I think 1 is unlikely because it’s NYPD and ICE. 2 is true broadly because there isn’t a law forbidding it in general, but there is a law against lying about being a public servant.
I don’t think there will be charges here, but I think a very ambitious prosecutor could bring charges. They might even find a jury mad enough to make them stick.
They wouldn’t, but the article says
Columbia University officials and local lawmakers say ICE posed as NYPD cops and used the excuse of a phony missing child to gain access to the building
If true, that is likely a crime.
Very likely. The statute doesn’t seem to have an exception for one kind of cop lying about being a completely different kind of cop.
You are not going to find a satisfying answer to this question. It’s one I’ve been asking for a long time.
I could say “sadism”, but that’s almost tautological. The obvious follow-up is “but why are they sadists?”, and I don’t know that. It’s likely people who aren’t sadists can’t really know that, and people who are would probably fail at explaining it, were they inclined to try.
The best explanation I can manage is that someone who’s feeling bored and powerless might feel a little less bored and powerless for a moment if they can make someone else sad or angry. A person who actually gets off on that sort of thing is likely not all that intelligent or creative, so they fail at finding better entertainment.
If you’re still left wondering “but why?”, good. You’re probably not a sadist.
I must also point out that he did not work at Reddit between 2009 and 2015.
I’m not going to try to talk you out of hating spez, but maybe try hating him for something he actually did.
It was created by Violentacrez, not spez.
Prior to late 2012, it was possible to make someone a moderator of a subreddit without their consent, which was sometimes done as a joke or harassment. That’s why spez was briefly a moderator of r/jailbait.
I’m reminded of the TSA planning in 2013 to allow small knives to harmonize its rules with Europe and Canada. The flight attendant union objected, and the rule change was rolled back.
On one hand, there’s nowhere to run on a plane, and people have been behaving unusually badly of late. On the other hand, the chance of arrest and prosecution following a violent act on a plane is 100%, and unlike most public settings, bystanders will usually intervene.
Part of my underlying assumption is that the the passenger screening process in the USA is as much theater as it is security, so a more relaxed process for everyone would be the best outcome. Creating a two-tier system so that the people most likely to push for the best outcome aren’t motivated to do so is therefore bad.
If my assumption is wrong, then it might be dangerous to relax the process for everyone.
They’re definitely not going to run out of oxygen. They might experience mild symptoms from elevated carbon dioxide or allergens.
Instances subject to the legal systems of jurisdictions with age verification laws probably need the feature to exist to continue operating legally.
I don’t think the current structure of any of those laws would require instances to demand verification from other instances, and any instance operator who did such a thing would be socially unacceptable to the current population of the fediverse.
Are you no longer against it, or are you against it but willing to do it anyway for convenience?
Senators often fly commercial. If the security process is too onerous for them, it will change.
This is obviously a political move, but I dislike these programs. The frequent travelers who use them to pay for less abusive treatment from the government might otherwise advocate for everyone to receive less abusive treatment from the government.
Electric shocks for behavior merely deemed undesirable or noncompliant are barbaric.
I could imagine them being justified to prevent self-injury when other options have been exhausted. Perhaps they’re preferable to constant restraint or sedation.
I haven’t found anything I want to install on my iPhone that I can’t. At one point it was emulators
So you have found something you wanted to install on your iPhone that you couldn’t, but Apple has decided to allow it for now. I think it’s pretty obvious how this is a problem.
Of course you’re not going to find apps that exist that you can’t install because Apple says so. People won’t bother making them if they can only be distributed to the tiny handful of users with jailbroken devices. Of course it comes up on occasion when Apple withdraws permission, with ICEBlock being the recent socially important case.
Way I see it, my iPhone is a pocket version of my Mac.
The thing is, you can install software from whatever source you like on your Mac. That’s not true of your iPhone - even in the EU and Japan where they’ve been forced to open up a little, apps can only be installed with Apple’s permission.
Macs were completely open in that regard until recently. You could install apps from wherever you want. Now, Mac apps have to be notarized by Apple or installing them requires use of the command line. That’s obnoxious, but the user still has the final say, unlike the iPhone.
(“Linux” here as in “GNU/Linux”, as opposed to “the Linux kernel”, which Android phones also use.)
I feel compelled to point out that PostmarketOS, one of the popular Linux phone options is not, in fact GNU. It’s based on musl and BusyBox, not glibc and GNU utils.
That looks bad presented out of context, but it’s from a threat/no-threat training system where a pivoting stand will present either this image or one where the target is wielding a handgun.
Some people have specific long-term goals in mind for relationships; some just enjoy living in the present; most are somewhere between. Nobody else can say which is right for you.
Another commenter wrote that you’re probably about 18 years old. You may not know which of the above best describes you, and that’s perfectly normal at that age. I hesitate to tell anyone else what to do in their personal life, but if a compelling opportunity comes along that conflicts with your relationship, whether it’s another prospective relationship or moving away for school or work, remember that your boyfriend won’t prioritize your relationship when his parents find an Arab girl for him to marry.