PhilipTheBucket

This is why jury trials are super important. They're one of those last-ditch safety measures against a police state.

That's why the people ICE arrests usually don't get to have a trial. They're trying to make a new system where they just get to decide what happens to people.

IDK about you guys but I'm sold, there is nothing at all uncredible about any of her explanation here. That's exactly how people with nothing to hide talk.

Also, the body language between Trump and Bondi is interesting.

The brigade is still experiencing losses, after the command echelon that sits on top of the brigade has been wiped out. Allegedly.

Sure let's go ahead and restart the pointless argument, that sounds fun.

The mentality "Why did this person punch me, all I did was steal their wallet, how dare they" is indeed extremely unhinged. There's a lot about American society that considers property "rights" of the wealthy to be sacred and personal safety of the normal people to be optional, and sure, that's fucked up on a systemic level. But none of that applies to street pickpockets. Fuck 'em.

(I sort of suspect that there's a lot of overlap between then "there is NEVER a reason to assault a person over your property" contingent and the "there is NEVER a reason to call the cops" contingent, too. At least when they are talking in internet fantasy land, I sort of suspect that if someone came in their house and started rifling through their belongings they wouldn't have this turn the other cheek stance about it.)

Also:

Shit one had fake elctric wallets to shock the shit out of thieves and only got em confiscated

Lol fuck yes

I mean, it was clearly at least partly in jest, but apparently the form was real and they really did go through customs for real.

https://www.space.com/7044-moon-apollo-astronauts-customs.html

It does make sense. I don't think they wanted to set the precedent that coming back from certain types of spaceflight "didn't count" in terms of needing to pass through customs and it was just a free-for-all. It's the same way you still have to pay your taxes when you're the president, a relic of an older and more adherence-to-the-system time than the modern day.

Fun fact, they made the Apollo astronauts go through customs when they came back from the moon.

Yeah. All three configurations work perfectly.

What did Ars Technica do, though?

Everyone knows that if there are 50 people in a room, and one has a medical crisis and needs some money, it's right to let them figure it out (or not) while everyone else just keeps doing what they were doing.

I'm pretty sure it's in the bible.

Oh, I thought you meant no email address required to make an account.

Just having to register in order to read the feed is probably just for server load reasons, if I had to guess.

That's not how it works though.

I actually agree that registration is silly. It's trivial to create fake email addresses; all it does is present obstacles and slight privacy implications for legitimate users, while forming an incredibly mild speedbump for malicious users. But, it's probably not going away, every little tool in the toolbox that can be deployed by overworked volunteer admins against the unending tide of malicious users trying to make their lives more difficult is probably going to get deployed if it is easy to do.