Drop the high road shit.

“Whatever flipper foot. At least mom and dad weren’t siblings.”

Liberals, and I count myself as one, always bring this “need” argument. Meanwhile, there is no other right where they would question need.

I have shitloads of guns I don’t “need”. The vast majority are for fun. Even the more practical guns are mostly for fun.

Know why? Because I can do that if I want to. The 2A exists and the courts have historically upheld it. That’s one sentence, two facts.

While we’re at it, let’s question why the largest gun purchasing demographic “needs” guns. Ya know, women, minorities and LGBT folks. Go ask them.

Also, “The fascists are coming! Disarm yourselves! And if it’s not too much trouble, we’d like the government to know exactly who owns what.” (In case Trump wins again!?)

Pull that in my state without both parties consenting, that’s a felony. Even if I call a 1-party “it’s ok to record 'em” state, they still have to let me know because my state is 2-party. No sane company is fooling with this.

SOURCE: Zoom admin and sysadmin for 10 years.

This is not some random rich person. This is the officer 2nd in line for the Presidency of the United States. It’s a wee more serious.

My first thought. While I agree with the sentiment, and I’d have prepared nooses for the insurrectionists, this is not that.

Almost none were charged with sedition, guess the prosecutors didn’t feel they could make it stick, and that’s 20-years max.

attempted kidnapping of a federal official

Kidnapping is taken very damned seriously in the US, automatically an FBI concern, and they will come down like devils. Probably an extra hit for attacking a fed.

he broke into the home of a public official, an unprecedented act in the history of the country

That seems hard to believe, but I don’t know of a precedent.

Cherry on top, his lawyers allowed him on the stand?! Am I reading that right? All he did was further incriminate himself. Hell, he might have slid on the kidnapping part if he shut the fuck up.

I walked those streets as a teen in '89 or so. Nothing but stone and concrete outlines of homes and streets and sidewalks. We had a really hard time looking at it, being there, thinking on it, whatever. I can’t say what it was like, I don’t have words. I can say I still tear up remembering it.

And at the time, we had no idea of the real horrors. We just didn’t know.

Better article:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/unisuper_google_cloud_outage_caused/

They restored from another cloud service. Were I in charge, I’d still be leery of not having that data on my own drives. I have my Windows libraries mapped to my ghetto RAID 0, and those folders are in turn backed to Google. If all else fails, I have a local backup. And this story reminds me, I haven’t installed VEEAM on this new PC…

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

You can’t take away the last bit.

Happens all the time, especially if the defendant isn’t considered a flight risk.

Meth head and his wife had a sign in the yard for 6-weeks, “Going to prison, must sell everything.” And boy did they. Even the trailer floorboards.

I’m a liberal with a shitload of guns. I do not want a Trump administration knowing what I have.

Yeah. Hard no. I don’t want Trump and his Brown Shirts knowing what I have. And for the non-gun owning libs, you don’t want them knowing what you don’t have.

(I honestly get the dig OP. Good one.)

Blame the FCC. It used to be illegal to telemarket to cell numbers.