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by sowbug 9mo ago
In the US, the 8th Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, which courts have interpreted again and again as requiring that punishment be proportionate to the conduct. Weems v. United States (1910), for example, struck down a 15-
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Almost every major US criminal constitutional rights case started with an actual criminal, or at least someone unsavory. Miranda was a rapist. Gideon of Gideon v. Wainwright was a burglar. Brady of Brady v. Maryland was a robber and pos
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I haven't used my Pro purchase in years, but if I did want to ssh from my phone today, I'd use the newish Terminal app, available since Android 15. It's a full Debian virtual machine.
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It's confused deputies all the way down.
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You are conflating work and work product. There's a difference between being acknowledged and compensated for doing hard work, and receiving property rights over the work product. If you are an employee, you get paid for building somet
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They're called phatic expressions.
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The almonds that an average person eats in the US account for about 70 liters of water daily. That's already 5% of 1,600, and more than a typical shower.
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Is there any reason they should? Unless the Earth were tidally locked to the Sun, I'm not aware of any reason a day would have any relationship to a year.
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Closer to the second than the first, but traders probably have less agency than the way you're putting it. They benefit from misdirection, but they don't need to be the ones doing the misdirection. Their special skill is recognizi
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The tariffs are a man shouting "obey or I'll shoot," but he's pointing the gun at his own head. Unfortunately he's the rich uncle everyone has become dependent on, so the world can't just let him FAFO.
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I am not the one making the original assertion. I was pointing out that it relies on historically trustworthy statistics that the current administration is openly influencing. Call the NPR methodology a canary or smoke test, if you will. Fe
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You might have conflated the prohibition on encrypted/coded communication with a blanket ban on data vs. voice. Those frequencies are supposed to be used for public communication, which has been interpreted as a requirement that anyone
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NPR says the figure is more like 5 percent. As far as we know, they haven't fired employees who produced numbers they didn't like. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5638908/walmart-prices-...
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How do you reconcile attitudes about climate change with your generalization about short/long-term pain?
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I think this means that you could produce more versions of this music video from other points of view without having to shoot the video again. For example, the drone-like effects could take a different path through the scene. Or you could m
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But, one silver lining, maybe, is gamblers are a little less likely to fall for fake news. Maybe? Only in a truth-agnostic sense. Good gamblers in player-banked games (poker; rock, scissors, paper) vs house-banked games (slots) are good a
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I stalled on Which is an acronym for “Gnu’s not Linux” and can't recover from the spin.
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You can measure the success of a pathological narcissist by brain-minutes. A brain-minute is one human brain thinking about the narcissist for one minute, no matter whether the thought is admiration, confusion, disgust, anger, or fear. You
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And the person on the other end of the line often doesn't realize how uncivil the situation is. They might know they're on speakerphone, but they actually can't see that they're interrupting the trains of thought of doze
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Thanks! I'm following that recipe right now. Already had the beans soaking overnight, so it's perfect timing. Update: this recipe has the desired consistency (though I switched to basmati rice, so that's another factor). I ha
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Thanks! I did notice the loose lid on some of the videos I watched. I absolutely have my plantain and chicken game down. Butter and a little brown sugar for the plantains, cumin/garlic/black pepper/lime juice for the brined c
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I'm sure you already saw this, but in case others haven't: https://blondihacks.com/veronica/ is required reading for anyone into 6502. I was trying to rehabilitate a Cocktail Joust arcade cabinet I'd had
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by sowbug 9mo ago
The phrase looks like "intercom." Maybe visualize some kind of mnemonic based on that -- buzzing the call button at a friend's apartment and asking if they want to meet up.
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That's unfortunate; thanks for letting us know. I only recently moved to Syncthing-Fork after giving up on the other Syncthing version I'd used for years, which seemed to do anything except actually sync on Android.
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Good luck on your quest. Part of the issue might be lack of good ingredients. I watched a depressing YouTube video the other day about why US restaurant prices are so high but the food is uniform and uniformly bleh ( https://www.y
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Starting with red beans from scratch is on my list. I was hoping to get 80% of the taste with 20% of the effort -- seems like a simple enough dish, after all -- but last night I was watching a video of a guy making his own coconut oil (not
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I'll give that a try. Some recipes prepare the beans separately from scratch, and then pour the toasted rice into that already-seasoned liquid mixture. I'll pick up some basmati today, during Day Three of the local Panamanian chil
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On a recent trip to Costa Rica, I discovered "Rice and Beans," which is not Gallo Pinto, but a Caribbean-influenced dish made principally of white rice, red kidney beans, coconut milk, and thyme. The dish name is in quotes becau
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Have fun seeing "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" everywhere.
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When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who had somehow wrapped some wire around the power lines enough times to siphon off an interesting amount of power. I never saw the wire myself, so it might not have actually happened. But people certainl

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