travmatt

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by travmatt 8y ago
>Why is it when voter ID laws are proposed by legislators, they never propose a way to get IDs into the hands of eligible voters who don't already have them? In an odd and absolutely unrelated coincidence, republicans who push these
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Are you just throwing out random buzzwords to derail the conversation? Besides the US, these tactics are being put on full display across Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. This is besides the strategy in Montenegro, which just seems to be
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So we can give some responsibility to the low level people, which is all well and good - but then what? We’ve already started seeing some of these types of attacks against JavaScript engines too, so it’s a good guess that other languages ar
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I can’t tell if you’re a really bad troll or a really bad teacher.
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One of the perks of having an authoritarian system that takes unilateral action.
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>America ended all forms of slavery, including indentured servitude, under the 13th amendment after the civil war. In reality, most slavery moved to sharecropping and expanding the criminal justice system so that prisons became the new s
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It’s like nobody’s even bothering to list the positive benefits of pushing children into the criminal justice system.
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Not just the states, the DEA and FBI are important legal weapons as well.
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You’re missing one of the greatest abuses of the American justice system - plea bargaining.
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Some Yale Law professors find the German justice system much more equitable than the American system, and show how American prosecutors use plea bargaining as a torture technique - the essay is called torture and plea bargaining. https:&#x
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I can’t tell if you’re critiquing the Japanese justice system, but US prosecutors abuse plea bargaining just as badly.
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Can you please run us through the upsides of normalizing and supporting dehumanization and torture? This is the first time I’ve read that conduct legally ruled cruel and unusual punishment and used by authoritarian regimes around the world
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That’s the most spirited defense I’ve seen of denying food to prisoners, congratulations?
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I understand the thrust of your argument, but I interpret the meaning as not requiring the release of personal data as a precondition if using the service. I’d wager that if you could show that the price you’re charging isn’t attempting to
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Counterintelligence investigations and prosecutions probably take a long time, and the stakes are high enough that prosecutors want to make their case airtight. Charging him with the other crimes he’s believed guilty of is probably a good w
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What’s stopping those companies for offering those services at a cost for those customers who don’t want to pay with their data? Unless if the problem is the service being offered isn’t worth the privacy given up to use said service, but th
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so they’re equal, it’s just that one is more equal than the other?
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They’ve also refused to release documents linking Russian banking with Assad’s regime. This is of course in addition to the literal tv deal Assange has signed with Putin, if anyone here is of the belief getting paid by someone could be a co
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As I understood the last set of tariffs the EU enacted specifically targeted industries operating within the districts of Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Nancy Pelosi. I’d be interested in figuring out which politicians Xi is targeting with
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I definitely agree that it’s a red herring - the majority of people are going to judge their position relative to the world around them, not to some time 30-40 years ago. It’s pretty much the same line parents use on their children - I don
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That doesn’t mean they won’t carve out exceptions for themselves though. Congress passed laws to allow them to trade on inside information, for example.
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If you change ‘website’ to ‘business’ and ‘hosted’ to ‘headquartered’ it’s straightforward and just as accurate.
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There’s a difference between what’s good for a country and what’s good for an individual person - society at large can’t really function if it laws place the singular wants and needs of any given person as the metric of allowable. Just beca
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Sometimes I’m convinced that hn’ers are just trying to argue the contrarian point of view, irregardless of facts. Thats certainly easier for me to believe than someone who sincerely thinks that military spending millions of dollars on targe
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I can’t tell which group you’re referring to.
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I’ve heard that in many cultures, being super logical without any emotional intelligence is a sign of immaturity. I’m beginning to see the wisdom in that.
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Don’t bears eat their prey alive?
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I watched this video and tried to think of the reflexes, coordination, instinct, and skill needed to pull this off. https://youtube.com/watch?v=XcEFTGb_ZR0
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Car companies frequently introduce smaller and more affordable options when they notice strong sales in baseline models - Honda introduced the HRV because people wanted a cheaper CRV. The tone of your comment suggests you disbelieve my rema
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You’re completely missing the point, the market pressures are broken by restrictive zoning laws which artificially restrict supply. That’s why you have 6,580 people who are bidding on 95 affordably priced homes. The fact that you have 70 pe

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