It’s how the subway vigilante who choked an unstable yet unarmed homeless black man was acquitted.

I think so, if the headline is preserved while machine-translated.

That is not the original headline or the in-article analysis, so unfortunately I don’t think that’s a good fit for this sub/magazine.

They made assumptions, leaps of logic, out of ignorance and decided to act on them in haste

So did the driver. The driver made assumptions that there were no additional connotations for “Lolita” the fashion trend out of ignorance and hung a sign they assumed wasn’t disturbing but was for reasons they did not know. If you’re just judging people by their actions, the driver’s intentions you have detailed should hold as little weight as the parents’ intentions. And what the driver did was stupid and caused harm, intentions aside.

Just like how the driver probably didn’t know what “Lolita” meant, the parents probably didn’t know about the Lolita fashion trend. You’re also forcing your judgement onto the parents for making the logical decision based on only the information that was available to them here. If one doesn’t know it’s a fashion trend, I don’t see any other likely explanation for putting up a sign saying “Lolita’s Line” other than the driver being a predator or maybe the driver just repeating out loud whatever they hears others say, which isn’t good for children with ears either.

I’m inclined to agree with your presumption of idiocy instead of malice; that the driver just didn’t know the connotations of “Lolita”. Yet the word still makes parents think their kids are being preyed on all the same. I’m not judging that this is what the driver meant to do, but it is something that would make parents not trust the bus and harm the children forced either to wake early and walk to school or contribute to the emissions in their air.

It’s still possible the driver is given a second chance at bus driving. And in the worst case I doubt the driver would not be able to find employment in public transportation.

Would you be okay about the bus driver being nude too? The answer is probably yes but for most most most of us it’s a no.

they’re doing this to spread awareness of a big agency being the scum of the earth and cuz roleplay realism

I agree, but the instruction set (what you called a chip architecture, which isn’t wrong at all but potentially confusable with microarchitecture which is how you implement the instruction set architecture) has nothing to do with this. Though Apple does have the ability to make their own instruction set if they want, they and (mainstream) Android currently use ARM, which is also an open standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH8c7wkMDuU

The majority of the proceeds better go to the original author of the chapter

it’s unrelated burmese script

the character represented by chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not())))))) is way cooler

it will matter when it’s gone…

yes

(it’s polarizing and a bit different for different people who want different things. i’m on the “it’s abysmal” side)

Assuming you mean the filibuster: They need 41, actually, and there are some things you can’t filibuster like providing for congressional disapproval and nominations require 51 instead of 50. See https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/119.htm for every time someone decided they might have a chance of breaking filibuster. The only acts that went through are the Laken Riley Act—the first ever—the HALT Fentanyl Act, and the GENIUS Act—which allows the Fed and States to regulate stable crypto—while the only acts that have been passed by senate are the Laken Riley Act and the TAKE IT DOWN Act which counters deepfakes. While the Laken Riley Act should’ve been filibustered IMO, I don’t think any of the others that passed/did not meet filibuster should be stalled just for politics reasons.

(Note that these paragraphs all follow each other without anything between them, though the breaks in the vertical quote bar on the left may imply otherwise.)

There’s conspiracy theories—based on Trump’s expression after walking out of his first private meeting with Putin—that Russia has blackmail

“he” being Zelenskyy, not Putin

The ridiculous justification, “absolutely CRAZY!”, Trump suggested “something has happened” to Putin to make him kill a lot of people, etc.

the mere existence of the incident, “suspect” animal abuse, lack of CCTV, “The spokesman added that there was no evidence suggesting previous attempts of anyone in the area using glue to trap or mistreat birds.”