That “technicality” is a critical part of our criminal justice system. I’d much rather a criminal be set free than set the precedent that due process is optional

Allowing exceptions here would open the door to all sorts of corruption. What would then stop the president from treating all his political opponents the same way? Have them all raided without cause and “find” all sorts of evidence

By the way, the jury thing is jury nullification. The basic concept is that if a juror feels a law is unjust (or any other reason), they can vote not to convict even if the burden of proof was met for a conviction. The courts can’t tell the jury their verdict is incorrect. The only recourse is an appeal (which can’t happen in an acquittal due to double jeopardy)

Jury nullification was used quite a bit in the North before the Civil War. Many Northern juries chose to acquit violations of the Fugitive Slave Act because they felt the law was unjust

As long as you’re making things up, why not just say he confessed? Much stronger argument

Also WTF does his job have to do with taking the bus? I work in tech and take the bus too. I’d take trains, but American trains are lacking. Better arrest me too since riding the bus is proof of murder now

I’m kind of surprised Lemmy allows duplicate comments like Reddit. Super easy to prevent the issue, because there really isn’t a case where a person would want to post the same comment multiple times

I’m so confused why so many people think a VPN is the best solution. It’s easy to implement, but hardly optimal, and certainly not the only solution

Back in gas? We never fully took it out. 100 low-lead is still a standard fuel in aviation. It was only recently that the FAA finally even allowed a lead-free alternative

You can really tell who they want in jail and who they don’t when you compare it to Luigi Mangioni’s case. They were happy to release all sorts of documents and publicly state he is guilty (despite being presumed innocent in the eyes of the law)

Do less drugs.

you don’t know to use AI. no one here does. I do.

That’s hilarious. Everyone thinks they’re some kind of savant while using LLMs. The reality is quite different

AI is a useful tool, but people who misuse it, primarily due to overreliance, end up creating more work than AI is solving

It’s a coalition of groups with different purposes

One group wants to ban porn entirely

One group want to collect data on everyone. Your porn habits can be valuable if you’re a future political rival

Some people believe it will prevent children from seeing porn

Others use it as a way to assert control over sex workers, especially female sex workers

Probably a few other smaller groups too. End of the day, none of them have your interests at heart

This kind of thing is why she loat an election to Donald Trump of all people. She had the easiest race in history, but failed because she is a deeply unlikable shill

Cars aren’t nearly as expensive in the rest of the world, and many countries are including those safety features and more

The US domestic auto market is propped up by protectionist economic policies. Fairly universal than when a market doesn’t have to compete, their prices go up

Are they getting people onto Linux, or are they absorbing people that would be switching anyway and taking advantage of those users by charging them for something they may not need? Hard to say which it is

If that were the case I’d have spent thousands on Linux by now T.T

Many electricians, carpenters, and steel plant workers are currently working to build AI data centers. Funding other projects has been postponed or cancelled as the AI data centers are able to pay more

Electricians especially. Trump cancelled many clean energy projects, which created large swaths of electricians without work if it weren’t for AI data centers

He’s not vying for customers. He’s sucking up to Trump in the hopes of getting preferential treatment for his company

We’ve seen over and over again, companies that praise him, or bribe him, are getting business advantages from the Trump administration

At this point most people just throw pennies away. At best they’re being saved in a change jar to be brought to the bank. Almost no one is using pennies for payment of goods and services. It’s a useless waste of money to produce and congress should have gotten rid of them decades ago

The only issue here is that it isn’t congress getting rid of it. It’s the president taking power from congress to get rid of it

You’re missing the point because they didn’t use precise language

Congress establishes what coins and bills are to be minted. The executive branch executes that directive. Congress has directed the executive branch to mint pennies. The executive branch determined 0 is a number of pennies to mint. The Mint is not minting pennies, despite congress directing them to do so

If the president is allowed to interpret laws congress passes so broadly, it gives an incredible amount of power to the executive branch. Historically, the president hasn’t been given nearly that level of authority

It’s illegal because congress said to mint pennies, but the executive branch is not minting pennies

Someone else mentioned children waiting for the bus get run over at a much higher rate if it’s dark early in the morning, which is a pretty valid argument

That being said, I’d much rather it get dark later in the day

50 cent piece would be the way to go. Should then also really push $1 coins, and add in a $2 and $5 coin, although I don’t know if Americans would realistically use them. Coins are much more durable than paper currency though, which would save a lot of money long term

Canada was a decade ahead of the US when it came to implementing tap. It’ll take the US a long while to get to the same level of universal acceptance, starting from so far behind