So they claimed!

Bravo. I didn’t even go mental, I pointed out Africa has black people in it to disprove their claim that all black people are culturally American. They didn’t stammer, but they sure did get mad.

Yep. Not too long ago I tried to explain this to some other Lemmings, and I got severely downvoted. They did not like hearing that ethnicity doesn’t imply a mental/cultural monolith.

Stop linking xkcd without including the alt-text.

There are significant downsides to a large population, some of which are a function of the buildings required to house them, like how you supply all those homes with electricity. There is absolutely such a thing as too many people and such a thing as too many buildings and/or buildings which are too large.

rather than the person who is receiving the income.

Yes, this seems deeply fucked up.

From the article:

He also didn’t know that tenants renting from a non-resident are required to withhold and remit 25 per cent of their rent to CRA each month, unless they have a property manager doing it for them, or if the non-resident has made alternate arrangements to pay their taxes.

Why would Canadian law require that? I’ve never heard of a country forcing people to pay other people’s income taxes outside of countries that still have forced inheritance of debt, like South Korea. Makes absolutely no sense. As in this case, the requirement about non-residents is inane, because the renter has no way to assess resident status.

Historically, when a political party’s nominating convention occurs after a state deadline for certifying nominees, states have either enacted laws to push back the deadline – as Ohio did in 2012 and 2020 – or accepted a provisional certification from the party.

This Allen guy is brand new and does not appear to understand the law he’s sworn to uphold.

This thread is a garbage fire - a bunch of people who didn’t look anything up (or if they did, they cite no sources, so there’s no evidence they did) spouting a bunch of mutually contradictory shit, all of it upvoted. I will never understand why anyone engages with Lemmy this way.

Here is the list of US charges against Assange, from the actual paperwork charging him.

As you can see here, each of the first 17 charges has a maximum penalty of 10 years (not including fines).

Charge 18 is messier. Under USC 371 the max is 5 years. I believe USC 1030 is also capped at 5 years.

So roughly a 175 year sentence, at cap.

Thanks for the tip!

Took a look, it seems useless for manga - none of the extensions worked without challenging me to input a URL I had no basis for knowing.

The significantly more numerous anime extensions seem to include some that work a treat, though.

It is not a slippery slope fallacy.

Iceland or New Zealand.

The USA has firmly entrenched mechanisms (e.g. legal gerrymandering and the electoral college) that ensure third parties can’t survive. If you truly can’t stand either party, your only practical recourse is to leave. I outlined the best two alternatives up above.

Didn’t he win the vote? Trump lost the vote. He won the election because the American system is designed to sometimes hand victory to the loser - Trump was the 5th or 6th example to date.

If you can get away with it, it’s the option with the strongest financial incentive.

But this guy minimum-efforted it - there was zero chance he’d escape suspicion. Hell, he apparently told someone else he was doing it. No idea what he was thinking.

Yes, it is. Watch, I’ll do it right now:

“I think North Korea should be dissolved.”

And yet, zero people were hurt by my advocacy.

Canada proves they need stronger free speech protections every time anyone is arrested for “harmful” speech outside of fraud.

Track B also opens up all manner of other 14A abuses, since this law involves no due process.

Right. We should also assume all of the following really mean the n-word:

• Bigger.
• Digger.
• Figger (NSFW, no really, I mean it).
• Tigger.

Are Canada’s laws set up like the USA’s, so police have no legal compulsion to do their jobs?

The Republican party is the only major conservative party in the world whose governing doctrine rejects higher taxes on absolute principle, refuses to acknowledge anthropogenic global warming, and denies that health insurance should be a right of all citizens.

1. The GOP 100% supports higher taxes. Specifically, they want to tax people (except for the wealthy people) and use the money to put corporations on welfare.
2. Yes, true.
3. Health insurance is worthless. Come back when you’re offering health care.

Armored bulldozers with grenade launchers have seen much use in Israel, but I don’t know of any other comparable examples.

What does it mean for a case to be “quashed”?

Sounds like a cool dude I’d love to hang out with, he just needs to stop living in a red state so he can be happier.

What? What are you talking about? That’s not how bail works. He doesn’t need 200k.

The amount of your bail is the amount you owe if you don’t appear in court, not the amount of the deposit, i.e. the amount of cash you need on hand. That’s 10% of the total. If you have a 200k bail amount, you need 20 grand on hand, not 200 grand.

Yes, it’s really Trump, and yes, he does look like himself.

My girlfriend just got on a high-deductible plan for the first time and it’s the worst plan I’ve ever seen due to her need for many medications. She changed jobs which is what triggered it and the new plan means her real new income is much less than her old, which we were not expecting since plan details were not available during recruitment. Feels like a bait and switch.

My immediate concern reading this is that it implies you don’t know what an algorithm is. Computer programmers and professional chefs both work with algorithmic systems, but I am immediately skeptical you are interested in both for your survey.