ocschwar

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by ocschwar 1y ago
Yes, we've had decades of assholes trying to worm exceptions to the 14th Amendment. But read the plain letter of it.
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by ocschwar 1y ago
RIght, because a detective going undercover to gather evidence means it's perfectly okay for masked thugs to pop out of unmarked vehicles and grab people off the streets. Dude, WTF
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by ocschwar 1y ago
> You're not really arguing in good faith when your response is "Fuck. No." If you don't already know that keeping the name & badge number visible is the most important part of proper policing, and established as
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by ocschwar 1y ago
> - Whether unlawful presence is a civil or criminal law, countries should control who enters the country. Yes. And it's disingenuous to call for brutal police tactics with enormous collateral damage for something the letter of the
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by ocschwar 1y ago
And you can be arrested for overstaying a visa. It used to be that after a process that does not include being swiped off the streets by masked thugs. Now we're doing it this way.
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by ocschwar 1y ago
The president of the United States is literally fighting in court to get the authority to treat natural born newborns as aliens even though the plain letter of the United States Constitution says these babies are citizens. In an environment
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by ocschwar 1y ago
Yes. Jumping the border is a misdemeanor if you don't immediately self report to request asylum. But the majority of people getting rounded up right now are for unlawful presence. And a lot of them have no idea that their presence was
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by ocschwar 1y ago
No. They don't get in trouble. They could, but they don't.
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by ocschwar 1y ago
Perhaps you should read the law. "Unlawful presence in the United States" is a civil offense, just like a parking ticket. What other civil offenses you think should be enforced with secret police and concentration camps?
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by ocschwar 1y ago
The "right of self determination" does not exist in the US constitution or law. It's a rhetorical slogan coined by Woodrow Wilson, and his idea of "self determination" came from growing up as a racist southerner who
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by ocschwar 1y ago
Unlawful presence on US soil is a civil offense. It's literally the same class of offense as a parking ticket. Are there any other civil offenses that you think should be dealt with using masked police and concentration camps?
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by ocschwar 1y ago
The film appears to be "inspired" by the story of Janusz Kurchark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak
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by ocschwar 1y ago
This is the document that the Trump regime is using for toilet paper now.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
It annihilated the VDV.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
The biggest Russian fuckup in this war was to put their elite soldiers in one plane for Hostomel Airport without knowing that Ukraine had SAMs in position and enough intelligence to know this was coming. After that the Russian "elite&q
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by ocschwar 2y ago
The Mitnick files contain information about innocent people who are alive and whose privacy rights remain paramount.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
First there was the expansion to recover from WW2. Then there was expansion in science to prepare for the Cold War. There was also expansion from the Great Society's education efforts. And the influx of women and minorities into col
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by ocschwar 2y ago
It was both. The universities needed help recovering from WW2, and they got that plus more thanks to Vannevar Bush.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
I would have loved it. NO doubt.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
"It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research. " Frankly, no. Because as beautiful as that concept is, it's 6 years in your
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Good. Academia is done growing. We're in a steady state, which means if you're in grad school, look at your advisor. Look at the other grad students who have him. Look at the work of the grad students who came before you, with thi
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Exactly. The people who think they can bring their ideology to a platform where you have to obey the captain.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
> Do you keep a 5 gallon jug of spare gas in your garage? 165 kWhr If you keep a 5 gallon jug in the garage, your risk is higher than if you don't. If you keep a lawnmower in your garage, your risk is higher than if you don't.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
The ship has to fly a flag, and be captained by a master mariner licensed for that tonnage, by the country flying the flag.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
What kind of employment does INRIA offer?
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by ocschwar 2y ago
If I did put batteries in my house, I'd want them mounted on wheels so if they overheat I can push them out before things get exciting. Those do exist, and apart from storing juice for your house they can also take you places...
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Never ceases to amaze me that glibertarians think they can do their thing on board a ship more than on land.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
The present president of Argentina is a Trump-testicle-gargler. That would make me nervous if I were a Falklander.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Big battery packs are insane to put inside a house. I'm biased because I work for a utility scale storage company, but really, 2nd law of thermodynamics, people. The more potential energy you pack into a volume, the higher the chance t
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by ocschwar 2y ago
If I went 100% solar, I'm happy to pay the utility to be the middleman while I sell my excess solar to the neighbors.

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