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and iirc the NY law has a somewhat ignoble history of being used in gang prosecutions, which is a really much better example of inequity than Roof, who was sentenced to death on hate crimes charges
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Does anybody have any idea which regime goon was behind [email protected]? I wanna know which motherfucker is out here threatening me for exercising my first amendment right to email the government
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I think of the SNL bit every so often youtu.be/vw89o0afb2A
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hard to write stories about pandemic heroes compared to stories about war heroes
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the other thing about insisting that it's not a disease is that society gates any amount of social supports (such as they are...) behind diagnosis. it's, uh, pretty self-defeating
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I mean I guess I'd take it if it meant neurotypicals actually accepted adhd and autism as harmless personal quirks but they manifestly do not, lol
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not sure the disease model is good either obvs
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"hemophilia is just different blood wiring, my mother had it, etc"
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also lots of diseases are genetic. anything can be a disease if we decide it is
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so less about applying the law unevenly but that the law itself only sort of recognizes domestic terrorism as a thing. NY State i think is something of an outlier in having a domestic terror state crime at all
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one of the things that makes this tricky to compare is that there isn't a freestanding crime of domestic terrorism at the federal level, though maybe there should be
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America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon
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it does happen www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1...
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if anything the state endorsing that it was terrorism should be held up as validating what he did, but nobody seems to think that way
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the historical guillotine moment was literally called The Terror!
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it's only justifiable if it induces terror! that's the whole justification!
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I love the people who think it was justified but are also really mad that he's being brought up on terror charges. Like, pick one.
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has anyone beat or matched the Falcon 9 on cost per kg to orbit?
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the falcon 9 has a very, very good safety record as rockets go www.popsci.com/science/falc...
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makes sense, if your party is too small to get any real power then the alternative compensation on offer is power within the party...
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vice signalling
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whether Tesla is anything special these days idk but they were early movers in selling electric cars to America which was a big deal at the time. And Tesla of course *wasn't founded by Musk*
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SpaceX isn't sui generis but nobody had ever done what they do before, and nobody's managed to catch up with them yet
(Musk's a dope, but SpaceX makes real rockets)
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and I was right!
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my introduction to him was getting linked to the "wait but why" series on him and it was so fawning that I assumed musk must be full of shit
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like imagine the result for Times' house style for horserace coverage if they included ", adjudicated rapist" when they introduced Trump. It wouldn't work!
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yeah I'm convinced that half the reason the media won't say it is that they'd then feel obligated to act accordingly, which they can't afford to do.
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(the pager attacks seem to have done not that much civilian harm compared to all the conventional bombs subsequently dropped on Beirut so it's kind of academic...)
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the UN thought it was a violation of IHL anyway. Even a rigged FPV headset is still technically a boobytrap and there's no absolute guarantee they couldn't be picked up and used by civilians?
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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a bunch of people called the pager bombs a war crime and this seems at least similar?
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it's unclear to me whether there are even any limits to the DOJ's judgement fund so they might be able to do this indefinitely
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anyway that article has hints of how it got its hooks into him: YouTube, and then TikTok's algorithm realized that showing him videos of women being mean about men kept him engaged, and hey presto he's funding his leg surgery with an OnlyFans page
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I think about this guy a lot. (No, I don't believe his story about being constantly discriminated against over his 5"7' stature)
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elam...
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my instinct is "less/has" or "fewer/have" but not "less/have"
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I guess you could date it from dropping the atomic bomb, which would be fair enough really
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Rat King doesn't cooperate with ICE because Rat King is rats. Rat King!
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Rat King has my vote
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"yeah I joined the Nazi party but it's not my fault, the system should have stopped me before I could" c'mon
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Do you blame the people who voted NDSAP for Hitler even a little bit?
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that and mifepristone
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"have you ever noticed it's easier to break an egg than to make one? that just shows how society has been rigged against us. we could defeat death if we had the courage"