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A lot of human traffickers are Mexican, especially in the South West. Should probably ban Mexicans as well, just to be safe I guess.

Oh, and most mass shooters are white men, should probably ban them.

Gangbangers are another problem you mentioned, let’s just go ahead and ban every male 18-28.

Prostitutes also a problem? Let’s ban all females 18-32.

You’re working backwards from a terrible policy, banning people for having shitty political views, and then justifying it by saying, “Well, they probably committed sex crimes because they’re creepy”.

Ban them for bad actions, not bad thoughts.

I wasn’t aware that sex trafficking and gangbanging were just considered acts of political extremism.

Because that’s what I’m concerned about - banning people for the thought crimes of having shitty politics, which is something this team clearly engaged in.

I can’t speak to any other role they played in preventing actual criminal activity, like you described, but those would be perfect examples of the types of people that should be banned.

But if your argument is that actual crime and “pre-crime” or “thought crimes” are the same, well, that’s pretty Orwellian and something I strongly disagree with.

This sounds Orwellian.

I understand the justification for these teams on social media because of their role, and their desire to be advertising friendly.

But a public company like AirBnB should not be legally allowed to ban people solely based on their political views, even if they suck.

Ban them for their actions, but not for Minority Report Pre-Crime.

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It has been black and white, since inception. Just on behalf of the federal government and those “complexities” you listed.

This is what nuance and the shading of gray looks like: science showing the other side of these projects, and the extreme costs which have primarily been borne by the indigenous tribes in the region.

Damnit. I hate when my local city government’s finances are too fucked to pay the energy bill, but still have money for military weapons procurement.

Wait a minute…local city governments are able to purchase air launched cruise missiles and anti-tank weapons!!! And they can export them to!!!

Dude I think you might be onto something, that is pretty wild…makes you wonder what the dog catcher is really up to… probably moonlights with gig economy wetwork.

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Did you just blame Trump for a Biden appointment?

Because my comment was specifically about a Biden appointment to the FAA…But if you’re looking for who to blame for the FAA being shit, well that goes back a heck of a lot further, and it’s a bipartisan affair.

No, please don’t expand the horrific practice of labeling of people as terrorists to use as a scarlet letter and help the FBI/DOJ get around those peski civil liberties.

The equitable answer isn’t to expand the War on Terror to include more whites, it’s to end it and repeal the unconstitutional laws that passed to support it.

Yes, my open salvo was directed at the Whitaker.

Also, I’m pretty sure OP is an article bot, so don’t think they’d take notice, or offense, regardless lol.

Lemmy.world communities tend to be less tolerable of any direct Biden criticism, at least in my experience. Although maybe they thought I was directing that opener at OP.

Get fucked. He has spent his whole professional career being an airline industry suit, which is why he was placed at the FAA by Biden: he’s another industry plant in an completey captured regulator, by an industry captured government.

All he’s doing is stating the obvious because the cats out of the bag. Don’t hold your breath for this lifelong airline industry executive to be some savior or rebuilder of an independent FAA.

Whitaker began his aviation career as a litigator, then as assistant general counsel of international and regulatory affairs at Trans World Airlines (TWA). He spent 15 years at United Airlines in a variety of roles as director, vice president and senior vice president. His portfolio at the airline included commercial alliances and joint ventures, international and regulatory affairs, and strategic counsel to the chairman and chief executive officer on international matters.Whitaker served as Group CEO of InterGlobe Enterprises.There, he oversaw strategy and operations for four affiliate travel companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Whitaker_(government_official)

This was an easy election year punt.

The rulings in this case were made by an out of pocket judge and an appellate court district that’s gone off the fucking rails, legally speaking.

If it wasn’t an election year, SCOTUS might have disregarded all that and plowed ahead anyways.

However, both Alito and Thomas are likely wanting to retire, and probably will if Trump gets back in office.

Those desires, combined with how the last abortion ruling hurt the GOP electorally, made this an easy decision for them.

Fallon Fox. Look her up.

Yes, she eventually got beat by another professional female fighter, but not before she seriously injured multiple opponents, including skull fractures. Those types of injuries are not common in men’s MMA, although they do occur, but they’re extremely uncommon in female MMA.

Testosterone blockers don’t reverse the effects the hormone had on a bodies development prior to medically transitioning. So differences such as bone density are locked in, even if their blood test shows a hormonal balance that aligns with their preferred gender at the time of competition.

I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:

“I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”

That’s somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.

Could go either way as he dosed preteen children with fucking benzos.

I figured it was something like melatonin and the punishment might have been excessive, but nope.

Intentions aside, that’s just really unsafe.

Although now I’m curious if was at least measuring out the dose for each drink, or just tossing some undissolved pills in the blender and hoping it distributes evenly.

Edit: Holy shit does that AP article leave out some details. This guy was definitely looking to abuse the kids

lol.

Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

Customer pays

Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.

Yes, and his appointment was a clear signal that certain parties had ideas on how WaPo could better align with their interests.

Which is why this is so amusing. His baggage was a big reason why he was hired, and they had to know it would come out. No reason not to weather the storm and just communicate via friendly interviews and strategically placed PR/leaks.

Lol. Nope. Instead he said, “Nah, I got this. Hold my silver spoon tooter.”

Butterymales vibes.

Also, Trump isn’t the President. So whatever he may, or may not do, is hypothetical… It’s also irrelevant to what Biden is actually doing…you know, because he’s the current president…

What are you talking about?

This was definitely NOT a huge component of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

It also definitely did NOT play into the Democrat’s delusion that any left leaning voters they lost by shifting to the right would be replaced by the GOP moderates it would attract.

Oh, and Chuck Schummer also NEVER repeatedly made these claims in public, or during media appearances.

So yeah, this is a bold and definitely BRAND NEW strategy.

No way it goes tits up.

…SCOTUS has been expanding corporate power since long before the current majority. This is a nearly 40 year long project and it transcends any nominal association of a justice as being liberal or conservative.

There’s no doubt that it has been accelerated as of late, but don’t kid yourself about who they serve

Also, that CFPB case would have wrecked the status quo of power and how government funding works. Not a subtle shift, or a quick jolt, but a fucking wrecking ball by making it so that programs that makeup nearly 2/3rds of the federal budget would have to be continually reauthorized e.g. Medicare, Social Security, etc.