Smashing Pumpkins (FTFY)

Huh… That’s news to me. When I was first looking into it, that OS was mentioned here and there. I ended up putting Graphene on my phone and left it at that, so I didn’t even bother keeping up with any of the other stuff.

That’s fair. I just had to get my pixel repaired and it’s been a headache because Google doesn’t make it easy.

Then buy second-hand. You aren’t giving Google any of your money, and you can focus on increasing your privacy.

Another way of deGoogling would be to, ironically, use a Pixel phone and side-load a privacy focused OS like Graphene or CalyxOS. With them, literally everything needs express permissions to be used, whether it’s your camera, location, microphone, etc. You can even sandbox the Play Store and other Google services so they can’t access your deeper files.

They can’t. Which explains the whole manosphere train of thought

I actually just looked it up. In certain states, this falls under the “Stand Your Ground” law.

Defense of Others: State law permits the use of force, including deadly force, to defend another person. Non-deadly force is justified when a person reasonably believes it is necessary to protect someone from imminent unlawful force. Deadly force is justified to prevent imminent death, great bodily harm, or a “forcible felony” to the other person. Examples of forcible felonies include murder, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Immunity from Prosecution: A key feature of the Stand Your Ground law is potential immunity from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits if the use of force is found to be legally justified. A defendant can request a pretrial hearing to determine if their actions were justified, potentially leading to dismissal of the case. The prosecution must provide clear and convincing evidence that the force was not justified.

Important Considerations: The force used must be proportional to the threat. Stand Your Ground does not apply if the person was engaged in unlawful activity or provoked the attack. Immunity also generally does not apply when using force against a law enforcement officer performing their duties.

Meaning if you see a bunch of masked men trying to abduct someone and they aren’t identifying themselves as law enforcement, you can legally shoot them to defend the person being assaulted. You would also be immune from criminal prosecution for doing so.

You’d better be a great shot though. And you’d probably get killed. At minimum for sure you’re getting arrested (and probably disappeared). But you are legally in the clear. And the news would be ALL over it. I’d like the TACO administration compete against Republican-state laws.

PFOA was banned, but PFOS and other very-slightly-different forever chemicals are not banned, therefore get around those regulations due to that technicality. Also, the current US administration is looking into removing a lot of those regulations.

The point is ALWAYS to save money. That’s what got us here in the first place

If it walks, talks, and violates human rights like a duck, I’m calling it a fucking duck.

ICE is the modern day Gestapo.

Not sure if that’s a negative thing in their eyes though.

Their version of a hellscape is one where straight white people arent treated as superior to everyone else.

I think it’s more accurate to say homophobic people have a mental illness

Following Moore’s Law, might end up being sooner than that

Serious question to your joke. What is all the animosity against Jews? Seems a lot of conspiracy theories put the blame on them, like they’re some sort of advanced alien race or something.

-Jewish Space Lasers -Jewish Weather Control -International Jewry and world domination

Hell, even South Park pokes fun at them. But why them and not any other religion? Is it rooted in the Holocaust and the propaganda Hitler used to justify his actions? Or does it stem from something prior?

It’s also weird to me that they are considered a race of people as well, instead of JUST a religion.

So what you’re saying is we should never make any scientific advancement until we make the world a paradise?

You know what would be at more effective, and just as realistic? Setting a limit that no one person or entity should have more than a half a billion dollars. The rest goes to charity to take care of all the problems we have now.

Hop back in then! The mods are great! I started a new DUrge campaign as Dread Overload Warlock, but there’s some more subclasses added, you can give everyone wings, they’re are weapons that improve along with your characters, cheater items if that’s your thing, the mods are a lot of fun

I just hope they add the functionality to enable all relevant mods with the push of a single button. At least on console, we literally have to enable each mod, one by one.

I hope it doesn’t, just because they’re trying to invent the wheel with their own Apple logo slapped onto it.

Pretty soon they’ll unveil their new Apple Connect modem or whatever. It’ll only connect to Apple Wi-Fi. Then after that, they’ll create their own Apple ISP, which will only work with Apple modems.

I hope I’m wrong, but I wouldn’t put it passed them.

Hmm… Then maybe I’m full of shit.

I wonder why there’s such a drastic change between those states then. And it seems like there’s a clear line where it falls apart, so I chalked it up to party influence.