I hate Nick Fuentes and his content, but her story is suspicious. I find it very strange that she took it upon herself to learn where his house is, go there, and try to talk to the guy. If the roles were reversed, a MAGA supporter showing up at a liberal public figure’s home, I think people would interpret it as harassment.

That said, I don’t understand how this was a legal use of pepper spray. If she really only said “hello” and did not try to advance into the house, then I don’t think he could reasonably argue he felt threatened with bodily harm in any way.

That’s an issue for court to decide though. I imagine the truth lies in the full video.

What the fuck is the pressure setting on your bidet???

It’s been described as a monster movie, so I assume Trump grabbing a woman by the pussy and taking her to the top of the Empire State Building before being blasted to bits by helicopters is the reason to see it.

I’m a home server hobbyist. I like to think of them as computer solutions.

Nobody deserves to be stalked or doxxed, and anybody doing that is in the wrong.

As a separate point, just from what I can see on your profile now, you have put a remarkable amount of identifying information in your Lemmy posts. I’m pretty cavalier about the possibility of someone connecting my account to my identity, but you are orders of magnitude beyond anything I would feel personally comfortable posting. I seriously believe you can protect yourself from these things if you modify your posting habits.

For example, you have photos of your face posted, high school photos that could be shared on other people’s social media, current photos of your head and identifying features, pictures of bills that identify local businesses you use (you didn’t black everything out successfully)…that was just what I noticed in about 10 seconds of glancing. With reverse image searches, it would be trivial to find some of those photos on a classmates Facebook where you have been tagged with your real name.

As a general rule, never post personal media to Lemmy that you intend to post somewhere else (or that someone else may post who can identify you). Once a photo appears in two places, it becomes a lot easier to start connecting dots.

I find the second hand effects argument a difficult one to swallow when we deal with car pollution, industrial waste, microplastics, and so much more on a minute to minute basis. Anyone who lives in a city has essentially no reasonable expectation of overly clean air.

Public spaces are just that—public—and there should not be an expectation of being insulated from every harmful output by your fellow citizens, within reason. I’d take the errant cigarette waft over a bus station fart any day.

Cats don’t have to worry about size because they already know that they have all the power in the relationship.

Two reasons spring to mind.

First, some documents really are that sensitive. There are moments when nobody outside of the situation room would have clearance to handle documents that are being actively used in a crisis. Routine stuff gets copies made all the time, but the really sensitive stuff tends to go directly to the resolute desk with barely a moment to spare. The book Secrets by Daniel Ellsberg gives a pretty interesting look into how briefings are made and delivered.

Second, there are a large number of messages given to the president via handwritten notes. Sometimes the president responds to a note with another note. These are the kinds of documents that Trump could do the most damage by destroying because they are the only record of communication between the president and another person.

There has just never been a president brazen enough to rip up documents in this manner before. It is moments like these when the Justice department is supposed to step in and enforce the rule of law, and it is entirely to discourage malicious actors like this.

It isn’t as simple as blowing up a couple of buildings anymore. Mr. Robot showed it perfectly—save the world and the world just keeps on preserving the status quo.

Better late than never? Sure, they should have done something a while ago, but at least they’re doing something now when many aren’t.

Idk, I’ve started feeling like we need to give the late apologists a pass. Otherwise, there is no incentive to do anything at all.

Maybe I’m crazy, but the series of events seems incredibly obvious from the videos linked in that article. A rocket is fired from a position far away from the hospital that seems typical of the ones used by Hamas. Israel intercepted it above the hospital and it broke apart. The explodey bit fell out of the sky and landed near the hospital, making a big boom and killing people.

This is what happens when you hurl deadly explosives at each other over densely populated areas. Everyone sucks here.

This drug exists for me, and it’s called heroin. Unfortunately it also slowly kills me and turns me into an asshole, but from the inside…bliss.

Clean for 14 years now, but I’ll never forget what it was like to be, as William Burroughs called it, the de-anxietized man.