The right to silence was born out of the religious persecution that was rife in Europe in the 16th and 17th century, where coerce confessions and forcing people to incriminate themselves, even if it was bullshit, was commonplace

I think that’s what he was talking about. His argument is that the Founders did things that could incriminate themselves to their old government, and there were no protections in place to shield them from, for instance, self incrimination. The ‘validity’ of the law, I think, isn’t particularly germane.

Billionaires simply cannot exist without their money coming from the exploitation of the “lower classes”

There’s the real possibility of fracturing once Trump either dies or somehow actually sees social consequences from his years of child sex trafficking. I’d say the death is more likely, and maybe it won’t be far off.

The two main factions of MAGA as I see it are the MTG types that are rabid fascist bigots opposed to pedophilia, and the institutional types that are rabid fascist bigoted pedophiles and pedophile supporters. It would be fun to see them destroy each other, sooner rather than later.

he’ll probably die soon anyway

I hope not. I hope he lives to be well over 100 years old. In a hole at Rikers, with a suit the same color as his face.

We all know why

The entire world knows why

Can we change it so we run things well instead of profitable?

That guy sounds like the type of person to go all in on phishing emails

Counter-Counterpoint. If you call someone, you should understand that they may be unable to answer to phone at a that specific time, and you should use the tools at your disposal, such as voicemail, to facilitate further communication.

What does someone’s personal life have to do with their work performance? Why does he want to get to know who they are “as a person” rather than know how they are qualified for the job? This has a bunch of red flags as far as I’m concerned

That scope will narrow as time passes.

Now it’s brown poor people. Soon it will be trans people. Maybe next brown rich people, or Muslims, or Socialists. Y’all know the poem.

They’ve already “declared” Antifa a terrorist group and fentanyl as a WMD, that’s all the justification previous republican presidents have needed for starting wars and civil terror campaigns.

I heard a lawyer argue something like this once in court, regarding the the fourth and fifth amendments:

These laws are not meant to protect the innocent, they are meant to protect criminals. The founding fathers who penned it were traitors and seditionists who fought a war against their own country. They wrote these laws so that guilty people would be able to avoid punishment if proper procedures aren’t followed, and certain rights aren’t upheld.

I’m not sure how much I agree with that, but it was definitely an interesting take.

Or a friends butt. Get permission first though

Protests only work because there’s an implication that if things don’t change, the citizens will take matters into their own hands. When it becomes obvious that protests will cause nothing more than minor disruption, then they lose a great deal of their effectiveness.

Yea, these guys are evil and malicious, but also quite incompetent. It comes with the territory; loyalty is rewarded more than competence. Germany famously had a similar problem of being led by incompetent fuckwits, and that doesn’t mean they were any less evil or that anyone is giving them a pass for anything

I used to run a grow room in my basement, with about 4kw of equipment, so running my systems all hooked up through a 2kw PSU is actually a step back in cost. lol

I absolutely adore the old wild west landscape that was the old 8 bit micros. There were some really wacky things that were tried out, both from a technical aspect and a UX aspect

Yes. We are all the same person. We are all one.

But it goes even deeper than that.

Shit man, take me back to the “,8,1” days

I don’t think that’s true - I comment on posts all the time on Reddit about Luigi. Or used to, anyway

Now, when Reddit started running adds for border patrol and ICE, that’s when the clickthroughs stopped happening.

I got into self hosting a while back

EOL enterprise equipment can be very thrifty. But if you ever need something specialty that isn’t available in the second hand market, good luck.