[-] arcterus 5 points 1 month ago

Fighting the good fight

[-] arcterus 6 points 1 month ago

They have some nutty interpretation that when the amendment was written the writers didn't mean for it to apply to everyone. Basically it's something like the children of noncitizens owe allegiance to the country of their parents, so they don't count. The bit they're trying to use is what prevents e.g. children of diplomats from gaining citizenship.

[-] arcterus 14 points 1 month ago

He met his last wife, Trena McCloud (1957–2012), when she was 12 years old and in eighth grade and he was 35. He raped McCloud repeatedly. McCloud's parents initially opposed the relationship, but McElroy threatened them into agreement by burning down their house and shooting the family dog.

Bruh wtf

[-] arcterus 8 points 2 months ago

I mean, not to absolve America of anything, but it's not like the rest of the world hasn't been complicit in burning paradise either.

[-] arcterus 13 points 2 months ago

Honestly, it looks kind of terrible to me. Not to mention how unreadable text is since there's apparently no guaranteed contrast with black text due to the transparent backgrounds. I feel like I'm going crazy with all the random articles praising it.

[-] arcterus 38 points 2 months ago

I'm guessing it's to protect the rice farmers, since if the price decreases enough, they'll have to either produce other crops or do something else entirely. They're already having enough problems with people moving to cities, so I doubt they want to create even more incentive.

[-] arcterus 13 points 2 months ago

PLA/PAP Casualties

Summary is a truck flipped over, supposed friendly fire incident with a non-uniformed soldier, and a heart attack.

[-] arcterus 24 points 2 months ago

According to the linked page with PLA/PAP casualties, there were 15 verifiable deaths (PRC official number is 23). Half of them weren't directly caused by the protesters, and the other half occurred after troops first opened fire. Truly, I feel quite radicalized.

[-] arcterus 6 points 3 months ago
  • The location functionality has significantly improved recently since it no longer relies solely on GPS, but yeah, it could still be improved.
  • Generally, I've found the apps that tend to have problems with exploit protection are games, VPNs, and banking apps (which is probably the sort of app you'd most want exploit protection on...). I'm not sure if I've ever had an actual problem with other apps honestly.
  • While NFC works, Google Pay does not. Google needs to basically certify the OS for it to work, and they refuse to do so (monopoly gonna monopoly). Basically, this means if you're in the US or some other country where Google Pay is pretty much the only payment option on Android, NFC payments don't work. Some places in Europe at least have NFC payments available through banking apps though, so if you happen to reside in one of those countries and your bank has one of those apps with payment support, you should be fine.
[-] arcterus 11 points 5 months ago

China's only really become comparable to the US in the past couple decades. Give it some time. Their increasingly heavy-handed posturing around Taiwan for instance seems to say they're well on their way.

[-] arcterus 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I looked into this a while back and came to the conclusion that the dev didn't seem trustworthy. Also, just looking on the homepage, the images it showed me were a dildo with "4get" stuck on it using a sticky note and a modified manga panel about beating women. Not sure I'd want to use something like that in public.

[-] arcterus 5 points 5 months ago

This is not strictly true, even if it's repeated a lot. Because of our voting system, a large number of people likely didn't vote because they didn't need to vote. For instance, you pretty much know how things will end up in California or Idaho even before the votes are tallied. People who didn't vote in swing states on the other hand...

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