According to this “Employment Eligibility” PDF, domestic violence is only disqualifying if the candidate has actually been convicted.

But we’re not talking about convicted solicitation of prostitutes here, are we?

So the FBI is a land of contrasts.

You know, this really isn’t fair to the other 160,000 lakes in the USA. Surely they all deserve to be known as “Lake America.”

Trump has wide latitude over how the US government refers to geographic landmarks…

This is how it worked for the “Gulf of America,” too. The president can’t force map publishers to use his names. He can only force the career public servants in the federal government to use his names.

Google Maps (to name one of many) changed “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” of their own accord. And that will be the case this time, too, if Google follows through.

what would happen if you really forgot the passcode

I believe the threat here was: Tell us the access code or we confiscate your phone, which we’ll hack into at our leisure.

I don’t think ordinary citizens should be required to know the law in lawyer-like detail when they travel.

I think in the broad strokes, you’re probably right about his legal situation, but it suuuuuucks and it’s not what I think of when I hear the word “freedom,” for sure.

Most of the Pixel 7s on Swappa are just under US$200 at this moment.

Lots of Americans have watched the Wallace and Gromit shows and movies.

Probably, fewer of them understand that the robotic moon-dwelling antagonist in A Grand Day Out was a coin-operated heating and cooking appliance, modeled after the sort that actually existed and operated in post-War Britain.

I’m not in favor of coin-op elevators. But there are precedents. The ownership class will nickel-and-dime you to death if they think they can. They view the rest of us as a resource to be strip-mined.

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department

“And then we’ll send the Marines to shoot inflation in the FACE.” – Some president soon, probably

When he was ranting about steam catapults – that was this same ship he was talking about.

The fallout across affiliate networks came fast

MegaLag’s video was posted at the end of 2024. The affiliate networks reacted in 2026. Over a year later. That doesn’t seem so fast to me.

The destruction of the book is done to mitigate some copyright concerns.

Can you explain? The First Sale doctrine means its OK to sell books after you’re done with them. I would think it would be the scanning itself that could be a copyright problem, not the disposition of the physical book after.

I thought the real reason, the main reason, was, as the article says, “Destroying books is cheaper.”

I agree that the concern over the destruction of physical books, and what impact that will have on their availability, is probably exaggerated. Heck, the actual importance of old books to the AI companies may be exaggerated, that seems to be their hype style.

You know what’s even cheaper than destrucive scanning of old books?

Scaring a bunch of volunteers into scanning them for free.

I’m not saying that was the plan all along. But it might have been. It’s plausible, with these jerks, isn’t it?

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The only members of the public who might reasonably be expected to offer some help finding a license plate are driving, and aren’t supposed to be messing around with phones.

This built-in contradiction has always bothered me.

These days there are ALPR cameras everywhere, and it’s very hard to imagine John Q. Public is going to have a hot tip before our dystopian AI panopticon does. It has seemed obvious to me that, whatever their intention, the Amber alerts primarily function as copaganda: Persuading us that we live in a dangerous, unpredictable world, and that only the police can save us. By asking us for help locating license plates, while we’re at home asleep at 3AM.

Every day, small clots of soldiers in camouflage and body armor patrol tourist-heavy areas of the U.S. ‌capital, including national monuments, subway stations and the area around its professional baseball park.

They’re patrolling the safest parts of town.

The roughly 4,500 soldiers currently deployed to Washington outnumber its 3,200 police officers, opens new tab.

“Opens new tab?”

Bear in mind that we only hear about the most egregious and / or dumbest cases like these. Like with all crimes.

Okay, I admit it, I am tired of winning.

Are we Great Again yet?

I think it just means that the raw view count was never very important to YouTube. That’s why they will have “engaged views” and “qualified watch hours” etc.