Most US local governments are borderline dysfunctional and can’t build anything. I would love this but I personally see more promise with e-bikes any anything else.

I think the best solution is to allow neighbors to get together and build their own cheap bike infrastructure but that’s still considered a fringe idea right now.

Our governments would rather block solutions than implement them.

Geopolitics aside I love to see less oil going out into the world. Silver linings I guess.

Has the hard-coded censorship been removed from PieFed? I thought that was a really weird and concerning choice to include.

Say what you want about Lemmy devs (and I could say a lot) but they don’t seem to have made any major efforts to enforce their views within the platform itself. Just on their servers.

Depends on what you mean by worked. I think it did place limits on imperialist behavior even if it did not stop it. We are now seeing those limits being breached.

Voting, contacting reps, protests marches.

Honesty is not always better. The brazenness is a signal that in a decaying democracy Americans now longer have the power to reign in the executive branch. At least not without a new and more confrontational strategy.

We don’t even know who’s running yet. Implying people aren’t allowed to criticize shitty hypocritical politicians because they might, at some future date, announce they’re running for president is completely ridiculous.

Paraquat is probably the single most toxic herbicide on the market and it should absolutely be banned.

The bubble can’t pop until there’s sufficient housing, or a major economic collapse.

It’s almost like decision-making might be impacted after the country’s entire leadership structure was murdered.

But seriously I think there is a strategy here, which is causing Maximum economic chaos and pain the hopes that Trump will chicken out. It’s not a bad short term strategy but angering other nations may come with longer term downsides.

Isn’t that what locking is for?

Jesus fucking Christ this is how stupid they think we are.

The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it’s possible they’ll be slightly more by the book… but usually they wrote the book to allow police to “reasonably” violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.

But yeah unless they ruled it inadmissible, the lapse in custody probably won’t matter. The average juror is hopelessly naive and thinks cops are just pure-hearted goody two-shoes who would never do anything wrong.

Yeah that’s my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other’s backs unless something happens that’s so blatantly criminal that they can’t find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn’t sound that way to me, but I’m no expert.

The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.

You’re saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.

However again, I have not been following all the twists and turns so I don’t know what other evidence may have been uncovered since the arrest.

Ah well I haven’t followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.

Right, and I think we are seeing increasing cases of jury nullification, especially for civil disobedience against ICE. However, the reality is that Lemmy is a bubble. Luigi and his alleged murder are nowhere near as popular among the greater population as he is here. So that’s why I think the chance of a hung jury is higher than nullification. Hung jury can happen if there is just one or a few people who refuse to convict. But jury nullification requires unanimity. There’s bound to be at least a few law & order boomer types on the jury. But only time will tell.

Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.

But I thought a few murders was all that was holding us back from a spontaneous revolution? /s

Does the mayor have any oversight or influence on cases like these?