[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I would like to travel, but take my house with me. Therefore, I want a sailboat.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Arguably every species in the Homo genus has "everything we think of as human," because otherwise they'd be in Australopithecus or Paranthropus instead.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I literally exclaimed that aloud to myself upon reading the headline.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

And, like, every episode with Uhura, Sulu, or even Chekov in it.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

I don't think anybody claims that he was bad at his job, but instead that he was a sexist predatory monster. (Or at least, if they say he was bad at his job, it was because he was a sexist predatory monster and mistreated actresses because of it.)

[-] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago

Ah, you must be an expert

[-] grue@lemmy.world 34 points 5 hours ago

The buried lede is that he entered the vegetative state while in ICE custody. What did they do to him to cause the "unspecified psychosis?"

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Which is incredibly ironic for a country founded by terrorists (from the British perspective) who engaged in exactly that coercion.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't think it's ever "officially" stopped, but it has gone on several unexplained hiatuses for long stretches of time.

In fact, my initial reaction seeing this was "holy shit, is she back?!" And immediately check for new comics, because today's is the first one since April (edit: last year!) and I'd been low-key worried something had happened to her.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I've been playing Hogwarts Legacy^1^, and one nice thing about it is the way it separates out gear items from "appearances." Each piece of gear comes with its default appearance, but also unlocks access to it permanently, so you can choose any appearances you've unlocked without having to wear or even keep the items that granted them.

^1^ don't judge; I didn't buy it -- it came with Amazon Prime^2^

^2^ okay, that you can judge me for

[-] grue@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, half the crabs are worshipping the fisherman.

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Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Indicted Over Chicago ICE Protest

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The indictment accuses Abughazaleh — whose name is repeatedly misspelled in the document — of bracing her hands on the hood of an ICE vehicle that was attempting to drive through a group of protesters outside of the Broadview Processing Center, ICE’s Chicago command center.

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If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don't, but a man can dream though. A man can dream though. A man can dream.

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Hundreds of thousands of Highway Traffic Act (HTA) charges that were dropped last year are a sign Ontario’s justice system is failing to live up to its basic functions and puts Ontario on the road to “lawlessness,” said the province’s opposition justice critic.

NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam urged that the provincial government provide more funding of the court system at a news conference outside the Toronto courthouses on Monday, to avoid further impacting road safety.

“Ontario’s justice system is failing its basic promises of fairness, timeliness, and public safety,” Wong-Tam said. “If there are no consequences to offenses, if there are no consequences to crimes committed, we become a land of lawlessness.”

Wong-Tam was responding to numbers uncovered in a CTV News and W5 investigation where more than one in ten HTA charges were dropped before trial.

That number rose from about 57,000 charges withdrawn in 2019 to about 253,000 charges withdrawn in 2024 – around 10 per cent of all charges.

In her news conference, Wong-Tam also added in charges that were dropped at trial for a grand total of 338,000, amounting to 13 per cent of all charges laid under the Act.

Some serious charges were withdrawn at greater rates, including: about 8,924 careless driving charges withdrawn, around 31 per cent of the total; 9,302 driving while suspended charges, or about 32 per cent of the total; and 5,464 stunt driving, nearly 42 per cent of the total.

One of the charges dropped include a driver running a stop sign on Shaw Street in Toronto and colliding with a cyclist. That such incident was caught on video with clear evidence, said Biking Lawyer David Shellnutt.

“The simple slap on the wrist of the Highway Traffic Act ticket and penalty is not even administered. How crushing is that to somebody who remains off work after being injured by someone?,” he said at the news conference.

Another of Shellnutt’s clients, Anna Pratt, said she had been hit while on her bike in 2022.

“I was really badly hurt. I had multiple fractures to my pelvis, in my sacrum, (and) I had a concussion,” Pratt said.

Pratt said she followed the charges laid closely, representing a “sliver of justice that was really important.” But the charges were dropped, she said, without warning.

“I really was beyond disappointed. I was upset. I was angry. And I really felt that I had been completely, completely ignored by the system.”

Trish MacKenzie, the CUPE Local 79 representative for the city’s prosecutors, said part of the problem is a “staffing crisis” in the prosecutors’ offices.

“We’re very concerned about this,” MacKenzie said, adding that there are unnecessary barriers to hiring more people.

“It’s been devastating to the morale of the office. Of course, people feel extremely burdened and overworked and stressed out. There has been difficulty with being able to simply get all the work done.”

An Ontario court judge also pointed the finger at a lack of a file management system to keep track of the volume of cases, saying that was why the system is in “shambles.”

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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have spiked and bed space has dwindled at detention centers, the agency has turned to detaining immigrants for long stretches in the basement of its Atlanta field office, a facility that traditionally served only as a holding area.

In addition to immigration attorneys, the AJC spoke to advocates, family members of detained immigrants and a man currently in ICE custody who are all familiar with conditions inside Atlanta’s ICE office, located at 180 Ted Turner Dr.

They describe a facility that does not have the space or amenities to hold people overnight: no beds, no showers, and no opportunity to receive visits from loved ones or from attorneys — a situation that may be exposing immigrants to worse conditions than those found in Georgia’s ICE detention centers.

One attorney said her client, a nursing mother, spent nine days sleeping on the floor at the Atlanta field office’s holding room. Another said she is representing a man who was detained at the field office for a weekend, where he had to sleep next to an open toilet.

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