I thought it was weird that the first time I saw the story the headline was about the prosecutor in the Diddy trial being fired but then every time after that her name was included and it was the Epstein trial instead of Diddy’s.

I saw somewhere that Bazzite was good for purpose built gaming rigs. I have yet to try it out though. My gut have to change it if I don’t like how it runs.

I would use an OS called “IInix” (tunics) but not “IIvix”.

Are… are you Captain Janeway?

Or Heinz 57

As of two days ago we are official a Microsoft Windows free household (except when my wife is WFH).

The holdout was our gaming PC but I put Bazzite on it because who wants to use Windows 11?

Many parents in the US have to make a decision to both keep working and have one persons income essentially only pay for childcare or have one person stop working to be a stay at home parent until their kid(s) are school aged.

Things like this are a big contributor to population decline in the US.

I think you’re right though it varies by locale. I live in Minnesota and here police officers are required to have a college education and part of that is learning and being tested on both the criminal and traffic code. You’re not expected to have it all memorized but you are supposed to have reviewed it and understood it.

Another good indicator is that the police in the US don’t actually know what the law is most of the time.

Polaroid is actually a genericization for instant print camera film though o doubt he would have known it by the proper term either.

First of all: if you don’t want to correct people, then maybe you shouldn’t start comment threads off trying to correct people.

You said slavery wasn’t federally legal. That was wrong.

You said the 13th amendment had nothing to do with it. That was wrong.

You don’t seem to understand how laws work at all.

You kept bringing up the 13th amendment and the federal outlawing of slavery, which was irrelevant to the conversation.

Really?

Every response from you has been classic Dunning-Kruger.

Roe v. Wade was a landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, based on the right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment

the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding Mississippi’s law and overturning Roe v. Wade. With that ruling, the Court returned lawmaking decisions about abortion to the states.

The Roe decision folded abortion into the 14th Amendment until it was overturned in Dobbs returning legislation over it to the states.

That other stuff is fair, I’m simply saying that you should have started with that. Fair?

If you don’t know what you are talking about then maybe you should not chime in and research the issue instead. This is all basic American history. Honestly, spoon feeding you things you could learn yourself to correct your wrongly made statements is exhausting. It’s time for me to block you and move on.

Not a high bar, but thanks!

My state requires a college education to be a peace officer and I went to, at the time, the best school for law enforcement in the country.

I actually changed my mind because the only part of the job that really interested me was investigations and I didn’t want to spend years doing the other bullshit just to get there.

We were required to take civics but I also spent 4 years of college working towards my degree and licensure as a police officer in my state.

Got all the way to our version of the hands-on academy and decided policing wasn’t for me. Now I work in IT.

That’s… not how laws in the US work. I take it you’re not familiar with the maxim “everything which is not forbidden is allowed”. Abortion was never legalized by federal law in the US either yet they were still being performed.

The federal law protects states rights until the federal law directly overwrites it

Not exactly. State laws can be as, or more restrictive, than federal laws but they cannot be less. This means that if the federal government doesn’t restrict it then states can be as restrictive as they want, as long as those restrictions aren’t in opposition to existing federal laws.

Slavery wasn’t federally legalized

Well…

Slavery was legally practiced across America (the United States ) until its federal abolition in 1865.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 prohibited Congress from banning the importation of slaves for twenty years, effectively allowing the international slave trade to continue until 1808

In 1807, Congress passed the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves, taking effect on January 1, 1808. This intended to end transatlantic slave trade, but it didn’t abolish slavery or domestic sale of enslaved people within the US.

The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.

This is all in any decent history about slavery in the US. In fact, slavery is still not completely illegal in the US. Remember the 13th amendment? It formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the US, except as a punishment for a crime.

Sounds like the police chief in Cottonwood Heights, Utah needs to quit and run for state legislature since they seem confused about their job. Police chiefs don’t make the laws, they enforce them because they are law enforcement officers.

And the Supreme Court of the United States rules based on federal law which, prior to the 13th, meant that under federal law slavery was not illegal and slaves were still considered property.

It’s why the civil war was fought and then the amendment was passed. The victor makes the rules and since the United States beat the Confederate States, they made the rules.

It’s not even an equal comparison, particularly because of the precedent set in Dobbs by SCOTUS establishing abortion protections as a state issue.

the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding Mississippi’s law and overturning Roe v. Wade. With that ruling, the Court returned lawmaking decisions about abortion to the states.

I know from all the doom posting I see on Lemmy that many don’t, but I still have hope.

I’m not going to argue with you. I asked politely because the aggressive negativity is exhausting and there’s already a place for it. If my request bothers you that much then downvote and move on and at least I’ll know who to block to keep it out of my feed that way.

I didn’t think about what matters to SCOTUS at all.

The law still matters to people and that’s what’s important. Only after we, abandon the rule of law will there be a complete breakdown of society and a descent into chaos and anarchy.

I know from all the doom posting I see on Lemmy that many don’t, but I still have hope.