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MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in RFK Jr. withdraws from Arizona ballot as questions swirl around a possible alliance with Trump

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DirkMcCallahan , in Democrats Scrub Death Penalty Opposition From Campaign Platform - For the first time in more than a decade, the Democratic Party platform includes no mention of abolishing the death penalty.

The lefty side of me thinks: “We’re nominating a former prosecutor…what did we expect?”

The practical side of me thinks: “This is like Palestine/Israel. Sure, Harris could be better on this issue…but Trump is still a hundred times worse.”

tacosanonymous ,

The far right movement isn’t an excuse for everyone else to shift right.

Samvega ,

“They’re trying to make the world infinitely worse! We must oppose them by making the world a finite amount worse!”

DirkMcCallahan ,

Oh, I agree completely. I think it’s disgusting how the right has succeeded in shifting the Overton window a ridiculous amount over the past decade or so.

kescusay ,
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She hasn’t. She’s been consistently to the left of Biden on Gaza.

girlfreddy OP , in California woman fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief
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The sheriff’s department commended the mail theft victim for contacting law enforcement so they could apprehend the suspects rather than attempting to contact them on her own.

They should have been congratulating her because she did their job for them.

DaddleDew ,

I’m just glad they did something about it.

Some police departments won’t even be bothered to do anything about petty theft even if you give them a name, picture and address of the perpetrator.

khannie ,
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Isn’t interference with mail a fairly hefty offense over there?

Someonelol ,
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Yeah it’s a federal offense. That said cops can be lazy as shit and usually won’t bother to help unless you’re someone who’s important to them.

Hegar ,
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A friend of mine had his phone snatched on the bus, so he had me call his phone and pretend to be the phone company, telling the thief that he'd won a new phone and I just needed his address.

The police were very happy that we'd done their job for them, and they got his phone back.

khannie ,
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LOOOL. Something similarly stupid happened to a friend of mine. His phone got stolen in a nightclub but it was a rather unusual phone. He saw it for sale a few days later on our equivalent of craigslist and offered to buy it. Thing is the guy was a professional fighter and he turned up with a good friend who was a bouncer and also fought out of the same club.

Anyway…The person selling it was the bouncer from the club it had been stolen from. Someone would go around robbing phones from the club then sell them to the bouncer at a hefty discount and he would then sell them on. He apologised profusely and tried to explain his way out of it yada yada.

Friend got his phone back anyway.

CMDR_Horn ,

Law enforcement budgets are tight. 30 dollars is too much when they have to buy military equipment instead.

Darkassassin07 ,
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Na, they were too busy being pisssed of they couldn’t just say “nothing we can do, there’s no way to track the thief down” and walk away like usual.

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in California woman fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

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Skydancer , in The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters

The opposite headline would have been more true. This ruling DOES disenfranchise those very same voters for state and local elections.

They won’t get to vote on little things like who draws the voting districts, who runs the elections, who certifies (or refuses to certify) the elections. Same for who decides on school book bans, policing priorities, medicaid expansion, or mask bans.

This may be a smaller loss than expected, but painting it as a win is disingenuous.

grue , in The maker of Mike Lynch's yacht says it took 16 minutes to sink and the crew should have had time to rescue passengers

I am really starting to get sick and tired of all the excessive news coverage of this, especially in comparison to (for example) a boat full of refugees sinking. The latter is invariably far more tragic, yet tends to garner far less attention.

See also: nbcnews.com/…/syria-migrants-boat-sinking-titanic…

FollyDolly ,
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Right! Oh no some rich poeple weren’t doing proper storm saftey procedures on thier private expensive yacht. Fuck em.

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in NASA will decide Saturday if Boeing's new capsule is safe enough to fly 2 astronauts back from space

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Shawdow194 , in 5-year-old Utah boy dies from accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound
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At least they had a weapon to defend their family against people who would hurt them. You wouldnt want your kids getting hurt by someone being reckless with a firearm

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in Grocery stores boost political donations even as Democrats take aim

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tacosanonymous , in RFK Jr. withdraws from Arizona ballot as questions swirl around a possible alliance with Trump

He is such a piece of shit.

Infynis , in Democrats Scrub Death Penalty Opposition From Campaign Platform - For the first time in more than a decade, the Democratic Party platform includes no mention of abolishing the death penalty.
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We’ll get to it after we eat the rich

norimee , in California woman fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

Are post boxes at the post office not locked in the US? Do you not have to identify yourself or have a key? How can they keep stealing her mail not from her porch or something but from the actual postoffice?

Eggyhead ,

Serious. What’s the point of even having a post box?

mofongo ,

Drugs

BeardedBlaze ,
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USPS doesn’t deliver to the house everywhere, so you’re stuck with a PO Box.

Darkassassin07 ,
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The last town I lived in didn’t do door-to-door mail for ANYONE. If you want your mail, come to the post office.

Private carriers like Fedex/Purolator are a bit more accommodating, but tracking down your regular letter mail was your problem.

The post office worker’s would get super pissed off if you received mail with your actual address on it instead of the PO box too. Taking 10sec to type it into the computer to match street address with PO box was the end of the world apparently…

Rhaedas ,

It depends on where you are. The commercial carriers often will use USPS as the "last mile" carrier to send stuff too. People dump on the US postal system (rightly so for a lot of things) but it really is an incredible system, when it works. And a lot of that is the government side to blame, making it more costly and inefficient where it could be better.

aramis87 ,

DeJoy is still in office actually, and is planning to further degrade service as soon as the election passes.

BeardedBlaze ,
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Never seen one without a key lock or combo lock. Could’ve been an inside job.

dual_sport_dork ,
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They are locked, but as anyone who has watched 20 seconds or more of the Lockpicking Lawyer, the locks are trivially easy to defeat. Typically they are in an unsupervised area of the post office and most of the time there “isn’t budget” to even cover them with cameras, as if a premeditated thief would not just show up wearing a disguise anyway.

themeatbridge , (edited ) in NASA will decide Saturday if Boeing's new capsule is safe enough to fly 2 astronauts back from space

That’s why you always pack more underwear than you think you will need.

Come to think of it, how do astronauts do laundry?

Edit: I looked it up. They don’t. Dirty laundry is ejected into space to burn up on re-entry. So these poor travelers probably did not pack for an 8 month trip.

superkret ,

This is a great idea for a porn plot: several young, fit people in an enclosed space with nothing to do, cause they finished their assigned tasks weeks ago. Lots of positions that aren’t physically possible in earths gravity.
And they just ejected their last set of clothes.

Now I just need funding to film it in zero G.

worldwidewave ,

Now I just need funding to film it in zero G.

I don’t wanna spoil things, but if you’re looking for floating strange liquids, maybe check out the new Alien movie.

Tujio ,

Vague memory from years ago, but I think that The Uranus Experiment 2 has a zero-g moneyshot.

Zron ,

Unfortunately, erections probably don’t work that well in zero G, although NASA has been neglectful in testing this thoroughly.

girlfreddy OP ,
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“This meant Wilmore and Williams were forced to ration their clean clothes. Thankfully, a resupply mission earlier this month gave them a few extra pairs of scrubs.” Source

athairmor , in RFK Jr. withdraws from Arizona ballot as questions swirl around a possible alliance with Trump

New instructions from his handlers since Harris became the D nominee.

Blackmist , in ‘Hitting kids should never be allowed’: Illinois bans corporal punishment in all schools

Wait, it was allowed up until now?

Raiderkev ,

There’s still a handful of red states with it on the books as well. Yes, it’s everyone you think it is.

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