[-] charonn0@startrek.website 53 points 5 months ago

The hands are too big.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 51 points 1 year ago

Trade embargo.

CRETAK: A glass of Romulan ale, Doctor?

BASHIR: Thank you, Senator.

ROSS: The trading embargo has been officially lifted, if you were wondering.

BASHIR: It hadn't crossed my mind, actually.

ROSS: To one of the many benefits of the Alliance.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 51 points 2 years ago

On the contrary, Congress is expressly forbidden from deciding whether someone is guilty of a crime.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 56 points 2 years ago

Consider the fact that there is more than one grounds for disqualification. For president, there are also age and naturalization disqualifications.

Who do you think has been determining those all these years?

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 53 points 2 years ago

The bill lists specific actions that fall under the proposed definition: abuse against children that includes animal torture, bestiality or cannibalism, or forcing a child to ingest urine or feces, enter a coffin or grave containing a corpse, or take drugs as part of the ritual.

Wouldn't this include celebrating communion?

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In making the announcement on the Tony Kinnett show, livestreamed on YouTube, Rokita stated that investigators would pore over submissions and post any they believed to be credible onto a publicly viewable database.

In other words, they're not going to act on the ones that don't align with their own political ideology.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Remember Valentine's day 2004, when San Francisco county started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples?

Thousands of couples showed up. Some from the other side of the planet, some from the other side of town. The County Clerk was overwhelmed and there weren't nearly enough wedding officiants to keep up. So they put out a call for volunteers to be deputized by the Clerk as county marriage commissioners. I volunteered and officiated at dozens of ceremonies at city hall.

Still have my official commission hanging on my wall.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Points of interest include (lower numbers are better):

  • 22nd in terms of gun rights
  • 50th in terms of recreational marijuana, but 17th for tobacco and 10th for alcohol.
  • 42nd in asset forfeiture
  • 50th in travel freedom
  • 1st in terms of campaign finance freedom

https://www.freedominthe50states.org

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 54 points 2 years ago

"We also have information that Russian commanders are threatening to execute entire units if they seek to retreat from Ukrainian artillery fire," Kirby said.

Threatening hundreds of armed men doesn't seem like a smart thing for a commander to do.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 57 points 2 years ago

tl;dr:

     $32,000,000,000 fraud
          $5,000,000 fine
[-] charonn0@startrek.website 52 points 2 years ago

The FBI recommends using an ad blocker for precisely this reason.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 55 points 2 years ago

"Jarring" would have also been acceptable.

Most people are so desensitized to ads that they barely register. So the advertisers ramp up the attention-grabbing. Repeat. So when I actually see an advertisement it nearly knocks me out of my chair because I'm not desensitized anymore.

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