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He was not acquitted.

The charges were dropped once the massive pile of police incompetence met the shitstorm of public scrutiny.

First the charges were dismissed without prejudice so the prosecutor could dig and see if he could find some way to make it Walker's fault that cops killed his girlfriend. Then, when he couldn't (because of the aforementioned appalling incompetence), and public scrutiny didn't decrease to a point where he could quietly pressure Walker into a cell anyway, they were dismissed with prejudice.

It is important to not make shit up about this. If the public scrutiny hadn't been as intense, it is entirely possible that they would have dragged him to trial and pressured him into a plea bargain. He was lucky that the public managed to continue giving a shit for more than their usual 30-second attention span.

We all know you're full of shit, but just in case you're a useful idiot to conservatism instead of cynical grifter...

If you want fewer abortions, the answer has been obvious for decades — sex ed and birth control made available to everyone that wants it, which results in fewer unwanted pregnancies, which results in fewer abortions.

Your moron political group and its insistence on overturning Roe resulted in an increase in abortions. 2023 had the highest number and rate in literally decades. So if you're dumb enough to think that's "murdering babies," then congrats. The people you vote for increased the body count.

Ah okay I would likely have missed those days since until this year I kept hoping windows wouldn’t completely shit the bed for my gaming PC.

I’ll have to take a look sway; think I’m still figuring out what I like best and GNOME felt familiar to the MacBook I like using for productivity (although now that I think about it, even Apple has a system-tray-like thing on the top of the screen). KDE was also fine but if I have a choice I usually like picking something with a spotlight-search equivalent; GNOME’s just looks more like spotlight so it activates the dumb part of my brain that likes familiarity.

Thanks for sticking with me through this conversation. Sometimes it’s hard to convey over text that I’m more ignorant than asshole on most Linux things.

Swear I'm neither of those things, but you're talking about the system tray as in that little bucket of icons that sits in the lower-right of a taskbar usually?

This seems like it'd fall pretty neatly in the "you use it, so you think it's required basic functionally; other people don't, so they don't care about it" realm. I do not miss the bucket. It doesn't seem like awesome functionality (to me) to have to access application features through a bucket of tiny icons instead of the application itself and to be unable to access those features in the application.

I can see how frustrating it'd be if there's something you like to use or have to use that only works if it can be in a system tray, but it's not a ubiquitous feature requirement across all applications, so maybe GNOME is for people that don't care for apps that require this and all the other mainstream OS options are for folks that do? Man that's an annoying sentence to read; no wonder people get so angry about what seems like pointless minutiae.

I assume I dislike it because my work machine (windows, no choice there) always has about 30 things in its pointless icon bucket that can't be closed by a basic user and do nothing beyond cluttering the taskbar and getting in the way. I get nothing out of a bucket of icons that exist only to silently scream "I'm running in the background still! Just in case anyone cares!" Not having to see that crap on my personal machine is a relief rather than a frustration for me.

Fair enough. I don't know what those are, so I guess I can't miss them.

That was pretty effing funny.

How much do you use your OS, though? I'd characterize it more as it works best by staying out of the way.

I turn the computer on, load a game or an occasional productive application, and I don't think about it any more than that. My only real interaction with it beyond picking some initial settings is super+search for the thing I actually want to interact with.

Not that guy but phrases like "basic functionality" are just hard to pin down. What you need for your workflow and can't live without is probably irrelevant fluff to a whole other class of folks.

I haven't run into anything I need a third-party extension for yet, so I guess it works for some of us, although admittedly I do very few things on that machine so I could easily be missing something vital for most people.

I don't love it as an idea. Most of the communities I block aren't anything bad or even annoying — I just tend to scroll by All and block things that don't apply to me, like communities about countries whose language I don't speak, or porn communities for preferences I don't share.

I think if you set something like this up, even with good intentions, it would result in negative connotations being associated to communities that probably don't deserve it.

On the off-chance some financially clued-in person doesn't stop by, here's what I found searching:

A charge is a form of security over an asset which gives the charge-holder (typically a lender) the right to have the asset and its proceeds of sale appropriated to discharge the debt. Companies typically grant fixed and floating charges over their assets as security for their corporate borrowing.

I'm not financially intelligent but it sounds a bit like collateral?

*Presidential Medal of Freedom

In answer to your question, though, she's receiving it because democracy, at least for one political party, is entirely for sale.

You have no idea what happened. No one who isn't Sanders or Warren knows what was said in that meeting, and I frankly doubt either of them remembers it either. There's a reason eye-witness testimony is some of the most inaccurate evidence out there regardless of how sure you feel about it.

There is no proof in one person saying something happened and another saying it didn't. You have no evidence that she lied about anything. Frankly it's astounding how sure you feel about things no one has any evidence for, least of all you.

The only thing you seem to have is a completely warped view of her legislative history, but I don't think I can get you to see reality. Good luck out there.

She didn’t just attempt things. She accomplished things. You would not have a CFPB without her. I don’t know any politician, progressive or otherwise, that always wins.

You don’t trust her because she wanted to win a presidential primary, didn’t, and had a shitty response to it? Jesus man, everyone’s a fake progressive by your standard.

You know Bernie endorsed Biden too, right? He wasn’t going to win. He never had a chance at winning with the way the DNC works. Yeah, it’d be nice if that wasn’t true, but unfortunately it is.

I’d recommend you dial back the purity testing a bit or you’ll end up staying home.