FireTower

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[–] FireTower 1 points 6 hours ago

Na the hardware store guys are chill

[–] FireTower 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They mandate trigger warnings for pictures of cheese.

Base line Lemmy has a left skew. Hexbear people are the basis for probably a quarter of conservatives talking points.

[–] FireTower 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The speech: a US shell company reposting an algorithm owned by a company that is bound to the will on the closest thing the US has to a rival nation.

This is the argument of TikTok's counsel before the court

[–] FireTower 4 points 16 hours ago

If any store decides I need to ask an employee to read the nutritional facts on the back of a can of soup I will never shop there.

The solution isn't locks it's fixing the underlying problem.

[–] FireTower 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah no one is fingerprinting a possession case.

[–] FireTower 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Post Monroe doctrine

[–] FireTower 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tear the page you're on out and keep it in your pocket to look back to when you need to start again and you can find the page # on the torn out page. /S

[–] FireTower 1 points 1 day ago

Without knowing which hurricane or flood victims you're asking about I can't answer as for them. But for the COVID pandemic? Yes, absolutely. The CARES Act has tons of sections that impose requirements on recipients. It's not like the federal government just gave away 2.2 trillion dollars no strings attached.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748/text

[–] FireTower 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We can and should audit for any fraud or diversion of aid after the crisis

Naturally it's not like there's any point in an audit of spending before spending occurs. I was asserting that post conditional terms (like CA must return unaccounted expenditures) or requiring the preservation of records for such and audit is a reasonable condition.

Most financial aid and transactions these days is strictly digital and easy to audit because of that.

Other forms of aid like diversion of fire suppression helicopters have other simple means of establishing records that can later be audited after the end of the emergency (e.g. adding a comment on the pre flight checklist).

But if we decide 9 months from now CA has to pass an audit and they tossed their receipts it'll be impossible.

[–] FireTower 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Without actual proposed conditions there can't really be an intelligent discussion on the topic. This story isn't ripe yet.

Certainly there are some reasonable conditions e.g. a report and audit on the dispersal of aid to ensure it isn't landing in a politician's pockets.

[–] FireTower 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Kinda cringy being French and talking Bri'ishly like that. (plus feddit.UK). Even since Lafayette died it has been down hill for France it seems.

[–] FireTower 1 points 5 days ago

Most of the SAR is voluntareer based here. There are several regional SAR groups all made of ordinary people who help the state in their free time. The $2k is an average not fixed amount. Depending on circumstances it'll be higher or lower.

 

Haven't seen much coverage on this so I figured I should share the word. The Explore Act has passed the House and the Senate with massive bipartisan support.

The bill will benefit bikers, rock climbers, shooters, OHRV operators, & more. It has special provisions to encourage access to the outdoors among people with disabilities, veterans, and the youth.

It seeks to establish new range access on federal lands, like national forests (see sec. 123). Ranges would have facilities for rifle and handgun shooting, and may include accommodations for archery and trap shooting.

 

This powder horn was property of John Calfe a Captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Calfe was from New Hampshire but this horn was from his time serving in what today is Vermont. He was stationed at Mt Independence across the lake from Fort Ticonderoga until July of 1777.

It reads: "What I Contain Shall Freely Go: To Bring a Haughty Tyrant Low."

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The rifle resembled a typical spring-air rifle, but the 2000° hot, high-pressure air served not only to propel the projectile but also to ignite the propellant on the back of the V/L cartridge. The rifle uses a small, unique, and well designed part called an Obturator (obturator/ignitor) to compress the air as it is pushed through a tiny hole. This air is heated as it is pushed through the small hole enough to ignite the powder of the caseless round.

The V/L guns and ammunition were discontinued in 1969 after the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ruled that they constituted a firearm, and Daisy, which was not licensed to manufacture firearms, decided to discontinue manufacture rather than become a firearms manufacturer. About 23,000 of the rifles were made before production ceased.

 

American law outlines a series of protections for those accused of crimes but not yet convicted. (Like the 4th-6th amendments)

Does your country have any unique/novel protections of the rights of potentially innocent people accused but yet to be convicted?

If not are there any protections you think should be in place?

 

To honor the timeless principles enshrined in our Constitution, the Congress has, by joint resolution of February 29, 1952 (36 U.S.C. 106), designated September 17 as “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day” and authorized the President to issue a proclamation calling on United States officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day. By joint resolution of August 2, 1956 (36 U.S.C. 108), the Congress further requested that the President proclaim the week beginning September 17 and ending September 23 of each year as “Constitution Week.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 17, 2024, as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and September 17 through September 23 as Constitution Week. On this day and during this week, we celebrate our Constitution and the rights of citizenship that we enjoy together as the proud people of this Nation.

 
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... Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum on August 25 after three people wearing balaclavas allegedly stole 27 handguns worth an estimated $200,000.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19239048

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, opens new tab that a 1957 law barring people from possessing spring-release pocketknives commonly known as "switchblades" violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

The court reached that conclusion while dismissing a charge filed against David Canjura for unlawfully possessing a switchblade, which Boston police found when responding to a report of an altercation between Canjura and his girlfriend.

 

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, opens new tab that a 1957 law barring people from possessing spring-release pocketknives commonly known as "switchblades" violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

The court reached that conclusion while dismissing a charge filed against David Canjura for unlawfully possessing a switchblade, which Boston police found when responding to a report of an altercation between Canjura and his girlfriend.

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