I’d never really thought about this, but I know felons can’t vote, but what about if you are in jail awaiting charges? How does that work?

Just getting access to a ballot seems like a challenge. Don’t you have to request an absentee ballot in advance? If you are in jail, you don’t go to the polls obviously.

Did this guy just screw himself out of a vote?

I’ve heard someone call it billionaire brain rot. I think at some point you end up with so much money and not enough people telling you no, that it literally changes your brain.

Seems likely.

I literally couldn’t pass one for something I needed to access.

I had to switch to the audio thing eventually and it took me multiple tries with that. I should just write a script that uses a fucking bot next time.

I somewhat disagree.

Music seems like it’s followed a similar trajectory of most things where it’s become more centralized and mass marketed. Music has to appeal to the masses for studios to pick it up. So there is an incentive to find music that appeals to the most people and turns off the fewest.

Similarly, you have a handful of studios telling you what is “good” and pushing it. Even if it isn’t great, it’s good enough that people listen and then they can create the hype behind it where it might not organically exist.

Some music bubbles up organically from independent artists but quite a bit is mass marketed and produced by big studios. And they have the money so they can choke out smaller artists.

And that seems entirely reasonable to me. Unless I am missing something

Maybe I’m just tired or being dense but I have no idea what you are referring to in the post.

I was interested in hearing his/her opinion because I enjoyed reading his comment and it sounded like theyd thought about this a decent amount.

In your opinion what are those uncomfortable truths?

I think if you do allow 8 character passwords the only stipulation is that you check it against known compromised password lists. Again, pretty reasonable.

School is usually cancelled because the schools are often polling locations.

It makes it all the more dumb to not have it as a national holiday.

More like: big money and corporate lobbying is ruining democracy. These are just the big boys.

3000 less people than last week

I think you are obligated to share your entire known hosts file to prove this.

Jesus. That man had a family!

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I mean it’s the law so lawyers can try whatever appeals they like but from my incredibly limited understanding, default judgements aren’t usually appealable unless there was a structural/procedural mess up.

So if combs wasn’t notified (we all know that’s not true), or if there was a reasonable reason he didn’t respond (got into a car accident on the way to the courthouse/deployed to Iraq), or some local procedural misstep by the plaintiff.

But failing that courts are pretty strict about enforcing default judgements as final. God knows they don’t want people just not showing up as a tactic.

On the surface, the order seems like it couldn’t be appealed for most of the usual reasons. I wonder if they could play the “my client couldn’t respond because it may violate his 5th amendment rights in a related criminal case” or something like that. That seems like the type of thing a lawyer might try.

When the “government shuts down” the elected officials still all work.

Even some federal employees still work. There are core essential functions that have to continue or people may die, government property may be destroyed, etc. Those people all work–without any support staff.

They just won’t receive a paycheck until the shutdown is over.

The military continues to work. Federal law enforcement continues to work.

The reality of a government shutdown is that it’s actually very expensive and almost entirely performative (from the politicians perspective). Nothing good comes from it. It’s literally one of congress’s only jobs-- so they just look more incompetent than usual.

The federal agencies spend a lot of time and effort preparing for possible shutdowns that usually get averted at the 11th hour. When they don’t it’s incredibly expensive to deal with the impacts of delayed programs and contract issues, handling leave/time off during that timeframe etc.

Another impact is that it can drive top talent away from the government (potentially by design from certain political dispositions). Would you work somewhere that doesn’t pay you or delays paychecks?

That said, I don’t thing government employees have officially missed a pay check yet though. Like I said it’s all bullshit. They get to the brink then “figure it out”. The one a few years ago was the closest people got to missing paychecks. The solved it the day before the official pay date.

Newborn diapers.

Get the cheapest Walmart special you can find. Newborns don’t poop or pee enough to warrant fussing over fancy diapers.

Once they get bigger and the contents start getting…bigger, then spend more on better diapers.

This is solid advice. If you buy a cheap one and use it so much it breaks, you’ll know you use it enough to warrant a nicer one.

So it sounds like, from the article, that ICE wasn’t counting those individuals because CBP was/they were initially booked in by CBP?

The way this is written makes it sound super nefarious when it really seems like an interagency accounting mix-match.

Yea it should be addressed but it’s written to sound like ICE was hiding 200k people in their facilities. Which is not the case.

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