The police running into the crowd are violent, certainly; as is the white mob. The response to a movement being violent doesn’t make the movement violent, any more than getting mugged makes the victim violent.

I understood US Civil Rights movement to be peaceful, as in the people in the movement did not instigate violence. Calling a protest violent because those in power struck back violently seems nonsensical to me.

Think I missed something - what’s the thing with orcas and billionaires?

The implied issue with that phrase is you risk your own glass house being pelted, correct? The glass house, in this case, being atrocities each government is implicated in?

I’m fine with all the atrocities being called out. Otherwise, how do we learn not to do them anymore?

Honestly, even with an ulterior motive, I see no reason they shouldn’t.

Sure, natural is not at all the same as of worth. But it’s much easier to argue that trans people are natural (here, by drawing comparisons to other organisms) than to go after the opposing argument’s tactics.

It’s a much simpler, and more effective, argument to say “No, I am naturally this way” than it is to respond “And of what value is a natural thing?!”

Be careful about that - don’t want to let them claim them on insurance!

This, yeah. Heck, remember the Panama papers?

…how do you struggle with 600 words, and yet post so much online?

I posted a link to a news story that mentioned the process of picking him up, mentioning grabbing the bag and processing it later, just as I said was done.

Here’s another, where his defense attorney talks about how his backpack was searched away from the restaurant where he was arrested before the evidence was found. Unfortunately, it also has some words: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-trial-evidence

I’m going from what his lawyers said, per this story: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/us/luigi-mangione-evidence-illegal-search

His bag was illegally seized in the restaurant (no warrant or probable cause) and searched later, when they found a lot of convenient evidence. After a massive, sudden manhunt that was at serious risk of turning up empty-handed.

He wasn’t caught with a gun. A cop searched his bag at the scene, took it to the station, “found” a gun in the front pocket there, and then turned it in as evidence.

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This was Amos’s preferred (planetside) ride for a while in The Expanse!

Get it home and you’ve got the start of a pretty good generator!

Sure, and such regulations should be reformed. We should not just start turning stuff off and seeing who breaks!

I’m still glad to see that the military, at least, is still respecting court orders.

It might be, but the mods! Modpacks are most of what my kids and I play!

Like I said, we mostly prefer the look and feel of GDLauncher, seems like it fits the Deck’s environment better. New mod packs are super easy to find and install though, and Java versioning is pretty much invisible for us!

I actually haven’t had any complaints using the Steam deck control schema, once I got one set up that the kids and I liked. What’s Bedrock do that you haven’t been able to get on Java edition?

It’s easier to use on the deck, mostly - I have Prism on my deck as well, but it’s oriented more towards a full desktop experience. Smaller icons, mouse-oriented menus that can be tricky to click on, that kind of thing. Before I figured this out, we’d use Prism when they really wanted newer Minecraft features, but they never really dug into mod packs on it like they do in GDLauncher.