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by Pinckney 7y ago
The UK does it too: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/apr/25/prostitution... > In November 2008, 20 police officers broke down Finch's front door and searched her house, taking £700 from h
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by Pinckney 7y ago
I agree that the 12th amendment doesn't allow states to void the faithless elector's vote, but it would be constitutionally permissible for them to criminalize faithless voting, would it not?
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by Pinckney 7y ago
"Doomsday planning for less crazy folks" is pretty good: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
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by Pinckney 7y ago
I don't think that's correct. The March 9/10 attack on Tokyo killed 88,000-100,000 people, but was an anomaly. Japanese civil defense forces adapted, and casualties were much less in later raids. A firebombing attack on Hiros
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Regardless of whether or not they should be treated differently, the regulations as they stand now do treat them differently. If you don't like that, the solution is to change that, not to creatively interpret "wire fraud"
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Someone linked the complaint in the comments below.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Then call your representative and tell them to pass a law that makes e-cigarettes illegal.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
"IT'S NOT RICO, DAMMIT": https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Very few of us who own guns actually want this tech, for a variety of reasons: * The reliability isn't there. These are weapons. They need to fire in an emergency, when the trigger is pulled, 100% of the time, or as close as is possibl
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Falfurrias is 90 miles from the border.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The article I linked reports 1500 citizens were held for some period of time on federal detainers or in immigration detention centers over a 9 year period.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
This happens constantly. Davino Watson was held by ICE for over three years. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Wikipedia claims glide ratios of 1:1 with efficient tracking. You'll still hit with a 90mph vertical speed, and I suspect you will compromise your ability to land on a soft point target. Myself, I think landing head-first sounds like t
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by Pinckney 7y ago
It died without a vote, and thus it's not even clear from the article who I ought to be calling and yelling at. Chiu? Presumably he pulled it because of pressure from others. Is there some way for me, as a voter, to determine which ind
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The US government accepts payment for taxes in USD. Even if an American wants nothing to do with USD, and conducts all their exchanges through bartering, they will need to acquire some at some point in order to make tax payments. The value
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Why is it that we only convict a single person of a crime? If we accept, for the sake of argument, that we should be willing to send innocent people to prison as a deterrent, and we have three people who might have committed a given crime (
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by Pinckney 7y ago
I don't see why police can't simply use civil asset forfeiture seize an entire warehouse, just like they seize homes from owners who might not know that another resident was selling drugs out of it. Proving that the owner knew of
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by Pinckney 7y ago
11.3 ppb would be 1.2ug per burger then, right?
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by Pinckney 7y ago
> For extrajudicial killing, the US comes in a notorious third place, after Mexico and Brazil, particularly because of lethal force used by police against African Americans and other people of color. Obviously, the US is not the 3rd wors
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Look for an 18mm Nato strap. It looks like Clockwork Synergy makes them with the nylon keeper, if that's important to you.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
You would use she/her pronouns for trans women, and he/him pronouns for trans men. Just treat trans women as you would any other woman, and trans men as you would any other man. Generally people who prefer neutral pronouns will id
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The shareholders should bear the consequences of failure, just as they reap the rewards of success.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
Electrochemical machining also looks like a promising way to rifle barrels at home without specialized equipment, and can in theory be assembled with other 3d printed components.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
/r/Motorcycles had this posted a couple days ago: https://i.redd.it/59jp81szfdy21.jpg A bicyclist likely would have lost their legs, if they survived at all. Meanwhile, the risk of lanesplitting is that might side
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The Daily Mail is rubbish.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The old videos are still up, but they mostly stopped uploading new videos to it a while back. It was discussed in the January Q&A. They're still uploading to bitchute and full30.
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by Pinckney 7y ago
The article talks about Columbine because it's the 20th anniversary and they need to fit it in, but my perception is that lockdown drills didn't become popular more recently. They cite numbers from 2016... do they have numbers for
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A ‘glitch’ left young people off jury rolls(nytimes.com)
65 points by Pinckney 7y ago|35 comments
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by Pinckney 8y ago
Even if they were semi, many popular optics are restricted by ITAR.
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by Pinckney 8y ago
Won't this lead to a lot of lightweight material (particularly bits of the bags themselves) blowing off the landfill surface before they can be buried?

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