Definitely. There would have been people watching everything in real time and making the decisions about what to do.

Not legally, but there is a duty of care owed to them as unarmed civilians clinging to a disabled vessel at sea. Killing them could only be justified legally if they posed an imminent threat, which obviously they do not. Letting them suffer for an hour while you decide whether to murder them is fucked up but would never specifically be prosecuted as torture unless the explicit intent to torture them was the reason they were kept alive for that hour.

That NYT article on the relationship between JP Morgan and Epstein was completely damning. JP Morgan executives intentionally subverted bank oversight processes which repeatedly flagged Epstein, with the knowledge that Epstein was engaging in crime and that they were facilitating those crimes. They decided that the risk was worth it. At least one of the JP Morgan executives involved raped an Epstein victim, he admitted it under oath. It looks very likely that JP Morgan executives and former executives are going to be heavily implicated if the Epstein files ever get released.

It’s a very small fine in Argentina, less than a dollar.

With the way things are going, I’m glad I don’t need to fly anywhere. The holiday travel season this year is going to be a disaster.

That is correct, it’s been quite awhile now since UEFI became standard but almost everyone still calls it the BIOS. Although I’ve noticed the word firmware is starting to be used more as well.

This is exactly the kind of dumbass racist loser you expect to find working at ICE. Not even qualified to take care of his own children but ICE is happy to let him run around in a mask with a gun and kidnap people.

There are ones that are really just normal pfas pans that copied the look but you’re still not supposed to use metal utensils with them. The world of cookware is really confusing, it’s a huge industry and doesn’t seem to really be regulated or monitored for safety in any significant way.

Ceramic nonstick sketches me out. It’s got silicone embedded in the material, which effectively lubricates the pan to produce the nonstick effect until it all eventually leaches out. It seems safe because a little silicone in your food is not considered dangerous currently. I recently started using the pans with a metal grid in them that’s supposed to produce a nonstick effect from its physical structure. They work well enough it’s not been a problem even though they aren’t quite as nonstick as pfas or silicone. They are stupid expensive unfortunately.

Edit: Misremembered, its “organic silicon compounds” and not silicone.

Even the ones that were convicted often barely received punishment. Earlier today I was reading about one of the Nazi spies who infiltrated the German resistance and got lots of people executed or sent to the death camps. He was convicted after the war and sentenced to 15 years. He was out in less than 2. After he got out he had a family and went on to be a Stasi informer who snitched on his own daughter.

I don’t think its linked in the article so here is the guys gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/us-citizen-being-held-in-canada/donate?source=btn_story_donate

Yikes. If he is willing to engage in what he obviously knows is deeply unethical conduct like this, it makes you wonder what else he has been getting up to behind the scenes. The Atlantic has some explaining to do, and I don’t see how Frum can continue working there after such egregious behavior has been exposed. How many other pieces has he published with secret conflicts of interest like this?

Palestine was not the sole reason Democrats lost or the single biggest issue for voters according to the polling data. There was a small percentage for whom it was their sole or primary motivation in voting.

I’m opposed to the death penalty but definitely agree this is a category of crime that deserves maximum punishment comparable to first degree murder in order to create the maximum deterrence possible.

This punishment is ridiculously inadequate for that level of misconduct. Even when there’s “justice”, it is barely justice.

It is possible to have a political allegiance while still not being fully blinded by partisanship. That said, there are huge numbers of people in the US who are completely ignorant of politics beyond what seeps in via pop culture. Those are the kinds of people I was thinking of, someone who occasionally might watch the local news but is really just out there living their life without any significant curiosity about how the world works or a desire to improve anything beyond their personal circumstances. It could be that I am being a little naive and hopeful here and even these people are too sucked into the Republican propaganda ecosystem now. I just know I’ve met a lot of people who have these ideas like “fiscal conservative, social liberal” and that is the full depth of their political beliefs or knowledge, not counting the vague and often weird ideas they’ve picked up about the parties or how the government functions from all the propaganda that is inescapable these days.

It really exposes the lie that the Republican reaction to Kirk is anything other than performative. Not that it wasn’t already clear, but their response to this attack makes their hysteria around Kirk undeniable to anyone who hasn’t been fully blinded by partisanship.

Some of those shot weren’t even protesters, they were just random students walking to class who were completely uninvolved.

I’m trying to imagine the absolutely disaster that would be for him. Trump refusing to sign puts ownership of the Epstein coverup directly on him alone in a way that it really hasn’t been thus far. That might be a better outcome for Trump than the world finding out the extent of his involvement in sex trafficking with Epstein, but it is still a terrible scenario for him. Particularly if it happens before the election because it then gives Democrats something to directly rally his own base against Republicans while campaigning: Give us enough seats in Congress and we will override this veto and deliver the Epstein files.

Supposedly he does his own makeup every morning. I think he is getting worse at it as he gets increasingly decrepit.