[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah the racist conspiracies happening now regarding non-white immigrants is basically just a rehash of the same racist conspiracies used as a pretext to illegally imprison Japanese Americans and steal their land in WWII. It's been awhile since I read about it so I don't remember if the strawberry fields were supposedly pointing at radar, or if they were "surrounding critical installations" or "staging grounds for invasion" or whatever, but basically capitalists wanted that land.

As weak as that pretext was it's still more coherent than, "data center opposition is due to Chinese paid protestors" or, "they're eating the cats and dogs." So we've even grown more stupid and lazy with our racist pretexts which is pretty damning.

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When the government's lever was "interstate commerce" the Supreme Court ruled that growing your own grain to feed your own animals meant you wouldn't buy grain on the open market, therefore it affects the market, therefore it's interstate commerce, therefore they can control you growing your own grain on your own property to feed your own animals.

Now their pretext is "national security". Cars are national security. Soybeans are national security. Blowing up fishing boats is national security. Ballroom is national security. Japanese immigrant farmers are planting their strawberry field rows to point to radar installations, national security! National security!

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

It gets even funnier. Only two lawyers committed the malpractice, but they were working "pro hac" which means they aren't licensed in that court but have been granted temporary permission. This isn't uncommon, but it usually requires a sign off from an attorney that IS barred in that court. That's where the other two lawyers come in. You need local lawyers who can quickly show up to court.

In practice being that local lawyer is a pretty good gig, you're basically being paid to sign off on stuff and otherwise have no work to do. The catch is though, you are signing off. Your signature means you vouch for those fillings, even though realistically you aren't going to double check them because you assume your fellow pro hac attorney isn't committing malpractice.

So they just got totally fucked by their colleagues. It's incomprehensible because judges have clerks that check every assertion in a motion so there's no fucking way this would ever slide. The judge explains how they are fucked in the sanctions order. Oops.

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

Remember if you don't support the rapist nazi child-killer than you are directly responsible for Drumpf. Just like you didn't support Kamala because of her laugh and because she's a woman. Snape isn't perfect but I'd vote for him over Voldemort. Or maybe it's like Star Wars instead of some shit fucking kill me.

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

I'd run it by a lawyer. I can't imagine it will take a lawyer long to settle this since it's probably some standard language that just sounds confusing, so you're looking at a nominal fee. You're basically just paying money to feel at ease.

Generally speaking, having a secret trapdoor buried in a legal contract is Hollywood thing, because an actual court would be like, "This person agreed to a mortgage, paid the entire thing plus interest for years, and now you are entitled to their house why? Why would a reasonable person agree to this unless they were tricked?"

But that said, I pretty much always hire a lawyer for important stuff like property. Also then someone else's license is on the line should this ever actually become an issue.

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 109 points 1 week ago

Actually one of my most favorite memories because the simplicity of the solution using recursion blew my little mind. It was like discovering a magic spell.

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In this episode Butters is visiting Niagara Falls as a tourist, but he is arrested for being a foreigner. Nobody cares about his passport or the fact he was there "legally" and he gets funneled into a huge prison facility called "Alberta Alcatraz".

After several scary experiences he is in line for a phone call. When he gets to the front the guard pretends to not understand what he is asking for.

  • Guard: WELL, what do YOU WANT?
  • Butters: Uhh I want to make a phone call, please.
  • Guard: Puh-hone call? Puh-hone? What's that?
  • Butters: I don't understand mister. I'd like to call someone on that phone.
  • Guard: Oh THIS? DO YOU MEAN-

The guard lets out a long, trumpet-like fart that sounds like, "fooooooooooone".

  • Butters: Wha--- what?
  • Guard 2: YEAH! YOU MEAN- (farting) foooooooooooone!

Apparently this is how Canadians make the word, "phone".

  • Guard 2: HEY THIS LITTLE YANK CAN'T SAY- (farting) ffhhhooooooone!!
  • Guard: HAHA!!! (farting) fuuuooooooooooooooone!

All guards start laughing at Butters and farting "fooooone". They can all apparently do this quite naturally.

  • Butters: B-but, I don't have to fart right now.
  • Guard: IF YOU WANT SOMETHING YOU NEED TO LEARN TO SPEAK CANADIAN!

Butters resolves to save up his farts to get his phone call. Several days pass. Now trembling and sweating, a pale Butters can barely stand in line.

  • Butters: Oh man... I gotta make it...

The inmate in front of him effortlessly farts "foooooooooone" and is let ahead. Butters is up.

  • Guard: YEAH? WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS TIME?
  • Butters: I want... I want... I... uh... UH.... ahhH!!

Butters loses control of his bowels and sprays shit in all directions, then collapses. Everyone around yells in disbelief and disgust.

A large inmate walks up and looks down.

  • It's OK little buddy, my cousin had that same speech impediment.

Then I woke up.

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 114 points 1 month ago
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I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants... Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Sorry is there an Adrian Zenz-like figure I can ask instead?

Seriously though I admire that, despite all we've done to them, he still responds with a dignity that we certainly don't deserve. Of course we're totally deaf to this as a people, but I respect the gesture.

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 295 points 2 months ago

There's no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, "bots that aren't paying us."

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 169 points 3 months ago

His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin

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Prefacing by saying I'm a total noob to webdev.

I'm trying to move my personal portfolio site off of Squarespace and onto some sort of static hosting. Since I know nothing, I'm cobbling together hugo templates and using LightBox2 to show image galleries. The blog I'm referencing includes LightBox2 using this:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lightbox2/2.11.1/js/lightbox.min.js" integrity="sha256-CtKylYan+AJuoH8jrMht1+1PMhMqrKnB8K5g012WN5I=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

I would prefer to not subject people viewing my page to any external tracking if I can avoid it. My page has zero tracking/analytics for this reason. I briefly tried downloading LightBox2 and directly including it instead, and was able to get it working mostly, but some things were broken that I would need to debug. Before I do that I was wondering, is this even a problem? Is including stuff from cloudflare cdn like this sketchy? It's possible I'm being overly paranoid but I have no idea.

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