I highly recommend listening to this clip of Rep. Brianna Thomas's comments on the state ALPR bill. She explains the impacts of these systems and says this bill risks normalizing the surveillance state.
Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
I believe this is the part where we call for gu- I mean car control and regulation.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to fucking win
We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
The Shaggy Perjury loophole defense is being closed (or being better scrutinized)
Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again
I saw the term "third-party thinkers" and it's honestly been an excellent summation.
Be a fuckin human, put some effort into life, lest it be lived without you.
them: cognition is a miracle
me: aang from avatar is technically an air friar
I guess we'll just have to reschedule for next week, then!
I will say that the day the 1 and 2 line had issues/closures a few weeks ago that bus service fit that gap - the ween off might be necessary for a little while, but possibly with reduced frequency.
Would be a lot harder. Most of these are based on software/hardware features in 2011+ model cars - even if they had some way to kill the electrical motor on an ebike, they can't do anything to the pedal/chain assembly.
Ice can disable your car news article. Picture of a ford suv
Welp, time to sell your car and get an Ebike.
This is a history lesson in why the incompetent drunkard and the brain dead pedophile shouldn’t be allowed to replace human judgment with AI.
the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over
Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.
Victory in Mountain View, CA! 🏆
"They urged the police department to take down the cameras as quickly as possible with a few council members also clarifying that they did not have any interest in pursuing other iterations of an #ALPR program."
That last line matters! 👍
#deflock #surveillance
"I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid."
-- ICE terrorist when a cyclist followed him
A crisped tortilla wrapped around an exposed tostada, slightly bulky, in the same sort of presentation as a crunchwrap from taco bell
the inside of the homemade crunchwrap in hand above a plate on a marble countertop - revealing all the ingredients: Large Flour Tortilla Taco sized corn torilla or tostada Lettuce Pico de gallo Sour Cream Shredded Cheese Chicken
throwback to that one time i made a homemade crunchwrap
DHS has scrapped plans for an immigrant detention facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
After major community protest, and pushback against the Trump admin from Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte, the plans to buy a warehouse for use by ICE have been tossed out.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...
Thinking about how paying for drugs to look the way you’re told you’re supposed to when you don’t look that way bc the system feeds you as cheaply as possible & for as much profit as possible, but taking them robs you of sexual & gustatory pleasure is a near-perfect example of how capitalism works.
who'd he get this time?
Hat embroidered with “hello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”
uggggh spent a while composing an articulate email to make an ask - and then promptly pasted the email address of the person I was CCing into the SUBJECT line right before sending it 💀
not to be a policy wonk but a clean executive summary followed by simple key takeaways in a neatly detailed report written in plain english is sooooooooooooooo hot. i'm feeling the effects of global warming 🥵
Honestly, responding to the call with a hot cocoa station or building a snowman and putting a police hat atop of it would have been free PR for the entire year, but noooo, can't have any whimsy for civilians wielding snowballs
Took 2 Weeks:
"The leak occurred because Persona accidentally exposed 53MB of original source code...This allowed for the discovery of 269 distinct verification checks, Users believing they are...being screened against global watchlists & intelligence databases with direct ties to ICE & FinCEN."
a black background with white text. it says: JOY IS GOOD ACTUALLY
