Dupree878

joined 7 months ago
[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

we had a woman here charged with murder because she got shot and miscarried

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The local police department has some metric saying there are X amount of moving violations per day in town divided by X amount of officers so each officer must write X amount of tickets.

That way, it’s not really a “quota“ but a job performance metric they are punished for not meeting.

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is absolutely no reason they can’t pass a federal law and then still allow states to have a more restrictive law. It is stupid to add a preemption barring more stringent laws.

But really no laws are strict enough against data harvesting companies.

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s not worse than nothing for those of us stuck in backward ass Red states

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

My ex was from Indianola.

You can’t expect a cop to show up and not shoot a black person. I mean, that’s just not how it’s done in the catfish farming capital of Mississippi.

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It’s so weird. When you get put in handcuffs here, you automatically expect to get hit, that’s just how it is. And I’m not talking about arrested, I’m just talking about when they put you in handcuffs quote for your own safety“ and then they still take that opportunity to illegally search you or hit you.

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

It would have to be super old. My 2015 and ‘16 iOS devices were fine. The only thing I had to remove was my 2010 white MacBook (which I just keep around to run home media anyway).

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

It’s not automatically on, but after the update it pops up on your screen telling you it is now available and asking if you want to opt in or not.

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

What? TNG is only 35 years old, so what’s with the 50 years claim?

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

On the eve of battle, on a cold and windless night, an old general turned to a young soldier. 

“Tomorrow,” said the master, “you will know fear.” 

The young soldier — who had not yet experienced the agony of war — looked at the general with quizzical eyes, “How will I know fear if I do not know what it looks like?” 

The general replied, “You will know fear because it speaks very fast and it speaks very loud...”

 “If that is how fear acts, recognizing it is easy.” But as the young soldier considered the general's advice, she asked the question facing us now, “Once I know Fear, how do I defeat it?”

Even so, I come to ask myself the same question that young soldier asked that general all those years ago: “How do I defeat fear?”

The general’s answer: “the only way to defeat fear is to tell it ‘No’.” 

No. We will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness. 

No. We will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts. 

No. We will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority. 

I am guilty of all these things. 

Some say that in life there are no second chances; experience tells me that this is true. 

We can only look forward. We have to be torch-bearers: casting the light so we may see our path to lasting peace. We will continue exploring, discovering new worlds, new civilisations. 

Yes. That is the United Federation of Planets. 

Yes. That is Starfleet

Yes. That is who we are

And who we will always be.

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I don’t understand why states can’t just have more stringent requirements and the federal one being the bare minimum

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Because Siri is the engine behind all voice commands to the phone. If you use voice to text, like I am right now, that relies on Siri. So you can turn off the search queries, but the engine still has to work if you want it to recognise your voice for anything, and it’s also the AI behind transcribing voicemails and voice memos.

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