The issue with a "no politics" rule though is that everything is political. It ends up just being the mods removing what they want to remove and letting what they want to see stay.

The last bit may be. The former, probably not, until a court orders them to hand it over.

Just think about it in the context of a person doing this. If you witness a crime, you don't have to hand over, for example, video of the crime just because they ask for it. They need to get a court to order you to hand it over. Or, if you commit a crime, you don't have to provide them with evidence. They have to have a court order you to hand it over.

Again, if they actually cared about law enforcement then they'd obviously hand it over. They don't though. It's just not a crime that they aren't handing it over until they're ordered to. It proves that they are the enemy, and not legitimate law enforcement, but that isn't illegal.

Money is fungible, right? Let's say we have a limited budget. We have to decide how to spend it. In order to fund one thing we must defund another (or increase the budget, aka increase taxes, which isn't popular).

OK, so let's say we find there's ways to decrease crime that are more effective than police. We should want to fund that, correct? We have to find a way to pay for it now. We need to take money from one service to fund this other service. Since it's doing the same job as police, but with a better effect/cost, we should probably consider defining police to pay for this, right?

It turns out, we do have the data to show these services do exist and are more cost-effective than police. What should we do?

The "abolish police" crowd you're talking about were never asking for no policing. They were asking for a change in how it's done. In my opinion, ideally, it would be abolishing the police as it exists today, and implementing community policing in some form. This seems to be a step towards that at least, but one important compenent is that the police should have to be a part of the community being policed. If they're outsiders, like they frequently are today, they have no stake in the community.

Anyway, obviously we still need some kind of policing. The shit you're told is a lie though. People wanted the police system we have today gone and replaced with more effective alternatives. Showing that changing how policing works having a positive effect only proves the point.

However, this doesn't prove anything else. For all we know, from this information, getting rid of police entirely could have a beneficial effect. The data here doesn't give us any information on that, so even the most extreme "no policing" stance that you're strawmaning isn't disproven here. We don't have information to make an inference. It just makes you look stupid to claim this proves more policing is good. I can show you data where that alone has been bad, but obviously that wouldn't prove that sometimes more policing can be good, and I wouldn't make that claim because I'm not an idiot.

This is Lemmy.world, and I've heard their administration is pretty strict, so maybe. If this were a more reasonable instance then I'd imagine not. They're public officials, and the picture of their face would have been presumably been taken in public (or shared publicly). It should be fine to share, and the officer should be proud to be recognized for their work.

OK, I agree they should give any information they have, assuming they're working in good faith on law enforcement (they aren't). However, it is not illegal to refuse to assist a criminal investigation. You have to follow court orders, but if the police ask if you saw something you can legally not respond. This is wrong, but it isn't a crime (yet).

Everyone, calm down. I'm pretty sure this is a joke to point out how crazy it is that they want to deport "illegal immigrants" when (nearly) everyone in the US is here without the original inhabitant's approval.

Windows really hasn't been the "it just works" option for a while. It's just the option that you've gotten used to the bullshit to make it work. For example, the install process for every Linux distro I've tried is far simpler than the insane install process for Windows.

Like others have said though, you're using the wrong distros for your hardware, without some manual work. I'd recommend CachyOS or Garuda Dragonized, as they're made for gaming. They're both Arch based, but they include everything you need out-of-the-box, so you really don't need to put any effort into setting things up, only customizing it after.

One key thing with switching though is recognizing that you aren't on Windows anymore. If you switch expecting it to be Windows then you'll hate it. You need to go in with the same attitude you hade when you learned Windows (which you probably don't remember). It's something new. You have to accept that you have to learn how to use it.

It's not just that it acts like a radiator. Feet are also not very sensitive, so if they're a little cold it won't bother you. You could obviously get rid of a lot more heat by exposing your torso, but it will feel cold much sooner.

I have seen them saying similar things. Not this exactly, but saying that AOC is a liberal because she won't take the most extreme positions. Even if she believed in those positions, which I'm sure she does some of them, it'd be political suicide to stand that ground. They want politician-activists. Those jobs are practically mutually exclusive, but they're too dumb to realize it. I can't think of a single activist leader who was also an elected official.

Usually inheritance tax is only for people who are quite wealthy. Most places the average person passes down what they own without any significant tax. It's only when you control well more wealth than you actually earned (the ultra wealthy did not get their wealth through their labor) where there's any significant taxation. I don't know why you'd be against this, except for the "temporarily displaced billionaire" mentality. It is a way to redistribute unearned wealth, and attempting to make who you're born to not the determination for success, and that's a good thing.

The Coast Guard is largely good, and obviously FEMA. But I agree, shut the DHS down and move those functions elsewhere.