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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

And when he gets out, he will not even pretend to care about prisoner's rights.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Many of them surely still are. And will.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Not quite. If you know or shouldreasonabley believe someone is about to arrest you or sue you, depending on the circumstances, judges can tell juries to assume the erased data would show something bad. But it depends on the details.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Nothing is needed. Erase your shit before you travel in or out of the US.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

In some states if you refuse a field sobriety test before they arrest you, you could lose your driver's license, potentially.

But once they've arrested you, I don't know of any state that would require the field sobriety test. Some states would require a regular test which would be done at the station or the hospital. Field sobriety tests are not reliable, so the cops are going to want to do a proper test that is more reliable. But whether these latter tests are required depends on the situation. And it's possible that the cops will get a court order requiring you to take one anyway, should you refuse.

In other words, field sobriety tests are designed to establish probable cause so that they can arrest you. But they aren't designed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you're DUI.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

Remember, the execs are bonusing themselves. They are all getting filthy rich right now.

(And like all scams, they don't care about efficiency.)

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago

Lol big tech loves speculating. It's a bubble, and if not now, when? ... Delivering real products is such a pain in the ass.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago

Beans did not steal anything. The chicken always belonged to Beans, though you were unaware of that basic fact.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Tell that to the dead from USAID cuts, or those kids in Iran. Tell that to the soon to die who lost their health care this year.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's true, but it's also slightly too specific. The point is that the right social programs matter. Create them and you can get votes, if you do it right... Or, do whatever Hillary was trying to do, and get nothing.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip -3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The two party system is a lie. Actually there are factions within and without each party. If your analysis stops at D and R, you cannot possibly describe American politics accurately.

In other words, your oversimplification is not useful for comprehension of the situations at hand. But it is also true that corporate lackeys exist everywhere.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

No, you're simply wrong. Voting changes many things. But it doesn't fix everything. I mean, just look at Iran. Did Biden start that? No. But if Trump had won in 2020, you can bet he would have done the same thing four years earlier.

Voting is about policy, unless you're foolish and decide it's about personality.Then really bad shit happens. And politicians have been corrupt for millennia. So what? You want a king instead? Lol. Go look at history and tell me how that worked out.

Voting alone is insufficient. Do other things, too. Or don't! It's your life.

 

I started playing diatomic harmonica, recently. I've been following some YouTube how-to videos, feels like a nice start. Now I'm looking for some easy blues harmonica sheet music ... I don't mind paying for something, although free is nice too ... but web searches are only displaying cheap online courses. Can anyone recommend a book or website?

I can read harmonica tab.

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