I was about to say something about how Brexit must have really messed up municipal governments’ budgets in order for a town to approve something this obviously shoddy, but down in the middle of the article

It remains unclear who is behind the shoddy artwork. A source familiar with the situation said the decoration had been put up by the landlord, not Côte Brasserie or the Bill’s Kingston Restaurant. Futurism has also reached out to the local municipality for clarification.

That headline is misleading

Actually, it’s even stupider than that I’m pretty sure, two grand juries refused to give them an indictment for a felony charge, so they brought a way less severe misdemeanor charge because you don’t have to get a grand jury to sign off on those, and that’s what we’re wasting this time on

Do things that demonstrate how shameful they are to the large group of people who don’t pay attention to the news or politics until that large group gets fed up with fascists’ bullshit

I’ll believe it when they arrest and jail one of them

Surprised they haven’t called these children super predators yet. Long long history of law enforcement be extremely reluctant to treat children like children when they’re brown children.

Future pizza delivery guy outruns fascist enforcers sounds like an awesome low budget 80s movie but it’s not that much fun to actually live through

Its gratingly bad.

Completely agreed

people today do not understand good music anymore.

I don’t think that’s anymore true than it’s always been, we just have a biased impression of the past because the best stuff from that period stays in rotation, but there was plenty of chart topping crap back then too

Bad covers are frustrating, but I love a good cover where an artist is able to highlight what’s different about their approach to music and also pay a bit of respect to a songwriter they like

Because it’s the best written song they’ve ever performed (because they didn’t write it)

“Your screens should be nicer to you than this one. Join Lemmy!”

Sometimes, I’ve started seeing newer ones in some places where there is no mute button

Hmm, maybe someone could make some stickers with anti-advertising/anti-capitalist slogans on them for the next person to see specifically for this purpose

Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time

Not only did he allow it,

While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video, Pelkey’s family said, noting the judge even referred to the video in his statement.

It has about as much evidentiary value as a ouija board, but since the victim was a veteran and involved with a church and the judge likes those things we can ignore pesky little things like standards of proof and prejudice

If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it’s no sure thing

Literally better than nothing, but two to five years for being an accessory to mass murder likely years after everyone who knew the victims were dead themselves doesn’t exactly feel like justice

As of April 3rd, he’s considering whether or not to hold them in contempt for something they did March fuckin 14th

Good question I don’t have the answer to. I could speculate that this is all likely being sourced from some sort of marketing material that ShadowDragon put out where they just flatly say they’re gathering this information from Tesseract, and in reality they’re actually gathering any information they can on users who search for this software and download this software, but like I said I’m speculating.

If you’re really interested, I would say you should email the author of this article, reach out to Tesseract’s development team, or find a way to get a subpoena against ShadowDragon and/or ICE

Sorry to hear that, try this one

https://web.archive.org/web/20250312132300/https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/

They already routinely pretend that anyone who crosses a border is a criminal in their rhetoric and will find a random bullshit misdemeanor something in 99/100 cases where they want to, but, yeah, this would give them another way to do that. I struggled a bit with laughing at this one because there is a real sinister intent here (thank you for highlighting it btw), but it is also just such smooth brained fascist behavior that I couldn’t help myself.