Trapped In America
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Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto News@lemmy.world•Florida police under fire as video of Black man punched, dragged by deputies during traffic stop goes viralEnglish1·15 hours agoOh it’s abused alright. They’re called pretextual stops and they’re basically used to skirt your rights of unreasonable search and seizure.
Despite the fact that SOCTUS has ruled that traffic stops are NOT grounds for further criminal investigations.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto News@lemmy.world•Florida police under fire as video of Black man punched, dragged by deputies during traffic stop goes viralEnglish1·18 hours agoThey also say they pulled him over for not wearing his seat-belt, but I don’t see how they could have possibly known that until they had already pulled him over.
This has been a thing forever here. It’s common(-ish) knowledge to leave your seatbealt on until the cop approaches you. Otherwise they’re allowed to assume that you also weren’t wearing it before the stop and write you a ticket. It’s dumb.
Which sucks for guys, since we usually carry our wallets in our back pocket. So our first instinct is to take off the belt, take out our wallet and have everything ready for the cop when they walk up. Which is a $100 mistake you only make once (hopefully).
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto News@lemmy.world•Florida police under fire as video of Black man punched, dragged by deputies during traffic stop goes viralEnglish68·21 hours agoThis whole thing is a shit show. From the cops lying on the report about him reaching for a knife, which the cellphone video shows clearly didn’t happen, to the State Attorney writing it off and the Sheriff going full DARVO during the press conference.
Sheriff’s Full Press Conference and Bodycam Footage
Notes:
- The sheriff was in church when the story broke, so it inconvenienced him during his Good Boy time.
- The victim should have filed a complaint so the Sheriff’s Office could do things The Right Way (aka. get ahead of the story).
- The unannounced public release of the cellphone video was intended to hurt the Sheriff’s Office reputation (no shit). Implying they’re the real victims here.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Europe@feddit.org•Armenia Declines to Extradite Russian Soldier Who Refused to Fight in UkraineEnglish2·2 days agoTime to start being extra careful before tea time, Armenia.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate DenialEnglish7·2 days agoCan confirm, I have 2 separate family members spewing this idiocy during visits. First it was that hurricane that shit on Georgia, Tennessee, etc. so “They” could shutdown a lithium mine or something (the people in the area want the mine, so that doesn’t even make sense). It also lead to them to falling for all weather modification conspiracies on Facebook and YouTube. So now it’s the floods out west… because “The Dems” want to make Texas look bad or something? I don’t even know anymore.
Also, dry ice. They seem to think dry ice allows you to steer storms and will show me very obvious fake videos where people are dumping it into the water themselves, then recording and pretending they caught The Man doing it. All of the ice blocks are still square btw, like it was just dumped into the water. They still fall for it.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto The Onion@midwest.social•Family Spends Relaxing Weekend Destroying OutdoorsEnglish7·2 days agoSounds like it’s time to bring back the tradition of tying dipshits to trees for 3-4 days. They’ll get the message.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Stop Killing Games@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaintEnglish13·2 days ago“Anonymous” is a weird way to spell Ubisoft. JS.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Gaming@lemmy.world•You wouldn't self-host a game serverEnglish12·3 days agoCOD4 and CS:S private servers… oh how I miss you both </3
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.world•6G mobile could divide the worldEnglish22·3 days agoIt’s encryption has been broken for some time now, which leaves it vulnerable to some pretty serious security issues. On top of the obvious issue of people with the right know-how just listening to your calls and reading your texts, which you probably don’t want.
(It’s also how most cops/feds tap phones these days.)
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Gaming@lemmy.world•Is that a mod on the device that you own?English12·4 days agoZoomed to the max Firefox will allow (500%). Not seeing anything other than some film grain with JPEG compression artifacts.
AI content usually starts to look more mosaic (random shapes clumped together) as you zoom, not grainy/compressed.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@piefed.social•Google is using two billion Android phones to detect earthquakes worldwideEnglish8·4 days agoGoogle: We’re not secretly stealing data from your phone. We wouldn’t know how even if we wanted to, so stop being paranoid.
Also Google: We can detect when you and your neighbors phone start to shake at the same time. It’s completely unrelated though…
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Geopolitics@lemmy.world•Japan tells its companies in Taiwan ‘you’re on your own’ if China invadesEnglish3·5 days agoSeeing as TSMC is currently scaling up fab production in the US with their new fabs means they’re feeling that pressure and made the deal with the promise of US protecting them.
Context for anyone wondering: These new fabs will NOT being using their latest 2nm processes, but their 4nm FinFET process. Meaning we’ll still be reliant on Taiwan itself for their latest and greatest.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto News@lemmy.world•Trump to sign stablecoin bill that may make it easier to bribe the presidentEnglish10·6 days agoAnyone else wanna move to the hills and watch this dumpster fire of a country from a distance? I’ll bring the marshmallows…
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Europe@feddit.org•US-founded extremist group claims killing of Ukrainian security service colonel in KyivEnglish5·7 days agoYeah, the whole connection to the Base bit feels off to me. Like it’s propaganda/recruiting material for actual Base members rather than proof of involvement.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto politics @lemmy.world•Trump slams his own supporters as 'weaklings' for falling for what he now calls the Epstein 'hoax'English4·7 days agoIt could be worse. He could have DESTROYED them. So they should count their blessings.
Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.zip•KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UIEnglish3·8 days agoHopefully this will work with Google TV too since it’s essentially just an Android TV rebrand for Chromecast. Some of them have decent hardware though, but are held back by the all of the Google bloat. Even using apps that allow adb on Google TVs you can’t fully remove it all without soft-bricking the TV.
I’ve tried setting Kodi up on a few TVs that I’ve fixed, then put them on a VLAN so they couldn’t go online, but could still access my NAS. And even with some having hardware support for AV1, anything over 4-5Mbps or so would cause them to drop frames and lag out. The HEVC support was a little better and will usually do 10-20Mbps+ before running into issues, which is plenty for most YarTube content. So I did a little more digging and noticed that the CPU was sitting at a constant 30%+ usage just doing background bloatware bullshit. So if we had a better UI option, it would open up a lot of cheaper $200-300 4K Google TVs that can stream from a NAS or Jellyfin/Plex server without needing to transcode. Since they have hardware support for basically everything.
Um… the feds didn’t break OTR did they?