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ICE recruits civilians to role play as agents for a secretive public relations initiative that trains them to shoot firearms, conduct surveillance, and use lethal force.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ideally, would be both. And it likely means getting Congress on board.

 

Every household in the United States will be able to order four tests from Covidtests.gov between now and the end of the year. People can also get tests by calling 1-800-232-0233.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.

 

Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby.

She rushed to the police station, where her son was already in custody, but the police did not release him. He was charged with inducing panic, a second-degree felony, and officials kept him in detention for 10 nights.

He is 10.

 

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I'll note that the NYT changed the title from "Putin is Hunting Down Ordinary People" to "Putin Is Doing Something Almost Nobody Is Noticing"

 
  • Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2023 estimated nationwide decrease of 11.6% compared to the previous year.
  • In 2023, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 9.4% decrease.
  • Aggravated assault figures decreased an estimated 2.8% in 2023.
  • Robbery showed an estimated decrease of 0.3% nationally.
 

state audits and data compiled by groups across the political spectrum have found no indication that noncitizens are voting in large numbers.

Basically, rules imposing additional requirements on voter registration prevent vastly more citizens from voting than noncitizens, since the latter aren't trying to vote.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 85 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
  • Big batteries need cooling during charging.
  • A/C units need to do heat exchange.
  • Aesthetics
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

It's not as fast as I'd like either, but it's a lot better than the original USPS plan to replace them with diesel trucks.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.

It's small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

I've seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we're small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 53 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.

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