucked up way. In the past when Israel has used disproportionate violence against Palestinians, theyāve used rhetoric like āmowing the lawnā (look it up, youāll be disgusted) to try to rationalize this kind of preemptive defense.
The billās passage comes after the stateās most populous county, Miami-Dade, considered local heat protection rules that would have been among the most stringent in the country. That proposal would have required employers to provide shade, water and 10-minute breaks to workers every two hours on days over a certain heat threshold.
The fact that that would have been among the most stringent protections in the country is incredibly sad. Those protections should be in place nationwide by default at a minimum. Nobody benefits from overheated workers, who are human beings by the way. I feel like itās so much easier to just be decent and take care of peoplesā basic needs.
Youāre a monster if you donāt think your workers deserve to have a few minutes in the shade whenever the fuck they want. People will work harder if they feel like theyāre safe and respected. Everybody wins.
I tried the alarm on the other side of the room thing and it consistently ruined my day. Put me in a frustrated and pissed off mood from the start. Now I just force myself to get out of bed immediately when the alarm goes off, no excuses and no snoozing allowed. It sucks, but Iām never late.
All bets are off on the weekend, alarms are only for a damn good reason.
Iām guessing they mean the school? But the word University never appears in the article. I know nothing about sports, so this is all extremely confusing to me.
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I wish there was a robust drafts feature linked to our accounts so I could go back and see all the comments I started but didnāt have the energy to back up or source. Voyager is pretty good about saving comments you accidentally close, but as far as I know thereās no way to save unfinished drafts to your account for later.
Also, dicks out? Is that something you often do to draw attention? Your HR file must be a fun read š
Same. This is why words matter, and sensational headlines do more harm than good. I always feel like Iām screaming into the void on this point. Headlines should not have cute puns or misleading language. They should be simple and direct. We need words to mean what they mean, especially in times like this. No more slamming, slicing, bleeding, or flaming unless those things actually happened.
It most-likely wonāt be the thing that ends the war, but it does add to the pressure on Biden. The pressure is now coming from so many different directions, that if he doesnāt act soon heāll be in serious political peril, which means American democracy could be nearing its end.
With stakes that high and tens of thousands of dead children, every bit of extra pressure helps.
As a descendant of Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust, aside from all the dead children and innocents in Gaza, this is the thing that bothers me most. I am not Israeli, but I am deeply ashamed of any Jew who thinks this genocide is okay or can be justified for any reason.
I was happily chomping away on my massive Tonyās chocolate bar during that episode. When he started the main segment, I sheepishly put it down and vowed to never buy chocolate again. Then he got to the part about Tonyās being one of the only ethical brands and I glanced at the half-eaten bar with relief and gladly scarfed down the rest. Itās nice when you donāt inadvertently support slavery.
This is totally right, because the majority of those ideals come from a place of genuine empathy. Being honest about personal experiences is the fastest way to jumpstart that empathy in those who are out of practice.
A Singaporean court has begun handing out sentences in a sensational case, which saw 10 Chinese nationals charged for laundering $2.2bn (Ā£1.8bn) earned from criminal activities abroad....
Yesss! I grew up with one of these and didnāt realize it was unconventional until I lived on my own and tried to find one in a store. Had to buy it online. I use it nearly every day.
Yeah, I think this is it right here. While the protests might not have done much for those of us who were already painfully aware of the copsā racism, behavioral issues, and lack of accountability, it did make it so that everyone else had to pay attention. You couldnāt ignore the protests, they were everywhere. I donāt have numbers, but I think a whole lot of white people who by default didnāt believe there was any real injustice in the system finally saw it, at least for a little while.
That said, it was unfortunately fleeting, and there hasnāt been enough sustained motivation to address the systemic issues that would need to be fixed for law enforcement to ever be properly held accountable. The people doing that admirable work are still doing it while the cops still have too much power. They might think twice before murdering someone in front of a camera. Maybe. Theyāll still do the murder, theyāll just make sure thereās no evidence.
So, a net positive, but the bar was already so damn low.
Iām not excusing any of their actions, because Iām genuinely horrified by Israelās conduct, but the IDF is a conscripted military force. Every Israeli, excluding some ultra-orthodox extremists who get a controversial religious exemption, is required to serve a certain amount of time in the military after they turn 18. There are alternative public service options for conscientious objectors, but most 18 year olds end up with a rifle in their hand. Thatās pretty fucked up if you ask me.
That means the majority of the soldiers perpetrating these atrocities are basically children themselves. They didnāt join so they could do a genocide, they joined because they had to, and are doing a genocide. Iām sure some of them are sick fuckers who enjoy it, but most are probably just following despicable, immoral, unforgivable orders from superiors. Thatās not a justification, just an unfortunate likelihood.
That said, yes, it does seem like theyāve dropped the pretense.
The closest Iāve been able to get to it is to submerge the arms in hot (nearly boiling) water for a bit, and then make the adjustment. Itās not quite as effective, but depending on what the frames are made out of it can do the job in a pinch.
Yeah Iāve basically stopped reading axios because I find their articles to be condescending more than anything else. If you canāt trust your readers to understand a short article without spoon feeding them with silly bullets like this, you donāt deserve my limited attention. Their articles are harder to read now, which is clearly the opposite of their intent.
Yeah, I can definitely see that. Personally, Iād rather they just write a normal narrative article and then have a summary with these bullets or something at the end. Maximal accessibility.
I really like SoundCore earbuds. I have a pair of Life A2 NCs that I primarily use to listen to podcasts and make work calls. I usually leave the sound on normal, but when Iām vacuuming or doing something loud, Iāll switch them to noise canceling and Iām always really impressed how well it works.
In my experience SoundCore microphones are pretty inconsistent across their models, but Iāve found the A2ās mics produce really high quality sound, good enough for clear work calls. Other SoundCore mics have been unacceptably bad.
They let their new puppy outside without a leash and it just comes over to my property and gets into my things that arenāt confined to my fence and scares my ducks. This puppy is a pit and is going to get huge. Iām afraid itāll get to my birds or dogs....
Ugh Iām sorry, I feel your pain. I used to have neighbors exactly like that. They were absurdly loud at all hours and had the cops called on them a number of times. I tried being polite: āHey guys! Hope youāre doing well, just wanted to let you know I have to wake up super early for work, so would it be cool if you kept the volume down after 10pm?ā They laughed, slammed the door in my face and cranked up the volume. The only thing that worked was telling the landlord I didnāt feel safe with them as my neighbors (helped that it was 100% true). He evicted them within days after I described all the shit they got up to.
JK Rowling has challenged Scotlandās new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence....
OR, and hear me out, you could just not be a total asshole? Maybe have a baseline of tolerance and respect for the people who made you a billionaire? No? Then fuck right off and accept the consequences of your hatred.
No, not even a little bit. There is a difference between being an asshole and committing a hate crime. Hate crime laws, when properly crafted and enforced, are an important component of a functional society. They can act as a deterrent, but they are also a way for those materially harmed by a hate crime to get justice. Free speech is never a universal right, anywhere in the world. There are always legitimate restrictions to ensure the publicās overall health and safety.
A former Central Valley High school teacherās āpredatory actionsā stripped a student of his dreams and significantly harmed him and his family after the teacher had sex with the 17-year-old, the studentās mother told a judge Thursday....
There always needs to be a human making the calls. I never want the robots to make life and death decisions, and sentencing is just that. It definitely seems like they got this one wrong, but AI is not the answer.
The criminal justice system is completely fucked right now. There are multiple tiers of justice, and it is by no means blind. But large language models (we donāt have anything remotely like an AI that could do consistently what you want) are a warped and biased reflection of humanity, and would only intensify and perpetuate the systemic injustice.
Price range for retail seems to be $100-250 for IKEA stuff that will fall apart in 3 years, or $1,000+ for something better. Is there nothing in between? Would prefer to buy new with risk of bed bugs or other contaminants but open to other options if Iām missing something.
Same here. Iāve got one of their dressers and night tables, and I love them! Thinking about getting a bed frame next. Their prices are awesome, and the quality is way better than it has any right to be.
āThe Palestinian Authority is waging a war against us, and only action with the same force as weāre applying in Gaza will eliminate all threats throughout the West Bank,ā he says in a statement cited by Hebrew media.
For those not familiar with the geography of the area, the West Bank is significantly larger than the Gaza Strip, and it is not a contiguous region. It is made up of Palestinian villages and cities separated by illegal Israeli settlements that were purposely placed in and between the Palestinian land to minimize the ability of Palestinians to control themselves and their security.
A large-scale attack in the West Bank at the level of the genocide in Gaza would be absolutely catastrophic for every single person living in the region. It would be devastating and unforgivable. Which Iām sure is the point.
Yeah Iāve always thought about it that way. Even if itās not a guarantee that youāll be sexually assaulted, the chances are high enough and it has become āacceptableā enough in mainstream American culture that itās apparently okay to joke about it.
āDonāt drop the soapā jokes genuinely fill me with rage, and always have. Our criminal justice system is far from perfect, and plenty of innocent people end up in prison. But I donāt care if youāre guilty or innocent. Were you sentenced to be raped? No. Sexual assault is a heinous crime, so joking about it being an expectation or feature of the penal system is despicable and normalizes the behavior.
Our prison system is completely broken, so yes, I would confidently argue that nearly every sentence that includes prison time has a strong possibility of also including sexual assault. And thatās not okay.
Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries ( oaklandside.org )
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case āconstitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorneyās] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...
I need to figure out how to prepare baby bok choy
Hello! I really, really love bok choy, but every time I prepare it it turns a little sour. My intent is to eat it as part of a simple vegetable stir fry....
Donāt wanna bash on Discovery ā¦ but is there notable disengagement around the final season?
Iām personally not watching it (you could call me a bit of a disco āhaterā and s4 really kinda bummed me out) ā¦ but thought Iād see how people are enjoying it and think about getting a paramount subscription....
NYT op-ed: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe ( www.nytimes.com )
Paywall bypass: archive.today/KYV3b...
Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn ( www.theguardian.com )
The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history...
Kiaās $15,000 EV2 caught in the wild as affordable EV offensive kicks off
electrek.co/ā¦/kias-15000-ev2-caught-in-wild-most-ā¦
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom ( apnews.com )
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room...
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones ( www.bbc.com )
Nearly a quarter of UK five-to-seven-year-olds now have their own smartphone, Ofcom research suggests....
āThe Witcherā Renewed For 5th & Final Season At Netflix ( deadline.com )
California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to ( www.cbsnews.com )
If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?
I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. Iām old so thereās a MySpace account out there. But Iāve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.
can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work?
the colleague in question feels that only her way of doing things is the right one and expects me to adapt to her way of thinking and her logic. This is tiring and burdensome because I have to force me to stop doing things automatically and efficiently, but think how she wants it done and do it her way. I work worse when this...
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Israel will defend itself, Netanyahu says, as West calls for restraint ( www.reuters.com )
Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran....
DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers ( thehill.com )
What's the best morning habit/routine you were able to adopt?
Michigan gets 3 years of probation for football recruiting violations; case vs. Jim Harbaugh pending ( apnews.com )
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Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames ( www.bbc.com )
Denmarkās historic old stock exchange building in the centre of Copenhagen has been engulfed by fire....
Gaza war protesters shut down Golden Gate Bridge, block traffic in other cities ( www.nbcnews.com )
7 day picket of US Embassy begins - Freedom News ( freedomnews.org.uk )
Israeli academics slammed for signing letter accusing Israel of āplausible genocideā ( www.timesofisrael.com )
Academics on the right side of history once again....
She hears there might be a coffee shortage! ( lemmy.world )
That said, there really might be a coffee shortage....
Progressive candidates are increasingly sharing their own abortion stories after Roeās demise ( www.chicagotribune.com )
For decades, only three people knew Gloria Johnson had had an abortion....
His forehead is an icon ( lemmy.world )
The $2bn dirty-money case that rocked Singapore ( www.bbc.com )
A Singaporean court has begun handing out sentences in a sensational case, which saw 10 Chinese nationals charged for laundering $2.2bn (Ā£1.8bn) earned from criminal activities abroad....
Unconventional kitchen utensil you can't live without?
What are your unconventional kitchen tools/utensils you were skeptical of at first but feel you canāt live without?
What Would God Say About File-Sharing? * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
Were the BLM protests of 2020 a success?
Same as it ever was ( lemmy.world )
Israelās Brutality Is Increasingāand So Is Its Denialism ( www.thenation.com )
A human rights monitor documented the sniping of at least 13 children in and around Shifa Hospital, all between the ages of 4 and 16.
What's that machine they use at the eye doctor to bend/refit your glasses?
I like getting glasses off of Zenni but they never seem to fit quite right, mostly the arms. Would be nice to be able to make adjustments.
General Electric completes split into 3 public companies Tuesday ( www.axios.com )
Do you have any recommendations for good budget wireless earbuds?
Iām looking to buy some wireless earbuds. The following is what I am looking for in them:
how should I tell my new trashy neighbors to keep their puppy off my property
They let their new puppy outside without a leash and it just comes over to my property and gets into my things that arenāt confined to my fence and scares my ducks. This puppy is a pit and is going to get huge. Iām afraid itāll get to my birds or dogs....
JK Rowling in āarrest meā challenge over Scottish hate crime law ( www.bbc.com )
JK Rowling has challenged Scotlandās new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence....
Former Spokane Valley teacher gets no jail time for sex with student ( www.spokesman.com )
A former Central Valley High school teacherās āpredatory actionsā stripped a student of his dreams and significantly harmed him and his family after the teacher had sex with the 17-year-old, the studentās mother told a judge Thursday....
(US) Where do you buy a decent quality dresser?
Price range for retail seems to be $100-250 for IKEA stuff that will fall apart in 3 years, or $1,000+ for something better. Is there nothing in between? Would prefer to buy new with risk of bed bugs or other contaminants but open to other options if Iām missing something.
Settler leader calls for military action in West Bank 'with the same force as we're using in Gaza' ( www.timesofisrael.com )
āThe Palestinian Authority is waging a war against us, and only action with the same force as weāre applying in Gaza will eliminate all threats throughout the West Bank,ā he says in a statement cited by Hebrew media.
18+ [CW: SA] If SA in prison is ubiquitous, especially in America, does that mean that any prison sentence is logically a sentence to SA? Are there exceptions to this?