roboticide

Draw a single unconditional map, you lose the right to draw it and it goes to an independent group who'll do it properly.

Needs to be enforced by an independent party, and as we saw in Ohio, the GOP will just go, "Nah, we think we'll keep it."

Yeah, state GOPs are figuring out that if they just ignore their state supreme courts, the two outcomes are: the opposition appeals to the federal Supreme Court with the same, or worse, outcome, or... nothing.

The states that can are at least addressing gerrymandering through ballot initiatives and state constitutional amendments. Ohio is on track for this. Ohioans shot down the attempts at undermining their ballot initiative process, and are now attempting to get a citizen redistricting commission on the 2024 ballot. We'll see how it goes.

Yeah I wonder why, maybe it's because they are directly responsible for the current war.

Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is responsible for the current war. Stop drinking the commie kool-aid.

You can whine about NATO and geopolitics all you want, at the end of the day Russia could simply have chosen not to invade Ukraine and NATO would not be dumping the entire alliance's 40 year stockpile into the conflict.

Yeah, and since you don't see real ones that often the fakes are kind of convincing if you're not paying attention.

Found one in a river once while tubing. Was excited for about an hour until we got out at the dock, I pulled the bill back out and gave it a closer look, and realized it was a movie bill.

Yeah, that will be the cop's defense, she was attempting to assault the cop with a deadly weapon.

Still fucking shitty though. If they really wanted to stop her from leaving, just park the police cruiser in front of her car. Or let her leave and get her tags. They had options. Maybe her family will sue since the cop stepped in front of the car.

Why do you guys keep talking about Minke whales?

Read the fucking article. They're hunting fin whales, which are considered Vulnerable.

Which would be great if they were hunting Minke whales, but they're hunting fin whales, which are endangered.

Whales have been used for a number of resources in the past.

Oil from blubber was a big one, and used in everything from lamps to soap.

Ambergris was a perfume base.

Spermaceti, the substance in the head of sperm whales, was used for candles and also lamps, as it was a higher quality.

I mean, IANAL but I think it's pretty easy to argue that anyone with the bare minimum knowledge of firearms and intent to teach safety would know that:

1. You presume the gun is always loaded.

2. You check the chamber, even after pulling the mag. And then still treat the gun as loaded.

3. You don't start the lesson by putting the barrel of the gun to anyone's chest and pulling the trigger. Because you don't do that when treating a gun as if its loaded.

With those three points, which again, I would argue constitutes the bare minimum to anyone attempting to teach firearm safety, a skilled prosecutor could argue there was some sort of intent. She would have known those things, yet didn't do those things, and so behaved in a way that indicates other intent. Easier to argue manslaughter, of course, but it's just so egregious I can see why they'd push for 1st degree.

I update every 4 years, and it's mainly just due to wear and tear and limited hardware and security improvements.

I also just feel like you don't appreciate the improvements that are made if you're just getting incremental changes every year. Waiting a few years means you're going from a ~10% improvement in performance to a ~40% improvement.

But yeah, can't wait for phones to become a thing that is updated when actually needed, like laptops. Not just annually because Big Tech tells us to or whatever.

Lol, right?

But actually probably not because it's just taken for granted tankies are here and they actually have to "work" to "infiltrate" places like Facebook and Reddit.

This sack of shit should be overjoyed that she not only still hold her position, but also that she and her lackeys haven't been dragged out of their homes by a mob and put down like the rabid dogs they are.

I mean, not too late...

Not advocating for anything, but seriously, if liberals were even a quarter as unhinged as conservatives seem to be, there'd be a lot more targeted attacks on fascist politicians.